Investigating an Oddball Polish M44

BlackPowderBurner

BlackPowderBurner

CGN frequent flyer
Rating - 100%
120   0   3
Location
the chesterfield
I picked this beauty up a while back and have only gotten around to doing some research on it recently. It seemed at first to be a standard Polish carbine but upon further inspection has some interesting traits for which I have no explanation. As you can see in the pictures below, there seems to be a Cyrillic prefixed faint serial number underneath the Polish stamped number on the receiver. The butt plate is also fairly obviously ground and re stamped. Above the butt plate tang, you can see a rectangle with an X within it. Putting all this together, is this rifle a Polish rebuild of Russian parts? Or could it be a Polish refurb? The bore is absolutely mint and I cleaned a bunch of remaining grease out when I first got it. It shoots like a dream and the fit and finish of all the parts are like butter, it is as good if not better than many of the Finnish Mosins I've had the pleasure of shooting.

Any input is appreciated, there seems to be less variation and therefore less information available when it comes to Polish Mosins.

mQRjEU6.jpg
uSlwMpd.jpg
CDEPIpO.jpg
 
It's obviously defective , you should sell it to me immediately lol . What's really odd is I had a Pole like yours with similar markings . I never did find any information on it . That being said , mine was also very accurate and cycled really well . I gave it to an old friend for his birthday ........ on reflection I should've just bought him a bottle instead .
 
Some Polish M44's have little unidentified markings in the area yours has the faint older number.

There are numerous threads about them on US gun forums, they call them "lucky charms" and their meaning is not known. Some suggest East German markings. Not sure what the consensus is these days.
 
pcvando said:
Some Polish M44's have little unidentified markings in the area yours has the faint older number.

There are numerous threads about them on US gun forums, they call them "lucky charms" and their meaning is not known. Some suggest East German markings. Not sure what the consensus is these days.
Click to expand...

That's interesting, I couldn't find any examples on the US forums but there seems to be one in a thread just posted in the Milsurp section that has similar faint markings. Those faint stamps in the other thread seem much less like an old SN than mine. It makes me think they could be more along the lines of manufacturing marks or something like that. When I next visit Poland I'll have to ask around at the Muzeum Wojska Polskiego and see what they say.
 
bought mine back in the eighties for $100. this rifle was brand new never issued and full of cosmoline. scout scoped it with a modified weaver base and a weaver scope with #4 german post. offhand nothing i shot at was safe. so like an idiot i sold it. could kick myself.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom