My first Milsurp - Has it been throught WWII　battles?

M

michaelsabre

CGN frequent flyer
EE Expired
Rating - 100%
10   0   0
1888113585_512e240c06_o.jpg


It's a M-N 1942.

Since it's made in 1942, when USSR is in deep trouble with war, I am wondering it may have been used in battle?
 
As an M38, I guarantee it was used on the eastern front in some capacity. Whether is sat the war out in a headquarters or saw service in Lenningrad is impossible to know.
 
Dropped once

contact148 said:
at that point in the war it was likely never fired and only dropped once....
Click to expand...
Dropped once? well, yes, possibly when his bearer died on his feet while charging and yelling Hurrah... and there's a good chance the rifle didn't linger a long time on the ground: they usually were picked up by the guy just following, waiting for a weapon. That "dropped once" thing is beginning to get old...
PP.
 
Look down the bore, the less rifling there is, the more action it saw. I saw a m-38 sitting in epps where the reciever stared to wear a groove in the bolt & the rifling was at least half gone. Lots of finn rifles show lots of wear because they saw lots of action. All the truly mint guns either never left the armory or guarded the local bakery IMHO.
 
RobSmith said:
Oh COME ON ! Cheap shot :p
Click to expand...

No way da truth man... :p My M38 was certainly dropped. The sights are a little crooked. I figure the poor bloke got shot in the noggen by my RC mauser. But the guy who owned the RC when he was in Stalingrad, ended up part of the Russian countryside... So now I have to keep those two rifles apart in seperate lockers... man if those milsurps could talk eh!:runaway::50cal:
 
K98ACTION said:
No way da truth man... :p My M38 was certainly dropped. The sights are a little crooked. I figure the poor bloke got shot in the noggen by my RC mauser. But the guy who owned the RC when he was in Stalingrad, ended up part of the Russian countryside... So now I have to keep those two rifles apart in seperate lockers... man if those milsurps could talk eh!:runaway::50cal:
Click to expand...

Don't put them in same locker......you know the break-back mountain thing....
 
In that condition, it's far more likely to have lived in an arsenal its whole life. You can't get these SOB's to talk no matter what you do.
 
With the vast majority of surplus rifles, it's impossible to say just where they were, what they saw, what they were a part of. Once in a long while, we can obtain something that we can almost-certainly know about; in my own collection, my "LaTorre" Ross (formerly 16 B'n CEF) is the specimen in point.
Only VERY seldom do we find one that can be even partly truly authenticated, and, even then, we never know the full story. I have a French revolver that I KNOW was used in close combat...... just can't prove it because the man who owned it is long gone.
But this is all a part of what makes this hobby unlike any other.

Handle them ALL with respect....... and never let the condition of a barrel tell you that a rifle never saw action. It only takes ONE round to win a VC..... if you place it right, at the right time, in the right circumstance.
 
actually you can verify alot of guns the american forces have aquired over the years as they often had capture paperwork so they could be brought home
 
Nice one, Coyote Ugly! a Finn-captures 1939 Ishevsk is like an history book.
Funny, it still retains the dog-collar at the rear on a one-piece stock.
How's the bore? Has the trigger and bedding been "Finn tuned"?
PP.
 
I've never had it apart to look at the bedding and trigger, just to clean it and removed the bolt. It shoots very well and the bore is nice.
I shot at a stump or a chopping block, and it was about 30" high and 18" wide, when the bullet hit, it flipped and rotated the stump about 5 feet in the air! The log went into Orbit for a short time. Lots of Kinetic Energy there! I've only put about 20 or 30 rounds through it. Should the Finn's have removed the dog collar? That's how I got it.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom