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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nefarious on June 01, 2013, 10:17:10 PM
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Make it a point to ask yard/garage sales for guns, you might be surprised.
Today in the area a local community (Nutter Fort, WV) was having it's annual city wide yard sale. I promised SWMBO that I would go and rummage with her. While walking around, I get into a conversation with a friend of the family and says that he has a rifle he wants to show me.
I recognize it's a Mosin Nagant but it looks different than my 1941 Izzy. It's really rusty but doesn't look that bad and he wants to sell it for $50. I look at the receiver, it's a hex receiver and it's covered in Cyrillic... I had my contacts in and tried to focus... 1922. No import marks. All matching metal, no numbers on stock.
It's the first firearm I have bought in nearly 2 years. It's missing some parts, cleaning rod, front sight, A band for the front hand guard? hand guard? I am going to restore it to its 1922 condition, it's what I do with all my rifles.
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113048.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113048.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113050.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113050.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113053.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113053.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113058.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113058.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113059.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113059.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113060.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113060.jpg.html)
(http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb180/ralphmunnich/6113065.jpg) (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/ralphmunnich/media/6113065.jpg.html)
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Nice find bro!
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and all I find is some broken dishes :cry.
semp
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Beautiful find :aok
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Did you say "Nutter fort"? :)
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Garage sale guns are cool..
Picked up a $50 Stevens 12ga a while back..
Broken, but a .50c part fixed it..
Perfect throwaway..
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Nice find Nef. :aok
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Turns out this thing is pretty rare. This is actually an M91, the precursor the very common 91/30. Most M91s built after a certain period were refurbished/rebuilt into the 91/30. This M91 escaped that process which leads me to believe that this rifle left the Soviet Union before the refurb process began.
Where did it go (Spanish Civil War?) and how did it make it to United States? Oh, and where can I get parts for it? lol
Did you say "Nutter fort"? :)
Yes.
Arriving in the early 1770s, the families of brothers Thomas, Matthew, and Christopher Nutter were early European settlers to western Virginia. Thomas Nutter had received a land grant for 1,400 acres (5.7 kmē) of land along Elk Creek in what was then Monongalia County. Together with the settlers Obadiah and Daniel Davisson, the Nutters constructed a fort in 1772, later known as Nutter's Fort, said to have been one of the strongest forts south of Fort Pitt. Located on the eastern side of Elk Creek, the fort was used by the Virginia state militia from 1776-1780 in conflicts with Native Americans. Thomas Nutter served as a Captain in the Revolutionary Army and died in early August 1808. When the community was incorporated in 1923, it took its name to honor both Nutter and the original settlement.
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I had a chance at an American made westinghouse mosin a while back for $300ish. but i had to pass! i shouldnt have but i did!