Anyone ever seen A Finn like this?

[Krieger82]

Sea salvage? I've never heard that, can you please shed some light?

It was a term someone came up with years ago. The finns apparently had a habit of taking guns that had been through the ringer, stripping them, rebluing them and pressing them back into service. Someone coined the term "sea salvage" as an explanation (the thought being that they drudged up rifles from sunken transport ships and reconditioned them). There is a small snippet about it over on mosinnagant.net, or at least there used to be. I was curious if anyone on here has encountered one of these and if it is what they looked like. I have never seen anything quite like it before.

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[Fjordforder]

It was a term someone came up with years ago. The finns apparently had a habit of taking guns that had been through the ringer, stripping them, rebluing them and pressing them back into service. Someone coined the term "sea salvage" as an explanation (the thought being that they drudged up rifles from sunken transport ships and reconditioned them). There is a small snippet about it over on mosinnagant.net, or at least there used to be. I was curious if anyone on here has encountered one of these and if it is what they looked like. I have never seen anything quite like it before.

Very, very interesting, I've never heard of that.

[MJ1]

A visitor to Finland in the post war years once asked ,"Why do the Finns all change their motor oil in the garden?"

The Finn replied."So the guns won't rust."