All of this is way worse than anime tits
As a fanboy of the Springfield, I must say "Go fuck yourself" even if it's true.
NAFO sticker kill count when?
Good news, the '03 is in the good tier. Because it's just a Mauser.
Just gotta be careful not to get a early 03 Springfield, the heat treat was way too high, but luckily, most of those blew up well before they reached modern day. I find it funny Mauser won a lawsuit for the US infringing on his patents because we copied it so good.
I heard really good things about the MAS-36 and I have to wonder is it a Mauser?
The lawsuit wasn't from Mauser. We actually worked out a deal with Mauser to pay royalties on both the rifle and the clips. Mauser's parent company, DWM, caught wind of the new .30-06 cartridge and sued over the bullet design. The US probably would have won the case, but it got suspended due to some war. When DWM got back around to it, they found the US had seized their patent. That's actually against the Geneva Convention, and we had to pay 400k, twice as much as we did for the rifle. In a lawsuit we would have won anyway,
It's a bunch of shit slapped together from other rifles. A quick look I've seen two claims on the origin of the action. One is a M1917 (the actual best Mauser) but I'm more inclined to believe Ian that's an Arisaka bolt. The Arisaka bolt is a mish mash of Mauser and Mannlicher parts to Japanese needs. So it's 1893 Mauser, combined with various parts from other guns and original ideas for the Japanese, and then that process was repeated by the French. I think at that point it's no longer a Mauser but Mauser derived. The French are.. interesting cats when it comes to weapons design.
The French copy nobody and nobody copies the French.
They wanted a modern rifle in '78 so they made a bullpup but insisted on rifle grenades. And switched to 5.56. But only their own, boutique 5.56. The 5.56 the rest of NATO used could rupture the receiver and break the gun. The Gallic mind is unknowable.
Kinda like how the Howa Type 64 has a weakened version of 7.62x51 because Japs are weak little pussies.
Except tanks for like 5 minutes when everyone else made better tank designs.
To be fair, wheelchair copelord is a lolcow in his own right.
The issue with a lot of Mosins today is that their age is taking its toll on a lot of them in terms of issues like wear. A friend of mine focused in C&R's (Curios and Relics, anything older than 50 years) recently was testing a Mosin and Carcano he ordered, and the MOA on them was absolutely terrible. His investigation into why this was the case revealed the most apparent issue, that the barrel on the Mosin was so worn that the could sink the cartridge down the muzzle to the neck of the casing (Normally it's supposed to be at the about junction cone of the cartridge 4mm up) and the bore of the muzzle was 8.31mm instead of the expected 7.92mm (the crown was 8.6 supposedly). The rifling, however, was so far gone that he couldn't see any for at least 6 inches using the incredibly accurate measurement technique of looking down the barrel with his flashlight. To put it in his own words:
So the Mosin itself is not bad, just the wear and tear that's common among many old rifles?
You have to also consider the USSR wasn't exactly too worried about quality control in the 40s and which rifles reached the civilian market. Same problem plaques the Arisaka. It has a reputation for being a piece of shit in the States because the milsurp market was flooded with rifles produced in some guy's garage while being firebombed. The K98k is great; The eastern front captures produced in late '44? Ehh..
Rifle is fine. There are numerous reasons why Mauser-styled actions have proliferated far farther in the modern day than anything even remotely resembling the mosin's action, but its not like say, the Nambu 94 pistol where the design and engineering is complete dogshit.
My brother has a '43 Izhesvk and the difference in workmanship between that and my '38 is night and day. Toolmarks and gouges everywhere, some of the roughest machining passes you will see this side of the Khyber Pass. Tolerances might as well have been in whole inches instead of thousandths.
hay he’s more American than you or I. Hell he’s more American than George Washington, I bet Washington couldn’t even find Ukraine on an 18th century map.
He simps so fucking hard. I don't suggest he move, but I don't know why he doesn't either if he's "American ". Guess giving up that state Healthcare and possibly being around conservatives is too much
Even the shittier kar-98s still were fairly reliable. Compared to the mosins issues even during the great war and Russo Japanese war. There were stories of Finnish soldiers with krags making short work of Russians with their mosins. (Krags have their flaws not being able to use stripper clips normally is one of them) but their actions and reliability was bar none. Krags are known for their smooth action.
The only rifle I think that's better than a Mauser is a Enfield but what can I say I also enjoy krags because I'm a bolt action hipster.
