unissued Polish M44

[Junk Yard Dog]

Brand new as in it's in arsenal unissued condition, still with some arsenal cosmoline on it and it has not been fired since it was factory proofed in 1953. It's been sitting packed away for 17 years with it's original Polish sling and cleaning kit with oil bottle. Back then I got this for what a Soviet red stock M44 goes for today. A lot of money back then for a commie rifle, but it was new, and how often does that happen when collecting milsurps?

[desdem12]

WOW very nice

[Ban-One]

Beautiful! Is amazing to see these rifles in their unissued, brand new glory. Its funny, I am so used to seeing beat up, dinged up, cosmoline coated war rifles that when I see one in new condition it doesnt even look like a milsurp. Its nice to get a sense of what these rifles might have looked like when first issued to the troops.

[martin08]

Just something about those Polish M44's. Purdy guns, and no equals to the finish.

[Junk Yard Dog]

The Pole's did a very nice job on these rifles, postwar, with no need to hurry I suppose. I have a Romanian one in the same unissued condition, one day I will repost it.

[SA1911a1]

I recently read that the Polish made a batch of rifles for the N. Koreans that were never delivered then surplused to the US. You reckon that beautiful rifle was one of these, or is that more Lapin error?

[desdem12]

Nice fit to the wood

[Junk Yard Dog]

I have heard that story before, I don't know if it is true or not, could be, but my bet would be they were made for the Polish Army who never fought a war after 1945 and had more rifles on hand than it needed to issue.

[SA1911a1]

I have heard that story before, I don't know if it is true or not, could be, but my bet would be they were made for the Polish Army who never fought a war after 1945 and had more rifles on hand than it needed to issue.

So, I guess that means Kim Sung, Sr. did not sign it?

Just checking

[Junk Yard Dog]

You mean he could write? It's always possible, but until we can read the North Korean archives, or someone in Poland finds a contract I would treat it as another myth. It has happened that the satellite countries provided arms to their Asian socialist brothers...for a fee...The Hungarians sold North Vietnam the PU snipers they used to kill our soldiers.

[lonesome]

Another beauty.

[Junk Yard Dog]

[Celt]

[Rongo]

I never get tired of seeing that one.

[SDH1903]

I wish mine was in that shape, what does the diamond mean, I got one too!

[MarkB]

Man I wish mine looked that good most of the blue is gone on mine and while it's not in rough shape it does not have the looks of your rifle which is a beauty!

[desdem12]

I can't argue the unissued is nice. I would love one. The good of it would be to have an unissued with a well used battle rifle of the same next to it. That would bring out the cool factor of both, not sure which would hold the more beauty. Love that one though.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I wish mine was in that shape, what does the diamond mean, I got one too!

Just a Polish inspection stamp

[Junk Yard Dog]

I can't argue the unissued is nice. I would love one. The good of it would be to have an unissued with a well used battle rifle of the same next to it. That would bring out the cool factor of both, not sure which would hold the more beauty. Love that one though.

I did that with the B barrel M39's and some of the 91/30's. In the case of the B barrel they all shoot the same There were issued Polish M44's that started showing up on the market some years after I bought this one, This is a mid 90's import. I think the issued Pole M44's came in from Romania as Roma parts are sometimes found in them, and Pole parts found in Hungarian and Roma M44 from that country. I suspect the unissued ones came in from Poland itself.

[CalFed]

Man, the Poles really knew how to make a rifle..

Very nice, Dog.