Anyone know what this is?

The markings are a way of getting around a UN agreement that Russia signed to that is supposed to stop countries from selling or dumping their surplus arms on the world weapons market thus reducing the total number of guns out there. Russia did this trying and succeeding by stating the guns are newly refurbished/manufactured not old surplus so they don't look like gun runners. As usual no one at the Un is enforcing the agreement.---Dieseldog!
 
mchouvaev said:
Diamond shape logo looks like Molot factory refurb mark.
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Actually... (got this from the Russian Mosin Nagant Forum)

The diamond isn't a Molot mark, it is a C.I.P. Proof mark from the Proof House of Klimovsk

Ref, Forensic Ballistics in Court: Interpretation and Presentation of Firearms ... By Brian J. Heard, page 60, Figure 3.0.6

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Klimovsk:
Proof-House for the proof of small arms
2 bld., Zavodskaja str.
RUS-142 181 Klimovsk
Russia
Head: Vladimir A. Artemov

E-Mail: tsniitochmash @ podolsk.ru
Tel: +7-095-580 56 06
Fax: +7-095-996 59 10

Russia is a C.I.P. Member State, and any firearm offered for sale must be proofed at an accredited proof house. Same goes for ammo, which is why you see the same mark on boxes of Wolf and Tula ammo:

tula_box.jpg


In other words, they cannot be sold in/from Russia without being proofed at a CIP Proof house. Yeah, it sucks that it has to be there, but the alternative is these rifles never leave Russia, or are melted for scrap.
 
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