Reminder to say your prayers to the /K/ube.

Oh cool. Afaik the main problem with Mosins is due to the fact that they aren't made with strict tolerances, so if you can fit your parts better maybe the rifle would work better?

As a Mosin owner, I've made a point of learning to completely break my Mosin down to components. If it sticks, and I can't lube it, there's something wrong with the part.

lol

cosmoline is going to come out of the stock; shouldn't be coming out of any of the metal interfaces

a tight lockup on the lugs is probably good

you can get a gunstore to use a go/nogo gauge to be 100% sure that it's safe but a little tightness there is expected since that's the primary bearing surface (Other than the cartridge itself)

you can get someone to do a custom fit pretty easily by hand polishing or milling but I would not recommend it without taking it to someone qualified

I have helped with doing the measurements for taking meat off the locking lugs; it's a pretty scary operation tbh.

I didn't trust myself to do manual milling and take off a couple thousandths of material to ensure completely accurate alignment with the barrel extension

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I cleaned the cosmoline from the bayonet & the Mosin-Nagant's multi-tool set, @EndangeredProdigy. 😁

i tore mine down the other day and cleaned the hell out of everything

i dont even fire corrosive ammo but man did it need it

doing a detail strip and borrowing someone's ultrasonic cleaner is a good plan

lol

<https://www.theboxotruth.com/educational-zone-23-cosmoline-removal/>

@Miss Direction After I did all that, I ended up restaining the stock on my Mosin. The original had speckles from where the cosmoline had ruined the original stain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYB6smGiZ44

https://youtu.be/aC_vSaNMrG0

I feel my brain cells dying just listening to them...

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If you couldn't have traditional powder propellant for guns, what would be your next choice?

assuming solid propellants and similar "cheats" are also out, I'd go with pressurized air

I was gonna say I forgot about the solid propellants and the 'forbidden pasta', so thank you for staying on board.

Yeah, I was thinking air as well.

Yeah I’ll just spray someone down with airsoft pellets from an expensive airsoft gun

Costs about as much as a hi point pistol

pressurrized air can be fairly deathly problem is getting alot of shots downrange and still maintaining power

the Girandoni air rifle had enough air for 20-30 shots with acceptable power, and that's a late 1700's design, doing significantly better today can't be hard

I'm finding air gun muzzle velocities top out at about 1500 ft/s, which is...servicable.

If you apply that to a .58 caliber 500 gr Minnie round then you have an air powered 1861 Springfield Rifle which is extremely deadly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8JYjWitz0

"350 grain"
There is not a single grain involved here.

Pressurized air doesn't give us enough performance density

because you're dealing with a pressure differential

nah, pressurized air rifles have been used for warfare since the late 1700's

I know they've been used; they just aren't comparable to magazine fed nitrocellulose powered projectiles

coilguns are too shit tier, railguns need too much power

although I expect at some point we'll have good enough high current tech to make electrically propelled projectiles down the road

well yeah, obviously if they were *as good* as traditional powder we'd still see them in active service today, the question is what's the *next best thing* if you can't have powder