Originally Posted by
ggordon
Please check carefully before shooting this-- a large number of these Remington Mosin Nagants were bored out to 30-06 ( I think by Bannerman's). I once bought one myself and the dealer didn't mention the conversion-- and the barrels wasn't marked to reflect the new chambering --I brought it back. I don't believe it's safe to shoot modern 30-06 rounds in these.
I too bought a sporterized 1918 Remington Mosin Nagant some years back.
I usually hate sporters, but the Remington caught my eye, as well as the pristiness of it.
The sporterizing job appears to be a quality job.
It doesn't look like any of the Bannerman pictures I've seen, and when I try to put a 30.06 round in the chamber, it won't go in all the way, whereas a 7.62x54R will.
So a I assume it's still in it's original caliber.
But this still begs the question that I don't know what I have, because the workmanship is too good to be a "Bubba" job.
Last edited by edporch; 02-24-2013 at 09:44.
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