I'll start it off by posting my most recent acquisition, a 1943 SKY M39 that I just picked up last weekend. It's my first SKY and has some great wood on it. I also got it for less than I've ever paid for an M39 which makes it all the more sweet!
What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
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What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
I saw this post on another forum and thought it was cool to see what everyone considered their best Mosin acquisition of 2013 so I thought I would ask the same question here. You can only post ONE rifle and blurb on why you believe it's your best pick up of the year. It doesn't have to be a rare one, maybe it was your first Mosin, maybe you got it for an incredible price, maybe it's just one of the prettiest examples you have ever seen. Post 'em if you got 'em!
I'll start it off by posting my most recent acquisition, a 1943 SKY M39 that I just picked up last weekend. It's my first SKY and has some great wood on it. I also got it for less than I've ever paid for an M39 which makes it all the more sweet!
I'll start it off by posting my most recent acquisition, a 1943 SKY M39 that I just picked up last weekend. It's my first SKY and has some great wood on it. I also got it for less than I've ever paid for an M39 which makes it all the more sweet!
Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
I like that thread, glad you brought it over here too. My favorite buy of the year was the first of my trifecta that I found a few months ago. My 1942 VKT "B" Barrel Finn M91, built on a 1919 Tula receiver (Same one you saw at the range today Titanium Hammer!). This one was my first M91 as well as my first Finnish rifle. It also happens to be my best shooting rifle as well, which certainly helps it take #1 on my list.
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Both are simply fantastic. Congrats. 
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Beautiful stock on that 39, Hammer. Over on GB I posted about my M28 but it was toss up with the 28/30 no name no date one so I will post it here
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Great idea For a topic.. I only have been collecting for a year, so all my rifles are from this year.. I think my fave is my first Finn.
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Wow GM, what a nice first Mosin!
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Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
I posted another item on GB, but here I will say...
Hackman M28 bayonet (blued blade) with 1937 dated frog (made by Oy. Veljekset Aströmin Valjastehtaat located in Oulu), from a nice young man who tools around here a bit.
Engraved by a (presumed) Finnish Civil Guard member named: E. Karell.
Hackman M28 bayonet (blued blade) with 1937 dated frog (made by Oy. Veljekset Aströmin Valjastehtaat located in Oulu), from a nice young man who tools around here a bit.
Engraved by a (presumed) Finnish Civil Guard member named: E. Karell.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Wow, hard to say. I've had a really good year. Think I'll go with the unissued 28/30.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Well, I was kinda slacking this year in Mosins, only 2 Chinese Type 53s Hopefully, I'll do better next year, providing nothing tempts me away 
Feel kinda bad posting an ugly Betty in a thread with them drop dead gorgeous Finns
But, hey it is, by all accounts, a Mosin
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
posted one on the other forum, will use another one for this forum.
1899 Tula in WW1 configuration, including a German capture stock.
A bit more than i usually pay, ($475) but it has the character i like.
1899 Tula in WW1 configuration, including a German capture stock.
A bit more than i usually pay, ($475) but it has the character i like.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
It was a toss up. TRZ, B Barrel M39 or this. Sanitized 91/59 I got pretty cheap.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Not a Mosin, but my 2013 best. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13375&hilit=+swiss
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Mine was not a Mosin either, my best find of 2013millman wrote:Not a Mosin, but my 2013 best. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13375&hilit=+swiss
(Arisaka Type 38 Carbine Kokura series 2)
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
An Arisaka perhaps?etprescottazusa91 wrote:Mine was not a Mosin eithermillman wrote:Not a Mosin, but my 2013 best. viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13375&hilit=+swiss
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic, 1903-1950
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
No new Mosin for me this year, but I do love the new Ruger Mk III target pistol that I bought.
Here's to a multi Mosin new year for all of us...hopefully.
Here's to a multi Mosin new year for all of us...hopefully.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Just like BuckeyeSgt, sanitized 91/59 carbine, a close tie with my New England Westinghouse M91.
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
The same as I posted on Gunboards. An RGuns 1944 Tula PU sniper. Everything except the scope appears to be original matching with Cyrillic prefix-including the scope mount. Even though it's the only rifle I've purchased in the last 18 months, I still haven't gotten around to taking pictures of it yet. Way too much time and effort 
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Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Well, for me it would have to be my first Mosin. I still have two purchases left this year but for now my 1942 Izhevsk. The red lettering and being my first make her special.
Re: What's Your Best Purchase Of 2013?
Found this one back in Feb. at a local pawn shop. Czech/Mosin 91/38
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