My new T53 "#2" light colored unusual stock

[Cyklopz]

Here are some pics I took while cleaning the second T53 I picked up recently. Any comments are welcome. The steel butt plate has no markings visible at all. Really not that much going on compared to the other rifle. I'll have to get those, maybe week after next when I have some time. The inside stock I uploaded I think is just random marks/impressions or something but that is all there was on the wood anywhere I could see inside or out.

As always, comments welcome.

Thanks.

Cy

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[Junk Yard Dog]

Good job on the closeups, nice '53

[shoto2758]

What about the length of the wood?..Is this the one that looked longer with the two 53's side by side?
Give length of both wood.
Thanks

[mogunner]

I picked up a T53 last year from Don at Omega and it was actually in an M44 stock, complete with Ukraine refurb stamp.

[SA1911a1]

I picked up a T53 last year from Don at Omega and it was actually in an M44 stock, complete with Ukraine refurb stamp.

I bought half a dozen from Don when they were $79.00. All of them were confused as to their national identity. They were a mixture of Izhevsk and Chinese parts. If they aren't shot out, as two of mine were, they are nice carbines.

[SA1911a1]

Cy, I also have a very light colored T-53 with wood unlike any other Mosin I have seen. It was an old Navy Arms import, with no serial on either the magazine or butt-plate, but matching on the bolt.

[Junk Yard Dog]

I picked up a T53 last year from Don at Omega and it was actually in an M44 stock, complete with Ukraine refurb stamp.

Did it look like it had been in that stock for a long time, or was it a spare stock Don used to repair a wood damaged '53?

[Three_Dogs]

[SA1911a1]

I picked up a T53 last year from Don at Omega and it was actually in an M44 stock, complete with Ukraine refurb stamp.

Did it look like it had been in that stock for a long time, or was it a spare stock Don used to repair a wood damaged '53?

Jim, I was under the impression he didn't do anything to them except pull them off the rack and drop them in a box. I offered him a premium to select me some bores and he nearly cussed me out.

[Junk Yard Dog]

He might have had some barreled actions that he couldn't unload without wood, lot of spare Soviet parts around in the last ten years.

[mogunner]

I've read posts across the years from people who helped him with the containers of rifles when they arrived, they said that if the stock was broken it was removed and used in burn barrels to keep warm at night while they worked. Most of these rifles were then broken down as parts were sold off them. The bolts were shipped separately in crates and no matching numbers was even attempted.

I bought mine because he had them listed as being in "Fair" condition, evidently his opinion varies from most. I contacted him after determining that mine had a total lack of rifling and therefore didn't meet the "Fine" requirements, his reply was that he just grabs the first one off the rack. Only rifle I've even seen that keyholed EVERY round at 25 yards...I slugged it for the heck of it, the muzzle was tight but about 1 1/2" in the lead weight fell free the length of the barrel, only stopping right at the edge of the barrel at the chamber. Won't buy anything from him again.

[desdem12]

[Junk Yard Dog]

I've read posts across the years from people who helped him with the containers of rifles when they arrived, they said that if the stock was broken it was removed and used in burn barrels to keep warm at night while they worked. Most of these rifles were then broken down as parts were sold off them. The bolts were shipped separately in crates and no matching numbers was even attempted.

I bought mine because he had them listed as being in "Fair" condition, evidently his opinion varies from most. I contacted him after determining that mine had a total lack of rifling and therefore didn't meet the "Fine" requirements, his reply was that he just grabs the first one off the rack. Only rifle I've even seen that keyholed EVERY round at 25 yards...I slugged it for the heck of it, the muzzle was tight but about 1 1/2" in the lead weight fell free the length of the barrel, only stopping right at the edge of the barrel at the chamber. Won't buy anything from him again.

I have one like that I got with a box of parts, it would be from the first run of imports 25 years ago, faint rusty spiral , and I am being kind. I have another that has a good bore, but the stock is disintegrating, I keep it in a spare Soviet stock to preserve the original, it has a good bore and was handed to me for free many years ago from a dealer I did business with who couldn't sell it even at $25. The only bolt matching one I have is the Vietnam bringhome.