How is there no reply to JackalStomper's link? That shit was hilarious.
How is there no reply to JackalStomper's link? That shit was hilarious.
I thought so too, but no one commented so I got scared.Originally Posted by Warsaw
I saw it on TFR several days ago so I felt no need to.
So a friend of mine bought a Saiga 7.62x51mm and about 500 rounds of soft point ammo for it. Haven't gotten to shoot it yet, but the thing is a work of art in both how awesome and how crappy it is. The sights are awful, but it only took us about 3 seconds to pull it almost completely apart. If we go shooting in the next few weeks I will be sure to take some bad pictures.
I got my 2nd M38..she bugly. Ill post pictures sometime later after school.
M38 - 1943 Izhevsk
M38 war-time stock (replacement hand-guard)
It's mostly original...replacement parts look to be the barrel bands (both Izhevsk marked), hand-guard, and the rear sight (I'm not sure thou). Every single part is marked Izhevsk, sear is in-the-white. When I got it, the whole thing was covered in cosmoline and it had a fuck ton of black paint. The paint came off and this is what I got.
I dunno what these marks are..I like to think kill count but if so the russian couldnt count.
And for numbers (I was lazy)
So what do you guys think? I believe this to be 90-95% original and it doesn't look like it was ever re-blued or much done to it. Oh there was active rust on the magazine plate but that was hidden which I fixed.
That is one ugly Mosin
Old but shoots very good, and has a shiny bore! Oh and the two M38's I got are not counter-bored.
This is not a thing soldiers do. Genocidal maniacs in the Balkans, yes, but not regular soldiers. They wouldn't be able to keep a tally anyway.
Even snipers (who typically did record kills) did it on a notepad, not their rifle, and they did it because it provided intel. Tank, AT gun, and AA gun crews would paint rings around the barrel and aircrews would paint little icons on their planes, but this is the only incidence I've ever heard of where regular, trained soldiers would make some visible tally of all the enemy units they'd destroyed - and note in all of those cases they would have been shooting to disable machines, not kill men.
Kill counts are for snipers and psychopaths.
As for the carbine itself, that stock has obviously been replaced and refurbed (though I could count non-refurb Soviet stocks I've seen on one hand, so that's no big). Metal may be original bluing, that or it had the hell beaten out of it sometime in the postwar period.
Maybe the guy who was behind the rifle's family had been killed in the invasion, and that was his reaction? You never know.
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