1929 was the first year of Tula's big star marking, still a dragoon rifle originally. All that means is that it had the older style sights and handguard, but otherwise looked like a 91/30. Nice selection, Husker, you know that on Soviet weapons the serials were swapped around every way possible to ...
I'll let the experts reply to your questions. WOW! I have a 1929 Izhevsk (coincidentally, it was my first M91/30), but I have never seen a 1929 Tula. I have every year from 1923 up to 1928 except for 1924. They are all "five lines" of Cyrillic script on the receiver. You have yourself a r...
Alright guys (and gals) a little background Looking around for a bolt action to shoot inexpensively, I stumbled onto M91/30. Initially I thought about "Bubba-ing" one. Now I know this is blasphemous. It just seemed like such an easy thing to do, I mean it's all over YouTube... I didn't kno...