New Arrivals: the Holy Grail of Mosin Nagants !!! Finnish M39 Rifles in 7.62x54R

pcvando said:
Exactly, and check out GB prices for M59/66's. Classic was the best place to buy them from because they were going for more on the secondary US market.

That being said they are excellent condition and best built SKS hands down. I don't even like calling them an SKS as they are in a tier of their own ;)
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No me neither, I had one before and the build quality of Yugoslavian m59/66 is much better than Russian sks. 😀
 
skatemike77 said:
Grabbed one :)

So I am assuming these are all gunked down in cosmoline? How do you guys plan on cleaning em? Strip the gun and toss in a tub of hot water? How about the wood stock what do you guys like to use for that?
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To clean the cosmoline, I always use mineral spirit👍, so far so good. I use tom's 1/3 mix stock wax to protect my hardwood gun stock , it is a very good product.
 
So I quess Anthony has gone home for the weekend. So the updated Sold list won't happen till Monday morning??
So if a guy has a WEAK moment and wants to order a 2nd!!!!
We won't know till the Monday morning Sorry already Sold e-mail???
Just wondering.....
 
OK, I got mine here. Pics to follow momentarily.

It's wartime, it's not refurbished, great hang tag, mirror perfect bore. Finn matched, but the floor plate still has the original S/N from whatever Russian rifle they stole it off - looks imperial. This is not unusual, they didn't always bother to serialize floor plates during the war. It's issued, but barely any real wear on it - must have guarded a bakery or something. There IS cosmolene inside the gun, but not in the bore or on most exterior surfaces. It looks like it was applied strategically - the rifle was never cosmos-dipped like we sometimes see.

Serial on the receiver looks like the 1980's imports on mine, it's stamped and it looks like probably done in Finland. I understand SOME guns that were not stamped were stamped later by the importer.

The import mark is under the muzzle. Unlike most guns I've seen in the US, it's dot matrix, but small and discrete.

Overall I'm very happy. Glad to finally get a non-refurb VKT wartime gun for the collection :)

I still shoulda bought a B.... mumble mumble.

A pleasant surprise - they included a free T-shirt. Too bad it's XL and I'm a M or at best an L. Oh well.
 
I just realized... I've been there, done that, and bought the T-shirt for the last great M39 import we'll ever see.
 
Congratulations on the feeding frenzy folks- looks like a racket out there.

If an M39 is selling for close to a grand today, what is an M28-30 worth?
 
@Claven2 Yep. Also good to hear you got a nice one! I would have gotten one, but I think I have too many M39's - if that's such a thing.
 
Sorry for the crummy lighting, it's raining here in Ottawa so I can't get shots in natural light. These pics are right out of the box - I haven't even wiped it off. The bolt is caked in a varnish-like cosmo residue that makes it look corroded, but it's not.

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Inventory and gauging hangtag - this VKT was last inspected & gauged by the military in March 1973.

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Here you can see the receiver serial number on the left receiver flat. This is identical to my early import M39's that came direct to Canada, so I believe this style of serialization on a receiver was done by the Finns in service. Unlike some rifles with freshly engraved serial numbers on the top receiver flat.

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pcvando said:
@Claven2 Yep. Also good to hear you got a nice one! I would have gotten one, but I think I have too many M39's - if that's such a thing.
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I've got three at present and would have had more if I could afford it. Sadly, I was not willing to go into master card debt to get more than one.
 
Nice one Claven! I think you are right about that number, I have a friend in Finland who has a M39, and I just checked the pics he sent me... he too has the serial number there.
 
pcvando said:
My friend was asking me the same thing yesterday. What about use with M27's? ;)
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The last time Collector's Source had M28/30's - they sold two in under a week at $1400 a piece. That was maybe 3 years back.

M27's were dirt-common in Canada back when M39's first came in. I expect there are still more M27's here than M39's overall, but many of them came in during the 1980's and 1990's and are buried in the back of closets and gun safes. At the time, they were pretty inexpensive too - I paid more for a M91 action mounted in a fixture for testing ammo as a curio at the time.

Today, I'd say they should sell about the same as an M39 if nice, perhaps slightly less. Just my opinion.
 
Claven2 said:
I've got three at present and would have had more if I could afford it. Sadly, I was not willing to go into master card debt to get more than one.
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I'll post pics of mine in the thread you started eventually :)

Yes I know the MasterCard feeling.

Also interesting to hear about the M27's - there are lots of cool Finns hidden here! Finn SVT-40's, at least 1 Finn marked 1895 Winchester Russian musket, and maybe a SA marked Boys AT rifle... Maybe ;)
 
ok for those wondering, I took a pic of the import mark. No idea if all of them in this batch look like this, but here is mine. It's not obvious with the cleaning rod in place.

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Markzdb said:
To clean the cosmoline, I always use mineral spirit👍, so far so good. I use tom's 1/3 mix stock wax to protect my hardwood gun stock , it is a very good product.
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Toms wax to keep the wood healthy, but what do you use to remove cosmo from the wood.
 
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