Sam Adams
Member
Does anyone know the production numbers for the M39's major variants? I know that this is an area shrouded in some mystery, and that total production numbers were in the area of 130,000. There was an excellent attempt to analyze the relative rarity of various Mosin-Nagant variations (ALL of them, Russian, Finnish, Polish, etc.), on a 1-to-10 scale (10 being the most rare), at http://www.7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinRarity.htm However, this gives no numbers.
The major manufacturers/variations of the M39 are:
Sako
VKT
Sk.Y
Tikka
"B" barrel
No maker, late date (as in 1967-70, some reported 1972s and '73s)
No maker, no date
I ask because I just ordered a "no maker, no date" from Wholesale Guns & Ammo http://www.gunsnammo.com./ I know that the "no maker" guns are quite rare, probably numbering less than 6,000, but having no date is a rarity within a rarity. On top of that, the receiver is a pre-1899 antique (maybe that's a 3rd rarity, but I'm sure that no one could possibly know the production numbers of pre-1899 rifles vs. those made post-1898).
Thanks for any help or information.
The major manufacturers/variations of the M39 are:
Sako
VKT
Sk.Y
Tikka
"B" barrel
No maker, late date (as in 1967-70, some reported 1972s and '73s)
No maker, no date
I ask because I just ordered a "no maker, no date" from Wholesale Guns & Ammo http://www.gunsnammo.com./ I know that the "no maker" guns are quite rare, probably numbering less than 6,000, but having no date is a rarity within a rarity. On top of that, the receiver is a pre-1899 antique (maybe that's a 3rd rarity, but I'm sure that no one could possibly know the production numbers of pre-1899 rifles vs. those made post-1898).
Thanks for any help or information.