The most important area for us right now is the 'Barrel Shank' area. Lets start simple with the 'parts' and areas of the rifle (those we will be using first). There are others that made receivers after WWII, and we will get into them at a later time. There are others that made parts for Mosin rifles like Finland's Tikkakoski (Tikka),VKT ( Valmet), and Sako, but never made receivers. Later Remington, and New England Westinghouse made rifles also. Soon followed by Tula, Sestroryetsk, and Izhevsk. The first one's came from France's arsenal Chatelleraul. Russia was the first to 'use the Mosin' but did not make it first. We will start with 'who made my rifle?' first. I'm sure they kept track of how many were made in each group, but they will not release that even today. There were no set number in a certain prefix, it could be 10,000 in a prefix or 60,000. When a certain were made, they changed the letters and started again. The serial numbers were done in batches by the prefix letters. Serial numbers are mis-matched on barrel, and bolt. Blued metal finish, wooden stock, and handguard. The first iteration of the Mosin-Nagant, the rifle was chambered in 7.62x54mmR (7.62 Russian), was a whopping 51.5-inches in overall length and had a 31.6-inch barrel. Important Mosin-Nagant Variants M91 Mosin-Nagant M91, manufactured by Westinghouse. Is a Finnish number indicating the Civil Guard District that the rifle was assigned too. What you can do is buy like 500 Albanian 7.62 X 54R and those will last you for a year or more. Their question is 'how did they know that'?

There are two things a new owner wants to know first, especially if they have already gone to the forums first and others have told them this information first. For the 'new owner' of a 're-furbished' Mosin Nagant

Curved bolt for mosin nagant