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Have you taken the bolt completely apart and cleaned it? That could be the source of the stiffness as it could be filled with caked cosmoline and crud from storage. Most springs are not stiff by milsurp standards although if you are mesuring them by commercial rifle standards they could be considered stiff and hard to operate. If you are wanting slick and smooth then I would say you are barking up the wrong tree in a milsurp rifle at least a...

ok.. i finally got the bolt apart... what do you recommend for cleaning out all this crud?.. dish soap and hot water worked wonders on my oil can... im going to go do that.. scrub this crap off and put a small amount of new, clean oil on the surfaces that touch

If you can't find one locally and object to dealing with WGA, SOG, Southern Ohio Gun, also has M39s of various types for sale. Carl

One side was for oil and the other side was for an alkaline solution, or more commonly referred to here as solvent. I had to boil those containers out in soapy water several times to get rid of the foul smell they had in them from decomposed oil and solvent. What side is what, I forget now. Curt

About the only thing on mine that looks like anything off a 91/30 is the bolt and sights. It has a thick spliced stock, heaver barrel/receiver. over all weight heaver than 91/30's. Some one just messed it up by refinishing the stock. But it still looks and shoots good, all matching. I know they are not original but it came with dog colliers and canvas sling. I am satisfied for $149.00 two years ago. shotout

I like the mineral spirits idea. I might try it. Thanks again for all of the advice. I can always count on you guys for good solutions to my problems.

Thanks everybody. M1, you are right in that it gives you a creepy feeling. Makes me wonder where it has been, how many Germans did it take, what happened to the guy it was issued to, etc. It's all part of it's history but I know there is no way to trace it. Still very interesting to me and I bet the guy who carried it before me had no idea where it would end up or be used for.

Heat would not harm the blueing. Just get some paint thinner or mineral spirits then take the barreled action and place it in a bucket with some mineral spirits or thinner in the bucket. Then just use a cleaning rod to pull the thinner or MS up the barrel changing the solvent as needed. Then dry it out or just use the same solvent I mentioned and soak a few patches and run through the bore. Takes time but will leave a clean bore. Afterwards...

That nut (actually a recoil bolt) won't stop you from taking the action out of the stock. Just take the handguard off by first removing the two barrel bands. Then there then just two screws, one on the receiver tang and another undernreath on the forward edge of the magazine housing. When you have those two out, the magazine housing, the stock and the barreled action will seperate (sometimes not easily). The only big pitfalls are that the...

Hard to say if any of our rifles were involved combat, cept those that have obvious battle damage - Bullet scars/grooves in the barreled action - Shrapnel in the stock, ect. I do think it is safe to say that many of those war year produced Soviet Mosins were issued. Those in dandy shape were most likely taken care of better than others. This 1941 dated MN was used by two armies.....both enemies at the time.... Pahtu.