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04-22-2013, 10:41 AM | #1 |
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The Russians Are Coming!!
My first was a Russian, I found it in our move. I paid $175. I dont know what ammo is correct! Still very cool!~~~Eric
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This is a Nagant M1895 revolver. I bought one exaclty like it for my son. The revolver is unusual in that the mechanism both turns the cylinder and pushes it forward, to form a sort of gas lock between the chamber and barrel. There is no cylinder gap upon firing.
It is one of the few revolvers you can reasonably suppress. The ammo is unique to the pistol, having a recessed bullet with the brass entirely covering it and a crimp at the top to help form a gas check when firing. A cheaper substitute, should you wish to shoot are several loadings of the .32 long, which is what my son generally uses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagant_M1895 Last edited by alanint; 04-22-2013 at 02:45 PM. |
04-22-2013, 01:30 PM | #3 |
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The Nagant M1895 revolver; everyone collection should have at least one or two. Certainly one of the most curiously designed revolvers ever, for the reasons "alanint" pointed out. Woefully underpowered, particularly compared to the 7.62x25 TT-33 replacement. Because of the cost of 7.62x38R ammo, I bought an after-market .32 cylinder a few years back. A pain to fit it, and not all that fun to shoot. Turned out not to be a good idea.
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04-22-2013, 01:51 PM | #4 |
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It is very unique! It appears they were in service from 1895 to present!! The early models were single action until 1918 and there after double. Mine is dated 1924 double action and must have armed the 'Checka' Stalin's first secret police~
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Here is an example of the 7,62mm Nagant round.
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Wow! Now that is definitly a uniqe looking shell.
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I owned four Nagant 1895 in the past, but never fired correct ammo from them. .32 S&W Long can be fired from it. Much cheaper.
==== An old picture of shooting it. Had some fun. Last edited by alvin; 04-22-2013 at 08:35 PM. Reason: Pix added |
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You might get some split cases and some badly bulged ones with the .32 long but it will work. A trick someone suggested on another forum was to wrap clear scotch tape around the .32 longs casing and that will take up some of the slack in the cylinder and help prevent case splitting so the cases can be reloaded if choose too.
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The accuracy using .32 ACP was even worse than .32 S&W long.. He never fired any real Nagant ammo through it either. |
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04-27-2013, 07:27 AM | #10 |
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Try some 32mag in it. I have found several brands to be more accurate and a bit louder than the fiocchi nagant ammo. The Fiocchi seems to be very underpowered, comparable to the yellow box Russian "target" ammo and not some of the other surplus ammo.
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Surplus ammo for the Nagant revolver has been available lately
http://www.jgsales.com/ammo-for-handguns-c-25_740.html http://www.aimsurplus.com/catalog.as...me=7.62+Nagant |
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