Post WWII Issued Bolt Action Military Rifles

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I'm thinking about starting a collection of post-WWII bolt action military issue rifles. That is, bolt action rifles made and issued to troops after the advent of the semiautomatic battle rifles and assault rifles. But I'm not sure I know about all of them. Here's the list I've come up with so far:

--Finnish M39's
--Polish M44's
--91/56 mods
--Czech 1891/38 carbines
--Various other eastern block Mosins
--Danish Madsen
--Yugo M48
--Iranian Mauser carbine


I'm sure I'm forgetting some. Any thoughts?
 
Lee-Enfields are still issued in India (.308) and to the Canadian Rangers (.303).

They're also really, really good looking guns, IMO. And they have the longest service history of any military rifle issued, if I remember right.

edit: I think Australia used the No.5 jungle carbine for quite a while after WWII too. There's a great little company down there that's still making high-quality new ones, in .308.
 
Wasn't there a Chinese copy of the Mosin that was issued pretty late?
I seem to remember that the North Vietnamese were issued the Chinese Mosins (along with AK and SKS rifles), but one of you real buffs will probably be by to correct me soon!
 
19-3Ben: Some Chinese MN 44s have been on a table at Memphis gun shows in the last year.

Yugo 8mm Mausers (such as my 48A) have been used.

Have read that some of our troops in Vietnam faced the (mostly) pre-WW2 Czech 8mm Mausers, not just some Mosin Nagants.

A buddy of the Marine Officer Philip Caputo (authored "A Rumour Of War") was killed by a sniper who probably had a version of the Russian MN 44 or 91/30, not too far from Da Nang. I don't know whether the Viet Cong had PSLs, SVTs (also 7.62x54R), or when these were first produced.

The Afghan reportedly used Mausers and L. Enfields in the 80s, 90s and maybe recently.
Some LE copies were built in the Khyber Pass, and further south/east in Peshawar, Pakistan, Michael Palin (former Monty Python actor) visited several shops (in one narrow street) which build copies of various guns. This is in one of his travel DVDs, produced a few years ago.

Priz: Yes, among others, Australian Int'l Arms builds rifles very similar to the LE #5, and are chambered in 7.62x39.
Not many are shipped to the US, and the price tag on such a rifle (which I handled) in Gander Mountain a year ago in Saginaw MI was about $700.
 
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The Chinese M53 (copy of Soviet M44) and the Indian Enfields come to mind as rifles made in large numbers after WWII and issued widely. Both mentioned above, just seconding that.
 
Post WWII bolt action battle rifles.

Howdy!
I can't let an opportunity go by without mentioning the Model 1896, 6.5X55, Swedish Mauser.
It was used as a regular issue weapon(from 1897, I believe) or sniper rifle(from 1941) in the regular Swedish Army until 1995 and was still capable of getting the job done, but they went to a more modern design (Why??).
That amounted to a continuous service, with the same armed force, of almost a century.
If there's another rifle that beats that record, I haven't heard of it.
Thanks for your time.
 
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Just reminded me of Mumbai Police with their Ishapore 2As against those terrorists in 2008.
And Serbian villagers armed with Yugo M 48As during the Kosovo War of 1999.
 
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A buddy of the Marine Officer Philip Caputo (authored "A Rumour Of War") was killed by a sniper who probably had a version of the Russian MN 44 or 91/30, not too far from Da Nang. I don't know whether the Viet Cong had PSLs, SVTs (also 7.62x54R), or when these were first produced.
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in 1969 my battalion killed a sniper in Quang Tri Province (north of Da Nang) who had a 91/30 with standard Soviet-style sniper scope.
 
Not sure if you're after the specialized role rifles, but there are tons of those.

Remington 700 (M24) for example.
 
Are you looking for frontline weapons or rear echelon Cosmoline? The former would limit your collection a bit more. Almost everyone had bolt actions laying around throughout the cold war for rear guard, but most phased them out on the front line within 10 years or so.

What about the FR8 Mauser? Was that ever a front line weapon?

The Israelis use Kar98s for a while after WWII. Had some rebarreled to 762x51 a little later.

Various second hand Mausers were everywhere in south America.

No.5 Enfields were used by Malaysian rear guard units and police

The No.4 Enfield was fielded by the Brits and commonwealths until the L1A1/FAL was adopted. It definitely saw action in Korea.
 
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are there Swedes with stamped dates past WWII? I thought they were just reusing old stock.
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Not that I'm aware of. (But not saying that there wasn't any.) They started the switch to SA with the Ljundmann in 42.

My guess would be that once they were positive that all the bugs were worked out, they didn't look back.

Though they were probably used well past 45 (there sniper rifle for example was built off the 1896). But new production is something entirely different.

Wyman
 
I like were you're headed with this. Wish I could get the wife to go along with it.:uhoh:
 
fr-8 and i think there was an fr-7, ishy 2a's, no4mk1, no4mk2, m48's. mosins, israeli mausers. there are more than you may think
 
Were there any Swedish Model 1896s made after WWII?

Howdy.
To Cosmoline:
No, there were no Model 1986s made after WWII.
I misread the thread and didn't notice the "made" part.
They just continued issuing them until 1995.
Some original rifles were selected for accuracy, at the onset of WWII, and converted to sniper use.
These were given a different designation, as M-41 or eventually M-41B, after some minor updates. But, as you infer, they were all made prior to WWII.
My mistake.
Thanks for your time.
 
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