Duffel bag cut 91/30

[Bill Grist]

thx

As mentioned by Gew. 98 these really are tough to find in issued condition. 99.999% of the millions of mosin nagants made during the war years were either reworked by the Soviets post war or were beat to hell after being handed out as communist aid to third world nations. I'll bet I've seen 10 matching 98k's for every one unreworked matching 91/30. Very nice example you have.


Jim

Jim, Thanks..BILL

[gew98]

Bill ; Rifle serial looks like 1115 and bolt looks like 3315.The charachters before the two sets of serials are russian cyrillic alphbet - sort of like the alpha prefix part of the serials on german small arms.
I had a flat 90% condition 1937 91/30.It was damn gorgeous - only the second one I ever saw that was straight soviet , never reworked nor bubba'd up. I got it for $275 and a bunch of my buddies thought I had lost it paying that much for a typical mosin as they said.Well when I showed it to them - right down to the crisp stock cartouches they all had hard ons for it. Years later when I decided to go with imperial german stuff and moved it i got a great whack out of it from a buddy whom had to have it - and he still has it.
The other one I saw was a mint 1941 91/30. I treid like hell to get it - but the A-hole that had it scoped it out like a PE rig...friggin' ruined it !!!. And it won't pass the light of day for an original rig...and she was as matching as the 37 date 91/30 I had and just mint !.
Bolt mismatch or not it's a neat peace I would definatley fix and de-rust properly.