That is a lovely looking rifle......I have designs on just such a beast to shoot, compare and contrast, alongside my 1917 SMLE, I feel another variation coming on!!
....what does she shoot like?
Shoots a dream even with old ex mil surplus. A while ago at Otterburn I got into a 600m impromptu comp with my pal and his sniper scoped M91 mosin nagant and the figure 11s just kept falling as we shot turn about. That was a day to remember.
Joe
Here is my G98, she was built in 1915 at the Amberg Arsenal in Bavaria.
She shoots a bit high with 198 grain ammo, but will easily hold a 4" group at 100 yards with gentle target loads.
I have noticed that there are wear marks on the stock just above the right hand side of the wrist, using my knowledge of imperial German drill these marks were almost certainly made by the left ammunition pouch of the man issued this rifle rubbing against the wood as he marched along.
1896 Tula M91. Unlike post 1907 woodwork this one has no sling escutcheons or cross bolt in the finger groove. Metal work has AZF stamp (Artillerie Zeugs Fabrik. A depot near to Vienna) placed there by the Austro-Hungarians who captured it from the Russians during the Great War. For good measure they also added the wire swivels.
Post Great War it ended up with the Finns who added a tasteful SA stamp.
1896 Tula M91. Unlike post 1907 woodwork this one has no sling escutcheons or cross bolt in the finger groove. Metal work has AZF stamp (Artillerie Zeugs Fabrik. A depot near to Vienna) placed there by the Austro-Hungarians who captured it from the Russians during the Great War. For good measure they also added the wire swivels.
Post Great War it ended up with the Finns who added a tasteful SA stamp.
Wish this one could talk.
Very nice, I like that a lot . I would like an Imperial Mosin in the collection, I may sell the M44 and see whats about.
"The only real power comes out of a long rifle." - Joseph Stalin
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank.....give a man a bank and he can rob the world!.
Pretty sure that this is appropriate to this thread. 1914 Izhevsk. Was a M91 but is now a 91/38. Converted post WW11 by the Czechs in an effort to rationalise the vast array of Mosin nagant models they had. Interestingly they were all converted to M44 spec however nearly all of them later had the bayonet mounts ground off. General consensus is that the 91/38 is the nicest carbine model available.
