A 2nd hand TIKKA followed me home tonight.

Muir

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Ok. It's not a stalking rifle. It's a 1940 Finnish rework of a Model 1891 Mosin Nagant in 7,62x54R. I was stopping in to have a second look at a long barreled Marlin 30-30 and saw this dusty rifle standing in the corner. The dovetailed forend gave it away as a Finn and the salesman proudly mis-identified it as a (common) Russian 91-30 and gave it to me for $125 US. It looked as tho it had been stored in a chicken coop.

When I got it home I found that the filth was largely dried preservative covered with dust. The finish is about 85% and the bore fine. A little wood oil put the shine back into the Arctic Birch stock. As a collector of Finnish Military rifles who has seen the supplies of Finns dry up and the prices escalate (!), I can't tell you how pleased I was to stumble onto this gun for a decades-old price. Thanks for tolerating my glee.:lol:~Muir

(PS: The Marlin had been sold! Always been lucky like that....)
 
FT: I do spend time at it. (Just ask my Ex)

JayB: It's not the space. It's the weight. I'm going to need to get an engineer in here to reinforce the flooring soon. Speaking of which... I think I still have a couple of your rifles languishing in my gun room, don't I????:-|~Muir
 
FT: I do spend time at it. (Just ask my Ex)

JayB: It's not the space. It's the weight. I'm going to need to get an engineer in here to reinforce the flooring soon. Speaking of which... I think I still have a couple of your rifles languishing in my gun room, don't I????:-|~Muir

They'd be the rusty ones would they? ;)

Simon
 
They'd be the rusty ones would they? ;)

Simon

No Simon, they would be the accurate ones :D, but my two amongst your God knows how many make no difference at all anyway they were there first:coat:

John
 
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