PerversPépère
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Just went today and exchanged two of my redundant SA Mosins, a P-27 and a Remington with original black walnut stock, for a very nice and clean M-28 and SA marked SVT-40. 
As soon as I reach home, I'll take pics for you to look at. That M-28 is absolutely gorgeous!
PP.
Hello again!
NOW, I finally found time to take a few rough and hasty pics of my last purchases an « SA » stamped SVT-40 with a very clean bayonet and an M-28 in very nice shape, thanks to Papy.
First a 1941 Tula with 12 slit compensator and scope rail and notch setup.
There’s an SA stamp at the right place on the left side of the receiver, just above serial number.
A very faint SA stamp can also be found on the sling which is very clean and probably of newer manufacture.
Once treated with foaming copper remover and Ed’s Red, barrel and chamber look very clean and shiny with barrel showing strong and sharp grooves. I’ll have to load up some creampuff rounds for this baby!
Bayonet looks like it’s fresh out of a russian depot and doesn’t look like having been issued at all. Sheath is still filled with a thick brown preservative grease; I make a mess everytime I want to take a look at the blade. Better, the leather belt loop is still there and shows no drying up or cracking tendencies.
Four holes, possibly for a unit ID tag that was removed.
Now for the M-28, the projected replacement for the M-24 and Suojeluskunta’s answer to the Finn army’s M-27.
Nothing special at first sight : an octogonal Mosin action, some of them dating before 1917, a shorter and thicker barrel, protected front sight with an improved rear sight still based on the Konovalov sight’s curved elevator but with a screwed-on board with a deeper « U » shaped notch and adjustable windage.
A larger and thicker mid-barrel band with thru bolt, a stronger upper handguard and a new, stronger bayonet latch/muzzle piece.
BTW, that stock still puzzles me : it has all the characteristics of a standard M-28 stock, being recycled from old M-91 stocks but this one is a two-part, which was not current on an M-28.
I know : in this article by Vic Thomas http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/M28-Rifle.asp the pictures show two of these same two piece stocks.
Another detail, the approbation inspector’s stamp that is normally found in the finger grooves is missing. Probably one of that last batch of recycled stocks that were put on M-28s before the switch to the M-28/30 and subsequent arsenal refitting.
On right side of receiver you can see the usual district numbers, lined-out after the Civil Guard incorporation in the regular Finn army. On the other side the SA symbol and « o » prefix serial number. It’s a S.I.G. barrel.
The front sight protector with its characteristic dog ears which gave the rifle its name : « Pystikorva » or « Spitz dog ears ». It differs from the M-27’s by a sightly different shape and positioning of the blade setscrew at the upper front of sight base.
I’ll have to replace that damaged front muzzlepiece thru-bolt. It’s an eyesore on such a clean rifle!
And please, excuse the pics : I didn’t have time nor all the lighting setup at hand to really do justice to these two rifles. Maybe another time.
PP.
As soon as I reach home, I'll take pics for you to look at. That M-28 is absolutely gorgeous!
PP.
Hello again!
NOW, I finally found time to take a few rough and hasty pics of my last purchases an « SA » stamped SVT-40 with a very clean bayonet and an M-28 in very nice shape, thanks to Papy.
First a 1941 Tula with 12 slit compensator and scope rail and notch setup.
There’s an SA stamp at the right place on the left side of the receiver, just above serial number.
A very faint SA stamp can also be found on the sling which is very clean and probably of newer manufacture.
Once treated with foaming copper remover and Ed’s Red, barrel and chamber look very clean and shiny with barrel showing strong and sharp grooves. I’ll have to load up some creampuff rounds for this baby!
Bayonet looks like it’s fresh out of a russian depot and doesn’t look like having been issued at all. Sheath is still filled with a thick brown preservative grease; I make a mess everytime I want to take a look at the blade. Better, the leather belt loop is still there and shows no drying up or cracking tendencies.
Four holes, possibly for a unit ID tag that was removed.
Now for the M-28, the projected replacement for the M-24 and Suojeluskunta’s answer to the Finn army’s M-27.
Nothing special at first sight : an octogonal Mosin action, some of them dating before 1917, a shorter and thicker barrel, protected front sight with an improved rear sight still based on the Konovalov sight’s curved elevator but with a screwed-on board with a deeper « U » shaped notch and adjustable windage.
A larger and thicker mid-barrel band with thru bolt, a stronger upper handguard and a new, stronger bayonet latch/muzzle piece.
BTW, that stock still puzzles me : it has all the characteristics of a standard M-28 stock, being recycled from old M-91 stocks but this one is a two-part, which was not current on an M-28.
I know : in this article by Vic Thomas http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/M28-Rifle.asp the pictures show two of these same two piece stocks.
Another detail, the approbation inspector’s stamp that is normally found in the finger grooves is missing. Probably one of that last batch of recycled stocks that were put on M-28s before the switch to the M-28/30 and subsequent arsenal refitting.
On right side of receiver you can see the usual district numbers, lined-out after the Civil Guard incorporation in the regular Finn army. On the other side the SA symbol and « o » prefix serial number. It’s a S.I.G. barrel.
The front sight protector with its characteristic dog ears which gave the rifle its name : « Pystikorva » or « Spitz dog ears ». It differs from the M-27’s by a sightly different shape and positioning of the blade setscrew at the upper front of sight base.
I’ll have to replace that damaged front muzzlepiece thru-bolt. It’s an eyesore on such a clean rifle!
And please, excuse the pics : I didn’t have time nor all the lighting setup at hand to really do justice to these two rifles. Maybe another time.
PP.
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