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So here's another item I've been keeping an eye out for but I haven't seen it at AIM, Classic Firearms, J&G, SOG, etc etc for sale at all. So I have the ones that offer in stock notifications to let me know when they get one. So it kind of blew me away, after so long, when I got an email from AIM that they had some in stock a short while ago.

 

I go to the website and the little $100 revolver is now almost doubled in price at $189. I guess more and more there are no more "cheap" surplus guns. I guess supply and demand have definitely taken their toll.

 

So far they've went from available, to out of stock, and now available for preorder. I guess if my searching for the past year has been any indication it won't get any better, just worse. I guess if anyone has been waiting to pick one up maybe now is the time. I wish I had been able to get one back when they were around the $100 area.

 

Here's the page for the preorder.

 

http://www.aimsurplus.com/product.aspx?item=F3Nagant&name=Russian+M1895+7.62x38R+Nagant+Revolver&search=nagant

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About 7-8 years ago my best friend gave me a Nagant Revolver as a Christmas gift. (he does have a C&R) It came with a holster, lanyard and tool kit. He never would tell me what it cost him,  But when I suggested $75, he just grinned.  :devil:

At the time 7.62 Nagant ammo was very hard to find and expensive when you did. For $35, shipping included, I bought a .32acp cylinder for it. Ammo in that caliber was cheap and plentiful. 

We were at a gun show about a year ago and we both saw them at the same time and thought "What the.......". Several dealers had Nagants, just the revolver with no accesories for $239.  :screwy:

Over the last year or so I've been running across Nagant ammo pretty regularly at gun shows. Made by Prvi Partizan for around $25-30 for a box of 50. 

 

I fear the cheap surplus guns are a thing of the past.  :cry:

 

 

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I got one of these for my birthday this year.   We found some ammo online at a reasonable price, not orig but privy's offerings.   I got 3 boxes and will reload it.  There are supposedly a dozen ways to make functional ammo for it using 32ish bullets and various cases.   I am trying to find some cheap slugs for it -- I got one box of hornady .309 diameters to try.  Lee has a die set for it, sorta ...

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Sorry for the delay, busy busy holidays.

Have you received yours yet?  If so, what do you think? 

 

It's way better than I expected honestly. I was expecting a much later year than what I got. I ended up with a beautiful 1930 Tula. I was figuring that the older stuff had already been imported, put into the market, and that this was going be a 1940s year. So I was pleasantly surprised when I got it.

 

It's covered in markings, just like a Mosin. I'll have to do some looking around and see if I can find some information on some of it. I've always loved history and the old firearms are definitely filled with a lot of it. I wish it were possible to really know the journey some of these old guns have taken, but it's fun to imagine where they've been.

 

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I got one of these for my birthday this year.   We found some ammo online at a reasonable price, not orig but privy's offerings.   I got 3 boxes and will reload it.  There are supposedly a dozen ways to make functional ammo for it using 32ish bullets and various cases.   I am trying to find some cheap slugs for it -- I got one box of hornady .309 diameters to try.  Lee has a die set for it, sorta ...

seems like you can use .32 long colt cases if you don't mind not having the gas seal

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I've used 32/20 cases with the Lee dies made for such. It sucked. It's easier and much better to just do it right. Buy some factory ammo and reload the cases.

First off, they don't need sizing if they're going back in the same gun. What you'll need to reload them is a decapping pin for obvious reasons. After decapping, use an Mdie to expand and remove the remaining crimp. Prime, charge and seat the bullet. I seat a 100g round nose perfectly flush with the case.
Then you will need a taper crimp die for a .30 Carbine. It makes the perfect angle for the gas seal. You WILL have to play with it a bit to get it right. Too much and it won't seal, too little and it will jam up. Nothing references off the case mouth so be sure the outside is completely free of burrs.
Easy peasy.
Well, okay it's a little tedious but it's worth it. 3.5g of Trail boss is a hoot with a 100g cast round nose and it quite accurate for mine. Be absolute certain of your bore diameter as they can vary wildly depending on when they were made. Edited by Caster
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I recently sold mine. Much as I liked it, I was offered too much for it.

BUT...I still have 49 rounds I loaded and one empty piece of brass. This is once fired Prvi brass. The load is a 98g cast bullet over 3.5g of Trail Boss.
If anyone passes through Fairview and would like to pull the bullets for the primed brass, you're welcome to it. Just PM me. I want NOTHING in return.
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