Cosmoline
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I was reading a book about Mosin-Nagant's (Lapin's) and was interested to discover that the Finns continued to use 19th century M-91 receivers for both the late-production M-39's of the late '60's but for the M-85 sniper rifle. To my knowledge these rifles are still in use by reserve units, which would make those rifles (or their receivers, anyway) the oldest continuously operating rifles in any military force. Possibly the oldest contiuously operating weapons of any military force. It's the eqivalent of using a Krag rifle for a modern sniper in the US forces.