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The Mosin-Nagant Rifle by Bill Harriman, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland

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By Bill Harriman, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland

The Mosin-Nagant is the worlds longest-surviving and most generally disbursed army rifle, having armed the forces of Russia and lots of different nations for greater than 5 many years. It has noticeable motion from international warfare I to the current day, yet is most renowned for its function in the course of international battle II whilst it proved to be a great sniping weapon within the arms of marksmen equivalent to Vasily Zaitsev and Simo Häyhä. This examine covers the rifles complete strive against heritage, from its early improvement via to its provider in wrestle and the influence it has had on sleek firearms. Dramatic conflict studies and particularly commissioned paintings supplement the meticulously researched exam of the Mosin-Nagant supplied by means of writer invoice Harriman as he delves into the background of 1 of the main iconic rifles of worldwide battle II.

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A British Army officer, Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward of 26th (Service) Battalion (3rd Public Works Pioneers), The Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), makes an interesting observation: ‘A Magyar soldier seeing Kalmakoff with his Ataman banner borne by his side, took a point-blank shot at his head, but he forgot the high trajectory of the old Russian rifle, and the bullet merely grazed the top of the Cossack leader’s head and sent his papaha [fur hat] into the mud’ (Ward 1920). Ward’s 1920 book, With the Die-Hards in Siberia, is one of only a few contemporary accounts of the British presence in North Russia.

Long live Comrade Stalin. Long live the Frente Popular. Long live Comrade Marty. Thank God, we’re gonna have guns. Each had a long, slender tri-bladed bayonet. They were frightening – the thought of one entering your body, the thought of slamming one into the body of an enemy. We were given helmets, gas masks, cartridge belts with bullets. Now we were real soldiers. We cheered again. (Herrick; no date) Another International Brigader, the Irish political activist Michael O’Riordan, recalled: And there we got our first rifles.

The M/28-30 was the rifle used by legendary sniper Simo Häyhä (1905– 2002) on the Kollaa front during the Winter War. Known by the Soviets as ‘White Death’, during a 100-day period he was credited with an astonishing 505 kills. Häyhä preferred to conduct his sniping duties from the seated position for better stability; and he favoured open (as opposed to telescopic) sights because they allowed him to adopt a lower profile in the snow. His rifle, No. 60974, is now displayed with Häyhä’s uniform in the Heritage Museum of the North Karelian Infantry Brigade in Joensuu, Finland.

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