I just got a M28 Finnish Civil Guard. It has the triangle T for Tikka and the SY for civil guard. However it's missing that round mark where the Russian Imperial Eagle would have been ground off. It's just blank there like it was never marked.
The rear sight is labeled in arshins on one side and meters on the other but the arshins aren't crossed out.
Also, that extra step for 200 meters wasn't cut into the rear sight either.
Were 1891 receivers ever made without the imperial eagle or soviet sickle?
M28 missing some markings
Re: M28 missing some markings
It's possible your receiver is from a New England Westinghouse made M91, they didn't mark the imperial crest on the receiver. Look at the underside of the receiver tang, if it isn't dated it's likely a N.E.W. receiver since they didn't date them either. Look for small stamps on the receiver that look like a letter with an arrow pointing out the side, those are N.E.W. proof marks.
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Re: M28 missing some markings
I've got a M39 Sako '44 that appears has never had a mark on the hex, I don't remember the tang date. Also a MO 1930 Izhvesk that has no stamp, but it might have been milled some in the MO process.
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Re: M28 missing some markings
Okay dumb question, where is the receiver tang?
What the seller told me is that it's a Tikkka build on an undated Tula receiver.
Perhaps he mistook the triangle T that means Tikka and thought it was a Tula mark?
What the seller told me is that it's a Tikkka build on an undated Tula receiver.
Perhaps he mistook the triangle T that means Tikka and thought it was a Tula mark?
Re: M28 missing some markings
Okay I took the stock off my M28 for the first time and found the underside of the receiver tang blank.
However there is a cryptic mark on the top of the tang that baffles me
https://photobucket.com/u/xolotl_grimnir
Any insights? It's this really a NEW Receiver?
However there is a cryptic mark on the top of the tang that baffles me
https://photobucket.com/u/xolotl_grimnir
Any insights? It's this really a NEW Receiver?
Re: M28 missing some markings
Can you please post some pics directly to the forum. That photo bucket link wants me to sign up .
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Re: M28 missing some markings
Trying something, here goes nothing
Re: M28 missing some markings
That E with the arrow looks like a New England Westinghouse mark.
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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.
C. S. Lewis