1928 Izhevsk non-import non-updated dragoon, maybe SCW

[racerguy00]

I picked up this well used and very well worn dragoon a while back, on the chance that it may be a Spanish Civil War rifle. I still think it may be one.

The particulars..Non import marked, no USSR stamp, total mismatch. The stock is a 36 Izhevsk 91/30 stock, and the butt plate serial number falls within the range of known SCW rifles if, and this is a big if, it is original to the stock. Heavy patina covers the metal, but no real pitting to speak of, except under where a bayonet would reside. The stock is sanded, but a lot left Spain that way. also, it came with a Panshin bayonet missing the hood. There is tape residue on the forearm where someone tried to keep the bands from sliding around. I just left it alone. The magazine floor plate looks like it was replaced, it's patina doesn't quite match.

It's my first and so far only dragoon. It's rough, a little ugly, but I like it.



















Oh, this rifle came from a seller in New Orleans, so it survived it's military service, years of prowling Bubbas, Hurricane Katrina, and lastly a rough ride in a Fed Ex truck that crashed with about 2 dozen other vehicles in a big winter pileup on it's way here from the seller.

[desdem12]

Well what ever its past history its present sure is eventful. What is up with the stock splice? Or is that the tape residual? Nice one.

[SA1911a1]

Looks like a honest old vet. Nice!

[racerguy00]

That's the tape residue. The part that's on the wood isn't sticky anymore, so I left it alone. I just cleaned off the part that was still adhered to the barrel bands.

[SDH1903]

JUST PLAIN SUPER! I love the Dragoons-Steve

[Junk Yard Dog]

Nice Dragoon:) Not every issued Mosin is a SCW rifle, plenty enough fought in other wars.

[martin08]

Very nice patina, really rounds out the package. Certainly the case for "if not from SCW, then from where?"

[Teleoceras]

Very nice piece of history you have there!

[Junk Yard Dog]

Very nice patina, really rounds out the package. Certainly the case for "if not from SCW, then from where?"

Some Eastern European backwater maybe, import marks, or the lack of them should not be taken as gospel as to when something came into the country. With thousands of rifles coming in the importers have been known to miss one sometimes, and then there is Korea. North Korea received a great deal of Soviet aid in the form of small arms as did China, many of these rifles ended up coming home with American GI's as trophy's of war, many of these would be Soviet era rifles and have no import marks.