The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Any updates on this?

Since it has been refurbed and is a prewar dated mosin most likely it has been force matched.

Have you fired it yet? Take it out and shoot it both with the bayonet extended and folded. Try different types of ammo too, have fun with it. It may do better than you think.

Looks like a standard m44 to me? As far as what's called the M44L goes, (I forget the Soviet designation) last I knew there were only 2 or 3 known in the US.

Definitely a sear spring issue. And make sure the trigger pin doesn't get lost while you have it apart.

Definitely took a trip through Tula. They used an N before the serial number then, Izhevsk didn't. Looks like the serial number itself is in the font used at Tula also. Maybe a barrelled receiver made at Izhevsk and finished at Tula. Kinda the opposite of 41 "Tula" 91/30s.

Pretty much junk. When someone "re-snipered" it they went deeper than the original holes the soviets had drilled and ruined it. Totally unsafe now. Hope you can get your money back.

Definitely a faint CH stamp on there.

I need to check but I don't think 1899 was a very high production year for Sestroryetsk.

Here is a photo I had taken trying to see the US acceptance stamps on the Westinghouse I had mentioned. You can see the defaced lettering though also.

If it's indeed a 1940 Tula M38 it is very very uncommon. Like less than 5 known. What's the barrel length? Most likely it is a longer 91/30.

There is a New England Westinghouse m91 sporterized rifle in a local shop here with those words stamped out exactly as you described. I've personally seen one other like that, a Remington like yours. Odd looking when you see it.

Wrapped up the season 5th in points. Looking forward to next year.

I recently picked up one of the recent batch of Puerto Rican police trade-in Glocks, this one a model 23 in 40 S&W. Most of these trade-ins seem to have been the larger model 22s, the 23s may have been used by detectives or plainclothes officers. This one is a good companion to the Beretta m96 t...

Nice grab! I just picked up a Puerto Rican Police trade in Glock 23 RTF2. I like it a lot. How does yours shoot? Bore on mine is minty

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The ban applies to a heck of a lot more ammo than just surplus. A really big percentage of new ammo of many different calibers in the US is Russian made and now banned.

SA1911a1 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 6:49 am They appear to be Hungarian. ;)

Another collector friend of mine said the same thing

My son and I put together a 36 Ford coupe bodied dirt modified racer to dabble in a local vintage racing series. Made it out Sunday. Had a blast. Finished on the lead lap and in one piece, not bad for never driving one of these before. We built it to resemble as much as we could my late grandfather'...

43 is a good year for mosin collectors. Good variety out there produced that year.
91/30
91/30 PU
M38
M44 "trials"
Finn M91
FINN M39.

91/59s too but those are later conversions.