Recent content by Winston-Smith

Yes, really, and I don‘t really care whether you believe me or not. In any event, this concludes tonight’s sociological experiment and I’d like to offer my personal thanks to those who participated in it — my posts were the product of a bet. My friend, who is quite knowledgeable about...

The Soviets routinely force matched parts on their Mosins and I wouldn’t call either of my Mosin Nagants “humped up” garbage. Nor do I know any of my fellow Mosin owners at my gun club who would say the same. in addition, many CMP 1903s which were Greek returns had electro-penned force...

Yes, they are essentially Russian captures although Mitchell also bought old surplus Yugo M48s. MM sold both K98s and M48s (and falsely conflated the latter with the former). He brought them over, polished up the metal, sanded down the stocks and generally “prettified” them and then, like the...

So, definitely the language of involuntary celibates. Well, I hope things are going well down there in Mom’s basement.

I have to chuckle at all the vituperative posts on this thread about Mitchell’s Mausers. I recently had the opportunity to shoot one with a friend who just bought a legitimate K98K that was an MM restoration (and, yes, he knew exactly what he was doing, had read all of the vitriol on these...