For my very first gun, I went back in time and picked up a Mosin Nagant from 1942, one of the most iconic surplus rifles in the world. I found it cheap at a local pawn shop and decided to take the ...

The author's Mosin-Nagant rifle was featured in the NRA’s “American Rifleman” television show about the “Guns of 1914” that aired in 2014. Still accurate, it hit a 12”-diameter steel ...

By the 1880s, the Russian Army had commissioned the development of a new infantry rifle. Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, a Czarist Army soldier and engineer, set to work on the rifle design.

However, a less-heralded but worthy challenger is the 1891 three-lined Mosin rifle, a stalwart of the Russo-Japanese war, both world wars and the Russian Civil War.

The rifle went into mass production and, by 1904, three million rifles were in Russian Army service. The Mosin was first used by the Russian Army during the Boxer Rebellion, then by the Russian ...

Designed by Russian Colonel Sergei Mosin, the Model 1891 rifle’s designation reflects the year of its adoption. And while it employed a magazine system patented by Belgian designer Leon Nagant ...

The Mosin-Nagant entered service officially as the Russian 3-line rifle M1891, and domestic production began in 1892. The gun fired the 7.62x54mmR cartridge, a round that remained in service for ...

The Mosin-Nagant Model 1891 bolt-action rifle combined a simple design by Russian Capt. Sergei Mosin with a five-round internal box magazine designed by Belgians Émile and Léon Nagant.

What is the Mosin rifle? It is a five-shot bolt-action rifle developed in 1891 to fire 7.62 x 54 mm cartridges - a counterpart of NATO's .308 Win.

Russia deploying soldiers ‘as old as 60 and giving conscripts 19th century rifles ... Donbas region are said to have been dispatched into front-line fighting with a rifle called a Mosin, ...