Reloader762
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I've always wanted a 91/30 to go along with my M44 but I waited to long mostly because of financial reasons and the prices around here on the few that showed up were really high an most were in pretty bad shape. Lucky for me my brother had bought up several Tula HEX receiver rifle years ago for around $100 each and let me have on at his cost.
The bluing was really nice but the old finish was in pretty bad shape so I stripped it with some 0000 steel wool and denatured alcohol right down to the wood without having to ever touch sandpaper on the exterior of the stock. I always want a blonde finished Mosin an it took me about a week to get it refinished using several coats of Minwax Golden Oak and satin poly finish but she turned out nice.
While I had the rifle disassembled I made sure the barrel was floated and cork bedded the action and made a cork rest pad for the barrel to rest on the bottom forearm where it exits the stock. I also gave the bore a good swabbing several time over with Kroils and let it set overnight each time before giving it a good scrubbing with a brush and patching it out dry. The old 1933 Tula HEX receiver appears to have a pretty nice bore once I got all the crud out,probably a #2 bore on a scale of 1 to 5.
I wanted to shoot a heavier bullet in this long barreled rifle and make good use of a slow powder in the 1:10 twist bore. On my one family income it takes time to get things together so I just bought what I could when I could and made good use of what I had. My first purchase was the Lee .312" 185 gr. RN bullet,I was hoping it would cast a bit large say around .313" as most all my Lee molds do cast larger and it did drop bullet at .314" so I was pleased,it's also one of the new style molds. I'm currently casting these bullets from COWW +2% Tin an quenching stright from the mold using Gator checks and Lars 2500+ lube.
I was able to get out a couple months ago and try out some loads I had worked up using 2400 as I had plenty of that on hand,it's a keeper load but I want to push it faster. I just picked up a lb. of H4895 a couple weeks ago as I want to push the velocity up higher but give it a slow push,hopefully this weekend I will get to shoot some of the H4895 loads and do some chrono and accuracy test. After I got my MOJO rear peep sight only settled in I was getting 5 shot groups like this on a regular basis,some were even better.
The bluing was really nice but the old finish was in pretty bad shape so I stripped it with some 0000 steel wool and denatured alcohol right down to the wood without having to ever touch sandpaper on the exterior of the stock. I always want a blonde finished Mosin an it took me about a week to get it refinished using several coats of Minwax Golden Oak and satin poly finish but she turned out nice.
While I had the rifle disassembled I made sure the barrel was floated and cork bedded the action and made a cork rest pad for the barrel to rest on the bottom forearm where it exits the stock. I also gave the bore a good swabbing several time over with Kroils and let it set overnight each time before giving it a good scrubbing with a brush and patching it out dry. The old 1933 Tula HEX receiver appears to have a pretty nice bore once I got all the crud out,probably a #2 bore on a scale of 1 to 5.
I wanted to shoot a heavier bullet in this long barreled rifle and make good use of a slow powder in the 1:10 twist bore. On my one family income it takes time to get things together so I just bought what I could when I could and made good use of what I had. My first purchase was the Lee .312" 185 gr. RN bullet,I was hoping it would cast a bit large say around .313" as most all my Lee molds do cast larger and it did drop bullet at .314" so I was pleased,it's also one of the new style molds. I'm currently casting these bullets from COWW +2% Tin an quenching stright from the mold using Gator checks and Lars 2500+ lube.
I was able to get out a couple months ago and try out some loads I had worked up using 2400 as I had plenty of that on hand,it's a keeper load but I want to push it faster. I just picked up a lb. of H4895 a couple weeks ago as I want to push the velocity up higher but give it a slow push,hopefully this weekend I will get to shoot some of the H4895 loads and do some chrono and accuracy test. After I got my MOJO rear peep sight only settled in I was getting 5 shot groups like this on a regular basis,some were even better.
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