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I bought these three Finnish Tikkakoski (Tikka) m/91-30 rifles from a guy back in 2016. They are all new after being rebuilt buy the Finn's. These rifles are a Finnish copy of the Soviet M/91-30 rifle. The Finn's captured approx. 160,000 Soviet M/91-30 rifles during WWII from the Soviet army. They liked the design of the rifle and made their own version. There were less than 12,000 m/91-30 rifles built by Tikka in 1943 and 1944. Some Tikka barrels were used as late as the early 1980's to "make" new m/91-30 rifles. The below rifle with the Finnish armory tag is one of those, and was "made" in 1971.
My rifles were made using receivers from three different manufacturers, a undated Tula, a 1922 Izhevsk and unusually a unknown dated Remington receiver. The Finn's weren't real concerned about "matching" numbers on all the parts of their rifles except for the bolts, which they renumbered during the build process. The Finn's made their own stocks for most of their self made m/91-30's. All three of my rifles have what are called "wartime" stocks with round finger joints in their two piece stocks. Two piece stocks were much more economical as they could use shorter pieces of wood to make usable stocks from "Artic Birch".
Because the rear sights on the Soviet M/91-30 were taller than other previous rifles the Finn's had to raise the height of the front sights on their m/ 91-30's. They accomplished this by adding a short insert into the front sight dovetail. You can see this in one of the pic's below.
The Finn's kept these m/91-30 rifles in their government armories up until as late as the early 1990's when they were exported. Manly to the US by Century Arms Int.. All three of mine are "Samco Global Arms" imports who also imported them into the US. These importers paid around $6.00 per rifle. Yes only $6.00 or so.
Pic's!!
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My rifles were made using receivers from three different manufacturers, a undated Tula, a 1922 Izhevsk and unusually a unknown dated Remington receiver. The Finn's weren't real concerned about "matching" numbers on all the parts of their rifles except for the bolts, which they renumbered during the build process. The Finn's made their own stocks for most of their self made m/91-30's. All three of my rifles have what are called "wartime" stocks with round finger joints in their two piece stocks. Two piece stocks were much more economical as they could use shorter pieces of wood to make usable stocks from "Artic Birch".
Because the rear sights on the Soviet M/91-30 were taller than other previous rifles the Finn's had to raise the height of the front sights on their m/ 91-30's. They accomplished this by adding a short insert into the front sight dovetail. You can see this in one of the pic's below.
The Finn's kept these m/91-30 rifles in their government armories up until as late as the early 1990's when they were exported. Manly to the US by Century Arms Int.. All three of mine are "Samco Global Arms" imports who also imported them into the US. These importers paid around $6.00 per rifle. Yes only $6.00 or so.
Pic's!!
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