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If you have dicks in brick you have issues and need to see a doctor, or figure out who made your bricks.

So I am babysitting for my sister this weekend, and my 96 year old grandma is up visiting to see the kids. My little 6 year old nephew just told my grandmother (his great grandmother) " Nanna Rose, you need to go get the iron out of the closet. Your skin is all wrinkly!!" I almost fell over laughing so hard. Fortunately my grandma took it great and started laughing hysterically. Gotta love kids, ya never know what they are going to say.

Welcome to the jungle, We got fun 'n' games, We got everything you want, Honey we know the names. Welcome from Blairstown!

Happy B-Day. Hope mak bought you a mauser......LOL

Well I hit the gunshow in Allentown today. Was kinda cool, lots of stuff to drool over. I picked up 2 more ex snipers from eagle arms. They had a crate of mosins and I swear 80% were ex snipers. Here are some pics of the pair with the first layer of cosmo taken off. Hopefully they shoot as good as they look. Interestingly enough, the Izhevsk is better fitted and machined than the Tula. The bore in the Izhevsk is near perfect. I tried to get a pic like you see on the boards of the bore, but my hat is off to all of you that can do that nicely. I just gave up. The Tula has a good bore just caked full of junk, I did a quick cleaning and will shoot it clean tomorrow. Unfortunately they put the refurb stamp on top of the CH on the Tula Here is the Tula: And the Izhevsk:

I must say that re-snipering ex sniper Mosins is turning into quite the obsession for me. I am on a constant prowl for ex snipers, and already have a large supply of original scopes. Here is the latest one, a 1943 Izzy with correct scope. Re-arsenaled in 1953 and 1961 but was originally made in 1943. I bent the bolt myself using the method I posted on here about a yr ago.http://www.njgunforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2441 I will give a range report this weekend after I go shootin'. If anybody is looking for a good fun weekend project and wants to get into basic gunsmithing I would recommend doing this. I had to be like Vasilli and put a Naval Infantry sling on it!

I just did a quick ghetto cleaning on it so I would be able to shoot it this weekend. I didn't really go through it with a fine tooth comb.....yet! Here are some pics after the ghetto cleaning, all parts are Remington marked and the bore is perfect. It has a muzzle wear of .5 according to my gauge, and a throat erosion of less than 1.

I am cleaning my new 1903a3 and started comparing it to my 1903. One of the major differences is the 1903 has milled parts such as the trigger guard and barrel bands. The 03A3 has stamped parts. They started using stamped parts to save time and money. In modern times we are spoiled when it comes to mass production machining. With a CNC you drop in a piece of steel and let the machine to all the work. Now lets back up 50-100 years ago, was there any kind of primitive automated machining process? Or was all of the machining done by a craftsman sitting behind a mill making the same part all day? Were the vintage parts made essentially by hand?

My thoughts exactly with the gunshow this weekend in Allentown....

No, he didn't say anything about the cartouches. He is an old man so I honestly dont think he put them on there. I did forget to mention, my day got even better yesterday. I stopped to get gas on the way home and won $100 on a $2 rub off lottery ticket.

looks like a mauser with a "trench mag" on it. They had some produced by arsenals, but most were done by the troops in the field using MG-13 mags. one can be seen here.... http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewIt ... =169799538

I am still in a state of shock that I traded a Yugo 24/47 mauser for it. I told the guy I was ripping him off and getting the better end of the deal, but he really wanted that damn yugo........ He said "This is why I like working with you, you are honest and let me know if a deal is even. For your honesty, EVEN TRADE!!!"

I picked up yesterday a real cherry 1903a3 Remington for almost nothing. It has a mirror bore and looks almost perfect. To my surprise upon disassembly I found something that is rarer these days(unless you order from the CMP) Here are some preview pics of the new toy, unfortunately I didn't get pics with the rifle complete. I am in the process of writing up another little thing on PROPER cleaning and preservation, so I am sure these pics will be used there.

come on now, there is a fun show this weekend. Can pick em up for almost nothing there!!!! you know you want to mike. Come along, it will be fun!

I have been using eds red for years. The stuff rocks and puts most commercial stuff to shame!

Jim I just sent this thread to a friend of mine that is a custom knife maker, actually he has the title of "master craftsman." He wants some pics and he will coach you through the process of polishing the blade.

I bought mine at Dunkelbergers in pa. Bayo lug was ground and muzzle brake was welded. All of them that I have seen have been ground and welded. I think I read somewhere that the grinding and welding were done to all of them so they could be imported as sporters and not have to deal with 922 compliance.

damn that is sexy autox!!!!!!!!! now I gotta wipe the drool off of my keyboad.

you may need to tune your extractor. Take the bolt head off, tap the extractor off with hammer and punch and bend the extractor just a little bit inwards. Put the extractor back on and try again. You may need to do a little at a time, remember baby steps. It is common to need to do this on refurb mosins, and it is a really easy fix.

SWEET!!!!!! cant wait for completed pics

I am loving it..... Tomorrow there will definitely be a couple of stocks sitting on the dash of my truck baking away. Perfect cosmo cookin' weather!!!!

I will write a another little write up on bedding a mosin. I found that gear oil is an awesome release agent. And while you are at it make up some bedding pillars, they work out great in helping consistency. overall bedding a mosin is the best thing to do for helping accuracy, and it doesn't take nearly 20 minutes to do. the wait is the hardest part. As for the slack spring, forget about it. I was going to do a write up on tuning the trigger but for liability reasons I decided not to. Some people are gonna go too far and make their rifle unsafe and blame me. All you have to do is drill and tap a hole in the top of the trigger for a set screw and stone the sere. There are several board members that have shot some of my mosins and cannot believe the triggers on them. A little elbow grease and time and a mosin can be an insane shooter. Also if you look back in the c&r forum a little, there is another write up I made on making your own sniper bolt. Mine are almost exact to the originals I have, and they help a lot with sticky bolt. That extra little bit of leverage goes a long way. Send me a message if you have any questions.

Thanks, It makes me really miss the days when I lived in Sicily. I got the sa dagger for 25 euro and a zippo lighter. It makes me cry when I think about all of the stuff I passed up. BMW do you know anything about helmets? The one in the pic is strange because it has a "y" chinstrap and a bunch of German names on the headliner. I think it is Austrian police, but it was picked up by an Italian friend in Sicily after the battle of Catania. Now after lookin at yall's pics, I want to get into vehicles. I am envious of the stuff you guys have.

trust me there is a ton of it. I am just offshore right now and all of those pics are on my computer at home. I get home on tuesday, so will post some pics then. Here is a pic of my original Russian PU and PE snipers. Both are 100% correct and original optics. The Russians tend to breed like rabbits though. I collect original PU scopes, but dont have pics of that collection. Right now the count is at about 15-20.

I am a WWII collector, I collect mainly anything that "talks to me." I also am in the process of restoring a '67 Chevelle SS. Here are some small pics of the collection.