$2 rifle Peep Sight

[ditchtiger]

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Making a $2 Peep Sight For a Mosin-Nagant

Making a $2 Peep Sight For a Mosin-Nagant

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[ditchtiger]

Improving A Mosin-Nagant Rain Rifle
Improving A Mosin-Nagant Rain Rifle

 

[Stomper]

This gets a like just on the thread title alone!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Mmm ... Wow! Well at least he likes the rifle.
I understand that everyone is on a budget and I like the make it from scratch thinking.
But to each his own ... I'm glad that its his rifle and not mine.
Andy

 

[MountainBear]

WTF? That is all.

 

[MountainBear]

Again, WTF? That is all.

 

[STUKA]

At least it's not a 1903

 

[Andy54Hawken]

At least it's not a 1903

Yikes! Careful you will end up in Rifle Hell with comments like that.
Andy

 

[STUKA]

"rifle Hell" to me would be having a closet full of them!!!!!

ditchtiger knows how I feel about the Mosin..
It's all good natured ribbing,I hope!

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Yes indeed Stuka ... I do my best to not insult anyone with evil intent.
Good natured funning is more to my liking.
Andy

 

[STUKA]

Here are some other improvements to the venerable Mosin Nagant.It seems to me that Bubba just gravitates to these things-

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Um ... there is some "creative" work going on in those rifles.
Andy

 

[Capn Jack]

Stuka,
That piece in the middle "LOOKS" Tacti-cool.
But, pistol grips on bolt action rifles.......
Now if they were left handed bolts..

 

[mkwerx]

So much visual fail there - but if it works for him and hes keeping the rifle, good for him.

Personally I like Mosin's how they come stock. I can see the benefit in a longer bolt, maybe angled down a bit more (not 90 degrees like this BUbba gun) for more leverage and use with scope.

As for the finish choice - not my first choice either. Were I to refinish the varnished stock of a Mosin, I'd sand it well, give it a few coats of a good dark walnut stain, then matte clear coat, then wax to protect it all. But that's just my preference. I've got some wood projects I made 20 years ago in junior high that we did hand rubbed BLO on that have lasted and still get used - and it's OK but not my preferred finish by far.

My idea of "improving" a gun would be to make it better functionally, and aesthetically - not make it uglier. To each his own.

 

[MountainBear]

At least it's not a 1903

I would hunt him down and hurt him.

 

[mkwerx]

Ohboy - I went down the rabbit hole and clicked some other projects on the OP site - he has a version of a Mosin with a red dot on it. That must be one hell of a red dot to handle the recoil, but then again - probably not...

Making a $2 Peep Sight For a Mosin-Nagant

 

[bbbass]

Yikes!!!!

 

[FireArm]

For years these rifles were $79.99 @ Big5, so anybody could own one and clearly did. They sure did go fully retard tacticool on a few. . .
I want to say I got my M38 from big5 and a couple of cases of ammo from either sportsmansguide or CTD for 69.99$ a case (which was a wooden crate with a galvanized liner and a tuna can key that had to be rolled along a seam to open). Now Sportsmansguide and CTD are on the gougewagon I havent ordered from them in years.

 

[308]

I probably would have used a newer screwdriver handle, but overall, yeah...job well done.

 

[jbett98]

How's this for custom bedding a .22lr barrel.
First you weld on a section of steel pipe and then goop a bunch of epoxy all over it.