Finnish m/27 trainer, new to teh collection

[awo425]

This is my first post here.
I am a collector of milsups and specialized in finnish guns

Two days ago the nordic gods smiled at me and showed me the way to a nice(and rare) m/27 trainer rifle:



Around 1400 made from 1932 till 1940.
Most of them are in finnish collections and seldom to be found outside of Finland.
This winter I was able to inspect 2 such traines in private collections in Finland, two in m/27 configuration and one(even rarer) in m/91 configuration.

Chris

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[Oatmeal Savage]

Beautiful rifle!

[awo425]

100m target shot this morning, not too bad with teperatures around 0°C

[Claven2]

Great find!! Wish I had one!

[happydude]

Beautiful!

[Adolf Galland]

Very Nice,Thanks for the pictures

[Pete04]

Thanks for sharing. Great pics! Great find!

[sdh1911]

I couldn't get groups like that at "0" degrees if I was sedated. I normally do pretty well with the open sights, but, that is truly outstanding. By the way, I have a model 28 that looks exactly like your rifle, hmm, I gotta check the number on my end

[awo425]

You are right, the trainer looks like m/28, because it it has m/28(made from NEW m/91) stock and bands.
I don't knwo why it was stocked that way, but it has no Civil Guard stamps anywhere. Maybe it was restocked later, but I can see no evidence at the frontsightbase for resoldering. And it would have to be removed, to get the m/28 upper band on.
Left over m/28 stock from previus m/28 produktion at Tikkakoski???
We will never know for sure.

But I've got a line on a 1935 made TOZ 8 trainer, let's see, if it works out

Than we can have a rangetest with both trainers here.

Chris

[awo425]

Here is the barreled action: