Why i still enjoy refurbs

[Miller Tyme]

I never tire of looking through a rack of refurbs because there are still some nice oddballs/collectables to be found for a cheap price. I found this one today on a rack full of refurbs. Two other collectors I know who had been looking through the same rack and had just told me there was nothing special to be found. Well sometimes it pays to be sceptical.......a C-note latter I am out the door with one such oddball.

It's a 1923 Izhevsk ex-dragoon refurb in a late war stock with both Izhevsk & Tula parts, which by it's self is nothing special. But sometimes it's the little things that most people overlook that makes the refurb rack so much fun.











In the thousands of refurbs I have handled I have never seen a refurb with the Czars crest intact ( not overstamped) with the Communist crest.



And of course if the Czars crest is on the reciever of a 1923 rifle then the reciever has to be a recycled reciever

[Niner]

Good find. Here is a M91 from the same original factory...no top wood on the front end.