The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Well, I been watching the old refurbish Copes has been trickling out, and , there it was, a 1940 Tula refurb, I grabbed it, showing the pics in a few days. That is the yr. they moved the factory, due to Germans, From ? where to the Volga Mtns. right?

If I understand that that was a question, then I guess the answer would be from Tula to somewhere in the Ural mountains probably near Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic? Roughly 900 miles from Just South of Moscow, way the hell out in the sticks, to the East of Moscow. If I am not mistaken, the move was made toward the end of '41 or the beginning of '42when the Nazis were knocking on Tula's (and Moscow's) door.

I believe the Tula factory didn't move any equipment until '41, after the Germans had invaded that summer.

Tula was still churning out 91/30's in 1940, the USSR was not attacked until June of 1941. 1940 is not a rare Tula year, I have several., even a 91/59, 1941 is the hard to find year.

1941 is the hard to find tula year

1940 is just as common as any other

Oh well, still a good buy on an older import Tula. With all the Stuff. All matching, superb bore. This one gives me Tula's 36,37,38,39,&40.

Yeah, this is a common one in either refurbs or Finn captures.

1941 Tula 91-30 is a real tough find(never found one myself), but SA 1943 is a tough find as well!

Pahtu.

My 41 Ishevisk has been two piece stocked, SA stamped, '41 stamped, otherwise left alone. Is that one the same? Is that a Finn bullseye at the star point?

steelbuttplate wrote:My 41 Ishevisk has been two piece stocked, SA stamped, '41 stamped, otherwise left alone. Is that one the same? Is that a Finn bullseye at the star point?

Naw, the front sight base was broken which I repaired and replaced the front sight, the rifles stock was Finn refinished, probably replaced, IIRC nothing else matched.

Pahtu.

Got lucky and found a couple this year....

Production of 91/30's stopped in late 1940 in favor of the SVT40, all 41 Tula's are left over barrels shipped to Izhevsk to be used in there production of 91/30's. Tula's equipment was moved in late summer of 1941 when it appeared the Germans would over run it.(which they never did) Tula then restarted production of the 91/30 in 1942.