Mosin Nagant carbine in M43 7.62x39 (or 7.62x41)

Are you sure that it is in 7.62x39 M43 round? The magazine looks to me like the pictures of the early prototype SKSs I have seen, and those were in the earlier prototype 7.62x41 (or x43 I can't remember) M43 round.
 
larrysmith said:
Just google it. If its not there this is a bubba.
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If I find you a picture of 1945 made SKS and it would be the only known picture would it mean SKS was made by Bubba? :)

Eaglelord17 said:
Are you sure that it is in 7.62x39 M43 round? The magazine looks to me like the pictures of the early prototype SKSs I have seen, and those were in the earlier prototype 7.62x41 (or x43 I can't remember) M43 round.
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Yes I should've said M43, as I don't know if it was in 7.62x41 or in later 7.62x39. Soviets called both just M43.

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Beautiful rifle. For some crazy reason, probably the lines of the stock etc, she reminds me of the Madsen post WWII bolt action rifle that went nowhere.

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Ian at forgotten weapons did an article on Chinese capture Arisakas which were converted to 7.62X39mm. (NOT PICTURED).

I heard apocryphal stories about Chinese variants of the M53 rifle in 7.62X39mm, but I have never seen any pics of what one looks like.

Edit: assuming one of these rifles made it to Canada you could make full use out of the magazine capacity, as it appears it does not use an SKS magazine. :) I wonder what one would cost: 'in the hand"?
 
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fat tony said:
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Beautiful rifle. For some crazy reason, probably the lines of the stock etc, she reminds me of the Madsen post WWII bolt action rifle that went nowhere.

madsenm47.jpg



Ian at forgotten weapons did an article on Chinese capture Arisakas which were converted to 7.62X39mm. (NOT PICTURED).

I heard apocryphal stories about Chinese variants of the M53 rifle in 7.62X39mm, but I have never seen any pics of what one looks like.

Edit: assuming one of these rifles made it to Canada you could make full use out of the magazine capacity, as it appears it does not use an SKS magazine. :) I wonder what one would cost: 'in the hand"?
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Whether or not it's an SKS style magazine, I'm not sure it's relevant. It's an internal box magazine on a bolt gun. So long as you don't remove it and replace with a crapco mag, there should be no reason to pin it.
 
Don't worry about the mag capacity in advance. Find the carbine first :) Won't be easy for sure. But possible. As I said - about 500 of them somewhere in the wild.


mchouvaev said:
From some Russian sources: http://forum.guns.ru/forummessage/36/550987.html and http://www.militaryparitet.com/nomen/russia/strel/ogneoru/data/ic_nomenrussiastrelogneoru/63/

Developed by Simonov in 1946 at Kovrov KB
Object name: МКС-10-П
Caliber: 7,62х53
Few working prototypes, but looks like didn't make it to mass production.
Couple on display in Izhevsk Weapons Muzeum
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Yep, I googled the imaged provided by my friend and was able to find same forum threads. There's a mentioning about МКС-10-П and МКС-16-П and both are trial rifles made by Simonov and both are in 7.62x54R (7.62x53 is the old name). The one on pictures is МКС-11-П-47 and in 7.62x41 (or x39). And I know for sure if my friend tells me "500 of MN carbines in 7.62x39 left the Ukraine in 2008" then it's true. They might not be МКС-11-П-47's but they were for sure carbines in M43 and they for sure were exported to somewhere.
 
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It would make sense that they at least trialed a bolt action in the new M43 round (possibly even looking for ways to update existing stocks of rifles to the new caliber). Very neat looking rifle, I wonder how it shot.
 
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