[TheWalkingDead]

I just bought a refurb 91/30 a few weeks back and had posted a few pics of it on another thread.
I took it out of the stock last night to check the receiver date and it is 1930 also.
Is it possible that the barrel is original to the receiver. I have tried to get some pics of the markings on the barrel and receiver to see if they would tell anybody anything. If their is other pics I need to take for more info let me know and I will take them. It's all Izzy marked as far as I can tell.
I am not new to military guns but these MN's are a new world to me. Thanks for any help.

Barrel pics:

Receiver pics:

 

[USMCsean]

I don't see why it wouldn't be original, but you need to see if there is a index mark on both the barrel and receiver that lineup with each other.malso known as a witness mark. If there are multiple lines on the receiver, it means multiple barrels.

 

[TheWalkingDead]

I took another pic of the bottom where the barrel meets the receiver and found just one set of indexing marks.
Is it uncommon to find a matching barrel and receiver on the refurbs?
Thanks for the help and info.

 

[Stalin's Ghost]

Most Soviet refurbs have matching barrels, but Finns often don't. You have an interesting rifle that was built during the "transition" period for Mosins (the "30" in "91/30" is 1930, of course, so you have the first year. These are called "transition rifles." )
Some of these originally had older left-over dragoon parts such as sights and were later converted to full 91/30 format. Your bolt was probably swapped out at a first refurb and the globed sight may or may not have been added then.
Yours has a square refurb mark indicating arsenal refurbishment and almost surely saw service in the Great Patriotic War. It may have been through a prewar format upgrade, wartime refurb and a postwar one. A serious warhorse with stories to tell!

 

[clayshooter2]

I know the acronym for assume; but if I see a same year barrel shank date, and a same tang date from the same arsenal on a refurb, I am thinking it is original. It is just too random and planned out to not be. It isn't worth the time, money, or effort to fake it.