zombie apoc weapons book 4

ZOMBIE APOC WEAPONS BOOK 4

Chapter One ( Rifle ) continued

For almost ten solid years ( prior, my writing was irregular ) before price increases I made my case to you how the WWII surplus bolt action rifles were superior in every way to your pathetic sheet metal and plastic abominations. They were made so much better, they were so much cheaper and by gum they were bolt action creamy goodness. And what did I hear? Sad Panda, used. Oh my, not a common caliber. Sweet Baby Jesus, not semi-auto. Why, without semi-auto we shall all die and perish. Without a common caliber we'll have to pay-The Horror, The Horror-25% more for the ammo. And worse, the very pinnacle of unacceptable, zero range bragging rights!

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I told you, I pleaded with you, I made my case from different angles, surplus bolties are the best! No one listened ( minions who did, award yourself two biscuits. The rest of you, yeah, sorry, I have it on good authority your non-participation awards are coming by slow boat. From China. As soon as trade resumes ). And now, you cannot buy the best rifle ever produced, the Lee-Enfield no4. I mean, you COULD. If you want the bottom of the barrel beat to crap at collector prices ( the days of “hand select, $20 extra” are long gone. And even buying what no one else wanted, I still got about a 50% “highly problematic, use for spare parts” rate in my picks ).

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They were used, and from the very beginning worth about what you payed, $75-$125. Now that want $600, starting. I love me some French Fried Enfields, ah hah, but NOT at those prices. For $600, that rifle better come with some monthly oral pleasure. The second choice could be a Mauser, if you find one in decent shape. They are accurate, but glass sights are problematic and I need peep sights if iron, which these aren't. But the Mauser is sure as Hell MUCH better than the worlds worst rifle ever made outside the Austrian-Hungary Empire, the Mosin-Nagant.

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I do not care that the thing had a bolt as easy to manipulate as a rusted cog in a seawater soaked machine. I do not care that they were longer than a politicians nose. I don't even, really, care that usually the bayonet sucked. Or the fact that vodka saturated peasants on Monday's had little incentive to manufacture a safe weapon. The DESIGN is what always had my panties in a bunch. Let us travel to yesteryear, in 1890, when all the major powers were perfecting their smokeless powder magazine fed rifles. Because primers, and to some extent powder, was far from the perfected product that we would see forty years later, ammunition was far more unstable than what we consider normal.

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It was not unheard of that cases ruptured and primers could explode the cups. So the fine gentlemen at Mauser and Enfield both designed their rifles with a gas safety bleed. Any explosive malfunction was directed AWAY from the users face. The Mosin-Nagant? Nah! “It'll Be Fine!” And you can't even blame the communists who were still twenty years away from making everything worse with committees and Gretchen Panels Of Inquiry. If you own and operate a Mosin-Nagant, you'll probably be fine ( don't use steel case. These rifles were designed back when chamber tolerances were not so fine. You need the brass case swelling for a seal ). Probably.

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But what happens when you start running out of factory reloading components and start using cottage industry ammunition? I grant you, when I first started plugging the surplus guns twenty-five years ago, I had a heck of a long life span ahead of me and that was a real concern. Now, it would only be a concern for your kids or grandchildren. But do you hate them that much? Now, if you already own the guns, well, you just do the best with what you have, where you're at. This isn't a call to change your arsenal. Not at this late date ( unless you have the money to burn, a guaranteed access to ammunition and no other pressing hobbies ).

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I'm just covering this material for the sake of your education. What if, say, you have a neighbor that just armed the whole family with AR's, and offered you first crack at his Mosin-Nagant collection ( the mail order Russian bride didn't work out, so he had to settle on a dainty waif of an American wife, unable to handle the weight or recoil of the things ). You never know, right? Or, your shooting buddy finally upgraded to the AK and needed some extra cash for his spray and pray and tries to sell you his Mosin's. Should you take them? If I didn't have any bolts, and I could get them under the current insane price of $350, I might.

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You should read the article by C.E. Harris titled “The Load”. There are also some YouTube videos. Basically you take Red Dot powder with its extra volume to safely fill up a rifle case, and use a cast pistol round so that you are firing a carbine round out of full thirty cal rifles ( using the larger cases, so there is no chamber insert to buy ). The great thing about the Red Dot is that it is up to 30% cheaper than rifle powder. A few pounds and the $20 bullet mold is paid for. Now you have much less pressure in your case, and you can buy a lot more reloading components. That should both make the Mosin less dangerous and kick the can down the road before you must use unsafe components.

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I know, that does not address the negatives of bolt action surplus rifles I first noted. Don't you fret your pretty little heads about that. My rebuttal is coming, oh yes. It is coming. Tremble, puny earthlings, for you shall weep in shame at your emotionally charged misinformed views, which were displayed before all and sundry to see, hopefully to your chagrin.

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