Description
Finnish M39 Mosin, condition can be seen in pictures. The functionality of the weapon is flawless but the top handguard of the gun does have a crack forming through the middle of it. It is not currently threatening the integrity but could grow and potentially destroy the top handguard if improperly handled. Bore condition is very good.
I have not fired this one personally, they all go bang. Bore is very good, though a little dark which is normal. Wood does have a few dents and dings that you would expect in a mil-surp WWII rifle. See pics. The original serial number 4341 is on the bolt . magazine housing and receiver. I see no other marks. So this is an early one….
“History –
The Mosin-Nagant rifle fought the enemies of the Russian and Soviet Rodina from the 1890s until the early 1960s. The weapon’s history is a 70-year lesson in what life is like when you don’t get on well with your neighbors. The Russians used their Mosin-Nagants against the Japanese, the Germans, their fellow Russians, neighboring Finns and, finally, more Germans and more Japanese.
The Mosin-Nagant earns no great distinction in having been used and abused by millions of illiterate peasant soldiers and Soviet conscripts. It wasn’t the best all-around infantry rifle of its time. Truth to tell, the Mauser 98 and the Lee-Enfield would be superior SHTF rifles in almost every category—except reliability and price. Nothing holds a candle to the Mosin-Nagant when it comes to price and reliability.
It’s not just a beer-budget blunderbuss. During World War Two, the Mosin-Nagant was the weapon of choice (and necessity) of Soviet and Finnish snipers. These grim reapers of the eastern front used the Mosin-Nagant to single-handedly kill entire companies of enemy soldiers.
Sniper Vasiliy Zaytsev, fictionalized in “Enemy At The Gates,” used scoped Mosin-Nagants to snuff 242 Wehrmacht Soldaten in four months. His sniper girlfriend, Tania Chenaya, (who may or may not have looked anything like Rachel Weisz) gave at least 80 Germans a dirt nap with her own Mosin-Nagants. Lyudmilla Pavlichenko was even more effective: she and her Mosin-Nagants had 309 confirmed kills.
Even these Russian die-hards couldn’t keep up with Finnish sniper Simo “White Death” Hayha. He killed 505 Soviet soldiers in just 100 days during the Winter War of 1939-40, using only his Finnish-made Mosin and its iron sights. Gangsta!
It may be ugly and antiquated, but a Mosin-Nagant in the right hands (and a target-rich environment) is a nine-pound weapon of mass destruction.” End quote. Says it all…
We did shot a Mosin at my son-in-laws bachelor party. Yes is it Texas and he was a Marine….do the math. (Beer of course was later….just FYI) We shot a 3/8″ steel plate with a Mosin. Projectile went thru like hot butter with a nice crown affect. We stopped digging at 12″ in the ground as we never could find the bullet. It just kept going. So you wanna make a hole in anything short of a tank…..a Mosin-Nagant will do it….
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