Pawn Shop Finn M27

[snipin101]

Haven't really found much these days that makes my heart skip a beat when looking around at guns. Me and the wife was running around yesterday and stopped into a pawn shop. There it was hanging on the wall, calling to me. Then I figured with prices of things and me being to stubborn to pay it that at least I would look at it. I asked to see it and after handling it and looking at tag, it came home with me. To get a Finn anything for $350 out the door these days to me seems like a sweet deal. Rained today and messed me up on shooting it but maybe soon. The bore is great and shows little wear. I have a m39 but bore is to bad a shape to shoot cast well but I have high hopes for this one.

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[36g]

Nice find!

[Dutchman]

When you saw the price tag you knew it was a score. A very nice score for Finn Mosins. I have a Finn m/1891 and m/39 and a couple generic 91/30 from when they were $69 to $99.

Dutch

between my son-in-law and me we have a few....

[Texas by God]

I had one of those with a Sako barrel and it was sure a shooter.
You got it for less money than 3 of those hay bales!


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[Thumbcocker]

Score!

[Noah Zark]

ANY Finn Mosin for $350 is a smoking good deal in 2023. Congratulations!

My personal favorites are the 28-30 (have 4) and the straight-grip M39 (have two). They are pretty much the only Mosins I've kept as they have laser-guided accuracy. I have a couple 5-line Soviet 91-30s from the mid-1920s, a Sesty M91, and a Finned 91-30 that was once owned by a late, very close friend. But a couple of the 28-30s are what get lugged to the range.

On local club to which I belong has a huge long-range silhouette shooter following. On a particular weekday some years ago two guys were set up at one end of the row of benches with a heavy-barreled boltgun with a scope half as long as the rifle, and a spotting scope on the adjacent bench. I parked at the opposite end of the benches, then walked over to them and said I was just going to shoot five or ten rounds at the 100 and 200 yd berms to check for sight alignmnet, just aiming at a dark spot or whatever, I wasn't setting out any targets, and once I shot I would leave. They said fine, and they continued continued their fire a shot every five minutes thing. I put 5 rounds into a spot on the 100 yd berm, then adjusted the hold and put 5 rounds into a spot in the 200 yd berm. It turns out they were watching my shot impacts and walked over to see what I was shooting. The one guy said, "You're shooting that good with a Commie junk rifle and NO scope?" I responded that it wasn't Soviet, it was a Finnish rifle that fired essentially the same 7.62x54r Soviet round. "Almost as good as your sniper rifle, innit?" I asked him. I think their shooting horizons got a little broadened that day.

Again, congratulations with your M27 find, and best wishes,

Noah

[pworley1]

Very nice.

[bedbugbilly]

Nice find! The rifle looks great and I like your photo background too - makes me miss the farm . . . .

[nagantguy]

Well that’s a score you find everyday! Finns are the Cadillac of the breed.

[snipin101]

Thanks for the comments! I did get a chance to shoot it yesterday. With a little trigger I'm excited to see what this rifle can really do once I get use it. I was able to hit my 8inch round plate at 200 yards about 85% of the time lol.

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[Linstrum]

Sweet deal! Hitting an 8-inch target at 200 yards right off is pretty good! Awright!

Far too many of the Finnish Mosin-Nagants had corrosive ammunition fired in them without the barrel being cleaned. I've seen beautiful-on-the-outside Finnish rifles with destroyed sewer pipe bores because of cheap Com Bloc ammo.

Ckeck to see if your rifle has all the re-engineered trigger features that the Finns used to improve their Mosin-Nagants. Finn triggers still aren't the best, but they didn't have much to work with to begin with.

I'm one of those lucky guys who got three un-issued Finn Mosin-Nagants back 25 years ago. Two for $89, and one for $129. The $129 rifle has the high pressure 3600 atmosphere (52,900 psi CUP) marked Tikkakoski barrel with a dark purple finish on it, in a 1936 dated hex receiver and a Finn designed roller trigger. All three are 91/30 "editions" that make 100 yard five shot groups a half-dollar will cover. My load is a Lee 185 grain with gas check sized 0.002" over groove diameter of the bore, on top of a full case of WC860. I don't know if WC860 is still available, it was 20 years ago.

Hey! Keep us informed!