The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Someone explain to me what the deal is with carrying the rifles with the butts forward and the barrels pointing to the rear like that. I have never seen that before, then again there is a lot I haven't seen so far! its done for funerals has been done since appearently the time of elizbeth the 1st f...

interesting square patch, like recycled 27RV stock, interesting?

when i was 8 or 9 in maybe `1968 met what seemed to me an ancient, Very, old spanish american war veteran.............surprizing he didnt charge up kettle hill with Teddy Rosievelt

redspoon wrote:Good score on a early twenties M91 What would your guess be on the most uncommon/hardest to find date from that era?

1919 tula

ranman106 wrote:I think this is where the pin was used.

http://www.aboutww2militaria.com/Januar ... e_cap1.jpg

your right it is a mid to late war star for a pilotka or side cap the earlerly ones had a red enamail background

a quick way to tell if mosins sling are postwar if the leather sling keeper"s riveted its post war

seconds on that make it work by the way the 24s a nice soviet find

is there a "balkan" wedge under the rear sight base ? i have an 23 tula thats stamped Made in USSR and shows some other SCW traits but has a wedge on the sight base one of the thoughts is on that one is in the 50s- 60s interarmco or one of the other importers ran short of actual SCW guns a...

any made in USSR stamp> ther name and initals seem spanish

judging from the reciver markings it maybe a fairly early hanyang later ones had typicaly a reverse swazika marking and the 2 diget year code you add 12, (1912 the founding year of the chinese republic) to the year code to find out the year made Mines a year 30 or 1942. like the other posters said c...

i have a couple balkan m91 that looked to thatve been reblued after the scubbing and for the butt and floorplates renumbered the stocks on both appear to have been sanded partly removing the stamped Rack? numbers on the stock

i think the slings a Civil guard sling used as a much cheaper sling than the 3 piece 28/30 sling

ive used or tryed to use those chinese miltary clips being brass theres no temper so when you go to strip them into the action the brass splits and a couple times the rounds went flying my came with 50's chinese HB ammo

while you have it out of the stock stick the action back toghther and see if it feeds got a pat burns m39 the the interupter was digging into the wood where the postwar stock wasn't quite inlet properly..............

30 bucks for that? i bought a pair of them for 9 bucks each,,,, no wait that was like 22 years ago looks like a INT /28 pouch made of reindeer hide 30 bucks isn't bad even back when i bought mine most had, had repairs done to them

the 94 chat 1st, 41 PL sako 2nd ,31 tikka 3rd toss up on the other two

if a bolt swap works, check with Sarco gun parts for a bolt

youve never seen the very very low tech way m68a1 105mm guns where boresighted involved black string and a pair of binoculars

I used to do it regularly to well past 2000 meters, and hit the target better than 75% time on the first shot. But then, that was using the M68 105mm on a M60A3 and M1. :biggrin: i fired hundreds of rounds of 105mm from m60s and m1s at the calbration ranges after boresighting 1200 meter target neve...

for the M39, free would be great! but seeing how were in the real world 350 or lower would be a deal