Wikipedia says about 37,000,000 mosin nagants were made!!!!
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I doubt that very much. close to 2 million sks in Canada? No...
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Maybe a hundred thousand... no more. I'm sure the majority of SKS's met their fate in the hands of third world armies, rebel groups, and Russian smelters. I do believe that Canada and the US have the overwhelming majority that went into private hands. One thing is for certain, if the US were still importing Russian SKS carbines, supply would have LONG dried up and we wouldn't see the bargain prices we do today.
The funny thing with the SKS is if the price for them is $699 I don't think they would be truck guns the way most use them. I think I better load up on SKS now instead of in 20 years I can say 20 years ago I could pick one up for $180. Screw that I think I will load up on about 10 more. Then sell them for $500 each in 20 years.
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Number seems high but quite probable.
K98 documented production as cited by Law in BBOTW was at 14 million (1934-1945) in only eleven short years. We also know from the authors of Kriegsmodell that Law's numbers were short cut and that production was much higher. Then one has to take into account the rifles not officially documented (SS, Double Code, etc.). So if the Germans could produce 14+ million rifles in 11 years, I am sure the Russians could produce double that in two world wars.
There is also the question of whether other Nagant production is included, such as Finnish, Polish etc.
Even a sporting arm such as the 870 Shotguns stand at an impressive production number of 10 million rifles in 50 years as cited by the Canadian "Calibre Magazine".
K98 documented production as cited by Law in BBOTW was at 14 million (1934-1945) in only eleven short years. We also know from the authors of Kriegsmodell that Law's numbers were short cut and that production was much higher. Then one has to take into account the rifles not officially documented (SS, Double Code, etc.). So if the Germans could produce 14+ million rifles in 11 years, I am sure the Russians could produce double that in two world wars.
There is also the question of whether other Nagant production is included, such as Finnish, Polish etc.
Even a sporting arm such as the 870 Shotguns stand at an impressive production number of 10 million rifles in 50 years as cited by the Canadian "Calibre Magazine".
The number is entirely plausible when you consider that the Mosin Nagant was made in several variants and had a production run of close to 60 years.
It was also made in countries other than Russia/Soviet Union, including some 300,000 made in the US for a Tsarist Russia order in WWI.
Count up all the variants made in all the countries that made the Mosin Nagant rifle, and 37 million rifles made is not out of the question.
It was also made in countries other than Russia/Soviet Union, including some 300,000 made in the US for a Tsarist Russia order in WWI.
Count up all the variants made in all the countries that made the Mosin Nagant rifle, and 37 million rifles made is not out of the question.
