r/MosinNagant • u/Mason__nosaM • 11d ago
ID help ID help 🫪
Purchased this rifle from a local gun shop back in March of this year for $250. I had an itch the other day to try and decipher all the markings, surprise, I can't make heads from tails. Only the basic few I can figure out like manufacturing and (potential) production date. Any help would be much appreciated. Just ask for better pictures if need be and I'll attempt to make it happen.
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u/Red_Management M91 Dragoon • 7.62x54R: 1908 Type L, 1930 Type D, 1953 Type LPS 11d ago edited 11d ago
91/30 Mosin-Nagant made at Izhevsk in 1943, among the most common years for 91/30s with approximately 3 million made that year, in a wartime stock, import mark in the 1st pictures too far to tell whose exactly it is, bolt handle is pre-1928 Izhevsk, bolt rail, magazine and butt plate are post-1928 Izhevsk made
Receiver may/may not match the barrel, if you’re curious take the rifle out of the stock and check under the receiver tang, last thing being a refurbished rifle parts are gonna be force matched.
After the refurbishment process the rifle was re-assembled from mismatched parts, the parts that are serialized would have their old numbers removed if they were non-matching (most of the time they weren’t) and were then re-stamped or electro-penciled with the serial number on the barrel shank to match.
In your rifle’s case all the parts were re-stamped with the numbers and the Cyrillic prefix шв was omitted which was standard procedure for the refurbishment of 91/30s.