Yesterday's Weapons Forums

I bought a rifle at a shop today and they had this nagant for sale as well as the other rifle I was there to pick up. I could not pass on it. It was the oldest date I have seen on one that I could hold in my hands. It is finn capture marked. The bolt does not match, and it was counter bored but the marks are crisp I could not find an import mark on it. I don't know if the Russians did the counter bore or if it was done by someone her in the states. Once again I must do some more research, any info welcome.

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Dang! That is an old one! The commies didn't get to scrub the imperial eagle, either!! SW

Nice Finn marked gun!

An M1895 Nagant is a revolver that has nothing to do with a Mosin Nagant rifle. Which are we talking about here? The picture is a rifle.

The Gandogs has gotcha Subhunter 1895 is a pistola I don't own one But the pic looks like the 91/30 Of course Me?I'm no authority on the mosin I own the 91/30 and the M38 carbine Gonna look, and get back

Went back and looked at my books, then my own Mosin Nagant It came down to the rear sling swivel The 91/30 hasn't got one, and neither has that picture of yours. Sooooo your rifle is a 91/30 See guys I'm a learning

gandog is right about the 1895 Nagant...it is a pistola... as i have one to attest to this... But that does like like a fine Mosin 91/30 though...

....guys-it an M-91....not a 91/30....its a loooooooong one...longer than 91/30....compare with this photo of one of my 91/30's and M91....czech the band location and rear site...and the front site aint a globe

...and again...the long one is an M91 NEW thats Finn'd next to a 91/30 thats Finn'd...

hmmmmm well like I said I'm far from being really well versed in Mosins
Thanks for the pics Mario You know I plan on getting the Finn from ET next. I have also been thinking about the French Berthier Carbine In April I make the final payment on my truck, so in May I will use the money I would make a truck payment with to make my next buy.

1895 was in reference to the date on the receiver not the model of rifle. the model a 91

OK subhunter let me be the first to apologize I misunderstood It is a nice looking rifle though.

i was about to note that he was speaking of the date on the M91 rifle , but i see he beat me to it , and i know just a little more now than i used to before reading this thread

i do have a nagant revolver tho

It's calling it a Nagant that threw me. The rifle is a MOSIN Nagant, dammit! Nagant alone means revolver to me.

Well shut my mouth Ya got me there. Now didn't I just learn something?
Thank you Gandog 56 By God I'll pay attention to detail from now on

Hmm, may have come out I was criticizing you personally, but I wasn't. Just a pet peeve of mine people calling a Mosin Nagant a Nagant.

nice looking 1895 tula. the counterbore was most likely done in finland.

to make things even more confusing, early 91/30's had blade front sights (these are the rifles the panshin bayonets were made for), and many finn modified 91/30's have stacked front blade sights.
the easiest way to tell an m1891 is the barrel, it's 32 inches. there were rifles made during that period with 91/30 length barrels, but they were called dragoons or cossack rifles then. either is much harder to find than an m1891 and very desireable. only real difference between the dragoon and the cossack is that the cossack rifle has KA3 stamped on the barrel shank.

y'all have a good day, Keith

I could not pass it up, it was speaking to me......buy me!.....buy me!.........LOL