Red Letter Mosin - Triangle 23 Double Date

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Red Letter Mosin - Triangle 23 Double Date

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Well...I walk into the pawn shop today with the intent of buying a G11. Fate seems to have thrown a cruel twist my way as today they got in a crate of beautiful Mosin 91/30s! The crate was filled with red letter Mosins and there were even 3 Hex rifles among them. The Hex rifles (costing 230) would've been as much as I was going to pay for the G11. However I opted instead for the slightly cheaper round receiver 91/30. I got a pretty unique one I think. I also got the matching bayonet, red letter as well! It has a PP series serial number...which I've never seen

Arsenal marks are gone all over, even scrubbed on the tang, from the vast majority of parts used on it I believe it's an Izhevsk rifle.

As usual I apologize for my crappy photos.

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There's some numbers stamped here. I specifically remember a 7 that's upsidedown if you're looking from the receiver end. I'll get the specifics soon.

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No markings on the tang at all.

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Non red letter butt plate but serial matches. No other numbers besides it.

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Izhevsk stamp on the trigger group

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Matching floorplate :big shock:

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Matching bolt

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Now I'm going to go clean this thing up before people notice my new toy :big shock: :big shock: :big shock: :thumbsup:
1917 Remington 1891 Infantry [Finnish Service]
1936 Tula 1891/30
1943 Izhevsk 1891/30
1944/50 MO 1891/30 (possible Izhevsk, scrubbed tang)
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Pretty clean on the rifle itself. Need to get into the bore later (dark, strong rifling though!)

Numbers on the underside of the barrel are 43329
Rifle is stamped 1944/50
1917 Remington 1891 Infantry [Finnish Service]
1936 Tula 1891/30
1943 Izhevsk 1891/30
1944/50 MO 1891/30 (possible Izhevsk, scrubbed tang)
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Sorry, but the pics are a little rough.. Is there a MO on the receiver?
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Unfortunately I can never get good photos of my rifles or pistols with my cell phone. I wish I had a better camera.

Looked at the receiver,. it's an ИO
1917 Remington 1891 Infantry [Finnish Service]
1936 Tula 1891/30
1943 Izhevsk 1891/30
1944/50 MO 1891/30 (possible Izhevsk, scrubbed tang)
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It looks like a left side light strike on the M(O)
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What kind of phone do you have? Not a I phone, and I bet it ain't a Samsung, but I digress. That is cool that you got in on a fresh crate and got to choose. It sounds like you did well if you got a double date red letter rifle. Man I would be asking someone for a decent camera or a better cell phone. I didn't think good pics were possible before I got this Samsung galaxy. This pic was taken in poor light without a flash just goofing around awhile ago.
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Try pitting the cam in macro mode. It's usually in the focus section.
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I got a Blackberry Bold, one of the newer ones but not quite the latest touch-screen models.

All I got is Auto, Face Detection, Portrait, Sports, Landscape, Party, Close-up, Snow, Beach, Night, Text. None of them worked for me so far
1917 Remington 1891 Infantry [Finnish Service]
1936 Tula 1891/30
1943 Izhevsk 1891/30
1944/50 MO 1891/30 (possible Izhevsk, scrubbed tang)
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I'd like to say :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: but I can't yet :D

If that is a /23\ I would be surprised, although I think I might have one. Most likely mis-stamped and it's easy to see a 3 when looking at a 5 and visa-versa especially with the way they stamped some of these /25\ rifles.
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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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bunkysdad wrote:What kind of phone do you have? Not a I phone, and I bet it ain't a Samsung, but I digress. That is cool that you got in on a fresh crate and got to choose. It sounds like you did well if you got a double date red letter rifle. Man I would be asking someone for a decent camera or a better cell phone. I didn't think good pics were possible before I got this Samsung galaxy. This pic was taken in poor light without a flash just goofing around awhile ago.
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I see a very nice Hi Power and a P38 :Drool1:
qz2026 wrote:I'd like to say :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: but I can't yet :D

If that is a /23\ I would be surprised, although I think I might have one. Most likely mis-stamped and it's easy to see a 3 when looking at a 5 and visa-versa especially with the way they stamped some of these /25\ rifles.
I took a look at the receiver again...I still can't tell if it's a 23 or a 25. I'd have to get a magnifier to see if I can make it out a bit better. Need to see if there is a piece of the M possibly missing on that stamp

As for the tang, was it common Russian practice to scrub the markings off them? I thought for sure that I'd find the date/arsenal stamp but I was pretty surprised to see nothing there. I may never find out the origin of the receiver, only my assumption of it being a rebarrelled Izhevsk
1917 Remington 1891 Infantry [Finnish Service]
1936 Tula 1891/30
1943 Izhevsk 1891/30
1944/50 MO 1891/30 (possible Izhevsk, scrubbed tang)
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Im with qz on this one. Is more then likely it is a triangle 25 with it being red and everything. Nice buy :vcool: :thumbsup:
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