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The This is the best of the Mosin Nagant family, the cream of the crop in terms of build quality and function. Over the years, the Mosin gets a bad rap due to the fact that it was so abundant and usually easy to obtain leading false impressions that they were cheaply made and not worth much...but that is all changing.
In the last couple of years, these guns have risen sharply in price because the supply that was once EVERYWHERE is now not so abundant. Especially when it comes to good quality examples, and especially when it comes to those rifles made in Finland.
The Finns were known to have high standards, so they would take a decent Russian 91 or 91/30 receiver and add an improved barrel, improved sights, thicker stock, 2 stage trigger and free float the barrel on these guns. The result is a gun capable of hitting 5-8 inch groups at 600 yards when using quality ammo. If you google "Finnish M39", you will find videos of guys bench resting these guns and doing that claim justice.
I have yet to fire this example, but a quick "bullet test" revealed .32" of the .310" bullet being exposed...which is pretty damned nice when many Mosins (even some M39s) can be seen to swallow the bullet down to the case mouth, denoting a well worn barrel. This barrel looks as though it was barely used. The stock has some dents and dings, but has a pretty nice pattern and he bluing looks great.
"SK.Y" is stamping known to identify these as Finnish Civil Guard. This one is from 1943, during the "Continuation War" with the Soviets. The stock is an original wartime stock. The "S" inside a gear stand for Sako (pronounced "Socko"), the manufacturer of these weapons for the Finland during that time. The serial number is right in the middle of production (roughly 500,000 to 510,000) for the Civil Guard. Only 10,000 of these Civil Guard rifles are thought to exist. This particular rifle was built on a 1917 Russian Tula receiver.
The Finns even used ammo dropped for Russians on the Russians themselves. Look up the "Winter War" and the "Continuation War" between Russia and Finland during WW2. The Finns were masters at doing a lot with very little. In the end, they did give up some land area and cash, but they didn't lose their independence.
I will be taking this to the range this week as usual to see if it will produce shots on par with both what I have seen in videos and others results. My guess is it should be quite spectacular.
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[/URL]The This is the best of the Mosin Nagant family, the cream of the crop in terms of build quality and function. Over the years, the Mosin gets a bad rap due to the fact that it was so abundant and usually easy to obtain leading false impressions that they were cheaply made and not worth much...but that is all changing.
In the last couple of years, these guns have risen sharply in price because the supply that was once EVERYWHERE is now not so abundant. Especially when it comes to good quality examples, and especially when it comes to those rifles made in Finland.
The Finns were known to have high standards, so they would take a decent Russian 91 or 91/30 receiver and add an improved barrel, improved sights, thicker stock, 2 stage trigger and free float the barrel on these guns. The result is a gun capable of hitting 5-8 inch groups at 600 yards when using quality ammo. If you google "Finnish M39", you will find videos of guys bench resting these guns and doing that claim justice.
I have yet to fire this example, but a quick "bullet test" revealed .32" of the .310" bullet being exposed...which is pretty damned nice when many Mosins (even some M39s) can be seen to swallow the bullet down to the case mouth, denoting a well worn barrel. This barrel looks as though it was barely used. The stock has some dents and dings, but has a pretty nice pattern and he bluing looks great.
"SK.Y" is stamping known to identify these as Finnish Civil Guard. This one is from 1943, during the "Continuation War" with the Soviets. The stock is an original wartime stock. The "S" inside a gear stand for Sako (pronounced "Socko"), the manufacturer of these weapons for the Finland during that time. The serial number is right in the middle of production (roughly 500,000 to 510,000) for the Civil Guard. Only 10,000 of these Civil Guard rifles are thought to exist. This particular rifle was built on a 1917 Russian Tula receiver.
The Finns even used ammo dropped for Russians on the Russians themselves. Look up the "Winter War" and the "Continuation War" between Russia and Finland during WW2. The Finns were masters at doing a lot with very little. In the end, they did give up some land area and cash, but they didn't lose their independence.
I will be taking this to the range this week as usual to see if it will produce shots on par with both what I have seen in videos and others results. My guess is it should be quite spectacular.
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