The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Now this one's a legit museum piece! By the way, I've heard that Finland is actually THE source for late 19th century and pre-WW1 Mosins as they got their independence from Russia after 1917... Are these that common in the USA? I've seen only one 19th century Mosin in my life at a militaria fair and...

Good mention, it could be a Russian Nagant refurbished by a Balkan country after WW1, like Bulgaria, Greece or Yugoslavia. These had lot of Turkish leftovers so it would make sense to modify a M1895 to use a more common round. And some calibres can be shot out of a non-modified (or slightly modified...

I'd rather see it coming first through Israel and then to Iraq than the other way around! Why? Because until 1956, Israel was mostly supported and supplied by Socialist countries (which is why they got tons of Mausers from WW2 Soviet capture stockpiles, and later on from the GDR, and that's how they...

Yeah, that's what I thought: the rifle does look like a Lego kit, which does have a Finnish stock, but the rest of the parts don't match. It may well have been a Russian recapture of a Finnish rifle that got damaged at some point (before or after the recapture) and got repaired with parts that were ...

Man, you have a SSG-82 ? I thought these were absolute unobtainium, not unlike Soviet 7.62x39 plum AK waffle magazines or Wieger StGs. Is it the one that's in 5.45x39, or is it a small calibre derivative? Anyways, regarding Russian .22lr guns, I had the occasion to try Soviet era, Tula made single s...

And how do the Chinese Mosins compare to, for example, wartime Soviet M38 and M44 carbines? I was debating getting either a pre war hex Mosin or a carbine version, and you can sometimes find Type 53s on the French gun market. Since I don't really know anything about them, I wondered whether this cou...

Hello everyone! I'm Thierry from France, although I live in Russia right now. I used to have a Mosin (a basic '43 Izhevsk round receiver model), which I liked a lot, and a Yugoslav M48 Mauser which I liked as well but not as much as my Mosin (it was an objectively better rifle, but using the Mosin w...