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Re: mosin nagant...what a bang for your buck!

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 5:18 pm
by OPossumTX
RiverRat wrote:Wonderful pic.

I gave one to my father in law for father's day. He carries it in his ranch truck. He has a 6th generation working cattle ranch outside of Mullins

I witnessed a new use for the surplus 180 gr stuff with him. He was installing an underground tank for fuel storage with a backhoe on one his back sections, and ran into a large bedrock he couldn't get a grip on with the bucket......he shot it with 5 rounds of the yellow tipped surplus ammo and chipped it enough to get a bite of it with the backhoe bucket.......5 shots shattered a hole as large as a basketball, a couple of feet deep in solid limestone.

Not much of a need for that here in downtown Austin, but still impressive.
They are also great for de-calciuming a well screen. The shallow wells my grandfather used to water his cows would calcium up the strainer or sand point at the bottom of the well and restrict the water flow. Just one shot with a Mosin-Nagant or Mauser would pop the crud off the cruddiest screen slicker than snot.

He was using blasting caps but was busting too many screens. Some one told him to use a .22LR to break the deposits off. That didn't work but I had a rust bucket $20 surplus rifle that did the job. Much cheaper and faster than having the well company pull the strainer and rework the well.

Back then surplus ammo was I think $6.00 a bag of a hundred rounds at Vicks in Galveston. I wonder what happened to that place.

Have FUN!
O'

Re: mosin nagant...what a bang for your buck!

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:46 am
by ironsights
The bayonets also add as an excellent potato picker...that’s why the M44's have a ram rod built in!!!!! :smilelol5: "rlol" :totap:

Re: mosin nagant...what a bang for your buck!

Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:23 pm
by Mr.Scott
ironsights wrote:You can buy modern made ammo that does not have the lacquer on the shells but it’s pricey. hey..it's a war rifle....kick open the bolt and get to work :mad5
I had to do that this weekend. I tried everything I could to get the bolt open. I extended the bayonet and stuck it in the ground trying to get more leverage, finally said to heck with it, put it on the ground and curb stomped that somgun and opened the bolt. The guys with their Sako's were in horror as I treated my gun like a red headed step child.

I thought it was Santa's revenge for using a plastic yard Santa as spearing practice.

Re: mosin nagant...what a bang for your buck!

Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:36 am
by ironsights
on to the next one, bolt closes...goes bang.