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Originally Posted by Vespers War
There would have been three-line rifles floating around from the era between the World Wars. Approximately 280,000 Remington and Westinghouse Mosins were bought by the US government after the Russian Revolution to keep those companies from going bankrupt, and while 50,000 were left in Russia after the Polar Bear Expedition departed, the remainder were sold as surplus for ~$3.50 each. Some were bought by a reseller and converted to .30-06 (which the rifle didn't handle well), but many if not most were sold by the Director of Civilian Marksmanship in their original chambering.
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Thanks, Vespers. I had no idea that US companies ever manufactured Mosins. I did a bit of following up and found this:
https://www.ammoland.com/2020/04/the...#axzz6wViyizdh
Nearly a million Mosins made in the USA! Looks like most of them got shipped overseas during the interwar years (Czechoslovakia, White Russia, Mexico, Spain via Finland), so one might encounter American Mosins just about anywhere in the T2kU.
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