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Fellas, Where might one find a Moisin Nagant Sniper rifle if one was looking for one? I'ld even be interested in one that has been pieced together for the right price, but an original would be best. Any ideas what one would expect to pay for either an original or a pieced together version?
Arming up for next years Battle of the Bulge, are we??
Given the large amount of repros available according to http://www.gunboards.com/forums/default.asp it makes one want to be very careful about the money, one spends.
Believe it or not, they still show up at gun shows. I picked up right off the table from a personal collector at the Ancaster Gun Show last week, a beautiful 91/30 M52 Hungarian sniper. :thup:
I was really surprised to see it at an excellent price and fortunately I was there very early (that's important at shows) and grabbed it quick.
Regards,
Badger
It cost me about $400 to 'build' and Nagant sniper with a minty 91-30 and an original PU scope
So.....keep that in mind if paying $1000 for a known repro
I've been ginig that some serious though lately for a shooter,I've been shooting my original but, not very often, Hum-SDH
Of course, if you can't fins an untouched original, you can get all original prts and restore an ex-sniper. This isn't entirely sacrilege considering the rifle is/was a real sniper, whereas drilling and tapping an undrilled infantry version IS.
Yes I saw that one at Ancaster, almost bought it myself except for the Russian scope on it. To bad because rifle and mount were Hungarian. Original Hungarian scopes are stamped 02 and numbered to the rifle.
Yer so negative sometimes...Quote:
Originally Posted by Claven2
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The Ancaster Gun Show M52 is a 1953 and does have the correct Hungarian made PU scope marked with the traditional "41", found on their binoculars and other optics. I stand to be corrected, but I've never seen a Hungarian scope itself marked with anything except that, however, the scope mount is marked "02", as is all of the other correct components. The rifle serial number stamped on the Hungarian PU scope does not match the rifle serial, but once again, I've only ever seen one pic of a rifle/scope set that did match.Quote:
Originally Posted by soldat
I'll try to take some pics today and post them in the December Purchases thread.
In the meantime, here's a 1954 example displayed in our Milsurp Knowledge Library, mounted with the Hungarian PU scope marked "41" correctly, except for the common scope/rifle miss-match. The Observations section was provided by Vic Thomas of Mosin-Nagant.com.
1954 Mosin-Nagant M52 Hungarian Sniper Rifle (click here)
Regards,
Badger
actualy, it's mosinnagant.net ;)
Either, I was totally blind without my first cup of coffee that early in the morning or it was not the same rifle. I saw the photos of yours and it is the proper hungarian scope.
Found one guys, thanks! U*nsure whether it's all original or not, but the price was right and I was looking for a shooter....
I have a Tula 91/30 rebuild 91/30 (plain jane, no sniper) and it has several #2's stamped on the stock and I believe the metal. Could this be a Hungarian gun?-SDH
No, not if it's Tula made. Hungarian mosins are made in Hungary and instead of a big Tula star on the barrel, there'll be a large "02" stamped in the same place. Instead of a little Tula star on all the small prats, there will be a little 02 :)
Make sense?
the "2" seen on russian parts is something else, possibly denoting a replacement part or that a part was refurbished at rebuild, but no-one knows for certain what it means.