what kind of mosin nagant is this? (12 OCT 2006 - ANOTHER FIND!!!)
- Thread starter majormarine
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majormarine
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- Lower Mainland, BC
Hi guys, i found another mosin! 
it looks like a 91/30. metric rear sight. normal russian 'sks' type of front sight. hex receiver. has tula 'arrow in the star' on the receiver, which was grounded off 1/4 of it (???) below the star marked '1931'. matching receiver, floor and butt plate. non-matching bolt. bore is dark and rifling is starting to worn. stock is laminated and has the typical 'leather-loop-through' sling swivels.
what is this? another captured? how much is worth?
it looks like a 91/30. metric rear sight. normal russian 'sks' type of front sight. hex receiver. has tula 'arrow in the star' on the receiver, which was grounded off 1/4 of it (???) below the star marked '1931'. matching receiver, floor and butt plate. non-matching bolt. bore is dark and rifling is starting to worn. stock is laminated and has the typical 'leather-loop-through' sling swivels.
what is this? another captured? how much is worth?
Pics would help. If the stock is indeed laminated and original to the rifle, it would have been added during a post-war Russian rebuild, so no, it's not a finn capture unless someone recently added the stock set.
Very unusual for a 1931 era rifle to have anything "ground" on the receiver... unless it's a converted dragoon. They have what looks like grinding on the barrel shank, but it's actually a mill mark to make room for the old Konovalov dragoon sight which were mostly replaced in the 1940's onward.
The mismatched bolt hurts value considerably. Is it import marked? If import marked and mismatched, it's at best a $150 rifle. If not import marked, $175 or so. Had it been matching, laminate, and import marked it's about a $250 rifle. $275 if matching, laminate, and not import marked.
Confused yet?
Very unusual for a 1931 era rifle to have anything "ground" on the receiver... unless it's a converted dragoon. They have what looks like grinding on the barrel shank, but it's actually a mill mark to make room for the old Konovalov dragoon sight which were mostly replaced in the 1940's onward.
The mismatched bolt hurts value considerably. Is it import marked? If import marked and mismatched, it's at best a $150 rifle. If not import marked, $175 or so. Had it been matching, laminate, and import marked it's about a $250 rifle. $275 if matching, laminate, and not import marked.
Confused yet?
