SA Marked Guns

[Gutter]

Thinking of my love for anything Finn marked, I started wondering how many types rifles/pistols are known to be SA marked. For the purposes of this, I'd like to exclude anything that's Finn produced (M39, M28/30, etc) and accessories. I'll start with what I own and can think of off the top of my head:

M91
M91/30
M1895
M96 Swede
SVT40

[Emdawg]

M38 Carcano
Type 38 Arisaka
M94 Swede Carbine


I do wonder if there are any 1895 Winchesters floating around with SA stamped on them.

[Gutter]

Knew that was coming. Must be from that rare U.S. contract

[Crunch130]

Someone gave me some Finn-manufactured .303 British ammo. I believe it's dated 1938, but I'm not at home to check. So they had some Enfields. I have no idea whether they ever marked them SA or overhauled them or whatever.

Crunch

[Flyin Brian]

Someone gave me some Finn-manufactured .303 British ammo. I believe it's dated 1938, but I'm not at home to check. So they had some Enfields. I have no idea whether they ever marked them SA or overhauled them or whatever.

Crunch

The Finns used .303 in their Aircraft MGs.

[Emdawg]

The Finns used .303 in their Aircraft MGs.

Interesting. Why is that?

[Baboosh]

My 1910 Maxim is SA marked

[mosinnagantm9130]

Mosin M38s and M44s

[mosinnagantm9130]

Forgot to add, dragoons and cossack rifles can be found SA marked as well.

[Gutter]

Would love to get my hands on a Finn marked M44

[pitfighter]

[Flyin Brian]

Interesting. Why is that?

Uh... I'm guessing that's what they were chambered in?

Finland didn't have much of an Airforce, and purchased planes from wherever they could get them. They had biplanes from the British, Soviets, Italy, Sweden, Germany and US.

The Germans supplied them with US built Curtis P-36 Hawks that were captured from France:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-36_Hawk scroll down to: Finland- it explains how they refitted the Curtis planes with Browning 7.7 (303) Machine Guns.

These MGs were used on the Hawker, Gloster and Bristol planes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_machine_gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_machine_gun

[knucklehead0202]

Yep, I've got an SA marked m38 carcano short rifle. nice thing about them is the Finns put taller front sights on them so you don't have to aim like 10 feet low to hit anything under 300m. Rarity aside, pretty much anything the Finns touched, they improved. Gotta love that.

[empirearms]

M38 Carcano
Type 38 Arisaka

Actually that would be Type 30 Arisaka

M94 Swede Carbine
I do wonder if there are any 1895 Winchesters floating around with SA stamped on them.

I don't think so. . . they really were not accepted into the Finnish Army (but I could be wrong),

Don't forget [SA] marked Lugers!



And there are some [SA] marked Broomhandles as well:



and some Italian Model 1935 Berettas as well:



and, of course, Soviet Nagant revolvers:



And those are just some of the [SA] marked items that EMPIRE ARMS has handled over the past few years.

[Armistice]

Actually that would be Type 30 Arisaka

Why not a T38? Wrong time period? I'm just curious

Don't forget [SA] marked Lugers!

And there are some [SA] marked Broomhandles as well:

and some Italian Model 1935 Berettas as well:

and, of course, Soviet Nagant revolvers:

And those are just some of the [SA] marked items that EMPIRE ARMS has handled over the past few years.

OMG, I want all of those!