A piece of WWII history.

dustin0352 · Post by **dustin0352** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:31 am

I am somewhat of a military history nerd, and I finaly had to bite on this historic Russian WWII rifle. It is a 1942 wartime production Mosin Nagant 91/30, chambered in 7.62x54r. I couldnt pass up the deal on this piece of history, I got the rifle, bayonet, sling, and two period ammo puches for $85. I must add that I purchased this rifle for collection purposes ONLY. I have taken it to the range once just to test it out, but from now on will be locked up(in a safe) with no ammuniton. Again this is a magnificent piece of WWII history and I am so excited to have added it to my collection.

If anyone is interested in the history of this rifle, do a quick search for Mosin Nagant history. Unbelieveable what this modle has been through!

Any other collectors with this rifle? or anyone interested in seeing it in action at the range, I will be posting it on my youtube page soon.

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:06 pm

Dustin,
cool. I am a history buff too. While I am not what you would call a gun collector I have seen some of these guns in action. When I was in high school I took a cool American Military History class. Our instructor had several guns. WE got to fire blanks on muskets and a few other guns to give us a feel of what it was like to shoot them. I flinched at first but it was fun!

BTW I am not sure which WWII Russian rifle we got to fire but.. it was heavy and had an extremely long range for the time.

GardenBed · Post by **GardenBed** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 1:05 am

Why lock it up? You can display it.

John C · Post by **John C** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:29 pm

Great find!

dustin0352 · Post by **dustin0352** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:28 am

Thanks guys, Peter more than likely the rifle you fired was this same one. They had other varients of this rifle in the war such as the carbine version-m44. Just a shorter version of the 91/30. The iron sights on this badboy are adjustable out too 2,000 meters. Not that a 2k meter shot is feaseable with the naked eye, but that kinda range is way ahead of its time.

GardenBed, I would really love to display this rifle. Maybe one day Ill have the money to get a see through safe. I did however take a second range trip with it (my brother wanted to shoot it) and I think I might make this a rifle that frequents the range with me. Its a real fun rifle to shoot, and is really freakin accurate! Infact got another range day schedualed for this saturday. I've been teaching my wife weapons handling saftey for a few weeks now, and gonna see how she does at the range.

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 11:40 am

Dustin cool. It sounds like it's a pretty neat rifle to actually shoot too.
I will say this, the Russians maybe do things backwards and differently then we do, but they as heck have made some pretty good weapons over the years. I am pretty glad we never had to fight them. Doesn't seem like you would fare to well fighting against them. I play a WWII tank game made by Russians that is pretty fun, but of course their tanks are quite better then the German and American tanks.