As the Russians would say...ironsights wrote:i was just doing the winter cleaning in the safe and got to pulling apart the mosin bolt to grease it up for the season when i started thinking about the saftey and if it's any good. So i found out that if you engage the saftey when the bolt is not cocked it will cock the bolt when you return it to the fire position without racking the bolt!. You can disengage the bolt by cocking it up one notch (not fully up to be pulled back) and pull the trigger. !!!! Please always check the loaded condition of your firearm and point it in a safe direction!!!!!
The saftey seems to be pretty tough but i wonder if anyone has done any tourture tests* to this rifle
*besides the 100+ years of service!
"Is gun, is not safe!"
I do not use the safety on my Mosin-Nagants. The effort required in engaging and disengaging the thing can be, at times, in opposition to safe gun handling practices, IMO. If I need the rifle to be "safe"*, I open the bolt. It is, in fact, much faster and easier to close the open bolt than it is to disengage the safety. Additionally, an engaged safety will also impede any movement of the bolt, including opening the bolt and clearing the rifle.
*Remember, always practice the four rules.