picture of my NEW

[dou44]

Edited February 24, 2013 by dou44

[gjohnsoniv]

Now that is a seriously cool piece.

[Garufa]

That rifle has some history.

[TrickyNicky]

Very cool piece. I'm envious for sure.

[LCPfraTN]

Wow...that's a serious collector piece there...congrats! :yum:  :up:  

[Ramjo]

How did you find this???

[dou44]

i found it in the serville pawn shop. they did not know what it was i gave $150 for it almost 2 years ago..the rifle is also sa maked for the finnish army and has 2 civil guard no's on it. and no import marks. rifle also is matching

[austin7.62]

Awesome

[smokndav]

beautiful, thanks for sharing. 

[Spots]

Ok i guess Ill be that guy. What makes it special?

[LCPfraTN]

Many things make it special. It's a Mosin made under contract for the Russians by a US company. It has no import marks. Now the OP says it was apparently acquired by Finland at some point, so I'm sure it has an upgraded barrel.......I'm sure there is more. I'm no expert, but based on what I've read and heard from Mosin experts, this rifle is probably worth a good chunk of change. 

[No_0ne]

No upgraded barrel, as NEW barrel markings are on it.  M91's rebarreled by the Finns would have a later dated barrel, w/ Tikka or some other markings. The Finns used most of their captured/purchased Mosins "as is", only replacing parts (including barrels) as needed.  Is that a one piece stock I see, w/o the handguard?  My screen resolution is not the best.  Nice rifle!

[LCPfraTN]

No upgraded barrel, as NEW barrel markings are on it.  M91's rebarreled by the Finns would have a later dated barrel, w/ Tikka or some other markings. The Finns used most of their captured/purchased Mosins "as is", only replacing parts (including barrels) as needed. 

 

  :doh: ...I knew that, but in my rush to state some of the things that made this Mosin special, I lost my train of thought...that's why I said I was no expert.   :bow:

[roverboy]

Man, thats nice. Congratulations on a good find. I've never seen a Westinghouse. What other companies made the U.S. contract Mosin?

[Garufa]

Man, thats nice. Congratulations on a good find. I've never seen a Westinghouse. What other companies made the U.S. contract Mosin?

 

Remington was the only other one.

[roverboy]

 Thanks Garufa. I worked with a guy that said he had  a Remington for a while but, sold it about 10 years ago. I was pretty sure that Rem. made them too. I asked him if it had been messed with, and he said it hadn't. I was like wow!

[Garufa]

My Finn M-39 has a Remington receiver. :cool:

[dou44]

stock is spliced and this is the 2 finn civilguard stamps .it did not have the slinghangers on the stock.

Edited February 26, 2013 by dou44