I know the Finns had leather scabbards and issued them. The Russians zeroed the rifles with the bayonets on so not sure if they did or not. I've seen rumors of leather ones but never an original one, same with the Finns. The reproduction leather scabbards are modeled after the Finns.
The Austrians and possibly the Germans made metal ones for their captured rifles. I have an Austrian one.
I remembered I actually have a book on Mosin Nagant bayonets, so I dug it out and looked. They did indeed make scabbards for them. The Russians used leather and canvas materials in construction. Can't confirm metal with them. The Finns used leather and metal, the Germans and Austrians and Bavarians used metal.
The Russians issued scabbards as standard from 1936-1940 but no clarification on issue before or after those dates. These were the canvas or tarpulan versions. During WWI, they issued leather.
Nice book but it's mostly in
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with an abbreviated English translation so I'm possibly missing some information.
The name of the book by the way is: Mosin Bayonets by Barsukov E B Kind of amazing how many there are actually, hundreds of variations and we only typically see the standared 1891 version and the 91/30 version sold with the masses of rifles over the last dozen years or so.