91/30 help identifying

[ArmyOfEchoes]

Just trying to see who made my gun? Any help appreciated

[NLMosin]

....am I not seeing the pictures or are there no pictures?

[Fledge]

Post reply, then scroll down a bit and hit the add attachments tab. Upload some pics. I am sure we can help.

[Longcolt44]

Just trying to see who made my gun? Any help appreciated

I didn't do it, I don't know who did it I just know I didn't.

[ArmyOfEchoes]

Hmm I know I added a pic when I made the thread, but here is one.

[ArmyOfEchoes]

[millman]

It's a 1933 Izhevsk.

[ArmyOfEchoes]

Is that good or bad? I only paid $110 for it years ago when I lived in CA

[Junk Yard Dog]

A good price by todays standards, judging by the banner import marking on the side of the receiver you bought it in the late 2000's sometime or sooner. At that time you probably paid too much as 91/30 Soviet refurbished Mosins ran around $85-$90 for the older hex receivers like this one. time has erased any overpayments and added another hundred to it's value, maybe more, the prices seem to climb by the day now.

[ArmyOfEchoes]

Well I thibk it was something lIke $79 but then I paid taxes and was something over $100. It's been too long, but I love the gun

[Junk Yard Dog]

Yea, they are fun, I didn't start collecting the Soviet refurbs until the mid 2000's, before that I had Finn, and Spanish Civil War Mosins. Like many I got carried away with the cheap prices of the day and hoarded away a lot of them. $55 was the cheapest I paid for a Soviet refurb, if memory serves it was a mid 30's Izhevsk, one of a set of five 91/30's I jumped on when a dealer had a year end clearance sale. I wasn't the only one on the board who was assisting that dealer in cleaning out his gun locker, or I would have bought every one he had. At the time that was a very good price. $79 wasn't too bad a price, at some point the dealers started to realize they could get away with charging $10-$20 extra for the older style hex receiver 91/30's.

[zeebill]

It is always fascinating to me how all the price increases were as a result of somebody saying gee I would rather have a hex receiver and instantly they were there for more money. Gee I would pay for an old dirty gun box and instantly they were paying for what dealers were throwing away and begged me to take earlier. Gee I need an M91 hand guard and now they cost over $100+ if you can find them. Gee I need a couple of M91 cleaning rods and now they are expensive and hard to find and everyone who has them hoards them. Many of our sponsors profit by the knowledge of what we say we need in these forums ever notice that? Life is fun isn't it? Bill

[Fledge]

Capitalism at its best