The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Found a 1927 DDR stamped Tula ex dragoon at our local cabelas. Looking it over after i got it home, found what looks like to me a Turkish moon stamped on the left side of the receiver at the stripper clip guide. Looks just like the ones on my turk mausers. Doesn't seam to be a badly struck mark of something else. Sorry not able to post pics at this time. I this possible ?

You know you aren't getting out that easy. You are gonna get 50 calls for a picture of the mark so you might go ahead and get er done.

bunkysdad wrote:You know you aren't getting out that easy. You are gonna get 50 calls for a picture of the mark so you might go ahead and get er done.

+1

No outside of possibility, but the Turks tended to put that stamp on all of a rifles parts, not just one.

personally, i've never seen a turkish marked mosin.

The Turks did use some Mosin actions in their " pattern 1938" frankenMauser creations, but these were older M1891's, not Soviet era rifles. The Turks could have encountered some Soviet Mosins in Korea, and brought some home, but likely this time the marking is just a Soviet inspection mark of some sort.

I sure would like to see it. Hope you can post a picture.

Still working on pictures, but here is the range report. After a couple of test rounds I went straight to 250 yard steel target 3 rounds 3 hits.100 yard target 4rnds 1 1/4 1 rnd opened it to just shy of 2 inches molot or not this one is a keeper.NO 15 no cure in sight Happy Days. Side note my mosin-nagant collection started about 6 years ago when my wife came home from work and said your not gonna believe who I made lunch for today ? Svetlana Peters. AKA Svetlana Stalin forgive my spelling. She has since passed away I think a couple of years ago.

So, you added Stalins kid to your Mosin collection and then she died? Oh Well, that tends to happen, Mosins at least last longer than people so long as you keep Bubba away from them.

To be honest at the time I never gave Mosin Nagants much of a thought After doing some research on her and how she came to live in my neck of the woods one thing led to another and I bought my first rifle.

Why she was living near you is pretty clear, her father was a class A douchebag of the highest order.

Junk Yard Dog wrote:The Turks did use some Mosin actions in their " pattern 1938" frankenMauser creations, but these were older M1891's, not Soviet era rifles. The Turks could have encountered some Soviet Mosins in Korea, and brought some home, but likely this time the marking is just a Soviet inspection mark of some sort.

JYD, I think the Turks got their hands on some 1891's when the White Russians left Russian after the successful Revolution and escaped via Turkey.

The White Russians would have been armed with Imperial era M91's, the few at the time Soviet marked rifles would have been with the Red Army. SOme might have been captured by the Whites, but these would be very few in number. 1927 would have been way too late for the White army to be escaping Russia, by that time the commies had firm control for years, and a secret police network in place filling up Gulags, there was no more resistance.

Joeinthehills wrote:

Junk Yard Dog wrote:The Turks did use some Mosin actions in their " pattern 1938" frankenMauser creations, but these were older M1891's, not Soviet era rifles. The Turks could have encountered some Soviet Mosins in Korea, and brought some home, but likely this time the marking is just a Soviet inspection mark of some sort.

JYD, I think the Turks got their hands on some 1891's when the White Russians left Russian after the successful Revolution and escaped via Turkey.

Turkey and Russia fought several battles during WW1, this is how they got there M91's


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasus_Campaign


but by 1927 the civil war in Russian was a distant memory ( 1917-1922)

IIRC years ago a 1907 carbine eith Turkish markings was posted somewhere.

Ahhhh I'd like to see some pics too