Mosin marking help

[mdouglas1980]

I just recently bought a couple Izhevesk 91/30's from classic arms and they are beautiful. What I haven't ever seen though is a stamp in both of them that is a number 25 within a triangle.

I have looked on 54R.net and haven't found anything yet. Has anyone seen this? I'm guessing that the triangle is most definitely an Izzy marking, but the 25? I don't know.

Anyone have any suggestion?

I'll post some pictures later tonight when I get home.
Thanks,

Mike

[mauser98k]

simple fact of the matter is there are marks on old Soviet rifles that the Russians don't even know what they mean anymore. it's probably just an inspector's stamp or something similar.

just because it's in a triangle doesn't mean it's an Izhevsk stamp

[mosinnagantm9130]

The triangle 25 is one of the more commonly seen unknown M/N markings.

[mosinnagantm9130]

Here's a pic from 7.62x54r.net showing the triangle 25 on an Izhevsk rifle.

[SVT-40]

Check out this Gunboards thread. Lots of triangle 25 info.

http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?89011-Triangle-25-markings

Many of the triangle 25 markings were also colored with the red paint before importation.

[mdouglas1980]

Yeah one of the triangles on mine are colored still. It's pretty cool :-)

[Sampachi]

Makes me wonder if it was "loaned" to some other country, but then the orange/red makes me think of Instructie trainers. A good mystery always makes C&Rs fun!