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Posted: 3/15/2011 10:35:16 AM EDT
| Some one is selling a Nagant Revolver for $120 bucks with two boxes of ammo, holster, and a cleaning rod. Are they worth buying? I know ammo isn't cheap and can be hard to find or can you use any other ammo with it? |
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Sure, they're fun little pistols. They have about the worst DA trigger pull of any firearm, however; it's something like 25lbs. SA is heavy but generally usable.
Ammo isn't that hard to find, Fiocchi and Prvi make it, though it can be a little pricy ($25 per box of 50). You can supposedly use .32 S&W Long and .32 H&R Magnum in them, but I don't recommend it and neither cartridge will seal correctly in the revolver. Here's my '36 Tula along with a British friend. 
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Are they worth buying? only if you like oddball firearms, other then that they aren't really that great. I have one I picked up for 50 or 60 bucks more then a decade ago, just for the sheer weirdness of the thing.
someone makes or made a conversion cylinder to shoot .38 out of it. personally, I wouldn't go shooting a different caliber out of the thing that wasn't made for it. but as always YMMV. |
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Are they worth buying? only if you like oddball firearms, other then that they aren't really that great. I have one I picked up for 50 or 60 bucks more then a decade ago, just for the sheer weirdness of the thing. someone makes or made a conversion cylinder to shoot .38 out of it. personally, I wouldn't go shooting a different caliber out of the thing that wasn't made for it. but as always YMMV. I think you may be thinking of the .32 ACP conversion cylinder. This one? |
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Are they reliable? Thinking it may be a good truck gun seeing as how it is pretty cheap. Yes, they have a reputation for being extremely reliable even in Russia, which says quite a bit as the Russians are known for reliable small arms. A Tsarist-era Russian officer was once quoted as saying that if anything ever went wrong with one, you could fix it with a hammer. |
| Fun, accurate and easy to reload for. I used .30 carbine dies and privi cases. Load to .32 H&R magnum specs and it's a respectable woods gun. The DA trigger is heavy but after the pull for some reason the final break comes right on target. Single action is not bad. Neat gun from the last century. At that price it's not a bad deal. |
| I've got one with over 500rds of .32 H&R Mag through it. Still very tight and solid. The cases bulge when fired. But I have yet to see a case split, and some have been reloaded three times. I do NOT use lead bullets as the lead will build up at the rear of the barrel since there is no forcing cone. If you take off the grips and left side plate, then clean out the cosmoline and gunk adn lightly lube it, the trigger pull gets much nicer. Not up to Colt or S&W standards, but a definite improvement. |
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I have shot .32 longs in mine with no problem at all. Power is alot to be desired, but heck even with the normal 7.62 nagant ammo, it ain't no powerhouse  It is if you load it to milspec. Unfortunately, the commercial ammo is detuned to say the least. I am getting an honest 1100 fps out of my handloads with no sign of over pressure. As always YMMV. |
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I have shot .32 longs in mine with no problem at all. Power is alot to be desired, but heck even with the normal 7.62 nagant ammo, it ain't no powerhouse It is if you load it to milspec. Unfortunately, the commercial ammo is detuned to say the least. I am getting an honest 1100 fps out of my handloads with no sign of over pressure. As always YMMV. Hotshot and Privi is all i have shot, I don't reload |
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I have shot .32 longs in mine with no problem at all. Power is alot to be desired, but heck even with the normal 7.62 nagant ammo, it ain't no powerhouse It is if you load it to milspec. Unfortunately, the commercial ammo is detuned to say the least. I am getting an honest 1100 fps out of my handloads with no sign of over pressure. As always YMMV. Hotshot and Privi is all i have shot, I don't reload Good brass. It is what I use to reload. |
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I have shot .32 longs in mine with no problem at all. Power is alot to be desired, but heck even with the normal 7.62 nagant ammo, it ain't no powerhouse It is if you load it to milspec. Unfortunately, the commercial ammo is detuned to say the least. I am getting an honest 1100 fps out of my handloads with no sign of over pressure. As always YMMV. Hotshot and Privi is all i have shot, I don't reload Good brass. It is what I use to reload. I have all my cases I have shot over time, when i get enough collected, I may make enough off of it to buy another box
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What can I use to reload the Nagant ammo? I have seen the Nagant Man's 7.62x38mm round but wasn't able to find any real details or reviews about it. Does anyone know anything about his round? I use .30 Carbine dies. You will also need an M expander die and a .30 carbine taper crimp die. .312 100gr hard cast lead bullet, 4.0 grs of Herco small pistol primer. The herco is a bit slower and gives me velocity without over pressure. Go slow, experiment a bit and you will see it is pretty easy with the one extra step of the taper crimp. I seat the bullets just below flush as in factory ammo and do get the gas seal. Without the taper crimp, you will need to trim the cases slightly and will not get as tight a gas seal but still have functional ammo. |
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They are fun pistols and if you fire them single action the trigger pull is actually pretty good. I paid $49 for mine four or five years ago and they have gone up in price. Just make sure you don't buy any of the Russian target ammo in the yellow box. That ammo is extremely underpowered. |
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