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Mosin Nagant Rifle
Mosin Nagant Rifle
The Mosin Nagant rifle describes a series of rifles that served Russia (and later as the Soviet Union) and its client states for many years, the first model which was 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 for second line troops and troops who didn't need the full length rifle [cooks and truck drivers for example]. The M44 carbine saw very little action in WWII, from late 1944 to the end and not enough made it to the front lines to appear in most of the combat photography of World War II. A prototype of the M44 was also field tested in 1943. The M44 and M91-30 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 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. It was also the gun used by Simo Häyhä, who holds the world record for highest number of sniper kills made by a single person.
The Mosin Nagant is used by the following actors in the following movies and television shows:
Film
- Chinese soldiers in Pork Chop Hill (91/30 Rifle)
- Soviet Soldiers in The Good German (2006)
- Imperium soldiers in The Golden Compass (91/30 Rifle)
- Finnish and Soviet soldiers in Ambush (M/39 Rifle, 91/30 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)
- Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova in Enemy at the Gates (M38 carbine)
- 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)
- 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
- Various actors 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 (Andrew Divoff), AKA "Patchy" in Lost shoots Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) 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." M91/30s were used in place of Lee-Enfields by the British army during flashbacks to World War I.
- Top Shot
Anime
- Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World (With custom Pederson Device)
- Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky with PU 3.5x scope
Video Games
- Medal of Honor: Allied Assault Expansion Pack seen in two expansion packs:
- 1. Spearhead Expansion Pack (in Berlin mission and multiplayer mode on Russian side).
- 2. Breakthrough Expansion (in mutiplayer mode on 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)
- Call of Duty: Black Ops (M91/30, standard and sniper versions)
- Cryostasis (with and without scope)
- Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven (with and without scope)
- 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
M39 Rifle
The M39 is a Finnish variation of the Russian Mosin-Nagant rifle. The first models were issued with straight grips. Later models, however, had a curved pistol grip. The main way to tell the difference between a Russian Mosin-Nagant and an M39 is that the M39 has a different stock design and a different front sight.
NOTE: Except for some components, such as the bolt, trigger, and magazine, the parts of these rifles are NOT interchangable with Russian models.
The M39 Rifle is used by the following actors in the following movies and television shows:
Film
Used by Finnish soldiers in Tuntematon Sotilas The Unknown Soldier(both 1955 and 1985 versions)
Used by Finnish soldiers in Ambush (Rukajärven tie)
Used by Finnish soldiers in Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)