NIB Nagant what to do

[TrickyNicky]

So when I first got my C&R last year I went ahead and ordered 3 91/30 Nagants from AIM. I opened them all up, selected what looked to be the best one(hard to tell under all that cosmoline) and wrapped it back up and re boxed it.

Now I still have the other two so its not like I need too, but I'm thinking Bout I boxing the third and cleaning it up to put with the others.

What do you guys think? It's not like I need it out, the reason I left it cosmoed and boxed was so that if it needed to be say, buried it wouldn't have much issue. Plus I thought it might be cool to show the grand kids one day what old Russian Cosmo looks like and to have a "fresh one" long after surplus supplies have dried up. I still think that's kind if cool but have been twmpted this week to pull it out and get it cleaned up.

What would you do and why?

[maroonandwhite]

Since you have two others I'd keep it boxed up. I would find myself in the same situation though. I get the "can't help it's" sometimes and have to tinker with stuff. I just think it's cool that is has been like that for years and years. Heck, in that shape it'll be worth a cool million in a year or so at the rate we are going.

[TripleDigitRide]

Ah, your Grandkids won't care about some old, junky rifle, so you should sell it to me.

[LI0NSFAN]

wait until its 100th birthday and unwrap it then.

[maroonandwhite]

I think you should get some nice glass, drill/tap it for a scope mount, put it on the gun, put it back in the cosmoline, package it all back up and realllly freak someone out in about 50 years.

[Smokin45]

Grab your favorite beverage  and look at it for a while it will come to ya.     :2cents:

[LCPfraTN]

I think I'd clean it up and make sure it really is the best one, then I'd keep it well oiled and in a dry environment. I'd take it out and shoot it occasionally, then clean and wipe down with silicone/oil cloth. I'd also look it over at least annually and give it a wipe down. I don't own any guns that I won't shoot. I have some that I don't shoot often, and take extra care with them, but a safe queen that you can never play with is just boring. :2cents:

[No_0ne]

Easy answer.  Get it out and play with it, get this http://www.classicfirearms.com/mosin-nagant-rfile-by-the-crate to put away for the kids and grandkids.  Problem solved.

[TrickyNicky]

Smokin45: the problem is the fine line between liquid courage and liquid stupidity. It's a fine line and gets quickly blurred.

LCPfraTn: I have a few I don't shoot, I keep them either for the history or because they came from family. This one has got me really unsure as to if I should add it to the shooting rotation or not, I've hot plenty of guns that get shot a lot, I just don't know yet...

No-One: oh man, why'd you have to go and show me that? I'm seriously considering getting a credit card just for that now, I haven't had one in eep, almost a decade. Of course, if I get a pallet of rifles I'll need mucho mucho ammo to along with it.

Maybe I can take advantage of the black rifle craze and sell my AR for enough to cover the crate? Lol.

[No_0ne]

No-One: oh man, why'd you have to go and show me that? I'm seriously considering getting a credit card just for that now, I haven't had one in eep, almost a decade. Of course, if I get a pallet of rifles I'll need mucho mucho ammo to along with it.

 

If you order at least 5 crates of ammo to go with the pallet, they are only $160/crate, and the truck shipping on the rifle crate will pretty much cover the ammo as they can load it on the same pallet.  So for $3200 + shipping you can have it all!  Glad to be of service, I'm always here to help others spend their money.

[peejman]

If you've got others to play with, I'd leave it be.  I might peel back the paper and inhale the sweet cosmoline goodness occasionally, but that's about it. 

 

 

... and those crates.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so fiscally responsible.  *sigh*

Edited March 5, 2013 by peejman

[LCPfraTN]

... and those crates.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so fiscally responsible.  *sigh*

 

I can definitely relate to that statement.

[Guest tommy62]

Bubba

[gjohnsoniv]

If you've got others to play with, I'd leave it be.  I might peel back the paper and inhale the sweet cosmoline goodness occasionally, but that's about it. 

 

 

... and those crates.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so fiscally responsible.  *sigh*

 

 

If you've got others to play with, I'd leave it be.  I might peel back the paper and inhale the sweet cosmoline goodness occasionally, but that's about it. 

 

 

... and those crates.  Sometimes I wish I wasn't so fiscally responsible.  *sigh*

Wanna split one? Lol.

[peejman]

Wanna split one? Lol.

 

 

Please don't tempt me.  You can buy one and I'll keep it at my house so you don't get in trouble.  How 'bout that?