1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
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1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
I took some new pictures of the Dragoon I won last year on Gunbroker. It's a 1916 Izhevsk that never went through the Russian 91/30 update thanks to being captured by Finland, where it was placed in a Finn stock.
Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Very nice
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Nice, beautiful stock.
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OK, while everyone is drooling, the pictures disappeared
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Oops , I moved them around on Photobucket and need to reload them.
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That's better.
Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Sweet rifle . That is one of the nicest Dragoons Ive seen. Thanks for sharing.
Jim
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Love the Izhevsk marked cleaning rod.
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Very nice! Great pictures
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
This is pretty cool.
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
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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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Very Nice ! I would love to get a teen Mosin someday.
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Very nice! I have got to get some other Finn's in my collection as the M39's are getting a bit lonely!
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Still a great find!!!!
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Very nice.
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
Nothing wrong with that one... Nothing whatsoever.
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Re: 1916 Izhevsk Finnish Dragoon
You know what? I am a little different than many collectors, in that I have not acquired a huge number of Mosins. I have 13, but it has taken about 5 or 6 years. 8 are Finns, and that is mostly because certain models are actually easier to find that have been in Finnish Army use. For instance this Dragoon. When you find a Dragoon it is much more rare if it is NOT a Finn, because apparently every Russian Dragoon they could get their hands on got the upgraded sights of the 91/30 program. 3 of my rifles are model 1891's, and there again all SA marked. I can only imagine what the battlefield looked like after the Finns got through and started collecting battlefield hardware. With a kill ratio of 40:1 those Finns were some highly efficient soldiers. Of course all of their Russian rifles weren't captured.
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The Winter War, it's on youtube with subtitles, or was, they keep taking it down and a month later somebody puts it up again, or just buy the DVD.
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.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt