Yesterday's Weapons Forums

Yesterday I talked to the German gun dealer I bought the SVT40 from.
He said he might have something I'd like.
He knew it was a Finnish Mosin Nagant M91 because it had the SA in a box.
The only strange thing about it, he said, was that someone milled of a piece of the barrel.
I asked him to put it on layaway and that I would pick it up next time we drive over.

I think I bought myself a Finnish M91 with a stepped barrel manufactured by Tikka.
Should look like this.


Can't wait to drive over.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Martin

BTW: Gotta find someone who wants to buy my Vetterli now.

That is a rare one. Hold on to it!

Here I thought the only stepped barrel was the 91/24. Guess you learn something new every day

Bruce,
So did I.
Here's some info I found on these rifles on mosinnagant.net

The model 24 or m/91-24 designation often results in some confusion when the various models of Finnish long rifles are discussed. This confusion results from the fact that both stepped and un-stepped Civil Guard long rifles are designated m/24’s, while the Army also had some stepped barreled long rifles produced by Tikkakoski which retained the m/91 designation. All known m/24’s are stamped with the Civil Guard emblem of three fir sprigs over a large “S” contained within a shield while the Army issued rifles will have a “T”‘ in an inverted triangle emblem denoting manufacture by the Tikkakoski arsenal. The following unofficial designations are often used by collectors to differentiate these very similar rifles:

Standard barrel m/24
Civil Guard logo on the barrel and no step in the barrel contour. The barrel is made to the original m/91 specifications. This rifle
is relatively uncommon.

"Heavy" barrel m/24
Civil guard logo on the barrel and manufactured by either SIG or the German arms consortium of Böhler Stahl. The barrel is of
the updated thicker specifications and a “step” can be found in the contour of the barrel end.

m/91 standard
Any Russian or Finnish Army produced m/91 without a thicker stepped barrel-1937-1943.

m/91 “Heavy” barrel
Approximately 3,000 rifles of this type were produced by Tikkakoski in 1926-7 for the Finnish army. They will bear the
Tikka logo of a “T” in a triangle on the barrel and have a heavier stepped barrel like that of the later m/24 rifles.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Martin