proyekta Konechnoy Mosin

[Kokanee]

Yeah yeah..... fair enough. PE scope it is, with original mounting

[Latvian291]

That might be hard to find. I remember years ago accumounts sold one. Their stuff was cheap and decent quality.

[Kokanee]

Yeah I went with accumounts, $299US for a package deal.

[Latvian291]

Originally Posted by Kokanee

Yeah I went with accumounts, $299US for a package deal.

Like :tup:

[Kokanee]

Found a bent bolt handle in country, I'll have it in time to do the work next weekend! Hooray!

[Kokanee]

Finished my serial number/arsenal markings for the rifle;



Having these engraved professionally, can't wait! Tried to get the font as accurate as possible, based it on "Another Typewriter" font and modified as necessary.

[volteco]

Looks superb! Great job!

I am just curious, ' proyekta Konechnoy Mosin' - is that in Russian?

[Kokanee]

My bad attempt at a translation yes

[Kokanee]

Some more small detail work done today;

Scope serial number on left side of barrel;



Tula arsenal marking on stock, printed out my pattern, taped it to the stock and used it as a template;



to get this;

[Andres]

Nice work!

[Kokanee]

So I've been having some trouble locating a suitable engraver to do my serial numbers and arsenal markings.. After yesterday's success with the stock, I decided to head on down to Princess Auto and pick up some diamond dremel bits and give it the 'ole college try myself.

As before, I printed out a template, and then used a diamond bit to score each corner of the Tula star;



Then using a piece of paper as a ruler, I traced out the pattern, and filled in the other details as well;



After some very careful dremel work (pays to have the flexible gooseneck attachement for finer work) I ended up with something between stamping and electropencil markings;



The Cyrillic letters on top of the star "C" and "N" denote a sniper variant 1891/30 Mosin Nagant. Quite happy with how everything turned out (blue paint is for testing depth of engraving), and I decided to redo the scope serial number on the side of the barrel as the stamps I used were too large anyway;



Also a small repair; the nub that is attached to the floor plate of the magazine snapped off. This has left the plate unable to stay closed as it is spring loaded. After some rummaging around in the spare parts drawer, I was able to find a small machine screw and a small magnet. After machining out the magazine to fit the screw and magnet, then drilling and tapping a larger hole for the screw I'm left with this;



Now the floor plate stays closed as it sticks to the magnet, problem solved!

Just waiting on my sniper handle and scope as well as some alumablack and I can start to hit the home stretch.

[Forever_kaos]

That is talent!

Amazing work. This inspires me to pick one up, just for the collection.

[Kokanee]

Originally Posted by Forever_kaos

...This inspires me to pick one up, just for the collection.

They are nice additions to a collection; and slapping a real stock on is not a big deal at all.

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So Monday, home from work and a few packages waiting for me. My PE scope arrived and it's a beauty! Serial number and year engraved no charge to boot. As well I picked up some cold rolled steel tube to use as my new barrel. As you can see below, a vast improvement over the stock aluminum barrel;



The stock barrel had an incorrect profile in that the OD was reduce towards the front. This new steel barrel fixes that, as well as beefing up the weight of the rifle and I was able to blue it to a new polished finish. Pictured just before I cut the rear end to mate with the receiver, so it's a touch longer here than the finished product. I have a 1891/30 front sight coming in the mail, when that arrives I will have to fashion a front sight base and have it welded to the barrel, then mount the front sight.

Stripped the awful fake parkerizing off the receiver and barrel stub, here is everything "in the white";



I did try to blacken them with some AlumaBlack, however it didn't take so I will be breaking out another method to get a good finish to match the steel parts.

Here is a quick shot showing where everything is at the moment;



This is a nice large image, go ahead and enlarge it to see the details. A sharp eye will notice the bolt has been stamped with a matching serial number to the rifle; I'm doing that for all components so this is a 100% matched specimen. As well I have a 5mm star metal punch enroute to mark all components with Tula inspection stamps.

All for now, hopefully my bolt handle arrives tomorrow.

[GBBR]

[Kokanee]

Tapped the receiver for the scope mount today and installed sniper bolt handle;



Thinking this could be done this weekend! Fingers crossed.