Mosin Nagant Serial Numbers. Definitions: Matching A rifle with all four serialed parts. A matching rifle could. All stamped matching A rifle on which all four. Force matched A rifle that has had one or more parts. Evident by the presence of a lined out number, signs that.
Mis- matched A rifle with one or more of the three. Finn matched A Finnish built or marked rifle that.
Although buttplate and floorplate. Finn matched. A rifle with. Finn matched. Electropenciled A method of etching parts with a. Alpha prefix The letters preceding the serial. Soviet and Eastern European Mosin Nagants. They represent a block of 9,9. Primary serial numbers.
The Smith & Wesson Model 3 was a. so named because it was supplied to the military of the Russian. with the serial numbers changing from the First Model. The Russian - Soviet Mosin Nagant Rifles/Carbines. General Production Information And Numbers. Brent Snodgrass. These numbers come from a number of sources but by. Mosin Nagant Serial Numbers. Serial numbers repeated at the Russian/Soviet arsenals and at Remington each year as seen on this rifle and the one following. EHow UK » Hobbies » How to. It is quite difficult to track down the actual serial numbers. You will know you have a genuine Russian SKS if the serial number.
Mosin Nagant rifles, like most European firearms, are on the barrel, rather than the. United States. 2. Secondary serial numbers. Mosin Nagants. Bolt. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 5Cocking knobs were also numbered. Russian production and Remington M9.
Numbered cocking knobs are uncommon. They are most often encountered on rifles. Finland from salvaged parts. Stocks are occasionally numbered. M9. 1s. from the Balkans (seldom matching)7. Later Soviet production such as M3. M4. 4s, and M9. 1/5.
Soviet replacement stocks in pencil in the barrel channel. Soviet postwar M4.
Military rifles. u.s. military serial. same sniper used in wwii by the russian army. all matching serial numbers. excellent shape. m1 carbine. very nice shape.
Late Chinese T5. 3s instead of the buttplate. Bayonets are also numbered at the.
Cleaning rods are not typically. It is not matched to the rifle and it is. Chatellerault prefixed the number. N" which stands for "number" and is not a letter found in the. Cyrillic alphabet. It is technically not a part of the serial number although it is.
US importers and FFL holders for record keeping. Production started at serial number 1 and ran straight through to the end of the.
Military Number plates have their own series. Military number plates are used on serving army navy etc. vehicles and usually comprise of two numbers, followed by two.
Here is a renumbered bolt that has the "N" prefix. Since the "N" was not part of the serial number it is usually not.
This was probably done in a. Russia where the meaning of the "N" was not recognized. Tula used the same "N".
Each year started over at serial. Tula began to use "No". This also stands for.
N". 1. 7Izhevsk did not use the. N" prefix or the "No" symbol. Each year started over at serial number. Sestroryetsk used "No.".
N". Each. year started over at serial number 1. New England Westinghouse used. No." above the serial number, which means "number" just as the.
N". Production started at serial number 1 and ran straight through to the end. Remington used "No.". N". Each. year started over at serial number 1. Serial numbers repeated at the. Russian/Soviet arsenals and at Remington each year as seen on this rifle and the one.
Tula M9. 1/3. 0, serial number 9. Tula M9. 1/3. 0, serial number 9.
Letter suffixes follow some. These are typically found on M9. Balkans and are thought to. They are not part of the original numbers. Letters. which have been observed are "G" (possibly Turkey). E"2. 5"F", most common of the letter suffixes.
T", very uncommon. Picture courtesy of JMKDEVCO. Receivers are sometimes numbered. Russia, the Soviet Union, Eastern European. China almost never numbered the receiver, including rifles produced in. France and the United States. An exception is the earliest Tula production as seen on this.
M9. 1. Picture courtesy of Robert Jensen. Sure signs that it is an importer number is the use of a. Latin rather than Cyrillic letters on a. Soviet rifle, or the inclusion of other import information along with the number. See the Mosin Nagant Import Marks page for more information. Receivers used by Finland were apparently numbered in some. Because of the use of different sizes and fonts of stamps used by Finland and.
Finnish receiver number is original or not. As with all Mosin Nagants, if it is a dot matrix type stamp it is not original. Belgian "Blindee" 8mm conversions are an exception.
In these cases. the barrel was shortened from the rear for rechambering which removed the original serial. Another exception is this 1. Izhevsk Dragoon. The. Cyrillic "alpha prefixes". Tula in 1. 93. 7. These consist of two letters followed by a number of. The prefixes were apparently assigned at random and changed when. No known records of the order in which they were assigned.
Because of the random use of the Cyrillic characters it is impossible to know. Also, "low". serial numbers have no significance because it is not known whether their block was first. Occasionally a rifle is reported with. Cyrillic character, but in all cases it has been found that the second character.
Cyrillic "Z" which looks like the number "3". Izhevsk began. using this system in 1.
See The Russian Alphabet page. Cyrillic characters. The same Cyrillic characters were also stamped on the other. Bolt. 34. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 36. Other letters are sometimes.
