Quite frankly, what is strange (to me) is that apparently the vast majority of gun owners seem to give a blank stare when I mention Mosins, Enfields, even G3/HK/PTR-91s, FALs....or M-14/M1A, or simply haven't ever handled any of these.
They mostly are pretty confused about where the safeties are---which is to be expected.
Many of them are fairly young, very seasoned guys with pricey gear on their ARs. Some of them are infantry veterans of the recent OIF etc.
A friend who retired from the Navy Rifle Team had never shot any Enfield, but got a perfect bullseye at 100 yards with my Enfiield #4/Mk. 1, while sitting on the ground---his first shot with an LE.
4v50 Gary: It was about 2012 (?) when Shotgun News advertised mint or near-mint "Persian Mausers" at Samco in Miami
.
Had I known that they were Czech Mausers, I would have grabbed one.
Soon after being puzzled about these rifles manufactured in Persia (it seemed) I saw a review of them in a milsurp magazine ("...What do you mean "Czech!?"
). But Samco was sold out, then went bankrupt a while later.
Why couldn't they have been titled "Czech-production Persian"?
Rockrivr1: Iirc the Finns took the better MNs and modified whatever components to improve them.
Of course the Soviet Union used the best as sniper guns, ie the "Enemy At The Gates" movie about Stalingrad.