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[[Image:M9130.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54R]] | [[Image:M9130.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54R]] | ||
[[Image:MosinNagantM9130Sniper.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Full-length, Mosin Nagant M91/30 Sniper Rifle with Russian PU Sniper Scope and down turned bolt handle - 7.62x54R]] | [[Image:MosinNagantM9130Sniper.jpg|thumb|right|550px|Full-length, Mosin Nagant M91/30 Sniper Rifle with Russian PU Sniper Scope and down turned bolt handle - 7.62x54R]] | ||
Revision as of 23:51, 28 December 2009
The Mosin Nagant rifle was first issued in 1891 for the Imperial Russian Army. It is one of the longest serving bolt action rifles in history, being issued until the 1940s (and up to the 1960s in third world client nations of the USSR). The original M1891 rifle was updated in 1930, thus a new model was designated the M91/30, which was the most widely distributed bolt action rifle of the Red Army. There was a carbine version known as the M38 issued during World War 2, but these were more rare than the full length rifle. The M44 carbine was issued too late to see action in World War 2, except in the very last few months of the war and only saw battle in the hands of North Korean Soldiers in 1950-53 and in the hands of the Viet Cong and PAVN during the 1960s.
Note: It was also the first firearm to chamber the supreme champion of longest serving firearm calibers in history, the venerable 7.62x54R cartridge, which is still issued and used in armies to this day.
The Mosin Nagant is used by the following actors in the following movies and television shows:
Film
- Finnish soldiers in Ambush (M/39 Rifle)
- Hugh Daly as Maj. Andrew Pearman in Brother's War (2009) (91/30 Rifle)
- Michael Berryman as Col. Petrov in Brother's War (2009) (91/30 Sniper Rifle)
- Tino Struckmann as Capt. Klaus Mueller in Brother's War (2009) (M44 Carbine)
- Soviet soldiers in Brother's War (2009)
- Used In Defiance
- Jude Law as Vassily Zaitsev, and many others, in Enemy at the Gates (both the
infantry and sniper versions of the M91/30 rifle)
- Russian infantry are carrying the M38 Carbines in "Downfall (Der Untergang)".
- Tom Berenger as Master Gunnery Sgt. Thomas Beckett in Sniper 2 (though misidentified by Beckett as a 1898 Mauser)
- Serbian Sniper in Behind Enemy Lines (M91/30 Sniper version)
- The NVA have Mosin Nagants in a few scenes in We Were Soldiers.
- Communist Chinese Soldiers in the Bridges at Toko-Ri
- Vietnamese Villager at the beginning of the movie and NVA sniper at the end of the movie in Flight of the Intruder
- Bolshevik and Menshevik troops in Doctor Zhivago
- NVA snipers in BAT-21
- Gobi Desert nomads in Flight of the Phoenix
- Shiite refugees in Three Kings
- Woo-sung Jung as Park Do-won in The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- The Hunters (1958) (M91/30 rifles)
- Jet Pilot (1957) (M91/30 rifles)
- used by sniper in the bell tower towards the end of the movie Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Polish and Soviet soldiers in The Pianist
- Enemy sniper in Iron Eagle
Television
- Various North Korean and Chinese soldiers in M*A*S*H* (Both M91/30s and M44 Carbines)
- Mikhail, AKA "Patchy" in Lost shoots Sayid Jarrah in the shoulder with one. Sayid later commandeers the rifle for himself and is seen wielding it several times.
- Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)
- Weaponology
- Many soldiers in the History Channel's "Clash of the Gods - Tolkien's Monsters." 91/30s were used in place of Lee-Enfields by the British army during flashbacks to World War I.
Video Games
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Expansion Pack see in two expansion pack.
1.Spearhead Expansion Pack (in berlin mission and mutiplayer mode in russian side).
2.Breakthrough Expansion (in mutiplayer mode in russian side)
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (a customized sniping version modified to fire tranquilizer darts)
- Call of Duty (M91/30, standard and sniper versions)
- Call of Duty: United Offensive (M91/30, standard and sniper versions)
- America's Army (sniper version with PU scope)
- Silent Storm (standard and sniper versions)
- Seen on a poster in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl