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I blame Seahawk for this one...he made a post about shooting a Moisin..so...

This one is an unusual Fin M39 from 42. The Tiger stripping is burned on...by burning a piece of rope wrapped around the stock to achieve the stripping which was a technique used on Pennsylvania rifles back in the day and, the fact that it isn't importer marked..which means pre 68 importation.

These things have steadily moved up in price..

The rare one to find are the M39 "Sneaks"...a few were assembled as tgt rifles in the late 60's to early 70's as a parts clean up. They are called "sneaks"because they were newer mfg and were mixed in with large lots of older M39's. If ya want a NOS M39 that is what to look for.

Finland gained independence in 1919 from the Russian empire...As such they had 250K moisins on hand, since they could not afford to develope their own military spoons they reworked the moisin with the M39 being the ultimate development...they shortened the spoon, made their own stocks, B's and sights. B's were mostly made by SAKO, Valmet with a few from FN...
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