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hahaha wow thats very nice, i am quit envious. im always looking to buy old 1891s like this and can never find them and you find it in a "junk" room haha, very nice find.
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Very nice rifle. Shame its missing its handguard.
1914 rifles from any major Great War combatant nation are hard to find...
I have its cousin from Tula of the same age...took me a lot of years to get this one.
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I don't believe the circle B is a Bulgarian mark. The Bulgarians peened out or ground off the Imperial Russian crests and typically stamped the wood with "pine cone" marks. I learned all that researching my recent purchase which is also an Austrian capture "AZF". Mine has a partially ground barrel shank and a peened receiver, a distinct pine cone on the butt stock and a round pine cone near the front sling loop. Mine also has a marking I can not figure out where it is from, a large "G" on the receiver. The Bulgarians also discarded the cleaning rods for some reason or another.
You guys are lucky, none of the pawn shops around here deal in firearms.
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Originally Posted by
Aragorn243
You guys are lucky, none of the pawn shops around here deal in firearms.
The ones around here do but after a depressing gunshow I stopped by my local "pawn stars" only to leave more depressed. One butchered No 1 Ml III and a Spanish Mauser basket case.
Seems most of the Milsurps offered by dealers at shows are castoffs form their personal collections and battered if not butchered.
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Originally Posted by
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I don't believe the circle B is a Bulgarian mark. The Bulgarians peened out or ground off the Imperial
Russian crests and typically stamped the wood with "pine cone" marks.
The peening of the Russian Imperial crest was done in Bulgaria post-WW2.
The rifle in question was in Finnish hands in WW2, so any Bulgarian use of the rifle was earlier than 1918. The pine cone and 'circle B' would have been added when the rifle came into Bulgarian hands after being captured by the Austrians during WW1.
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It's a rarity to see a pawn shop in these parts that does'nt sell guns and every once in a while something desireable and in good shape turns up but mostly it's cast off junk that even bubba could'nt do much with, and way over priced to boot. Saw a Westinghouse M91 at a shop last Christmas that appeared to be in nice condition till I peeked down the bore, nothing but caked up rust. Price: $900. Jeez
Don't know if I'll ever go to another gunshow or not. Seems all the dealers have the ''my s**t is gold and you're gold is s**t'' attitude anymore. Used to get all my powder and primers there to avoid the hazmat fees but with gas prices what they are and the closest show 65 miles away it's cheaper to just pay the dam fee and let the shipper worry bout the gas prices.
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What a great find ! Congrats.