I’ve updated my guns page to include my latest acquisitions:

• Bushmaster Bullpup
• Ruger Single-Six
• Mosin-Nagant M1944 Carbine

The Nagant was definitely an impulse buy.  I went to the show on Saturday (apparently I left about the time Rachel Lucas arrived) looking for a scope for my Bullpup.  I found a scope but ended up browsing the rest of the show.  I stopped at this carbine and looked it over.  It caught my eye because it was Soviet-made, stamped 1945, and in good condition (the stock had been repaired, but it was pretty well done).

I printed out a copy of a manual* created in the 1950’s by the Army’s ordinance corps so that I will be able to take it down and clean it.  As soon as the ammo arrives I’m going to schedule some range time to try it out.

* If anyone is interested in manuals for a lot of old military guns, Cheaper Than Dirt sells a CD containing them (in PDF form).  I can’t get to their website right now, or I’d post a link to it.  The item number is ‘MGR-861’.