Nice content, no nonsense format, no annoying background music…well done!

I do like those old Mosins.

I was really happy to run across this video! I have an old Mosin-Nagant that is sometimes hard to open the bolt after firing it. This video gives me some pointers and some ideas to check out! I was afraid that maybe there was a head-spacing issue but this video now steers me in another direction and offers some hope of a cure. :^) Thank you for posting!! These are sure fun guns to shoot, tough and pretty fool-proof, too!

I have fixed many sticky bolt Mosins… ones with hard to extract fired brass/steel. Chuck up a piece of cleaning rod with a 12 gauge brush in a drill and dip it in thinner and work the chamber thoroughly.. then wrap 800 grit around brush and quickly polish the chamber. Worked every time(6 times) with sticky extraction

Fun fact: The lower guide-piece on the underside of the MN's bolt is responsible for most of the design's well-known spongy and sticky bolt action problems.

Very nice video thank you,

Nice video thank you for sharing brother 🇺🇸

The biggest issue with Mosins is that the main bolt and magazine mechanisms were really never updated for the entire life of the rifle from 1891-1950~ The original 1891 rifle was decent for its time, but compare it to the Mauser 1891, Mannlicher 1888/90, Lebel 1886, Lee-Metford, Krag-jorgensen, Arisaka, etc - all those designs were changed and updated multiple times over the next 50 years. The Mosin saw only minor changes to peripheral parts of the gun.

The Russians use to dip their ammo in lacquer. And the grease used to pack it in has whale blubber in. I found that if you disassemble it, put the bolt parts and the rifle in an oven at 300 degrees, the order is bad, yet the generations of grease will melt. After you've done it the first time swab it out, use acetone to remove more, and put it back in the oven. Let it set for another 15-20 minutes. Remove it, scrub the chamber out real good and use more acetone until patches are clear. Then look to see if there's any roughness or burrs, stone them down, polish it. Then use a lite coat of TRF pastes or Moly lub. Reheat it again until it all melted, wipe off access and you wound have have more stickiness

Good tips.

good and useful info - thank you. Not sure if this guy is having problems breathing but the gasping and rasping made me feel short of breath.

These guns were being cranked out of Soviet factories as quickly as possible and QC was hit or miss.

I'd like a dollar for everyone who claims sticky bolts are caused by cosmoline. Hilarious. It's the very design of the rifle that is flawed. Gives you no leverage over the camming surfaces. 🤠

Definitely a flame thrower

Hey if any one seeing this and you don't like them. Send them to me i will give them a loving home.

Think you used the tool wrong. Normaly there are the middle 2 notches. The shallow 75 shoud touch the pin, the deeper 95 should not touch the pin. So the second from the front(75) where the screwdriver is should touch the 3rd should not. Sorry for my english, i am not a nativ speaker😂

People this is a military rifle not a civilian rifle it's not supposed to be pretty it's supposed to be perfect just supposed to work every time daaaaaaaa