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For 200 , if you like it , you might as well buy it if it is in decent shape . 200 does not go far these days in the shoooting world........
I would say you have a perfectly legitimate excuse,as if most of us really need an excuse, here to add another Mosin to your herd.Buy it before someone else does and then they can say they have an ex-sniper in the vault while you may not.
They are easily enough identified. In any case, I find that one should indeed always do his/her own research... Some people are just out to get the misinformed.
I'll bet these were rifles that lost their bolts or were otherwise damaged in a way that could not be easily repaired and were sent back for rebuilding and restocking. We seem to know very little about Red Army weapons maintenance. The front went back and forth so many times and such large numbers of troops were surrounded or captured that huge numbers of weapons must have needed such repairs.
Maybe one or two of our Russian-speaking members could shed some light on this, or ask on the Russian forums?
Maybe one or two of our Russian-speaking members could shed some light on this, or ask on the Russian forums?
http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinRarity.htm
The above site rates the EX PU Snipers as a 5/10 (0=Common and 10=Rare)
Originally all PU rifles were chosen for their accuracy, so there is a chance that an Ex-Sniper may be slightly more accurate than your standard 91/30.
From my experience they are less common than standard 91/30's, but not impossible to find (MO marked rifles are harder).
I have seen them sold at higher prices, so $200 would be more than fair. I think the most interesting Ex PU sniper in my collection is a Tula 1942 - as most PU snipers are dated 1943 or 1944 and I haven't seen any of the recently imported PU Snipers dated 1942 - but just because I haven't seen one, doesn't mean they don't exist.
The above site rates the EX PU Snipers as a 5/10 (0=Common and 10=Rare)
Originally all PU rifles were chosen for their accuracy, so there is a chance that an Ex-Sniper may be slightly more accurate than your standard 91/30.
From my experience they are less common than standard 91/30's, but not impossible to find (MO marked rifles are harder).
I have seen them sold at higher prices, so $200 would be more than fair. I think the most interesting Ex PU sniper in my collection is a Tula 1942 - as most PU snipers are dated 1943 or 1944 and I haven't seen any of the recently imported PU Snipers dated 1942 - but just because I haven't seen one, doesn't mean they don't exist.
EX snipers aren't that hard to find. If the choice was between and EX and an ordinary rifle in the same condition I would choose the EX on the assumption that it was capable of greater accuracy. I have 3 that I would say are better than average but my most accurate is a 1938 Izhevsk non sniper.
Don't buy one thinking that it can be remade into a sniper. If you are determined to make a Mosin sniper use an ordinary 31/90. The EX sniper process of cutting the screws and welding leaves a very hard surface. It is basically impossible to drill and tap new holes concentric with the original ones.
A real sniper (Molot; TULA CN marked matching) isn't all that accurate out of the box either - at least not mine. It has a very good bore but it has taken lots of rounds and a lot a experimentation with shims and barrel wrap to get a semi-consistent 2+ inch group at 100. When (if) 0.311 bullets become available again, it might offer some further improvement but these (at least mine) aren't going to be an <1" rifles. If you shoot modern bench rifles you need to lower your expectations or prepare to be disappointed.
Don't buy one thinking that it can be remade into a sniper. If you are determined to make a Mosin sniper use an ordinary 31/90. The EX sniper process of cutting the screws and welding leaves a very hard surface. It is basically impossible to drill and tap new holes concentric with the original ones.
A real sniper (Molot; TULA CN marked matching) isn't all that accurate out of the box either - at least not mine. It has a very good bore but it has taken lots of rounds and a lot a experimentation with shims and barrel wrap to get a semi-consistent 2+ inch group at 100. When (if) 0.311 bullets become available again, it might offer some further improvement but these (at least mine) aren't going to be an <1" rifles. If you shoot modern bench rifles you need to lower your expectations or prepare to be disappointed.
I bought my first 91/30 years ago from Reliable Guns, and I paid over $200 for it. This was well before the major influx of red rifles. I did some research on it and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was an authentic 1944 Tula ex-sniper. Excellent shooter too!
I'm pretty excited about getting mine.its a hand select and is in an ex sniper stock as well.could be the original.martin at corwin told me oer the phone that the barrel is as good as it gets.hopefully the the bedding and stock barrel relation is compareable
