| Mosins can be great guns but there are a few things you need to consider. I've seen cheap nagants sell at guns shows for $60 per gun. I've also seen variants go for $800 depending on model, year, place of manufacture, ect... My guess is that you are looking at a pretty standard nagant probably worth $125 to $150 with the ammunition. One thing to consider is that the nagant most likely came out of an arsenal where it was covered in cosmoline. If the cosmoline hasn't yet been taken care of you will need to sweat it from the stock and soak all the metal in brake cleaner or some other cleaner to remove the cosmoline. There are pleanty of sites that cover removal of cosmoine and full mosin restoration. If the cosmoline has been taken care of already then you should be good to go. Recoil isn't extremely bad. I would say close to a 30 06. In fact the 7.62x54r is nicknamed the russian 30 06. Ammunition is very cheap if you buy surpluss but that ammo does have corossive primers so you will need to read how to clean your gun so it won't rust after firing this ammo. 7.62x54r isn't easy to find but it's not difficult either. Walmart won't have it but a good gun shop will most likely have a few cases. Mounting a scope is a bit of a problem. You can buy the special nagant scope mounts to mount the scope but chances are that your nagant will have a straight bolt which will strike the scope when you try to open your action. This means you will either need to bend your bolt or buy another bolt that is already bent. You could also get a scope mount that goes on farther forward on the gun so that the bolt doesn't hit the scope but this means you need a scope with very long eye relief. The bolts tend to be very stiff and hard to work and the triggers can be terrible it all just depends on what you get. |