M-44 Mosin Nagent Rifle

bonedust75 wrote:The only thing I really dont care for is the safety on the gun.

The safety is easier to use if you place the butt of the rifle in the crook of your arm before applying or taking it off. It gives more leverage to your fingers.

Doug

mescal wrote:Got my eye on one of these at the pawn shop. It is a hex reciever in excellent cond, when I laughed at the $260 price tag - it was then offered to me for $150. I walked. Might make another run at him next week.

I would have walked also!! Way too high!!

Double posted

Anybody remember when classic arms had these in hard chrome?

bonedust75 wrote:The only thing I really don't care for is the safety on the gun.

Haha yeah, the Russians weren't very concerned with safeties, I can only imagine their response to soldiers complaints about the safety... "SAFETY?! Is gun, is supposed to be dangerous!" They are great rifles tho... I own several.

If you can find one of the Polish M-44's they are the best looking of the breed. Someone a few years back was offering three M-44's for like $250. It was a mix of Hungarian, Chinese, Russian, or some other Combloc country.
If you can, and have an area you can do it Shoot a M-44 at night. The ball of fire that comes out at night is awsome. Heck if you didn't hit them with the projectile you would burn them with the flame. LOL!

garrettasher wrote:Anybody remember when classic arms had these in hard chrome?

Yep -- Classic Arms seems to offer a lot of different things in hard chrome -- like AKs!

bonedust75 wrote:The only thing I really dont care for is the safety on the gun.

SAFETY, We don't need no stinkin safety comrade!

SAFETY, We don't need no stinkin safety comrade! [/quote]


Since the Gras rifle was made, the French did not have safeties on their rifles until the Model 1944 semi-auto rifle was built.

The Russian safety is easy to apply and take off if you put the butt of tyhe stock in the crook of your arm before operating it. It is a very positive safety.

Doug

Doug Bowser wrote:SAFETY, We don't need no stinkin safety comrade!

Since the Gras rifle was made, the French did not have safeties on their rifles until the Model 1944 semi-auto rifle was built.

The Russian safety is easy to apply and take off if you put the butt of tyhe stock in the crook of your arm before operating it. It is a very positive safety.

Doug[/quote]
I read your post on applying the safety. I'll have to try it that way. In the type of shooting I've done with mine applying the safety wasn't ever an issue anyway. I was just kind of poking fun at the design and the commie way of thinking on it. I do like my M44 it's a Polish and hoot to shoot.

I have had a very bad problem since I bought my first 1930 Mosin Nagant 91/30 with hex receiver, I now have mosinitis and it only can be controlled, not cured, by buying at least one mosin type weapon every 6 months. These shops normally have a good stock of 91/30’s M38, M39 etc. The 91/30's in very good to excellent condition can be had for between $90 to $150 in these parts..
centuryarms.com/
empirearms.com/
classicarms.us/
jgsales.com/
RGuns.net

An ex Gulfport native.....................

chuckusaret wrote:I have had a very bad problem since I bought my first 1930 Mosin Nagant 91/30 with hex receiver, I now have mosinitis and it only can be controlled, not cured, by buying at least one mosin type weapon every 6 months. These shops normally have a good stock of 91/30’s M38, M39 etc. The 91/30's in very good to excellent condition can be had for between $90 to $150 in these parts..
centuryarms.com/
empirearms.com/
classicarms.us/
jgsales.com/
RGuns.net

An ex Gulfport native.....................

I could think of much worse diseases to have.

chuckusaret wrote:I have had a very bad problem since I bought my first 1930 Mosin Nagant 91/30 with hex receiver, I now have mosinitis and it only can be controlled, not cured, by buying at least one mosin type weapon every 6 months.................

I understand... I bought my tenth Nagant today.
Nothing special, just a decent round receiver 91/30 Tula made gun. An hour later I located a beater Chinese Type 53 at my favorite pawn shop. I don't own a Chinese gun and I'm REAL tempted to pick it up. It'd go nice with my collection of M-39s, M44s, 91/30s, laminated stocks, Dragoons, hex receivers, etc. and fill a void in the collection.

Here's six of my ten Nagants. Missing are a pair of M-44s still in the box, today's purchase, and my hex receiver 1944 Sako M-39.


Crappy photo of my nicest Dragoon. This one really is a nice gun with deep, crisp markings and all matching numbers to include the mag floor plate which are often forced matched.

I see that I need a few more of these .... Anyone got any leads on some good deals?

The receiver in the above photo reads
Izhevsk
Armaments
Factory

It is a Commie Dragoon rifle perhaps converted to 91/30. It is one of the rarer rifles. If it has been converted it will have the standard tangent curve sight, as found on the 91/30 rifle. It has a metal refinish mark on it. The square above th4 serial number.

Doug

Thanks Doug!

I thought the hammer mark on the receiver and the star on the barrel indicated a Tula gun. It looks like the gun pictured below from the indentification section on the 7.62x54r.net site. They state it's a Tula Arsenal Nagant.

Tula "CCCP" pre-1928 Soviet M91 or Dragoon.

Morty wrote:"SAFETY?! Is gun, is supposed to be dangerous!"

Brutus wrote:

"SAFETY?! Is gun, is supposed to be dangerous!"

Da Comarade!