What the heck is it?
What the heck is it?
I'm new to Russian Rifles. I tried to use the Mosin ID guide. It told me this 1955 40" rifle, no bayonet, 3/4" front sight should be a Soviet M91/38 carbine. The stamps however are hard to read and appear to me to be Chinese. The marks are very faint. So faint that even when I tried to fill them in with white chalk it didn't help much. No import marks.
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vitaminboy
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Re: What the heck is it?
Is it a sporterized T53? Or Romanian?
Re: What the heck is it?
Sportered T53.
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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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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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bunkysdad
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Re: What the heck is it?
I agree with millman. Looks like a sporterized Chinese T53. Stocks cut down, bayonet lug is gone. It's a shooting range or hunting rifle, assuming it shoots ok. I'd check the headspace or have it checked, once again assuming, that it has a bolt
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Re: What the heck is it?
That positively is a sporterized Chinese type 53, the Soviet version is called the M44. These have a swing out attached bayonet that has been removed from your rifle when the stock was cut back.
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.
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Re: What the heck is it?
The import mark was most likely on the now missing bayonet lug.
“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.
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