Fireforged:
Assem/disassem sent by separate email. Here's a little trivia for the Nagant
USSR
MOSIN-NAGANT Infantry Rifle
Mfg: 7.25M Tula 1892-1922
Sestroretsk 1892-1922
Izhevsk 1892-1922
503,540 Chatellerault 1893-1896
770,000 N/England W/House 1915-1917
840,310 Remington 1917-1917
By 1888 Russia had realized that the Berdan rifle was obsolete. Though experimental rifles submitted by Mauser and Kropatschek were tested, the butt magazine Mosin and the Lutkovskly, based on the Berdan were regarded as more promising.
Single and five shot Mosin rifles were submitted for trials in 1889, along some five shot Belgian Nagants. Trials actually began in 1890 with 300 Mosins, 100 Nagants and 100 single shot
Berdans, which were lined down to 7.62mm. The Mosin Nagant being
finally accepted in 1891.
M1891 Rifle:
Wt: 9.62lb
Length: 51.37"
Bbl: 31.6"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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M1891 Dragoon Rifle:
Wt: 8.75lb
Length: 48.75"
Bbl: 28.8"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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M1891/30 Rifle:
Wt: 8.7lb
Length: 48.5"
Bbl: 28.7"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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M1910 Carbine:
Wt: 7.5lb
Length: 40"
Bbl: 20"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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M1938 Carbine:
Wt: 7.62lb
Length: 40"
Bbl: 20"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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M1944 Carbine:
Wy: 8.9lb
Length: 40" Folded
52.25"Extended
Bbl: 20.4"
Mag:
Capacity: 5
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AUSTRIA/HUNGARY
A/H forces on the Eastern front captured sizeable quantities of Russian rifles, and also received large numbers taken by the Germans.
Guns in A/H service were issued with Russian ammunition. When supplies began to run short, some guns were converted in the Wiener-Neustadt armory for the standard rimmed 8X50mm Austrian round.
CHINA
China made Mosin-Nagant Type 53 carbines. They; are virtually identical with the Soviet 1944g, but were marked 53 on the receiver and often bore the encircled-triangle mark of factory
66.
GERMANY
Many Russian rifles were captured on the Easter Front during the opening stages of WWI. Some were retained by the German army to serve recruiting depots and lines of communications troops until the end of hostilities. Others went to the navy. A few were converted to handle the stnd. 8mm cartridge, but so much ammunition had been captured that most guns were simply issued
unaltered.
HUNGARY
Substantial quantities of Mosin Nagant guns were made by FEG of Budapest in the early 1950's. Production seems to have been confined to good quality copies of the 1944g carbine and 1891/30g sniper rile known as 44M and 48M.
NORTH KOREA
A poor quality copy of the Soviet 1891/30g rifle was made in the 1950's apparently as the Type 30. It was distinguished by a large encircled five point star, preceding the serial number on
the left side of the receiver.
POLAND
The earliest Polish Mosin Nagant, introduce in the late 1920's was a converted Russian rifle with a new 7.9mm caliber barrel and the magazine altered to feed rimless ammo.
USA
The US purchased more than a million 1891 rifles from Remington- UMC and the New England Westinghouse company in 1918, after the Russian revolution had left the two American companies with huge numbers of unwanted guns and potentially serious financial difficulties. Only280,050 guns were retained for army service, most being used for basic training.
In 1919 substantial numbers of 7.62 Russian pattern rifles equipped the US divisions sent to Archangelsk with allied intervention forces, apparently to ease logistics by allowing
captured ammunition to be used.
HJN
