M38 Score when not looking today

I got it cleaned up this morning. Bore is frosty but still slugs out at .315 groove and .304 on the lands, so no worse than the average Mosin. Took a brass wheel to the few rust spots and will have to paint or blue the touch ups later, just wanted to take the rust off for now. Only one spot is visible.

Can't wait to get out and shoot it.
 
I polished the whole bolt to a chrome like shine including the extractor peened out the bolt head a tad like iv8888 had said in a videa and now she works flawless!
 
If someone still interested in the meaning of those stamps on M38:

"KO-38" - Russian abbreviation stands for "hunting carbine" - "карабин охотничий" - model 38 ( year)
"Made in Russia" - no explanation...
Stamp with two letetrs - ВП - stands for "Вятские Поляны" - Vyatskie Polyany, city, where Molot plant is located, means military to hunting conversion done there.
Stamp <ГИС> - means "Goverment Testing Station"
Next as on the image if first post - 12 - the eyar when the conversion has been done.

Yeh, saw such stamps on last shipment of 91/30 in LeBaron, should ask guys from Baikal what happen. Looks like previous, straight from military bases, now ended.
The bad thing is there is a strange Russian standard MOLOT has to follow - military to civilian conversion must have:
- special anti-crime mark - short piece of wire welded through hole in the barrel to make a well visible mark on the bullet, near the front sight;
- specially randomly modified end of the bolt pin to make unique mark on primer.
Not sure if those ridiculous changes were made on exported rifles, but I would like to check.
And, if the TS could post the image of the barrel inside - I want to see if no changes were made as in the same law rifling of civilian models should not be identical to military ones.
 
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