1917 Balkan Remington

[racerguy00]

This is my favorite mosin. It is really beat, but if it could talk! It has a 4 digit serial with an added F suffix, a 1919 dated stock with the Tula 'big hammer' stamp, and initials cut into one side and a barely legible (Romanian?) name carved into the other with what seems to have been a bayonet tip. Good rifling, HORRIBLE trigger. It's weird seeing the big billboard stamp on an M91, I guess they imported a small amount a couple of years ago.








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Thanks for checking it out.

[laquak]

Now that looks amazing. I wonder who B.D. is. It probably served him (or even her) well. Can't you just imagine?

[Junk Yard Dog]

Many of the Balkan load actually came in from Romania maybe 10 years back now, Romania was one of the poorer Iron curtain countries and the dumping ground for other west pac nations old rifles. Are there any Bulgarian pine cone stamps in the finger groove or on the buttstock? It's a nice looking rifle for sure

[racerguy00]

There aren't any pine cone stamps anywhere at all. I've been told that the F serial suffix is a Romanian trait though. Also, apparently that small batch imported after most of the M91s came in was from Romania also. If anyone has any other info I'd love to find out more about it.

I saw a NEW M91 with the billboard import mark on GB recently, that's the only other M91 marked that way that I have seen.

[martin08]

Very rustic look to the gun, congrats. Your stagecoach looks petrified, too.

[racerguy00]

It's not as old as the rifle but it looks it.

Its a landmark around here. 'Turn left then take the second right past the stagecoach'

[desdem12]

Hwo did you get Bunkysdads rifle? Nice Maybe some M91s were shipped in with the refurbs. At least it is marked right.