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Seller's Description
Make: Tikkakoski Oy
Hexagonal receiver, barrel dated 1941. Bright bore with very good rifling. Finish Army property marks and chamber marked, 'Afghanistan'. Mismatched serial numbers. No rod however sling is included.
What do you make of the 'Afghanistan' marking on the receiver?
Kinda spendy if you ask me. I just picked up a Finn M91 for $150. Finn or Finned M91's are all over the place way South of $400 right now. For that money, you could contact Dennis at Empire & he could set you up with a beauty. That one looks to be a bit much.Afghanistan stampings??? Never heard of them... I always thought they were marked upon arrival with Donkey Dung, not stampings. But who knows??? I'm surely not an expert.
Anyone??
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain
The simple explanation is that the weapon was brought home by a member of the ADF participating in Operation Slipper in Afghanistan. It could have been a rifle captured by the SOviets during WW2 and later sent as aid to the Afgan commies during the Soviets war in that country back in the 1980's. Does Australia require the country of origin to be stamped on imported rifles? Or maybe it was done by the soldier so people would know were he captured the rifle.
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
Very interesting. Some rumors of black market afgan guns way back. Kind of like the cowboys selling to the indians to fight the cowboys, not sure about markings though
The commerce which maybe carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue renders a knowledge of these people important ~Thomas Jefferson~ (to- Lewis and Clark)
