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So I got a Finnish P-27 not too long ago was unfortunately touched by the vile hand of an ignorant Bubba. Since I love Mosins and I know this is a fairly rare one I decided to restore it as much as I possibly can and I have been working with bplvr on it. Luckily, Bubba only sanded down (instead of actual butchering or hacking up) the stock and none of the metal parts have changed.
In the process of all this, bplvr and I discovered a few little things...
1) Bubba did not remove the action from the stock when refinishing. This left a bunch of wood shavings on the inside of the stock.
2) The sling escutcheon screws are made of really, really crappy steel, almost like aluminum. We only lost one of the 8 screws during this process so that is pretty cool. A trip to the hardware store will alleviate that problem once the stock is done being worked on.
3) Underneath the sling escutcheons are sling slots that have been filled in with some sort of non-wood substance with a hole to allow a pass-through Finnish swivel. Does anyone know what the substance is?
4) It seems that a brass shim was placed at the left side of the stock near the recoil bolt which proved problematic when trying to remove the recoil bolt. I am assuming this was placed there for accuracy, as there are other shims in the stock as well.
While bplvr has my stock, I took all the metal parts home for a good cleaning. In the process of doing all that, I photographed all the parts and their marks.
A small summary of this gun as I know it to be right now...
1) The receiver is a Chatellerault receiver, which makes the receiver from 1891 to 1893.
2) The bolt is nearly all pre-1928 Tula, the only deviation being the bolt face having what appears to be a Sestroyesk mark. (Can anyone narrow down that year?)
3) The hangers are all pre-1928 Izhevsk.
4) The barrel has a set of crossed cannons on it. I cannot seem to find where that mark is from. It would make sense if it were Russian as it is a relined barrel but I am not 100% certain.
Here is a link to all the photos.
I will post more when the stock has been restored to most of its former glory.
CARRY ON!
-N8
In the process of all this, bplvr and I discovered a few little things...
1) Bubba did not remove the action from the stock when refinishing. This left a bunch of wood shavings on the inside of the stock.
2) The sling escutcheon screws are made of really, really crappy steel, almost like aluminum. We only lost one of the 8 screws during this process so that is pretty cool. A trip to the hardware store will alleviate that problem once the stock is done being worked on.
3) Underneath the sling escutcheons are sling slots that have been filled in with some sort of non-wood substance with a hole to allow a pass-through Finnish swivel. Does anyone know what the substance is?
4) It seems that a brass shim was placed at the left side of the stock near the recoil bolt which proved problematic when trying to remove the recoil bolt. I am assuming this was placed there for accuracy, as there are other shims in the stock as well.
While bplvr has my stock, I took all the metal parts home for a good cleaning. In the process of doing all that, I photographed all the parts and their marks.
A small summary of this gun as I know it to be right now...
1) The receiver is a Chatellerault receiver, which makes the receiver from 1891 to 1893.
2) The bolt is nearly all pre-1928 Tula, the only deviation being the bolt face having what appears to be a Sestroyesk mark. (Can anyone narrow down that year?)
3) The hangers are all pre-1928 Izhevsk.
4) The barrel has a set of crossed cannons on it. I cannot seem to find where that mark is from. It would make sense if it were Russian as it is a relined barrel but I am not 100% certain.
Here is a link to all the photos.
I will post more when the stock has been restored to most of its former glory.
CARRY ON!
-N8
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