Today’s Gun pRon

Man, that hurts just looking at it.

He-he, ?????, and it looks like it can still take a bayonet … make it twice as cool and infinitely more ridiculous

Actually, there is precedent for such a weapon. A sawed off Mosin was called an “Obrez” and was used in the Russian Civil War. Click for more info.

make my day, comrade

No problemo, Yuri!

I’m partial to Mosins as you can probably tell by the post on my blog I did with a little family picture of my collection. OK, so I’ve added a .22 revolver since then.

I’d love an Obrez, but there’s the $200 tax stamp to make one and the paperwork…

I found a video if anyone wants to see one of these go off

Thanks for the link and for running such a great site!

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Good post.

James

I think it’s kind of attractive…

Frankly, while I wouldn’t want to fire a standard load. I wonder if you could fire it with lower pressures?

I don’t see why not. That’d be preferable in my opinion.

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