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Understood. Good luck with your project.

Sounds expensive, for a $100 rifle. You did realize that you can find examples of wartime, refurb Mosins on Armslist and similar sites for $200 or so, right? Not as common as in the past, but I still see ads for them in this price range weekly ...

A show with ratings dropping even faster than TWD. It's been renewed again for next year, but I'm not sure it will ever make it as long as the original has ...

AMC says they have plans for 10 more seasons, although personally I doubt it goes on anywhere near that long. Viewership is less than half what it was at the show's peak, and the "buzz" over the show is mostly gone. Having said all that, it's still a major success in today's cable world and remain's AMC's highest draw by far. Cable is suffering a slow death and the show is old, but 6 million weekly viewers is a formidable number by today's standards and has been for several years. As an example, "Breaking Bad" never exceeded 3 million and plodded along mostly in the 1-2 million range, "Mad Men" only rarely got to 3 million viewers during it's run, and both of these were considered highly successful shows even before cable-cutting became so widespread. Nine years is a long time for any show and the fact that TWD has kept it's relatively high rate of viewership for that long is impressive, however, a serialized show with no discernible endgame in which the characters seem to mostly wander around rather aimlessly is likely to eventually wither and die despite the show's popularity. Few shows continuously gain ratings throughout the entire series run, and those that do always have some sort of "goal" or known endpoint, ala "Game of Thrones" (which will conclude next year BTW). I I couldn't find a complete ratings chart for TWD any later than this one, here's a GOT chart for comparison:

A lot of folks swear by a 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF for penetrating oil. Several online tests have shown it to be superior to all the currently available concoctions for removing rusty fasteners. Soak the offending part, let it sit overnight, with an occasional drop or 2 added is the usual recipe ...

In some cases, yes. However, the majority of the receivers the Finns recycled into their rifles came from either weapons left by the Russian army upon their withdrawal from Finland during the Russian revolution, or by purchases of Russian arms from various European countries which had been either supplied by Russia prior to WWI or captured during that conflict. Relatively few were taken by force by the Finns during the Winter war or the Continuation war ...

I missed that tragedy by about a minute, came in for lunch and when I turned on the TV the incident had just occurred, the pieces were beginning to fall from the sky as I watched. I had an afternoon Chem lab right after lunch, I skipped that to continue watching the coverage on TV. When I finally went in about an hour and a half late, the entire class was sitting in the lab watching the feed. For several years afterwards, while teaching high school I heard numerous stories from kids who were watching it unfold while in elementary school, due to the whole "teacher in space" thing. It essentially became that generation's "where were you when ..." moment, similar to the Kennedy assassination years earlier ...

I watched it live, easily the most impressive performance I ever saw from a racehorse ...

As I recall, yes. Now you need a toolkit and an engineering degree to open the damn things ...

Probably because there wasn't anything on TV other than the Watergate hearings ...

I saw Star Wars in a theater in Jackson, Tn. on Day 1, although I'm not sure if it was May 25th or not (Jackson never seemed to be at the forefront of movie distributions). I was 16, drove there myself, there were maybe 20 people in the theater that night as nobody in that area had ever heard of Star Wars before. A week later, I drove by the same theater, the line stretched around the block ... I haven't missed a theatrical release of a Star Wars movie since ...

It's mostly advertised between $140-200 per can now, not much for sale and even less being actually sold ...

I'll take "B" ..

You mean it didn't? I know there was a late night TV show about that once ...

But it's the crazy conspirators who get the best threads going ...

Did I miss something? I didn't think the guy was anywhere near a ban yet, albeit I did think that it was inevitable ...

For most firearms, it's definitely a buyers market. The "panics" of the last few years created artificial demand, with huge increases in sales for virtually all guns, now we are seeing the results of those sales by drastically reduced demand. As for the Mosin market, the primary sources of cheap imports have dried up in the last few years, what you see now is mostly guns being sold on the secondary market. As with other milsurps in the past, once the flood of imports ends, prices go up correspondingly. There are a few Mosins being advertised now by AIM, Classic, Century and others, it's uncertain whether these represent some small shipments of recent imports, or more likely, the last remaining crates of older guns which have been in storage stateside for years.

Hard to tell from the OP's pic, but the bolt looks like it might be blued. It's possible that this rifle started out as a Finn, which would make the sacrilege even more egregious ...

Since when is "need" applicable to gun purchases?

These are some of the firearms used in WWII ...

I had no idea the Nazis ever invaded Linden ...

Meh. Why try to duplicate the ballistics of 357mag? Just buy a decent revolver ...

One of my favorites: