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Guys, he rescued it from the scrap heap. The collector's value was nil. Now he has a shooter. It's not Bubbafication. I hate Bubbas as much as the next guy, but what he did ain't it.
To the OP, the "r" isn't an R, it is actually the Russian г, which is their letter for G. Which as the other poster noted is their abbreviation for year. The MC is part of the serial number, and translates to "MS". But since it looks the same as our MC, you can use that in your bound book, assuming you have one. The real fun for Russian guns in your book comes when you have letters that don't have a direct look alike in our alphabet. Б, Д, Ф and several others have actual translations, but things like Ц, Ч, Щ and Ж really screw things up. Those often require 2-4 roman characters to translate correctly. It gets worse with many of the pre 1918 guns, as they sometimes use letters that even the Russians got rid of.
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To the OP, the "r" isn't an R, it is actually the Russian г, which is their letter for G. Which as the other poster noted is their abbreviation for year. The MC is part of the serial number, and translates to "MS". But since it looks the same as our MC, you can use that in your bound book, assuming you have one. The real fun for Russian guns in your book comes when you have letters that don't have a direct look alike in our alphabet. Б, Д, Ф and several others have actual translations, but things like Ц, Ч, Щ and Ж really screw things up. Those often require 2-4 roman characters to translate correctly. It gets worse with many of the pre 1918 guns, as they sometimes use letters that even the Russians got rid of.
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