I decided to go through my Soviet weapons next and first on the bench is a 91/30, soviet made and finnish captured Mosin Nagant. My first question (tongue in cheek, of course) is just how many characters can you stamp in the bottom of a barrell before the peening effect starts to bow the barrell? (image below) I counted at least 25 individual characters. Is it normal for one of these to look like every armorer and inspector in Russiaicon took a whack at it?

It's mostly a Tula production as the receiver is marked Tula 35 and the barrell is Tula 1936. The bolt was mostly Izhevsk but what I found interesting is that it had a Tula bolt head on it. Kind of wondering if they kept the matching bolt head to maintain headspacing when they changed the bolt? Not sure on the stock, there is remnants of a cartouche with another smaller marking nearby but haven't matched them to anything yet. The buttplate has a Tula star on it so perhaps it could be the right stock.....except the serial number is off by 100k.

Shows several signs of being a Finnishicon captured weapon, such as the boxed SA on the barrell shank; the serial number on the replaced bolt lined out with the matching number stamped in the handle; the D stamped by the barrell serial number along with the counterbored muzzle; and a sanded down stock, which is why I can't quite make out the cartouche.

It has the concentric double O stamp; is this common, or does it indicate better than average accuracy during production tests? There is also the mystic 41 stamped in the barrell next to a quality control mark. I haven't read anything yet that explains it exactly. The barrell is in decent shape, still has groove left but the landings are rounding

Oh, yeah...I hate cosmolineicon. Is Finnish cosmoline thicker and stickier than Britishicon cosmoline?
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