How To Load A Mosin Nagant

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But got my offset MN, an M91/30, and I can tell that these things are going to become a serious addiction for me
There is a wealth of information on these rifles all over the internet, then I have managed to detect answers to virtually of my questions, only at that place is one issue on which I have read conflicting reports:

Is it ok to sleeping accommodation a single round then close the commodities on information technology?

I have read both that it is fine to do and that this happens every time you chamber a round, and likewise that information technology is a bad idea and can damage the extractor.

I know that some rifles can be loaded in this way without fear of damaging the extractor, but I don't know whether the MN is 1 of those.

I would just effort loading the rifle slowly and seeing what happens as the round is fed from the magazine, but I don't yet have any dummy rounds to experiment safely with.
A mosin nagant rifle, as far every bit I know, is push fed. It should be perfectly fine to do it that way. A friend of mine can't effigy out the stripper clips, and doesn't like to take the time to load the mag 1 at a fourth dimension, so this is pretty much all he does.
If y'all go some stripper clips, though, and figure out how to use them (information technology's not that hard), then I think yous'd like that more than.
Put the single round in the magazine then close the bolt. If you only put the round in the sleeping accommodation you volition beat up your extractor.....chris3
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I ask the question from an academic standpoint more than anything, I doubt I'll be single loading the burglarize much anyway. If I do, I'll pop the round into the magazine and feed from there.

I'1000 nonetheless interested to know though, merely because there seems to be then much disparity of opinion.
If you think about it, it doesn't make whatever difference! From mag or inserted into sleeping accommodation, the extractor doesn't snap over the cartridge rim until the bolt is airtight!
It's fine to unmarried load. The extractor does the same affair either way.
+ane. Attempt feeding from the magazine: push the commodities forwards but practise NOT close it. Then pull the bolt back. The round is still in the chamber, because the extractor doesn't pop over the rim until the bolt is airtight.
Mausers, and anything else with a controlled round feed organisation are why many people insist on feeding from the mag.
Courtgreene, if your buddy'due south Mosin jams when stripper clip loaded and so the interrupter setup is slightly out of whack. When it's working correctly the finger on the interrupter/ejector spring volition agree dorsum the other rounds from the one due to be loaded so the rims don't lock.
On my two Mosins i worked fine and the other I had to tweak a bear upon to get information technology to reach in far enough to hold the lower rounds back.
I've loaded hundreds by dropping them into the sleeping room and closing the bolt. The back of the 54R rim is slanted to let the extractor ride up and over it.
I accept owned lots of mosins, my father has fifty-fifty more. I have never encountered a broken extractor. I accept not come across many broken anythings on mosins for that matter.
Just drop the round in the magwell and close the commodities.
Mosin rifles use a cartridge interrupter that pops the cartridge free from the mag earlier the bolt feeds information technology into the chamber.
I can believe information technology.
I don't take much feel with these rifles since I literally just bought my beginning one, but I accept particular stripped it.
At that place is non a unmarried component that looks flimsy, everything is satisfyingly over engineered.
Recollect, Mosins were designed (in the 1890'southward) to be used by illiterate peasant conscripts who in many cases really did not desire to exist in that location. One of the virtually robust designs I take ever seen. I worked in Russia on an applied science project in the 1990'south. If you saw what Russians do to their cars you would understand why the Mosins were built so tough.
Just drib the round in the open action...