Spanish Civil War M91 Dragoon

I did a little horse trading this weekend and ended up with two Spanish Civil War Mosins, a M91 and a M91 Dragoon.
This is the M91 Dragoon. It’s a 1925 Izhevsk. It has first series solid barrel bands and in a walnut stock.


Here you can see the Spanish MP8 Flaming Bomb cartouche.
Here’s a little info on the cartouche.
https://scwmosin.weebly.com/ldquomp8rdquo-flaming-bomb-cartouche.html


This makes the third M91 Dragoon in my collection.

NIGHTLORD40K said:

What makes it a Dragoon, I thought those would be shorter, like a carbine?

In any case, remarkable condition, very cool Gunny!

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Take a look at the rear sight. It’s the older saw tooth style. The barrel is the same length as a 91/30 but has a slightly thinner profile.
The Dragoon is approximately 4” shorter then the M91, if I remember right.

Vkt said:

The dragoon is a little shorter( I think a couple of inches) than the m91.
Nice find gunny and with a US walnut stock to boot.
I used to enjoy collecting mosins.

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Its not a US stock. Remington and Westinghouse both used Walnut on the M91, but never made stocks for Dragoons. Spain made replacement stocks in walnut . I have a SCW M91 that I picked up a few years ago that has a nice walnut stock. You can still see the tool markings inside the stock from when it was hand carved.

BSA1 said:

More history please. The rifle seems to long to me. Did the Spaniards fight dismounted?

Very cool gun indeed.

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Dragoons were used by mounted infantry. They would ride their horses and then dismount and fight.
Russia supplied the commies in Spain with M91s and M91 Dragoons. As far as I know, the Spanish didn’t have Dragoon units and just used the Dragoons to regular troops.

bfoosh006 said:

GunnyUSMC, I just want to say.... I really enjoy your posts with all these Classic rifles.

Thank you for taking your time to post all the info and photos.

Awesome Dragoon. Is The bore as clean as the rest of the rifle ?

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The bore is very nice. There's a little bit of a shadow in the groves, but it has strong lands.
Your welcome. If there are other parts of the rifle that you would like to see pics of, just let me know and I'll try to take them.
I may get all three of my Dragoons out for a group photo.

entropy said:

The Konovalov sight. My favorite sight of all the Mosin sights. The Dragoon was a precursor to the M91/30, whether intentional or not. Some of the late Dragoons are almost the same as the first 91/30's.

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Russia had three Mosin. The 1910 Carbine, The M91 and the M91 Dragoon. In the late 20's the Russians decided that they needed a standard rifle. They decided on a rifle the length of the Dragoon, but with a slightly heaver barrel. They up graded the sights to a sturdier ladder type rear and a globe front. The new rifle was adopted in 1930. Dragoons were upgraded if they were in good condition or rebuilt. M91 actions were used to build 91/30s.
Most M91 and Dragoons that survived came from weapons that were captured by Finland, or given to Spain are the Balkans.
I enjoy collecting these old rifles, but one day I will have to find them a new home.
I'll try to do a post tonight on the M91.

fpgt72 said:

Had you been on the hunt for a spanish civil war rifle?

Still to this day so many thing a mosin is a mosin is a mosin.....nope nope nope, so many interesting roads to go down with this thing...it has been about everywhere.

It took me about 5 years to finally find the Remington with the markings I had been hunting......the search is part of the fun.

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I'm always on the look out for something outside the norm. I already have a few SCW rifles. I got this one from a friend. We have both been collecting for some time, but he is cutting back on his surplus rifles and knew that I would be interested.
We did some horse treading and I'm building him a target AR with a Wilson 20" heavy fluted barrel.