As for “91/30”, that’s shorthand referencing the major 1930 redesign of the original Model 1891 Mosin’s Rifle. The Russians also call these Mosin’s Rifles, with not a hint of “Nagant” to be found anywhere. The official Russian designation however is translated as Three-Line Rifle Model 1891. incorrectly refer to these bolt-action rifles as Mosin-Nagants. The other may surprise you, but we’ll get to that shortly. Two of the rifles presented today are of the type with which most of you are probably familiar - The so-called “ Mosin-Nagant” (more on that later) M91/30, which is short for Model 1891/1930. Russian versions only today, because there are just too many other variants out there to cover in one short blog article - Finnish, Polish, Chinese, Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Romanian, and there are even two U.S.-made variants, Remington Arms and New England Westinghouse. Welcome to “M” Week at the blog: Mosins, Marlins, and MPRs.įirst it’s Military Monday, and we’re going to spend some quality time looking over a trio of Mosin’s 3-Line Rifles Model 1891.
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