The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Hi I m new to the Mosins because i collect usual german stuff. Maybe someone can enlight me about his history.
It's an early receiver with late barrel and SA stamp from capturing. Maybe these reworked the barrel? The frontsight is very high i noticed. The rifle is untouched and fullof grease like it was sold (deactivated) at the beginn of 1970s.
Some stuff is matching or renumbered, other have no number.

Thanks

Your Mosin is one of the roughly 13,000 M91/30's assembled by Finland using new production barrels made by Tikka and a combination of new parts and reused parts from unserviceable Mosin's. These are often called the M30 in Finnish service. The barrels themselves were made in 1943 and 1944 but many weren't assembled into complete rifles until after WW2. The SA stamp is a Finnish Army property stamp that doesn't have anything to do with a rifles capture status. The front sight you mentioned is a early Soviet M91/30 blade front sight that was repurposed for use on that rifle. The Finn's preferred the blade front sight and I've seen other Finn's Mosin's with sights like that, I think I own one or two actually. Off to the gunroom to check...

If you use a bronze brush and oil, that rust will come off of there and not hurt the bluing that is left. Cool rifle.

If it's like mine then it will be a treat to shoot on the range, tight groups.

Was the rifle deactivated as in unable to be shot? Or just released from military stores for.expoet? That confused me a little.

Nice mosin

Thanks for the Input

In a land with much restrictions need all be destroyed

So a not so common Mosin, right?

The strap with brass parts is old russia or finland?

Was the barrel 7,62x53 thenn?

Anyone?

It's Finnish M91/30 for sure, I have 2

armed_wing wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 5:06 am Anyone?

It would have been 7.62x54 but could fire the Finn 7.62x53 as well.

armed_wing wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:04 pm Thanks for the Input

In a land with much restrictions need all be destroyed

So a not so common Mosin, right?

The strap with brass parts is old russia or finland?

Was the barrel 7,62x53 thenn?

Thr sling appears to be a British WWII style (Original, copy or later made i don't know) Enfield sling.

See link for an example.

https://libertytreecollectors.com/produ ... category=0

That WW2 style British sling was being reproduced, possibly still is. That plus large numbers of original slings came on the market 35 years ago when the UK dumped the old SMLE's out of the arsenals onto the collector market. They sold very cheaply back then.

A little elbow grease and it'll clean up nicely. Here's a before and after shot of the bolt on my M24/91 and a before shot of the magazine. You can see a lot of dried lacquer and crud on it. The barrel and all was just as bad, but everything cleaned up nicely.

A very nice example. You say it is deactivated? I'm assuming a snipped or removed firing pin and welded chamber?

Rongo wrote: ↑Wed Jun 12, 2024 8:36 am A very nice example. You say it is deactivated? I'm assuming a snipped or removed firing pin and welded chamber?

Yes German law. At that time tons of them flooded market for 80DM each

Junk Yard Dog wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 2:35 am That WW2 style British sling was being reproduced, possibly still is. That plus large numbers of original slings came on the market 35 years ago when the UK dumped the old SMLE's out of the arsenals onto the collector market. They sold very cheaply back then.

I think in 1970s when these was sold in 10.000s for less then 100DM each nobody made copy slings. It wouldnt be necessary. So far i remember they was all from east block Depots/arsenals. Not sure wich country exact - long ago . They came with the showed sling and leather "rings" (i cleaned out the old grease) or the well known green webbing one.