1925 Izhevsk Ex-Dragoon

[Candyman]

I bought this one from a member over at SRF
There are a few reasons I bough this old ugly rifle.
I like old war horses.
It will look great next to my 1925 Tula Ex-Dragoon.
No Importer stamps.
It's not one of those fancy clean refurbs with that Spl. Ivan flacking Shellac.
And the fact that there are a few odd things about it.

As you can see it is sitting in a post war Russian stock.






The slider buttons on the rear sight are different.






The Action has the SN# stamped on the left side. I have been told that this could have been done by the Importer, but I don't think so.













The Bolt has been restamped to match.








The Magazine is the only Tula part on the rifle.




The Barrel does not have an importer's stamp on it.






The Barrel bands have different size markings.





Now here is what makes this rifle odd. There is no Shellac on the stock, only oil. There is a splice repair on the right side by the trigger, but it also has 7 Finn style cross grain plug repairs on it. I forgot to grt a pic of the one on the lower left side of the wrist.











Now back to the SN#. The font style and size matches on the barrel, action and bolt. The font on the buttplat is a little different.
I think that this rifle may have been Finn captured but never marked.




All in all I am very happy with this rifle.

[Niner]

Now that is a good photo post. I can see why you were attracted to this rifle.

Looks like the bolt is matched to the receiver and isn't a forced match. The magazine number doesn't match the receiver and bolt but is not lined and force matched either. It's amazing what these Nagants have gone through over time, yet still remain as functioning firearms.

No import marks must mean it has been in the US for a while and is a plus.

[oldironsights]

Lee, from the great pictures you have provided, I can tell it is a Ukrainian refurb & the bolt has been scrubbed & forced to match, also the receiver serial number was put there by the U.S. importer. Look above the receiver serial number for a very lightly struck dot-matrix importers stamp. Some are very small & difficult to see.
The rear sight slider buttons are a mix of 91/30 & carbine buttons.
The upper barrel band looks Romanian.
This rifle looks to have been part of the batch that came from Bosnia/Serbia & the former Yugoslavia.
Oh, the stories that rifle could tell........................

[Niner]

My mistake. I see now that the serial number on the bolt must have been added after grinding off the original number. It's hell being old, half blind, and not very observant all at the same time.