The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Dolk, Fair enough. I'll tell you what. You gather up a few hundred rifles and send them to me. I'll work on test firing them. When I'm done I promise to give them a good home. :chuckles: Can you send the ammo along too? ;mywink; A lot of it is posturing. There was plenty of that going on between the...

The M-28 and M-27 were both introduced in the very late 1920s. The M-28 was designed by the Finnish Guard and carried by Guard troops. It was superseded by the M28/30. The M27 was designed by the Finnish Army and was carried by Army infantry. Both the M27 and M28/30 were still being produced when th...

DJBuck1,

You are right about the M28/30. I was tripped up by multiple listings of the same rifle that hadn't received a bid at the asking price of $450. It had been Bubba'd.

I don't know how much Finnish history you've read, particularly as it relates to the Winter War. The soviets grabbed kids off the street in Moscow and conscripted them, sending them among other places over to Finland to fight. They didn't have winter gear. The weather during the winter war was among...

Lee, I don't disagree with your post. I have three M-27s posted in the M-27 thread. Only one has an issue and that is an arsenal repaired stock. Collector grade M-27s are selling at $400 or more. But I was talking about a shooter. I was stuck by the number of M-27 sales or at least bid stops short o...

I'm thinking about thinning my collection so I've spent some time researching the market. With Pat Burns gone, I believe GB sets the market. So I've been reviewing closed listings where the Mosin actually sold. I also fired up a couple of spreadsheets where I had recorded prices when I was building ...

I'm currently working on a HOn3 layout (HO narrow gauge 3' between tracks) layout in my basement. My grandfather, step-grandfather, and great-grandfather all worked for the Chicago and Northwestern RR in Green Bay, WI. My biggest fantasy is to go back to 1939 when the Milwaukee Road was running thei...

http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M39-SS-Group-2.jpg http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M39-SS-Group-1.jpg So what am I doing posting these two beat up M-39s in with all these beautiful firearms? The devil in me wanted to remind everyone why the M-39 was made. It cert...

Dolk, I agree with everything you said. I have Finns that are crazy mismatches of parts. You do too. I've seen your posts describing some of them. But in this case, If it started out with a M-28 front sight (which it did) and ended up with a M-28 front sight (which it also did), odds are, the front ...

Here is a group portrait of my M27s. http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M27-Category-Portrait.jpg The top M27 is a 1928 Tikka. http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M27-1928-Tikka-1.jpg It happens to be my favorite rifle in my Finn collection. Why? Well, I'm a sucker for w...

It was interesting to see the Pat Burns pricing strategy evolve over time. When I started buying from her, M39s were priced based on condition, not necessarily scarcity. So I was able to pick up a no name no date, a no name late date, a no name 48, two Sako straight stocks, and a few others for abou...

There was a very light amount of surface rust at the muzzle end of the barrel. I didn't notice it when I inspected it visually. But then, I'm 70. My eyes aren't all that wonderful any more. My digital SLR did pick it up, especially when I played with the color settings to increase the definition of ...

Aside from the quality issues, there is also a real lack of M-39 variety available from dealers. It was a lot easier to build a somewhat diverse M39 collection 4-5 years ago when I was working on mine. I have 12 M-39s and only two pair are what I would consider to be duplicates, two generic VKTs (on...

Fledge, Thank you for clarifying that it is a M28 sight. The barrel serial number, the Sako rear sight serial number, and the barrel stamping all point to a rifle produced as a M28/30. It is in the first 2700 M28/30s produced, which according to Vic Thomas were originally produced with M28 front sig...

Fledge, Here you go. A front - front sight shot. http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M28-30-Trans-10.jpg A top - front sight shot. http://oldtomstoys.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/M28-30-Trans-9.jpg And two close up shots at the guard number, the first from the barrel. http://oldtomst...

In the last week I've pulled all my Finn Mosen Nagants from their gun safes and reinventoried them. My goal in starting this collection was to fill as many slots in Finn Mosin Nagant history as I could and try to avoid duplicates. Of my 27 Finns, 26 fell nicely into the scarcity classes. This 27th F...

This rifle was originally submitted for the showcase a number of months ago. Everyone that responded felt it belonged. But the article had a lot of 'attitude'. Ron asked me to tone it down. At the time i didn't feel inclined to do so. Sometimes I can be a Royal PITA - right Ron? So Ron, I toned this...

http://www.ironhorse129.com/Mosin/images/M91Step/FinnM91StepRight.jpg There is something about this Finn that stirs us Mosin Nagant collectors. Maybe it is the old leather sling that says "Get out your arctic wear, put on your skis, strap me on your back, and let's go out and take on some Russ...

Millman, A statement early in your post on this rifle got under my skin. I felt I owed you a follow-up response. I'm talking about the 'big time' collectors that have told you this is not a P series rifle because P-26 or P-27 isn't stamped on the barrel. That makes about as much sense as to claim so...