That's correct and it is nice that it has the period correct stock. Unfortunately, some zealot sanded the stock and refinished with some lacquer. The stock should be left in an original state.
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That's correct and it is nice that it has the period correct stock. Unfortunately, some zealot sanded the stock and refinished with some lacquer. The stock should be left in an original state.
Thanks for the info. Refurbished after the war so probably hasn't seen much use since then. All serial numbers match. Stock, bolt, magazine, receiver. Bayonet has a different number. Bought it from a dealer years ago forgot from where. That's what the stock looked like. Can't see any repairs. Rifling is sharp and the bore is fairly bright
One of my nicer Mosins- Remington with original factory bolt, buttplate and floorplate stamps and, of course, its original walnut stock. I have a N.E.W. in a similarly original state but have yet to stumble on a Russian (or Soviet) M1891 that the Finns hadn't radically altered.
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Very nice Remington. I have its brother. It is Finn marked and used by the cival gaurd. Retains its original numbers. Seems like there are quite a few matching Remingtons in our Canadian market.
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MiltarySurplusLover: Wow! That's a great one. The Finns do seem to have had a tendency to leave the US Mosins alone. In addition to fully matching examples there are many more with a few original parts still attached. I've never seen any plausible explanation for this.
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Yeah it’s very interesting, makes one wonder why they left some in their original state
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Likely weren’t used as hard/wasn’t issued before Finn service. Many of the other mosins they got they received by trading with other countries post-WWI, those mainly being war captures of some sort. The American made examples literally could have still been in the crate in 1917 when the Finns received them.
Many US made M91 rifles never left North America. Some were used to train US and maybe Canadian troops that went out with the Expeditionary Forces, during the revolution.
I can remember seeing sealed crates of US made M91s in the mid sixties, in a US commercial warehouse. Some entrepreneur had purchased them and stored them during the mid 1930s. Alan Lever made a rediculously low offer on them and the old boy told him it was insulting, so goodbye.
That was quite the trip, that old warehouse was full of military firearms, mostly still in their crates. I don't know how many thousand were in there, but I was certainly impressed with what I saw and the numbers of unissued firearms all in one spot. This was just outside of San Diego, back in the day when such things weren't that uncommon.
During the late sixties and early seventies, many US made, unissued, M91 rifles were sold to the North American public as surplus. I believe Bannerman's sold off a bunch in the 1920s.
The Czarists had ordered the rifles but hadn't paid for them and they weren't delivered. The Soviets didn't want them or couldn't afford them at the time.
It's possible the Finns got some of those rifles, which were some of the best quality builds of that model I've seen.
