Wikipedia says about 37,000,000 mosin nagants were made!!!!

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They say they have been used even in Iraq and Syrian civil war. This has to be the longest used rifle of all time. That's over 100 years. Glad I have one but I guess everyone has one with those production numbers.
 
Nelson84 said:
They say they have been used even in Iraq and Syrian civil war. This has to be the longest used rifle of all time. That's over 100 years. Glad I have one but I guess everyone has one with those production numbers.
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Does it also say, this article need verification? :)

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There was a picture I saw in one of the papers, three Syrian rebels sitting in a room smoking from a hookah. They had their guns leaning on the wall, two looked like aks the other was definitely a mosin sniper.
 
A well used, busy hookah will tend to smoke a bit.
37 million does seem a bit high though, given that there were so many new weapons introduced throughout that time, and it is a "wikifact"
 
Nelson84 said:
They say they have been used even in Iraq and Syrian civil war. This has to be the longest used rifle of all time. That's over 100 years. Glad I have one but I guess everyone has one with those production numbers.
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The Lee 303 was in service earlier, still being used today too. And still (for now) standard issue to our Rangers and popping up in Afganistan.
 
37 Millions could be true:

- 3.8 mil of model 91 were already produced by 1905
- ??? mil were made between 1905 into WWI and all the way into 1930 of M91 and other modifications
- 1 mil of model 91 were made in US by Remington and New England Westinghouse
(note: M91 is not that easy to get anymore)
- 12 mil of model 91/30 was made between 1930 and 1944
- who knows how many M38, M44 was made in USSR and later in Poland, Romania, China, etc.
- Finland made a bunch as well

However it doesn't mean that 37 million rifles existed as many got damaged and were recycled into new rifles. For example, Finns never produced receivers, but recycled them from old rifles
 
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The number made really isn't a big deal but to see it used in combat over all these years. I would think people would upgrade by now. I always assumed they were phased out after the introduction of the ak-47. I bought one about 6 months ago as a collectable and shoot it once in a while. Now knowing this I am proud to whip it out in front of the fellas.
 
.30/06 FTW said:
From what I understand, 15 million, with 9 million being Chinese, 2.3 million being Russian (or something like that, I can't remember the exact number), and the rest from all the other countries combined.
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Yes, between 2.3 and 2.6 million Russian SKS carbines were produced... based on two independent Russian sources and validated by my calculations using the now closed SKS Registry. It is interesting to note that over half were made in 1953 and 1954 alone -- 3 years after the AK47 supplanted the SKS from front line use.

These Russian SKS numbers are small potatoes compared to the number of AK47 and Mosin Nagants produced!
 
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