Remington m91. looking for someone who knows more then i

[7.62xfun]

i picked this old girl up today. what i can find out so far is it was overhauled by Sako I'm told it possibly was a German capture`regimental numbers. bore is immaculate and still quite tight. in a two part Finnish wartime stock i don't know what that long arrow is on the bottom side of the bolt. im curious if anyone else can tell me anything or perhaps clear it up. shes basic m91 other then that so i just up loaded the stamping photos. you can see the wear on it from the bayonet being attached and taken off and the stock is quite knocked up its very interesting. again thank you very much guys.

 

[7.62xfun]

Further more the crossed sreials on bolt and receiver match, the serial on the bolt ball matches the one under remington armory abd the serial on the bottom of the bolt matches the serial on the right side of the barrel. Im not sure what to think of that.

 

[desporterizer]

The arrow is the Sestroryetsk arsenal mark & that bad boy has been rebuilt at least twice. If I was to guess, the 127 number is another serial added at the sake rebuild for inventory purposes & the number on the ball was added later as part of SOP. It certainly has bee around the block a few times.

 

[7.62xfun]

Thanks i couldnt for the life of me figure out what the arrow was..Its in amazing condition for how much it must have seen. The bore surpirzed the hell out of me its not even counterbored a round in the crown is still very tight

 

[dagnarble]

Glad I read this post what is counter boring, My 6.5x55 swedish operates fine but the bullet in the crown is loose, does that mean counter boring and what is that

 

[7.62xfun]

a lot of old mosins were counter bored. basically they drilled out the poor section of the barrel removing the pitting or undesirable part. doing so would improve the accuracy. if you put a light in the barrel you would see a smooth section larger then the bore. the ones i have that are counter bored if i were to put a round in the crown it goes in past the bullet right to the shoulder of the casing. if if the bullet goes in your crown and is just loose its probably just worn.

 

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[hutchster]

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[milsurpo]

Is it just my imagination or is the barrel shank shorter than normal. Sometimes the Finns would shorten the barrel from the chamber end and then rechamber it. That might explain the late 3600 pressure proof mark. It would actually be worthwhile looking for Remington markings on the receiver (rear tang) to verify that the barrel wasn't attached to something new (I once bought a M91 with 1898 Izhevsk barrel grafted onto a New England Westinghouse receiver). Interesting rifle.

milsurpo

 

[7.62xfun]

I was looking at the chamber and it does look to be shortened. Now thinking about it the chamber doesnt quite reach the cut out in the stock for it. The reciver has a circled R on the tang.

 

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