As to the chambering problem, clean the chamber.
Put a couple cleaning patches, wet with Hoppe's, or better Ed's Red, in the chamber and let them soak overnight. Then take a .45acp bore brush on the end of a cleaning rod, chuck it into a drill, soak it in bore cleaner and drill the brush into the chamber throat repeatedly (from the rear of the action). That will clean any muck out of it. That should cure the malady and relieve the symptom.
As to the recoil, there is a line in the movie The 13th Warrior (excellent movie!) that goes:
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: [given a Viking sword] "I cannot lift this."
Herger the Joyous: "Grow stronger."
Learn to shoot the Mosin without training wheels. It's what a real rifle feels like. Once you master the Mosin, you have mastered them all. It is a skill and a mindset well worth cultivating. Our fathers and their fathers before them did. You are surely no less than they.
Crutches are for cripples.
Put a couple cleaning patches, wet with Hoppe's, or better Ed's Red, in the chamber and let them soak overnight. Then take a .45acp bore brush on the end of a cleaning rod, chuck it into a drill, soak it in bore cleaner and drill the brush into the chamber throat repeatedly (from the rear of the action). That will clean any muck out of it. That should cure the malady and relieve the symptom.
As to the recoil, there is a line in the movie The 13th Warrior (excellent movie!) that goes:
Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan: [given a Viking sword] "I cannot lift this."
Herger the Joyous: "Grow stronger."
Learn to shoot the Mosin without training wheels. It's what a real rifle feels like. Once you master the Mosin, you have mastered them all. It is a skill and a mindset well worth cultivating. Our fathers and their fathers before them did. You are surely no less than they.
Crutches are for cripples.