.30-30 Mosin - Page 3

marion57 · 04-01-2008, 02:04 AM

No problem Tex the guy is playing so wrote it off as a lesson learned .. I like to give people the benefit of a doubt but sometimes it just dont work !!

Rex in OTZ · 04-02-2008, 08:20 PM

Bad mouth the fella all you want he dont care!
I say "Do what it takes to make er go!"
30.30Win aint much off track!
Hell I woulda went for 30.40Krag or 45-70 or .43Mauser.
Some you guy's are plumb loco about "being the same"
"Its disturbing as hell"
"If your going to the Prom be different! why wear a Tux like all the other weenies?"
Some of these old girls are one step away from the Iron pile and to be used as Hitch pins or tomato stakes.
I have a poor injured solder in my care right now who wasent well cared for before I got him, he will solder on useing different spark plugs when Im done.
Its a crime not shoot a gun!
Its a morral imparitive to be able to shoot every firearm in your possetion.
Why spend hard earn'd scratch on a show room shine'y Yall too scared ta shoot or get a scuffon it?
Some Collector's and Gunafiles just make me feel glad I live as far away as I do so I dont have to watch em dry humping there show room lovelies! on the rifle range!
Has anyone contimplated a 6.5x54R or a 338x54R? maybe a 20 gage
conversion? How about a .45ACP to use 1911 mag's? mabe a 223 conversion useing Mini 14 mag's
once you get working on those bolt heads anything is possible, and 2 screws and out comes that big ole belly mag, then ya could do just about anything with a little Bubba can do mentality!
I'm a red neck & I love the USA,My Kids, Gun's, Trucks,Czech Beer and fast women, God does figure in there some were, I hold open doors for women folk, say yes please & thank you, I wear my hair short and my cap on straight.
Till then Shoot em if you got em!

Geo M44 · 04-02-2008, 08:33 PM

I think most of the guys here would say "do what you want, it's you money". If you end up with a rifle that won't chamber the round... we're cool with that, just don't try to sell it to some schmuck that doesn't know any better.

I think its like making a sows ear from a silk purse, but again if you want to hone it out to a .410... or convert it to a .50 BMG very cool, go for it.

texnmidwest · 04-03-2008, 06:47 AM

So true! If you have a rifle it is yours to do what you want. If you have the time and the money and know how to get er done....we want to hear about what you did! AND include a range report and pictures!

If that rifle would have fed rounds properly I might have bid on it!!!

Cyrano · 04-03-2008, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Rex in OTZ

Bad mouth the fella all you want he dont care!
I say "Do what it takes to make er go!"
30.30Win aint much off track!
Hell I woulda went for 30.40Krag or 45-70 or .43Mauser.

Rex, the idea of a Mosin in .45-70 Government intrigues me. It sounds like something even Mister Grizzly Bear up in your end of the world would have to pay attention to. But the dimensions on a .45-70 round aren't anywhere near the 7.62x54R. I'm presuming you'd have to rebarrel the girl. But I'd like to hear in some detail exactly what you believe would need doing to persuade the bolt to work as it's supposed to and the magazine to feed properly. (I am assuming you'd have to load the rounds 1 at a time into the magazine; or are you planning on reworking the trigger guard-magazine group to accept a detachable magazine?.) Even as a 'thought game,' the changes necessary to up-gun a Mosin to .45-70 seem daunting to me.

Rex in OTZ · 04-03-2008, 01:18 PM

Yea I guess it would be a bugger, but just tell a Bubba that something cannot be done and your in for some entertainment,
Changeing a Mosin to .45-70 is a total strip down to the action and bolt body and as they say its a total re mod, just pitch the mag/trigger guard, the bolt head, stock etc
I'm now figureing how much bigger the new bolt head head will need to be.
and fitting it into the action with the barrel,
I had the calipers out and was checking if the Mosin casses would take a .45 slug it could be done, mabe Bertim could turn out some 7.62 basic brass
then your farting around with odd ammo
Most floks want out the box blammo ammo!
I guess what I'm looking to do is working with a split bridge reciver action, it's different, cheap, allot out there and its defanitly not a Mauser or a high priced Win 70, Rem 700 action.

SwedeSteve · 04-03-2008, 01:22 PM

Hey Rex- You livin in Kotzebue year round?

