Badger's Noise Magnet

[meles meles]

Evenin 'oomans

We thought you might appreciate a picture of our M1891 Noise Magnet.

We think (our grasp of Cyrillic stamps isn't perfect) it started life as a Tula 7.62x54R rifle with a hexagonal receiver and was then re-arsenalled in the 1930s for a new barrel. It was re-proofed in 1940 and set aside for conversion to a sniper rifle. The work wasn't completed and it was re-issued, only partially prepared as a sniper rifle, in 1941. It was then put into storage in the 1950s. We acquired it a couple of years ago, loved the trigger and were quite surprised by its accuracy, and so have just had Paul Green at TVG finish the work required to fit a POSP scope to it using a side mounting plate. These were designed in the 1960s to allow the POSP scopes developed for the Dragunov sniper rifles to be fitted to older Mosin Nagant bolt actions. Russia planned to re-issue these bolt action rifles as platoon level sniper rifles to supplement the Dragunovs if the Cold War had turned a touch more tepid. It's therefore NOT a genuine WW2 sniper rifle, more a WW3 might have been...

[Sandgroper]

That bolt handle doesn't look original - in fact it looks like a modern after market one.

Got pictures any of it not from TVG?

[meles meles]

The bolt pawdle is new - the original straight pawdle would have fouled on the scope !

There is some info here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.tvg/N ... Sniper.pdf about Paul's more accurate WW2 style conversions

[Dougan]

Though not a true classic, it still looks in great condition and with lovely woodwork tongueout

[meles meles]

Oh indeedy. The Russians selected laminated birch stocks for their sniper rifle conversions to enhance dimensional stability. Ours had the stock and improved trigger but didn't have the mounting for the PEM scope. We elected to have it finished to the 1960s "WW3" standard rather than to try and make it look like a WW2 rifle...

[20series]

Ooh thats pretty badger :goodjob:

Alan

[waterford103]

It's a kracking looking gun and of course it's genuine --- it's what it is --- clapclap clapclap and stonkin' accurate as well

[meles meles]

We reckon it'll keep Farmer Giles away from the sett if he tries owt like a cull...

[ovenpaa]

I like it and look forward to hearing about how it shoots when you start loading for it. The bolt handle looks food as well and most importantly it has not been made to look like something it is not.

Good job

[meles meles]

Oh we won't be paw loading for this one ! It shoots milsurp very well, and there ain't not no shortage of 7.62x54R in the world - it's still a front line cartridge with the Russian and many other armies. Besides the ready availability of 7.62x54R, it's also historically fitting and probabubbly far cheaper than any paw load ! Could a paw load be made for 25p ?


The Russkies also made an adapter plate to allow POSP scopes to be fitted to all the M48 Mausers the Yugoslavs were churning out and putting straight into reserve stocks. There would have been a lot of dedicated marksman rifles issued, stout bolt actions firing a powerful cartridge to back up the high fire rate Kalshnikov, if things had turned out differently...