lets have a red letter day

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There is nothing special about the lettering, it's just to highlight the numbers, very easy to do yourself.
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:There is nothing special about the lettering, it's just to highlight the numbers, very easy to do yourself.
thats what i figured lol
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There is probably a dealer reading this right now and doing a google search for red highlighter even as you read this :)
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pacolo90 wrote:whats the big deal with the red lettering? are they more special or something? i saw one at a local gun store with the red letters and i actually didn't like it.
No big deal really. Just a little something different. I don't think anyone knows really what it means. Just something interesting about the rifle. And most red lettered have the mysterious and unknown triangle 25 marking. It all just brings a little more character and mystery to the rifle :)

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Triangle 25= third shift, building B, facility 3, commissar Dickyanko, 1964-1968

The bastards will never tell us :)
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:pointup: :chuckles: :chuckles: :chuckles: :chuckles: :chuckles: ....and all this time I was under the iompression it was the second shift in bldg. A.
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Junk Yard Dog wrote:Triangle 25= third shift, building B, facility 3, commissar Dickyanko, 1964-1968

The bastards will never tell us :)
:lol: :lol: :lol:

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These rifles being shown as red letter rifles in which only part of the receiver marks are colored red are different from the triangle 25 rifles which have all of the receiver marks in red as well as red painted sight markings. Or so it seems to me. I have a rifle with some colored (more orange) receiver marks, but not the brighter red, and not with red in the sights. The red letter triangle 25 rifles don't seem to resemble anything temporarily filled with a crayon.
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what ever they used on the one's i have are put on good,cannot wipe it off and i even rubbed alittle acetone on some of the red that is under the stock line and it did nothing to it.
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It's epoxy paint mixed with blood. :) Stop putting acetone on your Mosin!
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Nice rifles posted, should I keep an eye out for one so I can Join the red letter rifle club?
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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