Russian M91/30
Mosin Nagant 7.62x54R
I have sold this rifle to another collector who was interested in refurbishing it back to its original sniper configuration. It was part of a trade in which I recieved another standard infantry M91/30, non-sniper in exchnage. This ex-sniper rifle was manufactured in 1943 at the Izhevsk factory, and was set up as a Sniper rifle. At sometime post ww2 it was refurbished and placed in war stocks. The serial numbers on this rifle are mismatched, but for a factory refurb this is not unusual. The rifle is all Izhevsk manufacture except the bolt which is mismatched and of Tula manufacture. The magazine is renumbered to match the receiver, but the bolt has not been renumbered. Another odd feature on this rifle is a serial number stamped on the left side of the barrel knox, I am assuming that this was the serial number from the PU scope and mount, the number was lined out at sometime. This number was puzzling to me originally until I did some research on these rifles and found that after WWII many of the sniper rifles were refinished back to their original manufacture configuration. This became evident when I was cleaning up the rifle I noticed that there were 4 screws in the left side of the receiver, which were ground off and refinished. I have confirmed that these screws were used to mount a bracket for a scope mount, and this was a sniper rifle at one time. I hope one day to have some pictures of this rifle after it is restored.
