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Full length view of rifle.
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Full length view of rifle.
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Buttstock.
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View of action, bolt side.
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Note the rear sight assembly as first appeared on the M28/30 and retained for the M39.
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Barrel band area and handguard.
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Nosecap, cleaning rod, front sight and muzzle cover.
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Note square finger jointed stock. This is a post-war feature indicating this stock was installed on the rifle during post-war refurbishment.
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Laminate re-inforcing strips were added to many Finn Mosin Nagant models. It's believed this practice was started in 1956, though many stocks predating that were modified after the fact.
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Floorplate has been scrubbed of an older Russian serial number and stamped matching.
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Note the bolt has an older serial number cancelled on the guide rib and is reserialized to this M39 on the ball of the bolt handle - a common practice on WW2 era Finnish M39's and M91's.
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Tsarist buttplate is scrubbed and not renumbered.
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Note the Tsarist eagle has been gound off the receiver. The barrel is marked for 1944 manufacture at Sako for the SkY (Civil Guard).
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Rear sight graduated from 150m to 1000m.
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Rear sight is graduated on the side of the base as well as on the leaf.
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Action area.
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Note the side slng slot on the buttstock to allow the rifle to be slung diagonally accross the chest or back while skiing or riding a motorcycle.
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Note that unlike the M27, M28 and M28/30 series rifles that preceded it, the M39 barrel band is held in position by use of a bandspring.
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Note that the front sight has the blade height stamped into the top of it, also the height of the blade installed on the rifle at manufcture is stamped into the barrel. In this case a different height front sight was fitted to sight the rifle in when it was restocked at refurb.
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Although uncommon for M39 rifles, this example has a serialized matching nosecap, stamped matching on the bayonet lug.
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A view of the muzzle cap installed over the barrel. It also acted as a cleaning rod guide.
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Note that the front sight is windage adjustable by tightening and loosening the sight screws. The peen marks are to help count windage increments.
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Nosecap removed from muzzle.
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The tang stamp indicates this M39 was built on a receiver recycled off an 1898 manufctured Izhevsk M91. It was 46 years old already when this rifle was built.
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An older serial number stamped into the receiver dating back to when it was an M91 serving somewhere outside of Finland.
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