Last week saw a whole bunch of Gratuitous Gun Pics, so why not continue with another one or two this week, say I?
Here’s one which provides a solution to the notoriously-difficult question of mounting a scope onto a Mosin-Nagant 91/30:
Now I must admit that mounting a Scout Rifle-type scope onto the 28″-barreled (and sporterized) 91/30 looks somewhat goofy — without the full-length front stock, the barrel does look a little overlong — but it is nevertheless a solution to the scope problem. And you could do a whole lot worse than spending less than $600 on a proven rifle which includes a scope, and is chambered in the manly 7.62x54Rmm.
I still think, though, that the scope mount would look better on one of the shorter M44 carbine models.
A Mosin-Nagant 91/30 will definitely reach out–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-CTa2lMGN0
–which might solve any number of problems.
There is only one way to mount a scope on a Mosin.
Don’t.
Get a K98k for crying out loud. Or a Swedish Mauser. Or a No. 4. Or a 1903. Or a 1917. Or a slingshot and a rock.
Spoken like someone who’s tried to do it before… maybe many times.
LOL
This makes me want to clean the cosmoline out of the Mosin I have had in storage for 25+ years and get a rail with a scope that cost 10 times what I paid for the Mosin.
Naaa, the Mosin will stay in storage with the case of ammo until the zombie apocalypse occurs.
What’s the point of the cantilevered rail if you don’t use it to get the scope back closer to the eyeball?
The length of the barrel doesn’t bother me but the position of the scope does.