What is this?
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What is this?
I've been meaning to ask around since I got this a couple weeks ago. There is a big "5" stamped in the wood next to the receiver on the 1944 M38. Any idea what it might mean?
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Re: What is this?
At first I though you were figuring it was a "Big 5" mark.......not a "Big" 5 mark! (you know, Big 5 sporting goods store.....never mind!)
Unknown mark. I have seen numbers placed there before, but there are not a lot of them.
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Unknown mark. I have seen numbers placed there before, but there are not a lot of them.
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Re: What is this?
I see several other numbers on the reciever on the left too. Nice pic. No one will ever know.
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Re: What is this?
Most of the odd stamps found on the Mosins are unknown and there is no information coming out of Russia about them. This is one of them.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: What is this?
My first thought too! I about freaked out and thought Oh God don't tell retailers are stamping the things now too! Billdolk wrote:At first I though you were figuring it was a "Big 5" mark.......not a "Big" 5 mark! (you know, Big 5 sporting goods store.....never mind!)
Unknown mark. I have seen numbers placed there before, but there are not a lot of them.
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Re: What is this?
There is no telling. 5th row of trees in the forest produced the wood? 5th guy to make M38 stocks? The first 4 are in the gulag for screwing up. Stocks mfg during the 5th month? Final inspector #5?:?:
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Re: What is this?
My favorite answer so far is Inspector пять (PYAT or 5 in Russian)
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Re: What is this?
Look at it from the bright side: You may have the one and only Mosin Wood marked this way!
....and this is not said in my normal sarcastic ways!
You may have a genuine something that no one here has seen before. And all of us probably will never know what it means...there are too many with marks we don't understand.
And I certainly would not have liked to work in these armories just to know what I am not supposed to know....
....and this is not said in my normal sarcastic ways!
You may have a genuine something that no one here has seen before. And all of us probably will never know what it means...there are too many with marks we don't understand.
And I certainly would not have liked to work in these armories just to know what I am not supposed to know....
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Re: What is this?
The 5 stamp is my personal property mark, please return my rifle
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: What is this?
I thought you were number 4? Bill
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Re: What is this?
I only used number 4 until April of 1988, after that I wore out the 4 stamp and had a 5 stamp made from hardened steel.
Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.
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Re: What is this?
I used 1 back in the 70's but had to stop as too often the number was confused for a ding in the stock
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Re: What is this?
Junk Yard Dog wrote:The 5 stamp is my personal property mark, please return my rifle
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Re: What is this?
If someone was going around with a hammer popping stamps in to that narrow strip of wood I'll bet half of them are "repairs"...CRACK, (oops in Russian)
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Re: What is this?
Junk Yard Dog wrote:The 5 stamp is my personal property mark, please return my rifle
When they start sending you the number 5's I want all of the Finn crossed cannon stamps that have the Z in them as they are all mine! Bill
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No, they are mine, Z for Zezuzaskowits
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Re: What is this?
Is that a Polis subcontractor or what? Bill
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Re: What is this?
Polish/Russian/Hungarian/Hungarian/Bulgarian/and whatever else is needed to get that many Z's
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.
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