^ they can obviously be put to good use, or there wouldn't be so many of them. I kinda like the way they look too, and the later/shorter ones handle less-worse than the longazz earlier ones. My main point was: don't bother lusting after them because they're various kinds of cool, if you can't get your hands on one - they're not exactly THE best rifle out there.



For outfitting a small militia on a budget, they can be a very attractive starting point. Especially if you can get somebody to make the bolt handles not be the silly short things they normally are. For the price of ONE cheap, badly-tuned asian AR, you can get a half-dozen or more Mosins that will kill your enemies just as dead and ammunition is cheap still (for now)

 

Get a Remington Model 700 in .223, that's your best bet IMO. No point in stepping into anything more serious with the .223 round, and it's a rifle with enthusiast backing so it is possible to have almost anything done to it that you would ever want.



The Mosin Nagants are cheap, but they're utter crap vs. almost any cheap modern bolt action rifle. Their action is horrible, and complex for a bolt action. The safeties are next to useless unless you work them over heavily since they're so difficult to engage/disengage. The bolt disassembles into a billion and a half pieces. The steel is of horrible grade. Steam cleaning them you have to be careful or the carbon actually comes out of the steel.



Yes, I would equip a mass of people with Mosins. No, I wouldn't be holding one if I had much else to choose from.

 

Cool, cheers lads! Mosins don't even have the advantage of being cheap here, I was picking them on their merits. Remington has a good following down under.





Can you seriously buy rifles at Walmart?

 

Yes. They stopped selling guns for a while, realized they were just letting other stores make the money, and started selling them again.



If they are not cheap, there is hardly a reason to consider the Mosin pattern, as stated above. Remington has a good following pretty much everywhere . . . on the merits!

 

But like everything wallmart, it's not exactly the same as if you bought it elsewhere...



I would buy from another store, my life is worth more than a few bucks saved.

 

You can kill a zombie, but this takes care of the host virus thus being the most effective than your glocks and remingtons... Probably run on propane.