How To Mount A Scope On A Mosin Nagant

Recently, I received a call from a customer asking if I could fit a lens into the Mosin Nagant. He said he had scopes, mounts, drills, everything. He bought a nice little kit on Amazon that has everything you need. He just needs it attached. It was a Christmas present for his son and he watched a YouTube video on how to do it but he felt it would be better to let a gunsmith do it. glad he brought this to me than trying it myself. Some important parts that keep the device working properly are not installed by anyone that I can find showing their methods on the interweb. Reading through the reviews of some of these, the results were less than expected on the internet because people installed them incorrectly. The latch, the mount itself, and modify the stock to accept the new mount. Bolt Step one is to change the bolt.Front view of the Mosin nagant bolt On some rifles, you heat and bend the bolt. This allows clearance from the bolt handle to the scope. It also makes the bolts “Americanized” and more bearable for an American shooter. This particular pin has a short body and the kit comes with a new pin, so we just removed this old one with a trusty Porta strap.Machining the rough section After the handle is removed, I move on to the mill where I machine the perfect plane. This creates the right mating of the faces and also makes it look significantly better.Locate the center of the bolt handle When it is flat, I have to locate the center of the circle. This is more difficult than it seems because the metal is not really round but slightly distorted. I got it as close as possible to the condition of the forging. Within a few thousandths.Center drill holes in preparation for final drilling Once the center was in place, I locked the mill in place and centered the original hole.Drilled holes for the new handle, then I drilled the holes myself. This kit has a drill bit and hose provided. The drill bit cuts very poorly and is clearly made of jello or butter or something that isn’t very effective at drilling metal. I had to take it to the grinder several times to get it smoothed in order to be able to do some of the drilling of this job. However, given the sharpness, it did a good job so it’s good enough for this kit. I doubt it would work for someone trying to do it like on a YouTube video.Tapping 6 x 1mm Threads Read More: Sewing In the past, I wasn’t brave enough to hit this hole hard. I just rotate the blender manually and everything works fine.Installed and timed the bolt handle It needs to be processed to exact specifications and lined up in the correct position at the same time. I must have lived up to it today because it was perfect on the first try. I gave the client the choice of using Loctite for bolt fixing or TIG welding in place. Is that my gun, I soldered it but the extra cost was more than what he wanted to do. For scope mounts, a large amount of red Loctite should be fine. This lens mount is built to ease the eyes of the standard Mosin Nagant stock. However, my client added a butt pad/extender to his gun so the eye relief has changed. That means I need to move the scope holder back a bit to try and compensate. After positioning the mount about 10 times, I finally got it where I wanted and marked my spot. But first, I had to figure out how this stand was made in order to keep working. The kit comes with two larger screws, two smaller screws and two stainless grounding pins. There were six holes, and six pieces of something got into the holes. Larger screws hold the holder to the scope. The smaller screws are mechanical locking screws that hold the large screws in place and prevent them from coming out. These pins are the index pins that actually hold the mount in place. Easy, except the pins don’t fit in the holes. There are no instructions included with this kit but it is sold as it has everything you need to install it. I looked on Amazon for any tips from the previous installer. Nothing, I watched the video on YouTube. The pins are shown as part of the kit, but they have never been installed by the user. I think the assumption is that the screws hold the mount in place and the pins? Meh, must be sub. Except that is wrong. The pins are what hold the mount in place. Lock it into a position so it doesn’t move under recoil. The large screws are what keep the mount from straying from the pins. But they don’t hold the mount in a fixed position. If they do, you’ll never get the screw into the hole. They will be too tight. In fact, there are slopes in the holes for the screws, rightly so. Without the pins, the mount would change with recoil and the gun would never hold zero. The last set of small screws then mechanically locks the large screws into place. This is a metal version of Loctite. Now that I have a plan, it has started working.The main screw holes are drilled and tapped on the collector These holes are positioned, centered, drilled and tapped in the same way as the previous bolt hole. Once they are tapped, I can mount the scope base and use it as a guide for the index pins.Drill index pin holes on the scope and receiver holder Read more: How to make Steampunk jewelry | Top Q & AW With the mount held in place by screws, I drilled through it with a #9 drill. This bit is 0.001 ″ smaller than the pins measured. This is the purpose. We want the pins to be larger than the hole, but just enough.Heat the collector to expand the metal. The index pins go into the freezer and the receiver goes into the receiving device. I cleaned up and did some office work while the pins froze. Then I heated the receiver and lens mount until it was hot but not red hot. As the collector gets hot and therefore larger, and the pins are frozen and therefore smaller, I knock the pins into place with a small hammer and punch. Just pressed in under force. Then I left everything alone to return to room temperature. As things cool down, the extra dimension on the pins that lock the mount to the receiver most aggressively can be done with this setup. This is the key to this mount. The screws just keep it from coming back. They don’t really keep it in place.Mounted scopes and handles You will notice that this type of scope is located directly to the left of the center. That’s how these are designed. I asked the client if he wanted it completely left or rotated some more towards the center. This is where he wants it.The warehouse modification actually takes the longest The outsourcing work is mainly setup. Once you’ve dialed in and locked everything in place, things go pretty quickly. Doing the woodwork is all manual work and installation testing. It’s fun work because it’s quiet and meditative but it will take some time.Almost doneI simply saw the lens on the gun and let it dial for the customer. For what the client got in my rifle, kit and labor I’m not sure he’s worth his money as a pure gunner but for the fun factor he have a really nice gun. pumpkin head | Top Q&A Read more: how to make pumpkin head | Top Q&A