Yep. You can also use gool old, original formula, Hoppes 9. It was first developed in 1903 when corrosive primers were the norm and is formulated to "Remove Corrosive Primer Residue". Says so right on the bottle.

 

AIM surplus is another good place to get ammo. They've also got 91/30 for $70 right now. Hex receivers are $80. I've been keeping my eye out for a M44 but so far I haven't found one locally.

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Here's a couple pics of my mosin. First one is when I brought it home. The 2nd is after I stripped it and just had the brown base coat on it, kinda hard to tell though.

 

Wow the prices of that stuff has gone up big time. Shoot just last yr I bought 880 rd for 95 bucks to my door

 

All ammo is getting stupid in price. I may have bought a rifle 5 or 6 years ago chambered in 7.62x39mm. When I got it, I bought a 1000rd case of 122gr hollow-point Wolf ammo for $69.97!

Yeah. Mosin's are cool. Yeah they're crude as hell but they shoot GOOD. I recently read a magazine article (i'll see if i can find it) where the writers pitted two 1903 Springfields, two K-98 Mausers, a British Enfield .303 and a Mosin Nagant 91/30. All with original, or proper reproduction scopes and WW-2 dated ammunition.

The results were surprising to say the least. The Mosin soundly kicked the crap out of everything involved and was still able to print a 16" group @ 1000 yards with 65 year old Commie ammo and an original 3.5x PU scope!

Some of the rifles were printing groups LARGER than that at 300 yards!

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The article is in the Feb 2011 issue of Guns Magazine. I looked around but couldn't find it online. Sorry.