Sunday, January 25, 2009

Mosin Receiver Holes

These photos are of the receivers of a Mosin 91/30. You are looking at the left-hand raceways for the bolt.

First up, a standard infantry-issue rifle. As you can see, the metal of the raceway is smooth metal.


This is a re-snipered rifle, it was originally equipped with a PU scope sight. It was recently re-fitted with a postwar PU scope. There are four holes through the left side of the receiver; two pins and two screws. You can see three of them in this photo.



This is the rifle I bought yesterday and I apologize that the focus is off. Note that unlike the PU-scoped rifle, this one has only two holes. It apparently was fitted with a PEM scope.


The PU scope was simpler to make and arguably more rugged than the PE/PEM scope. Supposedly, the PU scope replaced the PEM in 1942. The Soviets were not terribly big on niceties; if they had a number of scopes left over from decommissioning sniper-varients of the SVT rifle, they would fit them to Mosins. Which is what apparently was done to this rifle.
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4 comments:

  1. Phil1/26/2009 10:02 AM

    Thanks for the pictures, I was going to ask you if you could take some so I had a better idea of what you were talking about.

    Nice score!

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  2. Anonymous1/26/2009 1:24 PM

    Thanks for the pics!
    Is the trigger on your new ex-sniper as good as your other sniper rifle?

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  3. Comrade Misfit1/26/2009 1:27 PM

    Jeg, it's just about as good. There is a tad bit of creep after taking up the first stage, but it is pretty good. That might be a function of crap; I'll field-strip it soon and give it a good cleaning.

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  4. Anonymous1/27/2009 4:27 PM

    Thanks. I was curious about the consistency of good triggers on the snipers.
    Good shooting!

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