Finish sniper rifle M85

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Brother in Arms 04-23-2008, 04:38 PM Hey everyone

I have been looking into rare sniper rifles lately and I discovered an interesting one used by finland. It was called the M85 and was made in 1984-85 in finland from old Mosin Nagant actions and where highly modified/customized by adding new heavy barrels and over sized target stocks with raised cheek pieces. I managed to find a few pictures of a U.S. soldier posing with one in Kosovo in the 90's.


I noticed that paul didn't have one listed on his firearms page unless I looked in the wrong place.


Anyway its basickly a super pimped Mosin nagant bolt action rifle. I have an older one with an excellent bore that has been bubarized 1915 Newengland westinghouse (made in the USA believe it or not) but I think it would be a great donor something like this.


Brother in Arms

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Brother in Arms 04-23-2008, 05:10 PM oh here are a couple pictures of it. I have read about, wikepedia actually had more info on it than I had previously read.


http://www.revdisk.net/photos/FinnishSniperRifle2.jpg


http://www.revdisk.net/photos/FinnishSniperRifle1.jpg


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62_Tkiv_85


this is something about it in finish:


http://www.mil.fi/maavoimat/kalustoesittely/index.dsp?level=64&equipment=46




Bro

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Lt_Kamikaze 04-23-2008, 06:24 PM Fired one of those during my service. It packed a nice punch compared to the normal RK62 (7,62x39). Nice and stable too. Other than that is difficult to say, because I've never fired anything else than those and BB guns.

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General Pain 04-24-2008, 05:11 AM Hey everyone

I have been looking into rare sniper rifles lately and I discovered an interesting one used by finland. It was called the M85 and was made in 1984-85 in finland from old Mosin Nagant actions and where highly modified/customized by adding new heavy barrels and over sized target stocks with raised cheek pieces. I managed to find a few pictures of a U.S. soldier posing with one in Kosovo in the 90's.


I noticed that paul didn't have one listed on his firearms page unless I looked in the wrong place.


Anyway its basickly a super pimped Mosin nagant bolt action rifle. I have an older one with an excellent bore that has been bubarized 1915 Newengland westinghouse (made in the USA believe it or not) but I think it would be a great donor something like this.


Brother in Arms


seems u just gave me more work B.I.A.....this seems like an excellent addition to the BBoW....must make

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