These are translations of the Cyrillic characters. Century) to comply with BATF regulations. It.
See the Mosin. Nagant Import Marks page for more information. Restamped numbers on secondary. Barrel with original. Bolt. 39. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 41. Electropenciled numbering is. Barrel with original number.
Bolt. 43. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 45. Struck through original serial. New. number stamped. New number electropenciled. Unconventional serial numbers are. Mosin Nagants. Here is an uncommon case where the original serial number. It is a Czech M9.
M9. 1. An interesting side note is the "Serbian crown" mark to the right of the. Izhevsk "bow and arrow" arsenal mark. The secondary parts are matched to. Barrel 4. 8Bolt. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 51. This 1. Finnish marked Dragoon also has it's serial number. The only other number on the rifle is on the bolt body and.
Whether the. renumbering was done in Finland or not is a mystery. This 1. 94. 0 Tula M9. Cyrillic prefix lined out and a new three digit number stamped above it. No other numbers. Picture courtesy of spoojul.
This M9. 1 has the barrel serial number divided in two parts by. Izhevsk arsenal mark. It also has the "N" prefix which is not usually. Izhevsk rifles. The barrel was probably renumbered in Romania when the date. King Ferdinand of Romania added. It is atypical. Picture. courtesy of Josh Norris. This is an Izhevsk M9.
No" symbol. before the serial number. It also has an unusual "PM 8. Another PM 8. 6 M9.
Picture. courtesy of rocker. This M1. 90. 7 carbine has no serial number at all on the barrel. The buttplate and magazine floorplate match.
Remington bolt retains the matching cocking knob, but is not the same. Picture courtesy of Al.
This 1. 93. 9 Tula M9. Cyrillic prefix scrubbed and a new 6 digit number without a prefix stamped in it's. The remains of the original number are still partially visible below the new. This 1. 94. 4 Tula M9. MO marked and has a 4 digit serial. Cyrillic prefix which was typically used at that time. It is. MO mark, but that is only.
There is no apparent evidence that another number was scrubbed or. This 1. 94. 3 Tula M9. PU sniper and similar to the.
Cyrillic prefix which was. There is no apparent evidence that another number was. Later production Soviet rifles have numbers on the underside. These don't seem to match each other or the serial. They are repeated though with several cases of the same number appearing on.
It is assumed that these were used for inventory tracking during. Poland followed the Soviet. Latin letters rather than Cyrillic.
The first year of M4. The numbering of secondary parts also followed the Soviet pattern and.
Electropenciled or restamped numbers. Polish parts but the sample is small. Picture courtesy of. JMKDEVCO. 6. 1In 1.
In 1. 95. 5 the two character prefix was retained, but the. Thanks. to Karl- Heinz Wrobel for information on the changes in the Polish numbering system. Hungary followed the Soviet. Latin letters rather. Cyrillic, followed by a four digit number. Numbers with less than four digits. The numbering of. Soviet pattern and included the bolt, floorplate, and.
Electropenciling has not been documented on Hungarian parts but the sample is. Restamped numbers, including the alpha prefix, are. Hungarian rifles with the original number struck through.
Magazine. floorplate. Buttplate. 66. Romania followed the Soviet. Latin letters rather.
Cyrillic, followed by a number of four digits or less. Single digit serial. The. numbering of secondary parts also followed the Soviet pattern and included the bolt.
Renumbering of secondary parts by Romania is apparently. These parts are often from the Soviet Union, Poland, and Hungary so the.
Romanian patter exactly. Electropenciling has not been. Romanian parts and restamped numbers are seldom seen. In the few cases. The. parts could have come from the Soviet Union and not been restamped in Romania. China began T5. 3 production in. A" prefix and are followed by.
Chinese character "shi" which means "test" or "trials". In at least some cases only the last digits of the full. Bolt, atypical location.
Magazine floorplate. With the second year of production (1. China began to use. The full number was also stamped in the secondary locations. Bolt. 72. Magazine floorplate. Buttplate. 74. During the last year of production (1.
China began to use. The buttplate was no longer numbered in later production but.
Albania made a limited number of. M9. 1/3. 0s and the few that have been documented all have a four digit serial number. The numbering of secondary parts is typical and includes the. Finnish serial numbers do not. Receivers used by Finland were. Because of the use of different sizes and fonts of.
Finland and importers it is difficult to be certain if a Finnish receiver. As with all Mosin Nagants, if it is a dot matrix type. Secondary serial numbers are. However. the manner of numbering them is different from the Russian/Soviet rifles and with the. This is not considered detrimental.
Finnish Mosin Nagant collectors. Finland did not produce bolt bodies and all of. Old serial numbers are often lined out. In some cases. several old numbers are present.
This bolt was scrubbed clean and the new number stamped on. This bolt was scrubbed clean and the last four digits of the.
This is common on Finnish rifles. This bolt was scrubbed clean and no new number stamped. This bolt had several old numbers lined out and the last four.