The barrel is fully floated, and the receiver is quite nicely tight in there. I didn't want to carry any of my nine pound m39's or anything while schlepping around after wild hogs. I thought I'd make a light weight gun in case I ever went for pigs down in Livermore with my son. Heck, it was a project for an old fart, you know? For the finish, in the Finnish manner, I first treated it with pine tar and baked it in the sun to cure it, then put on a few coats of Boiled Linseed Oil cut 50/50 with mineral spirits. Thinking it maple, I made repairs using maple strips to the barrel channel and to the inlet at the trigger guard, and I used bamboo dowels to hold it together. It has an Ishevsk m38 barrel, a Hungarian receiver, a Tula trigger guard, Remington bolt handle, and the general mix mash of other parts that gave it its name. Now, being a Mosin Nagant collector and general idiotic tinkerer, I bought the stock for what I call my FrankenMosin: I put it together from parts, starting with the bare receiver.
It was so burned I did not even know what kind of wood it was, as even when I cut into the wood, it was tanned from the heat. I was up at the Chico Gun Show at the Silver Dollar Fair Grounds that year, and I picked up this stock. They lost many stocks and had many damaged ones.
Several years ago American Gun Stocks down in Yuba City suffered an unfortunate fire. It's not likely anyone will run into a stock like this one, however. So I'm repairing it, and WickedPete asked that I put a post here in case anyone else runs into a crack.
#MOSIN NAGANT WOOD STOCK CRACK CRACKED#
Some of us Butte and Sutter County CalGuns guys went to the Oroville Clay pits a while back, and during the outing I cracked my stock.
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