The Russian Mosin Nagant Forum

Hello - Looking for information and or purchase a 189? Mosin nagant similar to what I had when I was much younger. It was purchased for me through SEARS ROBUCK and came from an company in ALEXANDRIA VA It had a hex receiver with a date 189?. not sure of exact date. It also had a small hammer & sickle stamp on it.

tdwelding wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:24 am Hello - Looking for information and or purchase a 189? Mosin nagant similar to what I had when I was much younger. It was purchased for me through SEARS ROBUCK and came from an company in ALEXANDRIA VA It had a hex receiver with a date 189?. not sure of exact date. It also had a small hammer & sickle stamp on it.

The rifle you had was most likely imported to the U.S. from Spain, one of the rifles supplied to the Spanish Republic by the Soviets during the Spanish Civil war 1936-39 Doctor Zhivago was filmed in Spain for example, only a few places on earth at the time with an abundance of non communist Mosin rifles where a movie could be shot. The Soviet markings are telling me it's not a former Remington or Westinghouse rifle.

The Mosin rifles imported into the U.S. at the end of the Cold War are probably better rifles than the rifle sold by Sears years ago. There are a lot and I mean a bunch of Model 91 and Model 91/30 Mosin Nagant rifles out there for sale that will be very much like your old rifle.

Was the wood chopped down on it, and possibly the barrel as well? Sears and Montgomery Wards, etc used to sell commercially sportered Mosin rifles. They were sometimes called "Finn Cubs". Collectibility on these is very small due to the fact that they were altered.

millman wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 2:26 pm Was the wood chopped down on it, and possibly the barrel as well? Sears and Montgomery Wards, etc used to sell commercially sportered Mosin rifles. They were sometimes called "Finn Cubs". Collectibility on these is very small due to the fact that they were altered.

There has been several of those Cubs for sale lately, just barrel and receiver, mostly old hex's.

Maybe take a look here (app.php/page/99) and see if something looks familiar. Was the 189x on the barrel or on the tang of the receiver? The hammer and sickle would be a bit out of time on an Imperial era Mosin. I guess they could have come back around and stamped one on there if it was being refurbished but I don't recall seeing many, if any like that. Others here have certainly seen far more than I have. If the 189x date was stamped on the tang, then the barrel could have been a later Soviet era replacement (or by Spain or Finland)..

tdwelding wrote: ↑Sun Apr 26, 2020 7:24 am Hello - Looking for information and or purchase a 189? Mosin nagant similar to what I had when I was much younger. It was purchased for me through SEARS ROEBUCK and came from an company in ALEXANDRIA VA It had a hex receiver with a date 189?. not sure of exact date. It also had a small hammer & sickle stamp on it.

About what year was your rifle purchased from Sears, for you? Simple to review what rifles were marketed by Sears knowing about when your rifle was sold.

I spent too much time over the weekend looking at old catalog adds for rifles researching this, everyone knows those days have come and gone so no need to depress anyone with pics of old adds.

The cub rifles were all sold after WWI so probably not a Finn Cub though would like to know if the Sears rifle in question was sporterized?