Dan

Thanks for the info. I read up a bit on it as well. It has a bow+arrow mark indicating Izhevsk Armory in Russia. It also has the SA markings indicating it was captured and reworked by the Finns. Unfortunately , looks like the stock was refinished before . Its also down to bare metal, there's zero blueing on it. I was thinking of cold blueing it once I'm done cleaning out what appears to be 80 years of barrel crud. $4.00 with 1K rounds. Great deal! That would be like $43 today according to interweb inflation calculators.

Makes sense, as in from an impact/abuse perspective, as I could imagine the composite would crack before alloy bends/cracks. But from a take-to-the range gun, I havent found much information on the web when it comes to that. I've found reviews that say , "its crap, the reciever will crack, etc", to "I have 17K rounds through mine without any problems, its a great rifle", and many comments on how many of the early problems +5 years ago have been solved by Bushmaster (mostly related to feed ramp issues). I suppose it comes down to what you intend to use the rifle for. Lightweight range/ranch gun, i dont see why not. Life-depends on dropped in the middle of the wilderness gun... most definately not as its not proven enough for that.

Will try that out. I'm open to anything that would help..and I get to fire off a few rounds which is always a plus. Can't get to the range for a few weeks, but will keep you posted once I get there. Looke like you're 1:30 out. bit far there, but thanks for the offer!

Welp, spent another hour and a half on the bore. Seems the bullfrog softened up quite a bit of fouling. I've been using my batch of Ed's Red, a bronze brush, and patches. Distusting black fouling kept coming out. I gave up for tonight a) wore the brush out, B) i'm cold working in the garage. Letting it soak overnight with a bore foam in it, then will go at it again with a new brush tomorrow. I'm pretty religious of cleaning my other firearms everytime after going to the range...I'm new to surplus rifles, i've never encountered anything this fouled up before. It still looks terrible in the barrel, even though my garbage can is full of black patches.. :0

Have the carbon models been known to fail/break?

Yup, the only recourse we have is to annoy the heck out of them with kindness. I always kept cordial, and played the concerned citizen role. You can throw in a few "its my birthday next month, traditional to buy a new rifle", "big match coming up , and just have to get that new XYZ123 model rifle!", etc. Sooner or later they'll just think you are just another harmless "gun nut", and will get your FID card to you just to stop you from calling.

Took me 6 months + when i moved from Woodbridge to Old Bridge. They ran me through the entire process all over again, including prints. I got all the excuses,... prints not back from NJSP, references not returned, Cheif is on vacation this week..., its on the ID Detective's in box, etc etc... I only got movement when i started calling every two days into the clerk's desk at OBPD. I was extremely cordial and nice on every call. Finally I asked if I could speak with the Cheif regarding the matter. All of a sudden the FID card was going to be ready "tomorrow" , and it was. We're at their mercy in the end... if they are not playing by the rules, what are you going to do... call the police on the police? Sad state of affairs.

Hey guys, My father pulled out an old Westinghouse 91 that he had and gave it to me. He never shot it before. Its in good shape, besides the barrel. Looks pretty bad in there when i hold it up and look at the light. I cleaned (brush/swab) with traditional bore cleaning solutions like no tomorrow, still looks bad. I'm letting the bore soak in some Bullfrog rust remover. So far after a few hours, I flushed it with simple green/water and ran some patches through. Black residue is coming out. I'm not sure if this is rust, or just baked on crude that my normal cleaning fluid is missing. I'm going to do a few Bullfrog/flushes to see if there is improvement. Otherwise what do you guys think... would it be dangerous to run a few rounds through it in hopes of the bullet / barrel friction removing how many untold years of neglect? Structurally from the outside things look fine. edit: its a Westinghouse Mosin 91 with "1915" date mark.

Excellent information everyone, thank you so much. I'm going to look into all of the suggestions. I'm especially interested in SARCO, haven't been there before. usnmars , I may take you up on your offer. Dan

Thanks for the reply George. Yea, thats been my very experience... hit or miss, and way overpriced stuff. I'll check out Centerfiresystems, thanks for that site.

Yup, lock up the gun in a case or bag. I use the cable locks that typically come free when you purchase a gun. Many times I thread it through the zipper and loop on the bag if it is a bag, or through the convenient lock holes that come on many hard rifle cases.

Hi All, Maybe someone can help me out here. I'm looking for a surplus military bolt action rifle, a shooter, not a collector's item. I've researched to the point where I believe I would be happy with a K98, Springfield, or Mosin. The Mosin is attractive because of cheap surplus ammo (7.62x54R. The K98 is attractive as well, as 8mm Mauser ammo is fairly affordable. The springfield seems good also... but .30-06 from what I can tell is hard to find deals on (not much surplus around anymore). Any of these rifles re-chambered for .308 would also be great. Now.. my challenge is finding a shop in NJ that stocks these rifles... in shooter grade. That is I'm not interested in matching numbers or special editions, etc. Does anyone have any recommendations on where I could go in NJ to check out some "shooting quality", that is decent condition that still has plenty of fairly accurate life left. I'm not interested in ordering one , as I'd like to check them out before purchase. Thanks for your help! Dan

I'm booked to go to gun for hire in belville in dec for the Utah permit. It's a 5 year renewal, 10$ renewal fee. Total cost is 175. It's on their site.

You will want two originals, not simply a photocopy. Meaning , have both signed in ink by both you and the receiver.

According to the NJ State AG's 1996 Guidelines on defining what is "substaintially identical" when it comes to defining so called "Assault Rifles" for the purposes of NJ's laws... http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcj/agguide/assltf.htm Provided the rifle adhere's to the rules in the famous evil features list, it is not an AK "Style" prohibited weapon. The only way I can see the NJSP blocking the sale/confiscating, is if one of the features has not been removed to their satisfaction. This could be the weld job on the muzzle brake for instance.. tac welding isnt acceptable, it needs to have some fancy weld that pretty much destroys the threads on the barrel. My brain hurts everytime I look at the "evil feature" list, as it abolutely does nothing but violate our consitutional rights, and allow for abuse of lawful gun owners by the State's legal system. Now, when it comes to these Guidelines, I have no idea if an AG can just on a whim withdraw or alter them. Doing so would again create crimininals out of thousands of NJ citizens who have been living by these guidelines for the past 14 years. Sounds atrocious, but wouldnt be the first time!

I'm told by a dealer the STG/E4 rifles are legal in NJ. I believe it is because technically the grip is not a "pistol grip" because it has that forward guard attachment, and the nature of the placement on a bullpup rifle. Technically it is a very large thumbhole stock , which is legal in NJ. Hence, the "evil rifle" feature you can have is the threaded barrel/flash hider. I would still get the flashider replaced with a permanently attached muzzle brake just to be on the safe side.