Saturday, February 24, 2018

This oddball converted Mosin uses oval rifling to escape Moscow gun control (VIDEO)


Russian arms maker Molot has released a bunch of info on their VPO-220 bolt action rifle that isn’t– the Lancaster-bore 9.6x53mm– designed to skin a gun control cat.

The Vintovka Mosina VPO-220 (ВПО-220) looks like a classic Mosin M91 rifle, a longarm familiar to Russia for more than 120 years and typically chambered in 7.62x54R. However, to comply with regulations in Russia since the time of the Bolsheviks, the gun is not “legally” a rifle, but uses a Lancaster Oval-Bore system instead to impart spin. The oval squeeze to the barrel is elliptical, turning to give the desired twist without traditional lands and grooves (stop us if you have heard this before– we are talking to you, Franklin Arms).

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