Mosin Nagant **Help**

[jpc]

Thanks for the help and appreciate it.
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jpc

Hi:

New to this--anyone help with what model I have

take care and thanks

jpc

 

[desporterizer]

Looks like a dragoon with a replacement hanguard. Quite rare these days.

 

[JP]

Mn 1891 Dragoon in a 91/30 stock, a close-up of the barrel bands would confirm it.

 

[Nabs]

That one escaped Soviet refurbishment, wonder where she ended up after 1927 ?

 

[desporterizer]

Somewhere around lake ladoga would be my guess.

 

[Nabs]

Spanish civil war veteran perhaps ? The stock looks sanded, are there any cartouche markings on the right side of the butt stock ?

 

[desporterizer]

I will tell you after i pick it up, but i doubt it. I feel a disturbance in the force from this rifle.

 

[hacer2]

lake ladoga? may i ask what happend there to save it from refurb?

 

[buffdog]

lake ladoga? may i ask what happend there to save it from refurb?

Just a little old Russian-Finnish War where the Russians did rather poorly and the Finns took their rifles away from them.

The crossed out markings on the sight base are a clue. Also, check for a "SA" in a box stamped usually on the left side of the receiver or barrel next to the receiver.
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[desporterizer]

The rear sight & that little 41 stamp are saying finnish to me but I might be wrong.

 

[desporterizer]

I just picked it up & shes SA marked. Still has dragoon bands too.

 

[L42A1]

Mn 1891 Dragoon in a 91/30 stock

 

[desporterizer]

How do you tell a 91/30 stock from dragoon? In every photo I can find they are identical.

 

[JP]

On an original Dragoon stock the handguard, barrel band fitting are different than the standard later 91/30 stock.

 

[desporterizer]

On an original Dragoon stock the handguard, barrel band fitting are different than the standard later 91/30 stock.

I know the handguard is obviously 91/30, the bands are solid and therefore dragoon but it impossible to tell if the stock is original dragoon or earlier 91/30. If the 41 stamp on the barrel means what everybody says it means, the soviet fielded quite a variety equipment against the Finns. I will post some pics with some of its cousins soon.