Spanish Civil War M91

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Here’s the other SCW rifle I picked up last weekend.
It’s a 1924 Tula M91 rifle.
The barrel bands are second series bands.
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It had the Spanish 5 dice mark.
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The stock has a nice MP8 cartouche.
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Here’s both rifles together, Dragoon on top. The Dragoon is just shy of four inches shorter.
If I have time this weekend, I’ll try to get pics of the rifles out of the stocks.
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SCW Mosins were imported in the 50’s and 60’s. I have some old adds from American Rifleman magazines that I’ll try and find.
When they were imported the only stamp required was country of origin. Not all rifles were stamped. These are not stamped, or I don’t see the stamps.
Here’s some info on the markings.
https://scwmosin.weebly.com/the-ldquomade-in-ussrurrsrdquo-stamp.html

I do know a little history on these two rifles. They were what was left over from a large collection in the New Orleans, LA. area. The collector had passed away after most of his collection had been sold off, or donated to museums.
The family was clearing out one of the houses and found a work shop in one of the attics. My friend helped the family go through all the parts and firearms. As payment they gave my friend several parts and some guns. The family sold off the rest of the stuff.
 
OH HOW I do like the "Made in USSR" Stamp... That is a wonderful web site.. But to just help let ones brain explode, The Mosin is just one gun type (a sizable number at over 300k) in a Large number of gun types used in the SCW.. Each with their own story of Spanish post war modifications ... And like that was not enough, Spain had a vibrant arms industry of its own, that worked for both sides depending on who hands the factory was in.

another Nice little web site on SCW arms.

https://carbinesforcollectors.com/spanishcivilwar1.html



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Sigh.
I've been looking for SCW guns - I'm working on a couple of 1916 Mausers with scrubbed crests right now - and I had thought that almost all of the SCW Mosins were rusty, ill-maintained junk. Even the Mexican "newspaper Mosins" that George Orwell thought so highly of were rendered into mere relics.
I had given up on obtaining a decent SCW Mosin.
Now I have to start looking again... .
 
Sigh.
I've been looking for SCW guns - I'm working on a couple of 1916 Mausers with scrubbed crests right now - and I had thought that almost all of the SCW Mosins were rusty, ill-maintained junk. Even the Mexican "newspaper Mosins" that George Orwell thought so highly of were rendered into mere relics.
I had given up on obtaining a decent SCW Mosin.
Now I have to start looking again... .


There are a few out on gunbroker that are not that that bad.. Now SCW Mausers are more art then science..

I saw a wonderful SCW Mauser that is in 7mm. Marked on the butt stock as 7mm also. Now the beauty of the conversion was the rifle was an original WW 1 Gew 98, The rifle had been converted to a K98, then resighted by the Nazis with the s/42 markings. So this rifle then was shipped to Spain as German support for Franko. and after the SCW the rifle was re barreled to 7 mm and marked "7mm Espanol" on the stock.
 
The Spanish Civil War was notorious for the wide variety of small arms used. Robert Merriman (aka "Murderman"), the American Communist commander of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, had a display board with the many different cartridges needed for the rifles used within his unit. Since the SCW was a proxy war fought by the local fascists and communists as stand-ins for larger international forces, their patrons (Germany, Italy, the USSR) supplied them with both current and (especially) obsolete arms in their possession. This led to a logistical nightmare. (Merriman was captured and executed by Franco's forces on April 2, 1938.)
 
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