This followed me home after the last gun show ...

[SA85M1]

Found this jem at the end of September,.a 1944 Tula PU sniper rifle...
Sadly she did not have a scope and mount,just the base..intact...She shows some extensive use and at some point had a number of parts swapped for Izhevsk marked stock,bolt,and mag base,..really a mixmaster..The bore however is excellent,and once I picked up a Yoshkar Ola PU scope and mount-scope dated ‘43 but refurbed in 1970.....holy jeebus can it shoot !!
Oddly enough,she has zero refurb markings,and bears a four digit serial number on the right side of the stock by the sling slot,also has a black triangle stamped in the middle of the serial number on the buttplate...different ,as I have not seen it before..

 

[joe n]

Thanks pretty nice! Good score!

 

[Military Surplus Lover]

They are very nice rifles and shoot pretty well considering the very low magnification scope. Shoot it and enjoy!

 

[SA85M1]

Anyone have a theory on where she may have been ?

 

[cantom]

...za Eastern Front.

 

[bearhunter]

Hard to say, usually original Russian 91/30 snipers have a serial number on the left side of the chamber, just above the stock.

 

[mr.e moose]

Usually only the Izhevsk rifles have the scope serial on the chamber, Tula don't.

 

[bp2626]

A "Tula" sniper rifle from this era will be marked СН somewhere on the barrel shank. Earlier examples will be marked СП. In both cases the markings can be light or partial.

Only Factory no. 74 in Izhevsk put the scope serial numbers on the barrel shank, Tula had them on the mount.

They were sometimes added during refurbishment.

Numbers on stock would be somewhere in Eastern Europe. I'm not an expert on European exports but Yugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Hungary, Poland and others used PU snipers at one point.

Nice find

 

[bearhunter]

Usually only the Izhevsk rifles have the scope serial on the chamber, Tula don't.

Thanks for that. Always something new to learn.

 

[SA85M1]

Oddly enough she does have a serial number stamped into the chamber area on the left side of the bbl....and the usual “C H” markings above the Tula star...

 

[BeaverMeat]

Oddly enough she does have a serial number stamped into the chamber area on the left side of the bbl....and the usual “C H” markings above the Tula star...

So a Tula that's been refurbed at the Izhevesk arsenal... then perhaps somewhere else?

 

[bp2626]

So a Tula that's been refurbed at the Izhevesk arsenal... then perhaps somewhere else?

Could have been refubished in many possible locations in Russia or throughout the Eastern bloc

 

[SA85M1]

Yup,at some point she got a mix of Izhevsk parts,minus any typical refurbishment markings...the four digit number on the stock matches nothing,a rack number maybe..?..