My latest project

[The Goose]

About a month ago I took one of my Mosin Nagant 91/30's to the range. I love these rifles and I have LOTS of 7.62X64R stashed away. My one frustration is that my old eyes are not much good with iron sights much past 50 yards and at that range the Mosin shoots about 6" high. On paper I can usually compensate pretty well by finding the right spot at the bottom of the paper to aim, but for general plinking it is a bit tougher. I don't know about the rest of you, but I kind of enjoy actually hitting something once in a while when I shoot.

Given that I own a few Mosins I decided to take the one with the worst stock (but a good bore) and turn it into a shooter. After a few weeks of planning, ordering and working the result is below. The stock is an ATI monte carlo style. The scout scope mount is made by S&K and certainly seems to be rock solid. The scope is a cheap 2-7X32 LER and has an illuminated reticle. I also installed a Huber Concepts Anti Friction Ball trigger. I surfed the net for as much info as I could find, but actually found everything I needed on good old www.surplusrifle.com. The rifle feels really good and comes up to the shoulder very naturally. The trigger is a vast improvement. I will post a range report as soon as I get to try it out.

My hope is that this will be a reasonably accurate and fun plinker so that I can shoot some of the cheap ammo that I have accumulated.

For the purists out there it should be noted that I did not permanantly alter any aspect of the rifle. I could return it to complete original in 5 minutes if all of a sudden Mosin Nagants in original condition became valuable collector's items. LOL!

 

[Dirtypacman]

I always appreciate your projects - once again you have not disappointed. Hopefully she shoots as good as she looks.

 

[pj150]

Nice job Goose. Hopefully it will shoot as good as it looks. One thing though, it seems that the scope it pretty far forward. Do you have to alter your shooting stance to see the reticule?

 

[Fooped]

Nice work as always!

 

[Viper22]

Looks good!

 

[Hanwei]

One thing though, it seems that the scope it pretty far forward. Do you have to alter your shooting stance to see the reticule?

Ditto to that... looks like it's going to be hard to get a full field of view through the scope with it so far forward... you can always put a red dot optic up there right?

 

[SKS Ray]

Hes got a long eye relief scope which should give a decent view of the reticle from that distance.
I put a S&K scout mount on a K31 and used a Simmons handgun scope. Its not the best view but its all I could find at the time. These days there are scopes designed specifically for scout mounts.
S&K makes a great product but I had to file some material off my mount to get it to sit low enough on my K31 so I could get enough elevation to zero the scope. They are aluminum mounts though and are easy to work with if you need to. Plus they shipped me a neat koozie with the S&K logo.

 

[dreppucci007]

Cool project, Steve! I can't wait to see it in person someday.