[bones92]

This one seems to be somewhere between a low-wall and high-wall. First I've seen like this. The local shop has three 1941 Izhevsks.

 

[clayshooter2]

I've never seen that before. War time production though. Get them to the front fast; if it works, it gets used.

 

[carbine85]

It looks like a war time rush job. Maybe the QC Inspector was out on lunch break.

 

[Hlavinka]

Very Interesting, Good Eye!

 

[rocker98]

http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinReceiver.htm

5.0.1 Does it look like the 41 here? Looks similar to the one I had.

 

[sniperfreak]

a "semi-low wall" receiver? Possibly a transitional piece between low wall and high wall receivers?

 

[daveccarlson]

Do the tang date and the barrel date match-up?

I ask since I have three 1941 Izhevsk hexes and a Tula M44 with a '42 Izhevsk receiver...

 

[bones92]

I don't have access to the tang. It does look like the 5.0.1 photo on Ted's sight, and both rocker98's and this one are 1941 Izhevsk.

 

[Ken in Iowa]

Receiver variations have never received a lot of attention here.

I have had 2 semi-low walls. Both of mine looked like they received the next pass on the mill from the one bones92 found.

I thought for years that this was a 5.0.1 I finally decided that it was a semi too.

1941 is a very interesting year to collect as the Soviets became quite busy making rifles to counter the German invasion. At the beginning of 1941, Mosins were built just like they were in the late 1930s. By the end of that year, most of the features we associate with wartime production were in place.

 

[rocker98]

The 1940-41 made Mosins are appealing to me. The receiver transition is striking.

L-R 1940 Tula, 1940 Izhevsk, 1941 Izhevsk, 1941 Izhevsk M38, and a 1943 just to show where it ended up. All the changes that occured in between 40-43 are pretty cool

Not to mention all the material saving ideas that went on inside the receiver.

 

[m198]