Counter-bored m44 Mosin worth?

[CleptoVapor]

Counterbore wouldn’t stop me from buying, if the price were right. Depending on markings and completeness, it could be worth some dough, counterbore or not.

Shoot it at night and admire the fireball that is emitted from the barrel. The counterbore would not be a problem for me. When I was in the market for M44's they were few and far between and sold for double what the 91/30's were going for.

I definitely plan to once some ammo gets here for it. Now that I hear how common it is for the M44s it's not as big a deal. I was more miffed it wasn't mentioned at all

 

[entropy]

As mentioned, it is common to find M44's with a counterbore.
Ironically, just beacuse it's counterbored, doesn't mean it was shot a lot. It means it was cleaned a lot. What do sergeants in the field have soldiers do when there's nothing to do, or right after action? (If the area is secure...) Clean their rifles.The cleaning rod for the Mosin Nagant was made of the same steel as the barrel, and were mostly cleaned from the muzzle, (it was not long enough to go through the receiver also) When they were re-arsenaled in '46-'48, worn barrel ends were counterbored to eliminate rifling worn down or smooth, and any rough edges, then lovingly covered in layers of <sniffs> ah, cosmoline, crated, and stored in old salt mines in the Ukraine and various other parts of the soviet Union, ready to defend the rodina.