Big7
The Oracle
Daddy had this Mosin Nagant before I was born.
The first person to sporterize it did an excellent job and even made a good looking, permanently attached front sight and made it the correct height. It is not adjustable for windage. He wasn't the one that scoped it and I don't even know if Daddy bought it like that or had somebody cut it down and get rid of a LOT of wood and barrell.
It was his only centerfire rife except for a
mint 7400 243 I got him. He gad it 25 years and never took it out of the case. He always used his Mosin. He called it "The Russian".
Fast forward about 30 years of shooting irons and Daddy wanted a scope.
Later on some jack- leg pretending to be a "gunsmith" messed it up a little putting a scope on it. It was a steel tube Weaver Challenger Fixed 2.5X 25.4 (1.000) Objective and he bent the bolt way more than he needed to. I can see where he had some trouble with how he did it but there are Mosin scope mounts available that actually work and not a bubba job. I'll give him the scope being the devil but he could have done a better job on the bolt.
Anyhoooo... I'm going to fix it in honor of my Daddy and hopefully kill a deer with it this season.. PS... He loaned it to a military buddy in the 90's and he killed a Bull Elk with it while it still had the iron sights.
The first person to sporterize it did an excellent job and even made a good looking, permanently attached front sight and made it the correct height. It is not adjustable for windage. He wasn't the one that scoped it and I don't even know if Daddy bought it like that or had somebody cut it down and get rid of a LOT of wood and barrell.
It was his only centerfire rife except for a
mint 7400 243 I got him. He gad it 25 years and never took it out of the case. He always used his Mosin. He called it "The Russian".
Fast forward about 30 years of shooting irons and Daddy wanted a scope.
Later on some jack- leg pretending to be a "gunsmith" messed it up a little putting a scope on it. It was a steel tube Weaver Challenger Fixed 2.5X 25.4 (1.000) Objective and he bent the bolt way more than he needed to. I can see where he had some trouble with how he did it but there are Mosin scope mounts available that actually work and not a bubba job. I'll give him the scope being the devil but he could have done a better job on the bolt.
Anyhoooo... I'm going to fix it in honor of my Daddy and hopefully kill a deer with it this season.. PS... He loaned it to a military buddy in the 90's and he killed a Bull Elk with it while it still had the iron sights.