What is Mosin Rifle Caliber Model 1891
What is Mosin Rifle Caliber Model 1891
Mosin Rifle Caliber Model 1891 In small arms, at the end of the 19th century, a qualitative leap in developing long-barreled individual weapons occurred with the development of guns and general technologies. Smokeless powders contributed to the transition to smaller calibers and, in conjunction with technology development, enabled the creation of acceptable systems with magazine-fed replacements and single-charge systems. Research on relevant topics began in the Russian Empire in 1883 when a special commission was formed at the General Staff’s Main Artillery Directorate. In 1890, two magazine rifle systems reached the finals – domestic, developed by Captain S.I. Mosin, and Belgian, designed by Leon Nagan.
Specifications:
- Performance characteristics
- Arrested by Mosin. The year 1891.
- The type of mechanism
- Rotating bolt with longitudinal sliding, manual reloading
- The calibre of the gun is mm
- 7.62x54R
- The length of the tube is mm
- 1306
- The length of the barrel in millimetres
- 800
- The weight in kilograms
- 4.22
- Capacity and cartridges of magazines
- 5
Mosin Rifle Caliber Model 1891Test results
Led to the adoption of a rifle that was more or less the Mosin Rifle design with a few (not significant, but available) borrowings from Nagant. According to some reports, a magazine feeder and plate clip were reportedly borrowed from Nagan. In the old Russian system of measurements, three lines equal 7.62 millimeters or 0.3 inches. Also adopted with the rifle was a new three-line (7.62 mm) cartridge, now called 7.62×54 mm R.
It was designed by the Russian designer Veltishchev and featured a bottle-shaped case, a charge of smokeless powder and a blunt-pointed jacketed bullet. As the Russian arms industry was still in its infancy, a rimmed sleeve was already obsolete because of its low level of development. The rimless sleeves and the chambers for them can be manufactured with less strict tolerances than sleeves without them. Creating and implementing a cartridge without a rim, like the German cartridge model 1888, would have been more expensive and time-consuming.
The subsequent change in cartridge design (which occurred in other developed countries by the end of the 1920s) never happened due to various historical circumstances. To this day, domestic designers are faced with the challenge of creating automatic systems under hopelessly outdated cartridges.
