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Originally Posted by Raellus
Good call. And I think we'd see the same thing with the Mosin-Nagant. The Soviets/Russians had huge stockpiles. IIRC, they only started to flood the civilian market here in the States (you could get one at a sporting goods store for $100) after the dissolution of the USSR, when the Russians were doing whatever they could to bring in hard currency from the west. That wouldn't have happened in the v1 or v4 T2kUs.
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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.