Original WW1 service rifles....show and tell

[snayperskaya]

Bit of a thread resurrection but here we go......

My 1915* New England Westinghouse Mosin, made in the USA for the army of Czar Nicholas II.

The stock is the original American walnut stock and apart from the cleaning rod and some bolt parts it is largely all original.It has an old warhorse look but the chamber, bore and crown are very good indeed and appears to have had little use.There is nothing to suggest that it was Finnish-captured or ended up in The Balkans like a lot of them did and the only proofs and stamps, apart from recent Birmingham proofs, are the original New England Westinghouse marks and Russian proofmarks so where it has been for all these years is anyone's guess.

*all N.E.W Mosin's are dated 1915 on the barrel shank regardless of the actual year of production, which would be from 1915 to 1918.

Interesting article on the American made Mosin......

http://www.mosinnagant.net/USSR/US-Mosin-Nagants.asp

[Sfwh]

I would upload some pictures of my WW1 issue Gewehr 1888 but they don't seem to want to be added so maybe I'm doing something wrong.

People have spoken on here about getting historic rifles re-barreled. Is there a specific place anyone would recommend for that?

[ovenpaa]

I did say I would get one. This is my Lithgow although it is technically post WW1 as it is dated 1920. It is disappointing to see Photobucket watermarks over the images of some superb specimens. Bloody hosting services.

[Justwatching]

1891 Carcano.

Mine was manufactured at the Terni arsenal, 1897 dated.

[daman]

Cross posting from another thread, my recently acquired Vetterli-Vitali Modelo 1870/87

[snayperskaya]

This rifle has been posted before but I am the new custodian of it......

It is a 1917 Remington M91 built in the USA for Czar Nicholas II's army, shipped to Russia and captured early in its career by the Germans who fitted an ersatz bayonet adapter to it and then shipped it to Finland as military aid to the White Finns during The Finnish Civil War.

The complete lack of later modifcations, alterations or Finnish military property marks seems to point to it having been taken home by someone and squirrelled away at the end of the Civil War.As the Finnish military had thousands of standard M91 bayonets it was usually the case that if a rifle with an adapter for the German ersatz bayonets entered the military inventory they were removed to allow a standard M91 bayonet to be fitted and the adapters went into the melting pot!.

She is all matching with the exception of the magazine floorplate which is one digit out, someone at Remington had their mind on other things that day in 1917 and either fitted the floorplate destined for the next rifle on the line or picked up the wrong number punch!, perhaps they were busy thinking about their date with Mary-Lou later that night but we'll never know.

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[snayperskaya]

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This is an exceptionally rare rifle in outstanding original condition and I feel very privileged to be the new custodian of her......she also compliments my N.E.W warhorse quite nicely but the only problem is I now NEED an example of a Tula, a Sestroryetsk, an Izhevsk and a Chatellerault M91!!!.

[Justwatching]

Cross posting from another thread, my recently acquired Vetterli-Vitali Modelo 1870/87

Wow, that's nice! Do you shoot it?

I got repro chargers from Italy earlier this year.

[Justwatching]

Steyr M95 carbine chambered in the original 8x50R Mannlicher cartridge.

[Justwatching]

Two for one in this picture; we've got an Austro-Hungarian 1886 pattern Steyr in the background and 1907/15 Berthier in front.