The only reason the Mosin Nagant ever makes it onto Top However Many Badass Battle Rifles of All Time is that the Soviet Union collapsed of its own weight and they ended up sell a crapton over here in the surplus market for four double sawbucks each.
Soviet Union had never gone away, no one would talk about em.
The only reason. Quantity has a quality of its own.
But they'd still would talk about the AK. maybe more. Because they'd still be used by the bad guys and they'd be as rare as hens teeth. It would still make Lists even if no one you ever knew had ever even touched one. Or touched the 7.62x39 ammo.
But a clunky bolt action rifle? Ho hum. There are better bolt action rifles out there. There are crappier bolt action rifles out there. Get in line with all the other bolt action rifles. You want a bolt that killed Nazis, pick the SMLE.
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You want a sniper rifle that killed more Fascists than all other sniper rifles, combined, get a Mosin.
Not much to recommend it.
If I could get a good condition SMLE for anywhere near the price of a good condition Mosin I'd already own one....or a few.
That's the point. If Mosins started at a price point of $650 back in 1992 you'd never hear about them.
That list is pretty much garbage. The `03 Springfield was little more than a rip-off of the `98 Mauser with stuff added by Army Ordnance that made the rifle worse: The ladder sights and the magazine cut-off. The only thing that was better than the `98 was the barrel was shorter, a fault the Germans remedied with the K98b, and its variants.
The proof is that the Army had to pay damages to Mauser for infringing on Mauser's patents.
You know, SMLE were once available at present Mosin prices...
It's one of the few times I've managed to get a gun before they got expensive.
Both of my No4 Mk1 rifles I purchased for "Moisin" prices -- one for $100, another for $120.
Frankly, the feed design of the Moisin is what wins my technical appreciation.
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