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Mosin/Nagant 1891
- Thread starter lynx75
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There were many Remington 1891s produced in the US (about 500 000 I believe) and most of them were bought up by the US government towards the end of the war to save Remington from bancruptcy when the Russian Revolution destroyed any prospect of payment or delivery from the original purchasers.
Some of those rifles were issued to US forces deployed to Russia following the war alongside numerous other nations seeking to protect their assets from confiscation by the Bolsheviks and to strenghten the cause of the White Russian counterrevolutionaries (even Canada sent an RCMP detachment). After their exposure to the 1903 Springfield, it seems as if the US troops weren't especially fond of their Mosins in comparison. Alas, it appears as if the effort suffered from war weariness and an underappreciation of the dangers posed to the world by a Communist Russia, so the foreign militaries abandoned their efforts in relatively short order and returned home.
Many of the Remington rifles were sold off to the American public even before World War Two and frequently showed up in sporterized form in many US gunshops.
Some of those rifles were issued to US forces deployed to Russia following the war alongside numerous other nations seeking to protect their assets from confiscation by the Bolsheviks and to strenghten the cause of the White Russian counterrevolutionaries (even Canada sent an RCMP detachment). After their exposure to the 1903 Springfield, it seems as if the US troops weren't especially fond of their Mosins in comparison. Alas, it appears as if the effort suffered from war weariness and an underappreciation of the dangers posed to the world by a Communist Russia, so the foreign militaries abandoned their efforts in relatively short order and returned home.
Many of the Remington rifles were sold off to the American public even before World War Two and frequently showed up in sporterized form in many US gunshops.
