 Greetings, friends. This is SurvivalDoc. Today we're going to look at my Mosin Nagant. This is a Chinese Model 53, the carbine version. Here it is on my gun rack showing between my M1 Grand on the bottom and my M1A on the top. As you can see, the carbine with the bayonet extended is about the same length as the M1 Grand with the 10-inch bayonet on it. The most of you are probably familiar with the longer version and I'll talk about that one in a minute. When you buy Mosin Nagant, this is what you want to check. You want to take a cartridge, insert it in the muzzle like this to see if it has been counterboard. Your rifle is worth more if it has not been counterboard. This one has not been counterboard. As you can see, there is about five-eighths of an inch space on the bullet before you reach the shell casing, right here about five-eighths inch. If it has been counterboard, what they do is they bore into the muzzle about an inch or so. It increases accuracy on an old rifle and this is what it will look like if it has not been counterboard. This is what my rifle looked like when I first bought it. The good thing about a Mosin Nagant is they are very inexpensive. You can get one for less than $150. So it is a good rifle for a decoy or throwaway rifle when they come and confiscate your gun if you want to have a decoy. It is a good functioning military rifle, bolt action rifle. Did some work on this obviously. If you want to see what I did to the stock, look at my video on restoring my M1 Grand. I used the same procedure for restoring this stock that I did on my M1 Grand. So I am not going to go into details here. Cosmoline, you keep my rifle clean. Cosmoline is a pain in the rear but it is necessary. It does protect the metal. This rifle was made in 1955 and it would be a rust bucket right now if it had not been stored in Cosmoline. But you do have to remove the Cosmoline of course. A lot of videos on YouTube showing how to remove Cosmoline but that is how you end up with a nice clean metal with little rust. I used a simple green to remove Cosmoline. It was pretty nasty with this gun so I actually used mineral spirits which worked a little bit better than simple green and then I finished it up with simple green. Now getting Cosmoline out of the stock is another matter. It is even more difficult than getting it out of the metal. You see YouTube videos of people putting it in the sun like I did here. It takes days in the hot summer sun to do this. You can also use a heat lamp to do this but you just let the rifle sweat it out. Just put it in the hot sun all day long. Just let it sweat out and every now and then you wipe it off. But this doesn't get enough of the Cosmoline out for me so I used a procedure using boiling water that I show on my M1 Grand video. So if you want to see how I removed the Cosmoline from this stock I wrapped it in rags and poured boiling water on it and then used simple green on it. And that repeatedly to just get the Cosmoline out of the stock. Turned out very nicely of course. This rifle is older than I am and it has some character. I like the looks of it. It looks like a tree bark camo but it is really smooth. If you would hand this rifle to a blind man he would fill it and think it was almost a new rifle because it actually feels real smooth, satin, finished. I am not going to go into detail about disassembling most of the gump because there are many many many videos on YouTube showing how to disassemble it. But one thing I will show that I did not see another video on that is how to remove the retainers for the barrel bands. These two holes right here you use a 1.16 inch punch. When you punch out just like this you punch out the barrel band retainers that come out like this. You want to take these out. They are easy to take out but you want to take them out because you want to clean these up real good they will be a mess underneath them. And also when you clean and when you sand your stock you want these out of there. With the bolt I will say just a little bit about the bolt because I see a lot of YouTube videos of people disassembling and assembling a bolt. You want one of these gauges here and you want to make sure that you check the protrusion of your firing pin. Your firing pin should touch the metal on the first notch it should touch it. But it should not touch the second notch this one right here. There should be a little bit of space there and if there isn't the firing pin could actually push the primer all the way into the cartridge and you could have gases escaping which could be a dangerous situation. Touch here it should touch this one and it should not touch this one. Now when you see people on YouTube taking this thing apart you see them pressing the firing pin onto a hard surface that is not necessary I don't recommend it. This little device right here or the fourth notch on your gauge that I just showed you can be used to unscrew the firing pin. You want the screw will come to here flush here and you want this lined up this little scratch back here you want that to be lined up. But the way that you disassemble the firing pin you don't have to press the firing pin into a board. What you do is you just take this device right here and you unscrew the firing pin and you put it back together the same way. Putting this thing back together it's the wrong way to do it if you do it the wrong way what happens when you cock it is the end will come off. This is the wrong way this is the right way. This little nubbin right there has to fit into that notch like that right there. Then you pull back and cock it pull back and turn it and then this goes into that notch right there and the firing pin doesn't show because it's in the cocked position. And any most in the gun owner certainly should have one of these these are the original Chinese cartridge holders which each one holds three speed loaders each speed loader holds five cartridges so this little device here holds thirty. Now when you get one of these make sure you treat the leather with the leather conditioner. Here is the speed loader this is how you load the five cartridges in your speed loader. This is a neat little ammo pouch I really like this ammo pouch and here is how you load using the speed loader alright there's a little notch right there that the speed loader fits into you push them in like this take out the speed loader fits in there just like that. This is a clip some of you do not understand the difference between a clip and a magazine this is a magazine this is a clip magazine clip. A lot of you will call the magazine a clip and there is a difference it's a real neat rifle I've shot it it is a lot of fun to shoot. This is Survival Doc reminding you be prepared or be prepared to be pleased.