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    Default I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    There are differences in front sights. I'm posting this so maybe someone won't make the mistake that I did. I needed to push the front sight as it was shooting left.

    Bought a sight pusher online billed as the tool for M44 1945 on. My rifle is stamped 1945. Good to go. Nope. Mine is an early 1945, built with an M38 barrel and sight. Maker sent me the instructions included in the ad that should have guided me to the correct tool when I told them more info is needed in his ad.

    The info is there. It just didn't mean a lot to me, because I wasn't familiar with the differences in the manufacturing of M44s. Now I get it. The lesson learned was worth the reasonable price of the tool, plus I am able to make it work with some modification.

    The early 1945 M44s have a narrower width sight and base, same as an M38. Mine is .446". The wider one is, well, wider.
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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    The original Russian method is to to use a bigger hammer.

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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    I tried number 4 diesel hammer. Not work. But it bent barrel, gun shoot right now.
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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    Quote Originally Posted by Bang View Post
    I tried number 4 diesel hammer. Not work. But it bent barrel, gun shoot right now.
    In Soviet Russia, you don't adjust rifle, rifle adjusts you.
    Power always thinks...that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    You know they'e zeroed for having the bayonet extended?

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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    Only for soldiering. For civilians, it can be zeroed with bayonet folded closed. Especially when RSOs object to it. Game wardens might question it too. That might be fun.
    Last edited by Bang; August 19th, 2020 at 04:57 PM.
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    Default Re: I learned something about Mosin Nagant M44s

    Well, I seriously have to take that back ^^^^. Was on the 25 yard range today pushing the front sight to match POI. With cruciform bayonet folded back. When I finally started hitting where I was aiming, the front sight was halfway off to the left. So far off to the left, the only explanation was a bent barrel or seriously screwed up crown.

    Or was it.

    I unfolded and installed the bayonet as raxar advised. Bullet struck to the right. It appears that with bayonet installed up front and extended, the front sight will have to be pushed back pretty close to centered where it had been.

    The bayonet position makes a huge difference. On my M44, anyway.
    There are two kinds of guns. Those I have acquired, and those I hope to.

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