Hex Mosin Nagant
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The hex guns are earlier and so generally rarer, so therefore command a premium. A pre-1941 round receiver is just as well made, and also just as rare as the average hex receiver, but people are stupid and pay huge premiums for the hex guns.
Really only the early 1920's (and earlier) hex guns are actually "rare" and it's insane a 1930+ hex sells for any premium at all IMHO.
1925 and earlier seem to be the only uncommon years for refurbished 91/30s. Even the early war rifles that experienced high attrition are common. They just made a lot of 91/30s. I'm sure the Ukraine and Russia still has thousands of them.
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I have a mosin nagant with hex receiver. It is stamped 1915 and Sestroryetsk. All matching numbers.
I am considering selling it as well.
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That's correct. After 1936, no new hex receivers are manufactured, but re-used ones pop up.
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Looks neat
However your barrel was cut to carbine length and mated to hex receiver. inserted in to M44 stock. What is the date stamped on the tongue of receiver? I doubt it will match.
However your barrel was cut to carbine length and mated to hex receiver. inserted in to M44 stock. What is the date stamped on the tongue of receiver? I doubt it will match.
I have a mosin nagant with hex receiver. It is stamped 1915 and Sestroryetsk. All matching numbers.
I am considering selling it as well.
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It's a sale - looks like they only have 4 left.
There are few surplus rifles left selling below 350 bucks, although some of the Russian vintages can still be had for less. Its always best to do some comparative shopping, but if you're just getting into it understand that prices will always be going up as fewer and fewer surplus rifles are coming in. The increases we've seen in the last two years are reflective across the board, not just mosins and sks rifles.
That is interesting. So I wonder where Wholesale Sports got their mint Mosins from? When my local WSS had them for $189 about 2 years ago, each one in its own cardboard box, mint, all matching with matching serial numbered bayonet, sling, oiler, cleaning kit, ammo pouch. They were nice and brought out several boxes from the back to let me look through to select ones I was going to buy. All were dated 1942. Someone must have gone through to rebox them in individual cardboard boxes from crates and make sure the bayonets matched?
Sometimes the wholesalers break up crates, pre-box rifles, and ship to retailers. Especially true of the retailer is stocking less than crate quantities.
At one time, having matching bayonets was seen as a differentiator between batches when eosins were plentiful. Since then, there are fewer eosins around and for the price, people aren't bothering to sort them anymore. Shame, really. IT reminds me of all the mismatched bolt Enfields around in the 80's because people couldn't be bothered to match the bolts to the rifles.
You would think that with the price of nice Mosins increasing, people would spend some time making sure bayonets matched the rifles if they are there to match? This goes without saying, but with milsurps the more things match the more $ that can be asked. Anyway, I am happy to have jumped on matching complete Mosins when WSS was selling them cheap recently. In a week they were gone and I have not seen them stock any since.
