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I got this a few months back and forgot to post on the forums here.
Originally purchased from Alan's Armory. The bore is bright and shiny with good rifling, on a 1943 dated Izhevsk receiver.
Serial numbers match on receiver and mag floor plate; bolt is electro-pencil matching.
The stock is not a Polish stock (Polish stocks were only M44 stocks) It is a "new" purpose built M38 stock. Built for the M91/59 only.
There were a small group of M91/59's that came in with new stocks, all from Allen's Armory.
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Let me make a short, open, blanket comment. There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a descent person is no threat to anyone--- except bad people. -- Charleton Heston
Guns are not good, they are not evil. Save those descriptions for the people holding the firearm. -- Unknown
1943 Izhevsk
1937 Izhevsk
1935/48/50 Tula (hex)
1939 Tula (laminate stock)
And many other firearms
How much are these going for these days, and where can they be found?
Reason I ask is I'm sort of missing my 1944 M44 (which was, incidentally, my first centerfire rifle). I love the M91/30, but sometimes I want a carbine version again, but without the weight of the bayonet. This means an M91/38 or M91/59.
I do not want to hack down an M91/30. Unless the crown and muzzle rifling are damaged, I don't like to shorten rifles. Even then, no more than an inch or two are required to restore proper crown and sharp rifling.
Yes, there are some places in which I do draw the line for myself! I have nothing against those who want to do radical plastic surgery to their own rifles, but it doesn't appeal to me if I can't reverse it.
A dinged-up stock would be more preferable as my rifles are all working guns and will be dinged up anyway in the course of duty. Saw some tracks in the woods that have me questioning the firepower and killing power of my 1911 and cast loads, so I've taken to carrying a rifle while out there.
