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Sometimes rifle just find you, this is one of those instances. I decided about a month ago to start collecting 1936 Mosin Nagants due to the different "flavors" of 1936 91/30's , SCW, [SA], Trials rifles, & Tula's transition from hex to round recievers, so I was pleasantly suprised when the owner of this walked into my LGS wanting to sell it. My LGS knows I collect these "fugly Russian rifles" and he just steared him to me and a few Grants latter it was mine.
It's a 1936 Tula hex reciever [SA] 91/30, Finn matching, in an Izhevsk stock that the Finn's refinished with there infamous pine tar finish. It is also the 3rd Finn'ed MN I have bought that had a Swedish Mauser cleaning rod in it.
It will go great along side my 36 Tula Round reciever [SA] 91/30.
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Now there is an interesting question that comes to mind. How much fitting did it take to convert a stock that was cut for a round receiver to fit a hex receiver/visa versa? I would imagine that there was no going back.
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Very cool. Love the matched set
I believe the stocks will take both as long as they both are either stepped or non stepped. A stepped receiver wont go into a non stepped unless you do a little cutting (I think).
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finloq wrote:Now there is an interesting question that comes to mind. How much fitting did it take to convert a stock that was cut for a round receiver to fit a hex receiver/visa versa? I would imagine that there was no going back.
I believe a stock cut to fit a hex reciever will also fit a round, but not vis-versa.
Guess I need to break these 2 down and find out.
“The only real power comes out of a long rifle" - Joseph Stalin
finloq wrote:Now there is an interesting question that comes to mind. How much fitting did it take to convert a stock that was cut for a round receiver to fit a hex receiver/visa versa? I would imagine that there was no going back.
I believe a stock cut to fit a hex reciever will also fit a round, but not vis-versa.
Guess I need to break these 2 down and find out.
Honestly, I have never tried. I have not had to replace any stocks yet (on Mosins).
"Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
I was under the impression that they could go either way. Now we are gonna need your input for sure. My SA Finned 38 Izhevsk in the pine tar stock would be a nice fit right in there by your two, cosmetically speaking that is. And it also has the same cleaning rod. But Swedish Mauser? Interesting. Where did you find that info? I have seen people call these M39 cleaning rods, but they are not. They are not the same length. They appear to have a M39 elongated slot head that appears to be soldered on. So that is Swedish and Finnish?
Beautiful rifle by the way.
desdem12 wrote:Very cool. Love the matched set
I believe the stocks will take both as long as they both are either stepped or non stepped. A stepped receiver wont go into a non stepped unless you do a little cutting (I think).
A non-stepped receiver won't fit into a stock cut for a stepped one without a small amount of trimming. As far as the other way, a stepped tang receiver drops into a later stock but there is a small gap at the steps. I once had a refurb 91/30 with the Soviet 'pool cue' splice. The rifle was a '42 IIRC. The rear half of the stock had screwed in escutcheons and a gap at the receiver steps. The front half had the late style press-in escutcheons. I also had a hex Tula M44 at one point that had the gap at the steps from a standard later M44 stock being used.
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