Anyone ever seen A Finn like this?

[Krieger82]

Hi all, came across an interesting specimen. I have seen some pitting in my time, but nothing quite like this. Anyone else ever seen anything like it or know anything about it?? One of the "sea-salvaged" myths people used to talk about?
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[imarangemaster]

I once had an 1873 Winchester "wall hanger" like that. It had been found in a barn in Wisconsin or Minnesota (or someplace like that). That's what it looked like after I cleaned the caked rust with Naval jelly.

[Aragorn243]

Is the bore that bad or is it just outside?

[Eaglelord17]

I once had a Norwegian Krag that was similar. Same type of story, except the one I had was apparently used for sealing. The bore was mint, however I only fired one shot out of it. The chamber was corroded, but you couldn't tell. When I fired the one round, the brass expanded, however it wasn't able to be extracted. It took a cleaning rod and mallet to get it out. I quickly sold it as a parts gun (still even had the full length stock) afterwards. The one shot I did shoot, did hit the x at 100m though, so it was certainly accurate.

[Fjordforder]

Hi all, came across an interesting specimen. I have seen some pitting in my time, but nothing quite like this. Anyone else ever seen anything like it or know anything about it?? One of the "sea-salvaged" myths people used to talk about?
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Sea salvage? I've never heard that, can you please shed some light?

[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.

[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."

[Richard Hare]

I had a M 39 that shot like a house afire, but one side of the action and barrel in places had been very rusty, and had a texture like material. You could see the weave marks it left behind.
I might have been a bit macabre, but to me it looked like a former custodian had rotted (or his clothes had! ) on to it. Cloth had obviously been in contact with that side for a prolonged wet period.
Bore was beautiful.
Hadn't been re-blued, it was more in the white.
Wondered sometimes why I sold it. I do a lot of wondering about things like that!

[jrboon]

krieger82 your finn is marked SK.Y, indicating that it is one issued to the home guard. it is one of only 10,500 ever made in that configuration. a rare bird. you will find more info on this site. jrboon.