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Nagant M1895 Revolver

Atyre5Atyre5 Member Posts: 287 ✭✭✭
edited September 2010 in General Discussion
Anyone have experience with it? I am in the market for a cheap gun with a little history and this caught my eye.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    horrendous trigger pull, very expensive ammo.

    I would'nt want one, but that's just me.

    I mean, if you want one just to have one, go for it, but I wouldn't consider it a shooter or a self defense gun by any means.
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  • nutfinnnutfinn Member Posts: 12,808 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have one, not bad trigger, ammo is about $25 for a box of 50.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by okkim
    I have one, not bad trigger, ammo is about $25 for a box of 50.


    do you have the DA only or the SA/DA?

    I shot one DA and it had to break at 30lbs!
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  • slumlord44slumlord44 Member Posts: 3,702 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Shoot .32 Mag cowboy loads in mine. Cases expand a lot but no problems. Some say this is a no no. Interesting plinker and a bit of history. Another WWII gun for that part of my collection.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Is that the one that levers the cylinder forward to seal the round into the forcing cone?
    That is the coolest idea ever, for a revolver, if so.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    I KNOW...I should go look first but,U gotta gimma at least a point for knowing...
    I bet 99% of Americans dont!!

    The Nagant M1895 Revolver was a seven-shot, gas-seal revolver designed and produced by Belgian industrialist L?on Nagant for Tsarist Russia. The Nagant M1895 was chambered for a proprietary cartridge, 7.62x38R, and featured an unusual "gas-seal" system in which the cylinder moved forward when the gun was cocked to close the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, providing a boost to the muzzle velocity of the fired projectile. Other Nagant revolver designs were also adopted by police and military services of Sweden (7.5 mm M1887), Norway (M1893), Poland, and Greece (#928;#949;#961;#943;#963;#964;#961;#959;#966;#959;#957; M1895).
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Is that the one that levers the cylinder forward to seal the round into the forcing cone?
    That is the coolest idea ever, for a revolver, if so.


    The only revolver that can use a suppressor successfully too, that I know of anyway.
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by 35WhelenClassic
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Is that the one that levers the cylinder forward to seal the round into the forcing cone?
    That is the coolest idea ever, for a revolver, if so.


    The only revolver that can use a suppressor successfully too, that I know of anyway.

    CORRECT!!! I forgot about that tidbit..
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  • ManygunsManyguns Member Posts: 3,837
    edited November -1
    I have a couple. They are fun to shoot, but don't have much power with the standard ammo.
    Tom
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  • Duce1Duce1 Member Posts: 9,329
    edited November -1
    And commercial ammo is expensive to buy !
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,497 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fired one belonging to a friend who made cases from .32-20s. They're too short to seal as intended, but they go bang. I wasn't strong enough to pull the DA trigger - at all. Managed to hit a can at 25 yards with it three of the six shots, and hit close the other three in SA.

    Said thanks and handed it back. Chalk that up as a Done That.

    Wouldn't buy one on a bet.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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