Mini Mosin: For the Young and Young at Heart (VIDEO)

By Chris Eger

Pennsylvania’s Keystone Sporting Arms had their new pint-sized Mini Mosin rifle, geared for smaller statured users, at the NRA Annual Meetings in Indy last week.
The KSA 91/30 is a tribute of sorts to one of the most prolific bolt-action infantry arms of the 20th Century, the Mosin-Nagant 91/30. Chambered in .22LR with a faux magazine, the single-shot Mini Mosin features a walnut stock and a 20-inch barrel, making it more than a foot shorter and several pounds lighter than its full-sized predecessor.
KSA’s Caleb Baney shows off the Mini Mosin. Sadly, they have no plans to produce tiny bayonets to accompany the guns. (Photos: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
The action is based on Keystone’s Crickett series of youth-sized rimfire rifles and when compared, the lineage is noticeable.
The Mini Mosin is basically a Crickett for the Tsar’s kids
Unlike the Crickett, the Mini Mosin uses a straight bolt handle.
Keystone is marketing the Mini Mosin with an MSRP of $499 for a special edition with a matching wooden crate and Soviet-style markings while the standard rifle will run $399.
The Mosin is the first on KSA’s new series of five (or more) “Mini Mil-Surp” rifles, all similarly based on the Crickett single-shot .22LR. At the company’s booth in

Source: Guns.com