D'oh! You're right of course, I think I just WANTED to see a dragoon. I love the dragoon guns - though hardly ever see them in non-converted condition
Let's see your Soviet Mosins (a picture thread)
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D'oh! You're right of course, I think I just WANTED to see a dragoon. I love the dragoon guns - though hardly ever see them in non-converted condition
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D'oh! You're right of course, I think I just WANTED to see a dragoon. I love the dragoon guns - though hardly ever see them in non-converted condition
I know, I personally prefer the lines on them to the 91/30. I have one for trade at the moment in the EE, however it has been Finned (i.e. non-matching parts, sanded stock, counterbored bore and taller front sight) which also doesn't make it appropriate for this thread.
Does anyone know exactly when the Russians started converting the Dragoons to 91/30 standard? My current thinking is that they were converted post-war as otherwise we would not be finding examples of Finned M91 Dragoons.
All remaining ones were converted post war, during the war, it appears some were salvaged and rebuilt as a 91/30, others were scrapped for actions that were re-used. I suspect idle it was in good condition, they were just issued as dragoons.
Soviet M91 Mosin Nagant, except for Finnish treats it's all original all matching, even stock.
https://flic.kr/p/LtS4Wy
Hmmm looks familiar
Yes what a beautiful rifle, I love those stock cartouches too!
Also nice German marked one... That one also looks familiar
haha
Re Nazi capture.
Yep, both in my collection thanks to you man!
While it looks similar to GRAU 5, it is not GRAU mark but one of technological acceptance marks. God knows where this rifle was, however Germany is for sure and 99% in Finland too as they sold probably all of them to Finland.
Finnish features IIRC are renumbered rear sight base and front band capture screw, thank god no SA mark.
Hmmm looks familiar
Yes what a beautiful rifle, I love those stock cartouches too!
Also nice German marked one... That one also looks familiar
Yep, both in my collection thanks to you man!
Haha just let me know if you get tired of those beauties...
I think you are right on the German one, might have gone to Finland, but just the stock alone is super cool, you don't see them every day, especially with the German markings so clear!
In fact, its the only one I have personally seen. It would be interesting to find a SVT-40 with German capture markings. Is the one that there are pictures of (in your SVT-40 collecting post) in Canada?
Nope, that one is US and not mine.
Yep, BC. I think it's from some Polish or Hungarian MN.
Its the same rifle then. The theory developed back a few years ago was that it had been put together from parts in Century's heyday. May have come in as a Fin rifle with a damaged mag & they installed whatever was handy.
Rear sight slider and mag floor definitely do not belong there. Other parts are very typical for Nazi capture, even the font on the renumbered bolt is the one Germans used. We will never know who installed slider and mag floor though. But it look like small restoration project anyone could do.
Just a couple of $150 shooters from Westrifle.
Anybody know when we'll get more cheap x54r ammo in Canada? canadammo has been out for a while.
I got a slip-on rubber shoulder pad and that makes these much more enjoyable to shoot.
Anybody know when we'll get more cheap x54r ammo in Canada? canadammo has been out for a while.
I got a slip-on rubber shoulder pad and that makes these much more enjoyable to shoot.
Well this gem arrived today. A nice 1939 Izhevsk M91/30 from Durham Sporting Goods. I've never seen a moisin with so much cosmolene on it. Usually they just have a coat of thick oil on them, this one had thick heavy goopy cosmolene everywhere. A cosmos-worm 8" long came out to reveal a bore that's about an 8+/10 with only slight frost in the grooves in a couple spots. Perhaps the nicest pre-war moisin bore I've seen in ages.
All parts were izhevsk except the sight slide buttons and the nose cap. Usually they are more mixed up than that. Nice Izhevsk pre-war stock with intact roundel and stamped band springs, meaning the stock is roughly correct for a 1939-to early 1941 Izhevsk.
I'm quite happy with it
All parts were izhevsk except the sight slide buttons and the nose cap. Usually they are more mixed up than that. Nice Izhevsk pre-war stock with intact roundel and stamped band springs, meaning the stock is roughly correct for a 1939-to early 1941 Izhevsk.
I'm quite happy with it
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