Faster Bolt Actions

[Victor Rinaldi]

Mosin Nagants have a problem known as "sticky bolt". They often almost jam to a point where you have to kick the bolt to get it to come back. I don't know what causes this but shooting a Mosin Nagant after being in the field for god knows how many months will never be easy.

This.

You made a very poor choice in using the SMLE - a weapon world-renowned for being the smoothest and easiest to rechamber- as an example of the "standard" bolt-action rifle in action. If you want to make a point, you don't use a weapon that is a cut above everything else as an example, its a poor benchmark.

For what its worth, mauser style rifles were generally considered robust and well-made pieces of equipment, but they were certainly no Lee-Enfields. Mauser were the world's AK-47s at that time. Almost every major military power had a mauser-style rifle, or (like in the case of China) a shameless non-licensed copy of the original.

My point is, the Mauser was made to be mass produced, it was a good weapon, but it wasn't capable of what you show in your, ahem, 'historical refrences'. Tovarich Nemstov already filled you in on the shortcomings of the Nagant series of rifles.

At the end of the day...you always have your bayonet

 

[luciferintears]

question is; did he hit anything?

 

[Colt .45 killer]

question is; did he hit anything?

technically speaking, his bullets landed somewhere tovarich...

 

[ComeAndSee]

They issued blocks of wood with the Mosin during the war because of the sticky bolt issue. I've had it happen a few times to me, but that was because of the cosmaline and you have to smack the bolt on a desk to get it to open.

 

[Marxman]

I have a level 46 K98, and I use manual bolting. That thing is a force of nature because of how fast I can rechamber a round. The rifles don't need any sort of increase aside from stats.

 

[Upham]

Manual Bolting..

Nuff said

 

[Oldih]

Mosin Nagants have a problem known as "sticky bolt". They often almost jam to a point where you have to kick the bolt to get it to come back. I don't know what causes this but shooting a Mosin Nagant after being in the field for god knows how many months will never be easy.

The thing about Mosin's bolt is that while for basically every other bolt action rifle you can bolt them mostly sideways and then pull it back, to get relatively smooth bolt with Mosin you need to pull it towards your left shoulder in diagonal direction no matter what your common sense, intuinition or experience\comparasion to other bolt action rifles would imply.

Even then the problem with rapidfire Mosin is that it's way too long weapon to keep it properly shouldered and bolt it at the same time unless you have extraordinarily long arms, with Mauser (obviously referring to K98k in this case) it is possible, but it's also a very good way to strain your shoulder and right arm faster than you can empty those five bullets