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In 1930 a new design had been agreed upon and the birth of the Mosin Nagant  Model 1891/30 (vintovka obrazets 1891/30 goda) was here. It was standardized on April 28th 1930.  And then on June 10th of the same year, Ieronim Petrovich Uborevich, the head of the Red Army's armaments production department issued the order to proceed with production of the new rifle.

The Model 1891/30 rifle is an improved version of the Model 1891 Dragoon rifle. The older hexagon type receiver found on the earlier rifles were replaced with a cylindrical one. The rifle has a 28.7 inch barrel and uses a metric rear tangent sight. The front sight as seen in the pictures is protected by a hood. The bayonet ring is spring loaded and uses a catch when slid over the end of the muzzle and twisted and locked into place. The bayonet has a 17 inch long blade. The rifle has a five round magazine and uses a 7.62 X 54R mm caliber bullet. The rifle weighs in at about 8.7 pounds and has a solid one piece stock and a hand guard on top. The stock and hand guard are held in place by barrel bands.  There were over 17,000,000 of these rifles manufactured between 1930 thru 1944.

I also have two very nice examples of the sniper version of this rifle. The Sniper version used a 3.5 power P.U. scope. The scope is attached to the left of the receiver, and has a longer turned down bolt handle.  I have included a picture of the sniper version so you can see the modification made for this rifle. If any of you saw the movie "Enemy at the Gates", this is the type of rifle used by the Russian sniper in the movie.