Thought I would share some photos of a few of the guns I've picked up recently. I have more pictures of all of these if anyone wants to see anything specific.
Mostly because Europeans tend to shoot in a head erect position, as opposed to the American habit of bending down and wrapping youself around the stock and getting your cheek and eyebrow rapped. Try it, you might like it. GW
I always wondered the same thing. I look at the russian and german guns and just can't imagine the shooters face even touching the stock. the enfields rested high too but they had raised cheekpads for the buttstocks and the springfields were actually a very nice and well thought out scope design.
picked up a spanish mosin for 150 bucks and flipped it
to a very hungry collector for 1500,he said it was some spanish
trails whatchamacall it - I told the dealer at the shop what had happend
and he almost fell down and banned me for life......
Somewhere online there are photos of a rifle with both "Made in USSR" and "Made in URRS" stamps which is pretty cool. Here's a like to a good website on SCW Mosins: http://scwmosin.weebly.com/index.html
They actually sent quite a bit from what I've read. Many of the small arms were obsolete like Gras and Vetterli rifles chambered in BP cartridges but many were 91/30's which were new manufacture at the time. Stalin supposedly only included 100rds of ammo with the Vetterli's sent to Spain which basically made them useless. He also sent some light tanks to Spain as well but didn't include any spare parts or instruction manuals.