1891/59

[Emdawg]

After inspection of the 91/59 I don't believe that I will buy it. The upper part of the handguard has been replaced with a non-matching peace of wood and it looks awful.

Unless they are all like that...

[jthesby]

After inspection of the 91/59 I don't believe that I will buy it. The upper part of the handguard has been replaced with a non-matching peace of wood and it looks awful.

Unless they are all like that...

Wood on mine all matches nicely, but the history of the 91/59 is so unknown, that it Vertu well "came" that way

[Marcus von W.]

91/59's use cut-down 91/30 handguards, which are sometimes a different color than the stock.

If the handguard itself has actually been "dicked with" by someone other than a Soviet aresnal, you could always modify a 91/30 handguard yourself to replace it with - assuming the condition and price of the rifle justified acquiring it.

Although the 91/59, in that configuration, doesn't have the combat history of an unaltered 91/30, they are still an interesting historical artifact that shows how the venerable Mosin platform was modified and issued even well into the "Cold War" and the age of the SKS and AK.

[eagle eye]

After inspection of the 91/59 I don't believe that I will buy it. The upper part of the handguard has been replaced with a non-matching peace of wood and it looks awful.

Unless they are all like that...

That is not unusuall, mine came like that too.