Sergei ivanovich mosin biography of michael

He entered into a military academy at age 12 where he excelled as a young officer. Upon leaving Alexandrovskoye in , he decided to go to the artillery branch and transferred to the Mikhailovskoye Artillery Academy. He graduated in and transferred to the Tula Arsenal where he became the head of the machining division. It was at Tula where Mosin began his career as a weapons designer by first making improvements to the Berdan II and later collaborating with Nagant to design the Rifle of Three Lines of the Year One such detail is the attachment of the magazine spring to the magazine base plate.

In Mosin's original design the spring was not attached to the base plate and, according to the commission, could be lost during cleaning. Another detail is the form of the clip that could hold five cartridges to be loaded simultaneously into the magazine. Another detail is the form of the "interrupter", a specially designed part within the receiver, which helps prevent double feeding.

Originally designed by Captain Sergei Ivanovich

The initial rifle proposed by Mosin lacked an interrupter, leading to numerous failures to feed. This detail was introduced in the rifle borrowing from Nagant's rifle. Mosin eventually rose to the rank of Major General and was appointed as the director of the Sestroretsk arsenal. Petersburg Sestroretsk. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk.

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