The Mosin-Nagant’s story begins with the Russian Empire. About a decade before the turn of the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire was quite literally on the hunt for a new service rifle to replace ...
Introduced in 1891, the Mosin-Nagant rifle has had an incredibly long run, and is still in service in some parts of the world. And, of course, it has had a second career as an incredibly inexpensive ...
Between 1891 and 1973, more than thirty-seven million 3-Line Rifle M1891s were produced, making it one of the most widely manufactured firearms of the 20th century. Today most firearms enthusiasts and ...