I have come across an interesting rifle which I would like help identifying and any information possible. [image][url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=219522&c=500&z=1"] [/url][/image] [url="http://www.hunt101.com/?p=219522&c=500&z=1"] [/url][/image]

It is stamped:



Remington Armory 1918



It is in 7.62 Russian.



Any help would be appreciated.

I have come across a new rifle that is very interesting. It is stamped:



Remington Armory 1918

Serial: 572xxx

It is a 7.62 Russian.



Any information would be appreciated.

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Img_8262 by Frank Martinez

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Edited by Frank Martinez (03/11/2004 10:10)



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(edited to add the other pictures posted on the other thread)

Thanks Charles. I still have problems doing this correctly.
I have added a couple more photos which can also be seen on the Military arms thread.
Frank

Looks to me like a Mosin Nagant 1891 that was made by Remington. I like the hex shaped reciever, but most i know of them was that Remington helped out Russia by making a boatload of these, but I'm not sure many of them actually made it over to them. As for collector value not a clue, but it is certainly a piece of history.

79

Thanks for the help. It is a fun little rifle with NO SAFETY.
My future son-in-law got it from his grandfather and has killed one deer with it.
Frank

Yes, it HAS a safety!



When it is cocked, you pull this here cocking knob back, against the striker spring tension, rotate it (to the right if my recollection is correct??), and then let it go forward until it hooks onto the side edge of the receiver. This locks the striker and the bolt. It's slow, difficult to engage/disengage, but it is a safety, and a very positive one!



During WWI, Remington and New England Westinghouse made these rifles for the Czar, and when the Bolshevics took over, our government prohibited them from being shipped to Russia. A number of them were issued to the 27th Infantry Regiment (Wolfhounds) when they were deployed to Siberia to fight the Reds during the Russian Civil War that followed the Bolshevic usurpation of power from the Kerensky Constitutional Monarchy.



A lot more of them were sold through the DCM to NRA members following WWI, for I believe $1.50 or $2.50 - cheap, anyway!! I guess they're worth a buck-and-a-half!!