Even now, well into the twenty-first century, the Mosin soldiers on. Recently, the Mosin was spotted in the hands of separatist forces in the Donbass region of Ukraine. One of the most widely used ...

The Soviet government often exaggerated tales of its front-line snipers for propaganda purposes. The sniper duel between famed Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev and “Major Konig” was probably myth, ...

Weapons expert, Ian McCollum reacts to the Mosin-Nagant in six video games. Ian is a firearm expert, historian, and founder of both Forgotten Weapons and Headstamp Publishing, and he's here to share ...

In the run-up to World War II Soviet engineers designed a new version of the Mosin rifle with a caliber of 7.62 x 155 mm, which could go clean through 15 mm steel plate. In the early 1930s the plant ...

Finland's final iteration of Mosin Nagant sniper was adopted in the 1980s to replace a mix-and-match assortment of m/39-43, m/27-66, and m/28-76 rifles. The two options were a Mosin system using a new ...

Simple but more robust and reliable than its more sophisticated rivals, the Mosin “three-lined” rifle became a stalwart of the Russo-Japanese war, both world wars and the Russian Civil War, thanks to ...

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“This looks like a really well rendered 91/30 PU. The rifle looks correct, the scope mount is accurate, the scope looks correct. This was the standard Soviet version of the Mosin Sniper for World War ...