Rex in OTZ · 04-03-2008, 07:30 PM

Yea I been kicking round this place since 1990.

04-01-2008, 02:04 AM	#41
marion57 Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Missouri Posts: 2,885	No problem Tex the guy is playing so wrote it off as a lesson learned .. I like to give people the benefit of a doubt but sometimes it just dont work !! __________________ You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers!(Charlton Heston)

04-02-2008, 08:20 PM	#42
Rex in OTZ Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kotzebue, Alaska Posts: 441	Some say why? Bubba asks why not! Bad mouth the fella all you want he dont care! I say "Do what it takes to make er go!" 30.30Win aint much off track! Hell I woulda went for 30.40Krag or 45-70 or .43Mauser. Some you guy's are plumb loco about "being the same" "Its disturbing as hell" "If your going to the Prom be different! why wear a Tux like all the other weenies?" Some of these old girls are one step away from the Iron pile and to be used as Hitch pins or tomato stakes. I have a poor injured solder in my care right now who wasent well cared for before I got him, he will solder on useing different spark plugs when Im done. Its a crime not shoot a gun! Its a morral imparitive to be able to shoot every firearm in your possetion. Why spend hard earn'd scratch on a show room shine'y Yall too scared ta shoot or get a scuffon it? Some Collector's and Gunafiles just make me feel glad I live as far away as I do so I dont have to watch em dry humping there show room lovelies! on the rifle range! Has anyone contimplated a 6.5x54R or a 338x54R? maybe a 20 gage conversion? How about a .45ACP to use 1911 mag's? mabe a 223 conversion useing Mini 14 mag's once you get working on those bolt heads anything is possible, and 2 screws and out comes that big ole belly mag, then ya could do just about anything with a little Bubba can do mentality! I'm a red neck & I love the USA,My Kids, Gun's, Trucks,Czech Beer and fast women, God does figure in there some were, I hold open doors for women folk, say yes please & thank you, I wear my hair short and my cap on straight. Till then Shoot em if you got em!

04-03-2008, 06:47 AM	#44
texnmidwest Listen to yur Inner Hippo Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: South east Wisconsin Posts: 3,464	So true! If you have a rifle it is yours to do what you want. If you have the time and the money and know how to get er done....we want to hear about what you did! AND include a range report and pictures! If that rifle would have fed rounds properly I might have bid on it!!! __________________ "Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati" (If all else fails play dead)

04-03-2008, 01:18 PM	#46
Rex in OTZ Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kotzebue, Alaska Posts: 441	Off road Mosin's Yea I guess it would be a bugger, but just tell a Bubba that something cannot be done and your in for some entertainment, Changeing a Mosin to .45-70 is a total strip down to the action and bolt body and as they say its a total re mod, just pitch the mag/trigger guard, the bolt head, stock etc I'm now figureing how much bigger the new bolt head head will need to be. and fitting it into the action with the barrel, I had the calipers out and was checking if the Mosin casses would take a .45 slug it could be done, mabe Bertim could turn out some 7.62 basic brass then your farting around with odd ammo Most floks want out the box blammo ammo! I guess what I'm looking to do is working with a split bridge reciver action, it's different, cheap, allot out there and its defanitly not a Mauser or a high priced Win 70, Rem 700 action. Last edited by Rex in OTZ; 04-03-2008 at 01:33 PM. Reason: added on

04-03-2008, 01:22 PM	#47
SwedeSteve Thor's Hammer Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Alaska Posts: 10,400 Images: 1	Hey Rex- You livin in Kotzebue year round? __________________ Thank God we don't get as much Government as we pay for! -Will Rogers

04-02-2008, 08:33 PM	#43
Geo M44 Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: The Desert Posts: 2,212	I think most of the guys here would say "do what you want, it's you money". If you end up with a rifle that won't chamber the round... we're cool with that, just don't try to sell it to some schmuck that doesn't know any better. I think its like making a sows ear from a silk purse, but again if you want to hone it out to a .410... or convert it to a .50 BMG very cool, go for it.

04-03-2008, 07:30 PM	#48
Rex in OTZ Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Kotzebue, Alaska Posts: 441	The land of OTZ Yea I been kicking round this place since 1990.