Mosin-nagant histories

JDTonken

JDTonken

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I know that because of the sheer number produced and the chaos of the war it would be impossible to trace specific serial numbers. But are there any resources for getting an idea of whether a serial number that falls within a certain block served in a particular region or theoretically saw service?

I guess a related question is for the MN aficionados. Mosin Nagant 91/30, Tula manufactured 1933 Hex receiver with a blade sight, unrefubished, 58### serial range. Any chance it saw action or was it likely in storage for decades? I know there are a lot of experts on here so I'm just deferring to their knowledge.
 
Funny you asked this, i was just talking to two co-workers. One Romanian and one Russian. Both are ex-infantry, we were talking about mosin nagants and they both mentioned although neither was issued one, they where issued AK's and the serial number was right on their military id. This was during peace time so it could be a lot more organzined but maybe they had some type of registry for all rifles in the past?

Would be interesting to find out about that.
 
Ryan500 said:
Funny you asked this, i was just talking to two co-workers. One Romanian and one Russian. Both are ex-infantry, we were talking about mosin nagants and they both mentioned although neither was issued one, they where issued AK's and the serial number was right on their military id. This was during peace time so it could be a lot more organzined but maybe they had some type of registry for all rifles in the past?

Would be interesting to find out about that.
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I don't think they had the same type of registry in WWII Russia;

Remember the scene in 'Enemy at the gates' when Vaseli Zaitsev(sp) was issued his 5 round stripper clip and his 'Comrade' was issued the Mosin?

"The one with the rifle shoots; when the one with the rifle gets killed; pick-up the rifle and keep shooting!"
 
Yeah i hear ya! I didn't think they would but was worth checking out. Probably in a rush to get rifles to the line back then.
 
It's not likely many sat in storage. Russia was chronically short of small arms and needed every one it could produce at the front.
 
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