can someone help me identify this rifle?

[riverchic2005]

I don't know hardly anything about guns. My dad has an old gun that has been passed down through our family, but we haven't been able to find out anything on it. Any info would be greatly appreciated.

I do not see a "brand" name on it, just a series of numbers. They include:
NA 933, No. HA 933 (with a D under the "3"s), 1938, and above 1938, it has a star with what looks like an arrow inside of it.

As I said, any information on this rifle would be greatly appreciated. My dad works from 6:30 in the mornings and gets off late at night. I volunteered to try and find info on it.

 

[Mike Irwin]

The star inside the arrow is a BIG indicator that it's a Soviet-made rifle, at the Izhvesk (sp?) arsenal.

Is it a bolt action or semi-auto?

 

[riverchic2005]

I believe it is bolt-action. Like I mentioned before, I know very little about guns.

 

[Mike Irwin]

OK, does it look anything like what you see in the pictures here:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mosin nagant&sa=N&tab=wi


Is there any chance of you taking some pictures and posting them?

 

[riverchic2005]

It does look a great deal like the picture shown on M1895 Mosin-Nagant with the site behun8.srv.hu under it.

It resembles the bottom one the most, except that ours isn't shiny at all.

 

[BonesofGa.]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the star with the arrow was Tula manufacture.

 

[Mike Irwin]

Hum...

I thought a straight star was Tula, and the star/arrow was the other one.

I may be wrong, though.

 

[James K]

FWIW, I think Tula used the star and arrow or sometimes just the star. Izhevsk used the bow and arrow up to 1928 and the arrow in a triangle after that. Sestoretsk used just an arrow.

Tula now makes civilian arms under the name Tulski Oruzheiny Zavod (TOZ) or Tula Arms Works; Izhevsk uses IZHMASH as a trade name.

Jim