kBob
Member
So how many of the over 45 THR members still have some sort of Mosin Nagant M-91 based rifle propped up in the back of a closet or safe or out in the truck that they bought in the twentieth century?
Before the wall came down or China Thawed I got an M-1944, apparently a bring back. Back in high school our Librarian ( a grand olde Southern Lady) had loaned me her son’s 1967 bring back M1944 on condition that I clean it.
It road home with me on the bus, and back to school the same way uncased!
It got shot with US commercial ammo a few rounds, cleaned and oiled, and taken to JROTC class.
I wanted one. They were few and hard to find. Then there was one on a gunshow table at St.Augustine Florida… until it found itself in my car headed back towards The Swamp.
Ammo was scarce. I found a few rounds of US commercial at a collectors table and Paid way to much for it.
In about six months the Chinese guns came in at less than half the price and those string wrapped bags of 15 rounds of ammo came in for about what I paid for two rounds of ammo.
I meant to get a like new Polish model for 2/3 what I paid for my battlefield pick up. but never did. I wanted an arsenal refinished M91/30 for half what I paid for my bring back’44, but never got around to it. I picked up and fondled any number of Finn modified and reissued Mosins and appreciated their potential at a price about what I had paid for my Carbine-ized 91 but there was always something else shinier at another table. My truck insisted it needed even a counter bored M1938 behind the seat, but then his unexpected and untimely death meant no gun related purchases for a good bit.
So the -1944 is all I have of the Great Mosin Migration.
So how many guys still have Mosins from when they were cheap?
No Doubt Gunny has enough Mosins to make every 59 year old Ukrainian not allowed to leave the country a sniper, but I meant to ask the rest of you.
Of course Gunny is always welcome to play!
Having problems posting pictures via the phone…. but you all know what a M1944 looks like.
-kBob
Before the wall came down or China Thawed I got an M-1944, apparently a bring back. Back in high school our Librarian ( a grand olde Southern Lady) had loaned me her son’s 1967 bring back M1944 on condition that I clean it.
It road home with me on the bus, and back to school the same way uncased!
It got shot with US commercial ammo a few rounds, cleaned and oiled, and taken to JROTC class.
I wanted one. They were few and hard to find. Then there was one on a gunshow table at St.Augustine Florida… until it found itself in my car headed back towards The Swamp.
Ammo was scarce. I found a few rounds of US commercial at a collectors table and Paid way to much for it.
In about six months the Chinese guns came in at less than half the price and those string wrapped bags of 15 rounds of ammo came in for about what I paid for two rounds of ammo.
I meant to get a like new Polish model for 2/3 what I paid for my battlefield pick up. but never did. I wanted an arsenal refinished M91/30 for half what I paid for my bring back’44, but never got around to it. I picked up and fondled any number of Finn modified and reissued Mosins and appreciated their potential at a price about what I had paid for my Carbine-ized 91 but there was always something else shinier at another table. My truck insisted it needed even a counter bored M1938 behind the seat, but then his unexpected and untimely death meant no gun related purchases for a good bit.
So the -1944 is all I have of the Great Mosin Migration.
So how many guys still have Mosins from when they were cheap?
No Doubt Gunny has enough Mosins to make every 59 year old Ukrainian not allowed to leave the country a sniper, but I meant to ask the rest of you.
Of course Gunny is always welcome to play!
Having problems posting pictures via the phone…. but you all know what a M1944 looks like.
-kBob
