The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Brand new member here! My #2 most desirable gun to own was a Mosin Nagant, now I have one. (Number 1 is an M1 Garand, that's already on the way).

My m91/30 is a tula from 1938. I have noticed that the only tula markings on the rifle are the barrel and receiver. That's it. Everything else is Izhevsk. Front sight, stock, every piece of the bolt that is stamped. Literally everything else is Izhevsk. Even the band clips that hold upper handguard. Mag floor plate as well.

I have done a bit of research so far and have found that the floor plate is force-matched, but I don't know about the rest. Interestingly though, the font of the stamps for the bolt, floor plate, and the butt plate all match. Yet I can't find any indication that the other components have been force matched. I don't know. Any and all knowledge shared is appreciated.

Here is a wonderful photo dump

Nice looking Mosin.

But it is refurbished. Read here knowledgebase/refurbishment.html

Darryl

The knowledge base here has been incredibly helpful for my research I've dug through that A LOT

Your rifle would have been refurbished in the Soviet Union sometime after WW2 and stored away as one in a crate of 20 similar rifles. No attempt was made to keep the same parts with a rifle and everything but the barrel serial number was force matched after the process. Sometimes they were neat about it and smoothed off the old numbers, and sometimes you get the lazy lineout business. Countless thousands of these post war refurbs were imported from a huge storehouse in Ukraine starting some 30 years ago and continuing until the situation with Russia deteriorated early in the Obama era.

Saturday was the first time taking the Mosin to the range, it shoots about 10 inches high at 100 yds with the sight at the lowest setting. Left/right was dead on. This was with the bayonet attached.

It received a lot of attention when I pulled it out

For an 86 year old gun, (that I believe is zero'd at 300 yds), I am happy!

P.S. I was shooting 148 gr lead core steel-cased rounds.

Shooting shorter ranges that sort of performance is common, very rarely did I get one that shot dead on at 100-150 yards, most went 5-10" high. Aim for the belt to hit the head, or six O'clock hold on the target should get it hitting on the target only slightly high.