Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
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Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Last weekend I picked up two surplus 91/30 hex's at a local gun store. They had just got a crate of them in the day before I went and Saturday I was able to lay the rifles out on a blanket at the gun store and go through all of them. This crate had some of the nicest surplus 91/30's I've seen yet and the fact that they were all hex's was even better. I was told by an employee at the gun store that an importer contacted them and had 76 hex's left and they were taking orders for the last ones they had so this gun store happened to purchase this lot out of them. All the rifles in the crate were covered in cosmoline and the two I got had the most it seemed like . So I've been meaning to post a quick write up and photos of both of them and just haven't had time until today.
Here is the first one i picked up. I had to hold back my excitement in the gun store when I came across this one. It's the first time I've came across one or seen one in person.
It's a 1938/50 Tula MO marked 91/30. When i took it apart for initial cleaning I was surprised to see it was shimmed and had metal shims in the stock under the rear tang. Only my M39 has shims like this all my other Russian 91/30's have not had any shims. I also found a mark on the wood under the butt plate that I can't seem to find anything about. I'll let the photos show what I'm trying to explain
Here is the first one i picked up. I had to hold back my excitement in the gun store when I came across this one. It's the first time I've came across one or seen one in person.
It's a 1938/50 Tula MO marked 91/30. When i took it apart for initial cleaning I was surprised to see it was shimmed and had metal shims in the stock under the rear tang. Only my M39 has shims like this all my other Russian 91/30's have not had any shims. I also found a mark on the wood under the butt plate that I can't seem to find anything about. I'll let the photos show what I'm trying to explain
Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Nice find rollndice, very sharp looking Tula double date MO for sure.
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Man that is a nice 35 Tula. I would be broker then broke if they had anything like these here. Nice.
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If corporations are people, when will we see one executed?
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Mosinitis in full force, I love it
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Very nice and I'm with Brad if I could find stuff like this around here I'd be hard pressed to not go on a buying spree. Oh and that symbol you asked about. (ж) Looks like it's a Cyrliic symbol for the english double quotation or comma symbol (" or ,). http://winrus.com/keyboard.htm It's mostly just an inspectors mark I'd say. You've got the eye I'll tell you that. Good job.
Edit: Just found this. Ж may also be ZH in Russian according to a cyrilic convertor. Ж can also be ZH in Ukrainian. http://newyork.mashke.org/Conv/lat-koi.html#translit
Edit: Just found this. Ж may also be ZH in Russian according to a cyrilic convertor. Ж can also be ZH in Ukrainian. http://newyork.mashke.org/Conv/lat-koi.html#translit
Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Wow...that is one of the nicest 91/30's I have seen in awhile! I don't see the usual handling marks or flaking shellac...very nice!!!!!
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nice rifles... I don't have any MO rifles yet.
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
very nice,the dealers around here only buy the round reciever rifles by the crate.sometimes you will find a hex mixed in.
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Very nice rifle! Way to go! Go back and find me one.
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Beautiful: good job Last time i was in the gun store the few he had ran about $125.00 to $185.00
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Junk Yard Dog wrote:Mosinitis in full force, I love it
Somebody came down with it hard
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I wouldn't have any idea what that's like
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Very nice indeed
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Yeah, JYD not having a real comment on "Mosinitis"
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:d And I have done some research on the "MO' stamping of nosins. There will be a new thread coming up for this subject, with a lot of questions to this board.
I am waiting for an email, which could get me started......
I am waiting for an email, which could get me started......
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MO-More Onions
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
Hey thanks for all the good comments. Yea Mosinitis got me good. I promised myself I was done until next year.
I'm looking forward to this More Onion information section. I'll tell you what you learn real quick to only take 1 or 2 rifles you really want to shoot at the range, I brought 4 a few times now and the cleaning afterwards is laborious.
I'm looking forward to this More Onion information section. I'll tell you what you learn real quick to only take 1 or 2 rifles you really want to shoot at the range, I brought 4 a few times now and the cleaning afterwards is laborious.
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Re: Just picked up crate fresh 1935/50 Tula MO 91/30 Hex
So what is the deal with the shims? Something done by the Russians?