Retarded idea, but I fly it by you guys anyways. Mosin 'surp is evidently dried up for the most part and now what used to be baby's first real rifle just makes no sense to buy anymore. Since Mosins are basically retard proof to manufacture and can be shit out for dirt cheap, would it be profitable to make a """modern""" mosin by using polymer stocks, having a factory sight mount, and rechambered for a more common US caliber? I imagine you could charge maybe $350-400 for a "serviceable" quality rifle.
It probably wouldnt be profitable, but I think it’d be cool if there were “affordable” .308 mosins. But I guess that’s what those cheap bolt actions you see at the store are for
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My thinking was that those rifles cut cost by having inferior materials, but what if instead you could have a rifle that is built like a brick shit house and instead cuts the cost of manufacturing by being a dead simple design?
> cheap sturdy 308 bolt gun
Other than the fact that it shares it's heritage more with the German family of bolt actions, isn't this essential what a Ruger American or Savage Axis are?
>I imagine you could charge maybe $350-400 for a "serviceable" quality rifle
yeah, that's about what cheap 308 bolt actions go for
but why would I get a repro mosin when there's a shitload of durr huntin rifles that fit the exact same point in the market
I think you would do better just making a repo lookalike style wood stock that would fit a modern action or something
> shitload of durr huntin rifles
Ugly fag aesthetics and bare barrel
> I think you would do better just making a repo lookalike style wood stock that would fit a modern action or something
That’s why this is actually a great idea. Even a mannlicher style stock elevates the looks of a hunting rifle a lot
It's a purpose rifle, it doesnt need to be aesthetic you autistic gay.
I’m not a deer hunter so I don’t give a fuck. It has absolutely no purpose to me so I want it to look how I want it to look.
I'd try to explain this to you, but you are either a child or a man child that works in the service industry. The answer is pretty simple, just think through what it would take to crank these out and then to sell them for $400
Outside of collecting, I don't understand why people want Mosins, other than that they were cheap and relatively retard proof. If you're going to go so far as to build a reproduction gun, why not do something better like a 98K?
>If you're going to go so far as to build a reproduction gun, why not do something better like a 98K?
>Since Mosins are basically retard proof to manufacture and can be shit out for dirt cheap, would it be profitable to make a """modern""" mosin by using polymer stocks, having a factory sight mount, and rechambered for a more common US caliber? I imagine you could charge maybe $350-400 for a "serviceable" quality rifle.
NTA, but a Mosin isn't appreciably cheaper to manufacture than most other bolt-action rifles.
> Since Mosins are basically retard proof to manufacture and can be shit out for dirt cheap*
*-When you have extensive infrastructure designed specifically to shit them put as cheap and fast as possible. Which is very expensive to set up.
They were only dirt cheap to make by the millions with slave labor in communist shitholes. A small scale production modern repro would easily end up costing 1-2k dollars. Maybe even more by the time it's all said and done.
Savage axis already exists.
Molot makes new mosins, we just cant get them
Also worth noting, as far as non-Mauser actions go, Indian gun makers produce modern Lee Enfields, but thanks to their absolutely retarded gun laws we can’t get them. If we could they would be dirt cheap thanks to the exchange rate. Perhaps of dubious quality though.
>Since Mosins are basically retard proof to manufacture and can be shit out for dirt cheap
I don't think there'd be much in the way of cost savings assuming you're using modern machines and not commie labor. If you can make a mosin action (with modern safety features stuffed in so you can actually sell the things and not get sued to death) you can probably make a less shit action for a similar amount of materials/machining/labor.
Then again, the market is stuffed full of cheap, serviceable mauser based actions, so maybe it could work as a successful gimmick with the right marketing, assuming you somehow have the scale to actually price it competitively.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is enough of a market. You can get bolt action rifles that are now cheaper than milsurp that are modernized and more accurate and easier to accessorize.
You can get a Mossberg or Savage with a scope included for a .308 or .30-06 rifle for under $400 with sales.
>be me
>go to local fun store
>cheapest mosin is over a grand
no
Rather see a repro Krag.
wouldn't we all
I would kill OP for a series of Krags in different calibers. the magazine is so fucking cool.
308 crag.
>quite tantalizing
Tne only redeeming quality of the garbage rod was that it cost under $100 and had dirt cheap ammo.
Neither applies today.
>(Mosins) can be shit out for dirt cheap
They were dirt cheap because there were hundreds of thousands of them left from 70+ years ago and they were too shit even for the poorest 3rd world militias to want.
They would be not that much cheaper to manufacture than a modern bolt gun today, and setting up the production would not be cheap at all.
>I imagine you could charge maybe $350-400 for a "serviceable" quality rifle.
Not a chance even if you made them in the hundreds of thousands in China or whatever.
Maybe there'll be a market after that canadian company, Kodiak iirc, brings in those new production k98s from serbia (again iirc).