[mawkie]

Every once in a while I get lucky while beating the brush for Mosin booty. I've been doing a lot of absentee bidding at auctions and for the most part I usually come out ahead. But it's a gamble, not being able to inspect the items first-hand. So there's always a bit of trepidation opening the shipping box and seeing if you did OK or got skunked. Tonight I received a shipment from a west coast auction where I picked up two lots. One lot held two M91/38 carbines. There were a total of 4 lots of M91/38s at this particular auction and I picked this lot to bid on as one of the carbines was in an old M91 or Dragoon stock w.o. a crossbolt. Thought that added to the cool factor a bit. Both were manuf. at Izhevsk and are dated 1895 and 1896. One has the old, tiny CIA import mark on the barrel and the other has no import marks at all. But I was really pleasantly surprised to find that both carbines are ex-cossack, each sporting a "KA3" mark on the barrel shank. Have a fair representation of Mosins in my collection but no cossack marked examples up to now. Was wondering how often any of you have run across KA3 marked M91/38s?
BTW, you'll really hate this but I got the lot for $117 OTD. It gets even uglier, someone else at the auction really cleaned up 'cause he got the other three M91/38 lots, each with three rifles, for $94 OTD for each lot. That's right, for under $300 some lucky fellow got nine M91/38s! I never in my wildest dreams imagined that these would sell so cheap. But these are strange and scary times.
I'll post some photos in the next day or two. Gotta get my hands on the good D70 stashed in my desk at work (I've just got to break down and buy a really good digital camera)!

 

[v i t]

How common? I've never seen one. Post pictures hen you get a chance.

 

[7.62x54r]

I've seen more M91/38 ex-Cossacks, in person and on the web, than I have any other type of ex-, or non-ex for that matter, Cossack. I'd bet they're between 1 and 5 percent of M91/38s at least. I own one and have passed on a couple of others over the years because they were more than $49.95.

 

[FGD135]

I've owned two of them and both were ex-Kazakz. Both had shot-out bores. Got one from Samco in 1991, another from Century a few years later. Both were in brand new M44 carbine stocks.
Sold em.

 

[Radom]

Geez, all I've been able to find are Sestroryetsk & Westinghouse 91/38s.

 

[JAK~47]

i've never seen a 91-38 in person and only a couple on gunbroker and they were going for $300 plus

 

[Russian Spetznaz]

How rare do deals like this come up there? What auction site did you use can you please tell me?

Every once in a while I get lucky while beating the brush for Mosin booty. I've been doing a lot of absentee bidding at auctions and for the most part I usually come out ahead. But it's a gamble, not being able to inspect the items first-hand. So there's always a bit of trepidation opening the shipping box and seeing if you did OK or got skunked. Tonight I received a shipment from a west coast auction where I picked up two lots. One lot held two M91/38 carbines. There were a total of 4 lots of M91/38s at this particular auction and I picked this lot to bid on as one of the carbines was in an old M91 or Dragoon stock w.o. a crossbolt. Thought that added to the cool factor a bit. Both were manuf. at Izhevsk and are dated 1895 and 1896. One has the old, tiny CIA import mark on the barrel and the other has no import marks at all. But I was really pleasantly surprised to find that both carbines are ex-cossack, each sporting a "KA3" mark on the barrel shank. Have a fair representation of Mosins in my collection but no cossack marked examples up to now. Was wondering how often any of you have run across KA3 marked M91/38s?
BTW, you'll really hate this but I got the lot for $117 OTD. It gets even uglier, someone else at the auction really cleaned up 'cause he got the other three M91/38 lots, each with three rifles, for $94 OTD for each lot. That's right, for under $300 some lucky fellow got nine M91/38s! I never in my wildest dreams imagined that these would sell so cheap. But these are strange and scary times.
I'll post some photos in the next day or two. Gotta get my hands on the good D70 stashed in my desk at work (I've just got to break down and buy a really good digital camera)!

 

[LVSteve]

How rare do deals like this come up there? What auction site did you use can you please tell me?

I doubt he will cough up that honey hole in a hurry. Excellent score.

Radom, you are just hell bent on making friends and influencing people. You may officially colour me jealous.

 

[Acutus]

Worthless junk Mawkie! bring them down to the other side of Catonsville and I'll dispose of them for ya!

Seriously though a good score!! Congratulations! They ever need a new home make sure to give us local guys a chance.

 

[7.62x54r]

How rare do deals like this come up there? What auction site did you use can you please tell me?

I'll take it!

 

[kf4zra]

dunno how common they are, but here is mine. it was a cossack and it has the serbian crown markings as well. have no idea on value