Fake Finnish Mosin Nagants?

F

Fullmetalferret

New member
Rating - 100%
1   0   0
Was looking online to acquire a Finnish Mosin Nagant as my first mosin rifle when I realized how profitable it is for someone to fake captured mosins and simply stamp them.

So what I’m wondering is how do you tell real Finnish Mosins from fakes?
 
lots more
I was on the hunt for a hex mosin (oblivious to finns...) in "small town network" ways. Found one, and thought the multitude of brass screws. and sling attachments were "secondary actions"...

I'm (very happily) surprised at the lack of "re-worked" svt-40- receivers to .303 Mohawk, and back again being passed off as genuine finns.
Making a "fake" finn nagant might exceed the cost of a real one... like anything though caveat emptor
 
Fullmetalferret said:
Was looking online to acquire a Finnish Mosin Nagant as my first mosin rifle when I realized how profitable it is for someone to fake captured mosins and simply stamp them.

So what I’m wondering is how do you tell real Finnish Mosins from fakes?
Click to expand...
Don't buy your first mosin nagant on line. You will be disappointed, as their condition varies and you need to handle a lot of them before being able to judge by pictures whether its genuine example or not. Newbie advise for you, add your location where you are. People can look at that and direct you to store or gun show where you can go and see what you looking for or offer one for sale in your area.
Finnish mosins have various features, that make them easily identifiable apart from all other mosins. Its not just SA stamp as mentioned above that make mosin in to Finnish mosin, its overall appearance of the rifle that make it such. And faking is pretty hard to do.
 
In my limited experience, it seems it would be more difficult to find a pure Russian M91 than a Finn M91. I have about 10 M91's, and am not sure if any are pure Russian.
 
It really doesn't make sense to fake them here,but I suppose someone has stamped a few M44's M38's and 91/30's to pass off as Finn captures... though 38's and 44's are rare to see if an actual capture ,so I'd be careful if one should turn up...
 
kjohn said:
In my limited experience, it seems it would be more difficult to find a pure Russian M91 than a Finn M91. I have about 10 M91's, and am not sure if any are pure Russian.
Click to expand...

Yeah in Canada a non-Finned M91 is actually an extremely rare rifle.
 
It varies from gun to gun how much the Finns altered M91's and 91/30's. For some reason there seem to be a fair number of Remington and New England Westinghouse M91's that were left in partially to entirely original state. Russian and Soviet manufactured M91's (from Finland) with lots of original parts do seem to be very rare. Finn acquired 91/30's run the full range from totally original and matching to all replacement parts ("Finn matching" means only bolt renumbered to match barrel). The mixmasters are inexpensive while an all original matching 91/30 (altered only by the SA stamp) would be a valuable find. The nice thing about Finn 91/30's is that they generally retain the appearance of original factory output having missed out on the Soviet postwar refurbishment. For a single representative example of the 91/30 for a collection they are great. As a shooter they probably aren't as good a buy as a refurbed Soviet gun in like new condition.

milsurpo
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom