The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

I bought it without the original top plate and I'm having a hard time identifying. 15175353794762097982025.jpg1517535362974574977794.jpg151753533433133291249.jpg1517535316824572315860.jpg1517535238345-2067951146.jpg1517535221357-1987901229.jpg1517535196349124981370.jpg Russian SKS that someone bubb...

SA1911a1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:41 pm I do the same thing I do with bad gasoline. I pour it into a metal container, set fire to it and it goes away. I have a dedicated cast iron pot for the act.

Outside of setting fire to it is there any better way?

While on this note thoughts on this restoration I get why he did it but he also destroyed quite a bit of history in the process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4_XFr16O5o I don't think that he improved the looks of the gun in the process. It just looks like another back porch sand and poly to me....

Longcolt44 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 11, 2021 6:22 pm Nice, I need a Russian to complete my SKS collection.

I'd recommend the later year ones as I have a 1951 manufacture and the safety on it isn't clicky. Other than that they're basically the same accuracy wise.