Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Kholodovskii: The Greatest Mosin Nagant in History (at Least on Paper...)" video.

It seems to me like the obvious way to make the Mosin safety more usable would've been to put a ring on the back of it like on the Swiss rifles.
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@Aliyah_666 The fluted barrel is a ridiculously manpower-intensive way to save weight, though. You remove considerably more metal by simply using a shorter barrel. Which is exactly what the Soviets eventually did with the M91/30, though I think they would've been well-advised cut the barrel down a few inches shorter than they did. 29 inches is still overly long for an infantry rifle. Even the 27-inch barrel the Finns settled on is longer than necessary, but still an improvement.
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The joke among Mosin owners is (with fake Russian accent) "is not safe, is gun." Conveniently enough, the same joke works for the Tokarev pistol, which literally doesn't have a safety.
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@CAMSLAYER13 Finland's own improvements of the Mosin were better than this. Their sights are better than Kholodovskii's, and so is the trigger (though to be fair, the Finns had more time to work out an improved yet not overly complex to manufacture trigger). And cutting the barrel down to 27 inches is a much better way to save weight than cutting flutes into the barrel.
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He probably didn't get in any trouble at all until around February 1917, since he was the Tsar's buddy.
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That might also have been why the field testing showed no improvement in accuracy, despite the better sights and better trigger.
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@ianfinrir8724 That was Napoleon III. He had flatware made of gold for lesser guests, and aluminum for the truly distinguished ones.
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@burnsboysaresoldiers The why is simple enough: revolutionaries have a considerable need for concealable firearms.
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