m44 russian $195 at collector source

Yeah, no thanks. I'd grab myself a third, clean, good to vg condition M38 for $300 over one if these dug up cosmo resurrection peices.
 
You'd think there would be much more rust if they were in the jungle. European training rifle would be my bet.

That seems to be likely . They seem to have had little firing , but lots of bolt usage . Probabley for training as they did not want to spend the money shooting ammo , so they just trained with them working the bolt , etc....that would explain the rough condition as many probabley used the same rifle over and over in training....
 
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