Cyrano

I may do that, Scotty, but there's something I want to try first.

I took Natasha to the range to show to Louis the Mosin Kahuna. He told me he'd had a similar problem with one of his G3s, and he solved it with a trip to the Home Depot. We're going to try his solution tomorrow - the club has a little shopwith the tools we'll need.

Simply put, what we're going to do is take a length of 3/4" wide steel bar stock about 1/8" thick, drill and countersink it, and attach that to the jmeck mount. Then we position the scope in its rings so the eyepiece is even with the rear of the chamber, and mark the bar stock appropriately. We dismount the bar stock and drill holes in it to mount the Weaver rail to, attach the rail to the bar stock with panhead screws and nuts, then reattach the whole thing to the jmeck mount. After that, we mount the rings and the scope and I should be in business.

I'll let you know how this works out.

Cyrano

Cyrano, go to Tennesse gun parts, for the bent sniper bolt body. The only way to get it is the stripped body. If you don't think you want to change it out yourself, send it to me, and I'll do it on the cheap. Not workwise, mind you! Scotty

Hi, Qazpan:

It shouldn't. My experience has been with wood stocked Mosins, but I dealt with lamianted boat hulls in school some.

If I were you, I'd try the hang-it-in-the-sun method. Hot as it gets in Arizona, it does not get up to the 200 degrees F. that is the lowest temperature of an average kitchen oven. As we are coming into July and given where you are, this is the perfect time of year for that method. Please let me know how it turns out.

Hi Cyrano,
i just bought my first mosin nagant yesterday andafter reading your sticky on how to get the cosmo out of the wood i thought of a problem. My mosin came with a laminatd stock and i was wondering if that would allow the cosmo to come out of the stock. i live in arizona and the hot temps will let me try one of the outside heating methods. So, as i said, would the laminated stock affect the way the cosmo comes out of the wood?

Well, I'm a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, but I don't know if that counts by your standards. The AmRev and Civil War crowd don't regard Scadians as reenactors - and I don't, myself, not any more. The authenticity level has gone to hell in the last 30 years. Now, it's a subculture with rules that bear little to no resemblance to authenticity; and people who do try to be authentic are derided as authenticity freaks or if they are aggressive with it, authenticity police. So when I go to events now, I go to merchant and perhaps visit with old friends, not to play reindeer games.

Upstate, southwest Monroe county, south of Rochester. Pretty nice up here.

Are you a reenactor btw?

I'm in Putnam County, down on the Connecticut border near Danbury, CT. How about you? Where are you located?

Hey Cy,
where in NY are you, its nice to finally find a fellow G&G peep from NY

I spent the morning at the orthopedist, trying to find out what's wrong with my right shoulder. He tested my arm with some computerized machine and palpated it, and said the first thing he can see is a damaged rotator cuff that is inflamed. He gave me a shot of cortisone and exercises to do, and took X-rays. Next month I may have to get an MRI. Depending on what the X-rays show, I may have to have arthroscopic surgery to "sand" the point of my shoulder. But my troubles are nothing to yours. How are YOU doing?