The first was the quality of its arms, as the Italian and British colonial authorities could sabotage the transportation of 30, 000-60, 000 modern Mosin – Nagant rifles and Berdan rifles from Russia into landlocked Ethiopia.

The Mosin – Nagant action, created in 1891, differs significantly from the Mauser and Lee-Enfield bolt action designs.

The most common locking method is a rotating bolt with two lugs on the bolt head, which was used by the Lebel Model 1886 rifle, Model 1888 Commission Rifle, Mauser M 98, Mosin – Nagant and most bolt action rifles.

The Mosin – Nagant (, ISO 9: ) is a bolt-action, internal magazine-fed, military rifle invented under the government commission by Russian and Belgian inventors, and used by the armed forces of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and various other nations.

Initial reactions by units equipped with the rifle were mixed, but any adverse reports were likely due to poor maintenance of the Mosins by infantrymen more familiar with the Berdan and who were not properly trained on the Mosin – Nagant.

Many of the New England Westinghouse and Remington Mosin – Nagants were sold to private citizens in the United States before World War II through the office of the Director of Civilian Marksmanship, the predecessor to the federal government's current Civilian Marksmanship Program.

Large numbers of Mosin – Nagants were captured by German and Austro-Hungarian forces and saw service with the rear-echelon forces of both armies, and also with the German navy.

Finland was a Grand Duchy in the Russian Empire until 1917, so Finns had long used the Mosin – Nagant in service with the Tsarist military.

Finland produced several variants of the Mosin – Nagant, all of them manufactured using the receivers of Russian-made or ( later ) Soviet-made rifles.

Finnish Mosin – Nagants were produced by SAKO, Tikkakoski, and VKT, with some using barrels imported from Switzerland and Germany.

The Finns also manufactured three-piece " finger splice " stocks for their Mosin – Nagant rifles.

When the Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1941 the Mosin – Nagant 91 / 30 was the standard issue weapon of Soviet troops.

Finland also employed the Mosin – Nagant as a sniper rifle, with similar success with their own designs and captured Soviet rifles.

For example, Simo Häyhä is credited with killing 505 Soviet soldiers, many falling victim to his Finnish M / 28-30 Mosin – Nagant rifle.

When war with Germany broke out, the need to produce Mosin – Nagants in vast quantities led to a falling-off in finish of the rifles.

In the years after World War II, the Soviet Union ceased production of all Mosin – Nagants and withdrew them from service in favor of the SKS series carbines and eventually the AK series rifles.

Despite its growing obsolescence, the Mosin – Nagant saw continued service throughout the Eastern bloc and the rest of the world for many decades to come.

Mosin – Nagant rifles and carbines saw service on many fronts of the Cold War, from Korea and Vietnam to Afghanistan and along the Iron Curtain in Europe.

Virtually every country that received military aid from the Soviet Union, China, and Eastern Europe during the Cold War used Mosin – Nagants at various times.

Mosin – Nagants have also seen action in the hands of both Soviet and Mujahadeen forces in Afghanistan during the Soviet Union's occupation of the country during the 1970s and the 1980s.

Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Mosin – Nagants are still commonly found on modern battlefields around the world.

* Model 1891 / 30 (): The most prolific version of the Mosin – Nagant.

The Mosin – Nagant Rifle, 3rd Edition.

* The Mosin – Nagant rifle — a pictorial guide

With the ROKS-2 flamethrower this was done by disguising the " gun " as a standard issue rifle, such as the Mosin Nagant, and the fuel tanks as a standard infantryman's rucksack, to try to stop snipers from specifically targeting flamethrower operators.

Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, a captain in the Imperial army, submitted his " 3-line " calibre (. 30 cal, 7. 62 mm ) rifle in 1889 alongside a 3. 5-line design by Léon Nagant ( a Belgian ) and a 3-line design by captain Zinoviev.

Although the form of the interrupter was slightly changed, this alteration was subsequently borrowed back by the Commission for the Model 1891 Mosin Nagant.

Taking into consideration that Nagant was one of the few producers not engaged by competitive governments and generally eager to cooperate and share experience and technologies, the Commission paid him a sum of 200, 000 Russian roubles, equal to the premium that Mosin received as the winner.

The rifle did not receive the name of its real inventor Mosin in order not to provoke further debates with Nagant.

The gun is thought to be referenced in Hirsh Glick's " Zog Nit Keyn Mol ", the well-known song of the World War II Jewish partisans, which includes the words " This song a people sang amid collapsing walls / With Nagants in the hand " ( Yiddish: מיט נא ַ גא ַ נעס אין די הענט, mit naganes in di hent ); though this refers to the Nagant revolver, not the Mosin rifle.

Mosin Nagant Model 1907 Carbine

Mosin Nagant Model 1891 / 30

Mosin Nagant M44 Carbine

Mosin Nagant M59 Carbine

Civil Guard Mosin Nagant Model 28-30.

* Model 1891 Russian Mosin Nagant

The Pedersen Device was also modified to fit the US Rifle, Model of 1917 ( the American Enfield ), and the US Rifle, Model of 1916 ( the Remington Mosin Nagant ).

He instead has a Soviet-made Model 91 / 30 Mosin Nagant sniper rifle with a bent bolt and a PU 3. 5X-power side-mounted scope with made-up reticle, with a US GI bayonet tied into place on the muzzle, additionally, the Colt M1911A1. 45, the standard side-arm of US Troops is not seen ; instead being stood-in by the Polish WZ.

It was at Tula where Mosin began his career as a weapons designer by first making improvements to the Berdan II and later the collaboration with Nagant to design the Rifle of Three Lines of the Year 1891.

* Mosin – Nagant M-1891 / 1930 sniper rifle — Korean War website

This instrument was slightly shorter than the otherwise similar PU scope used on the Mosin – Nagant M1891 / 30 sniper rifle.

Production of the Mosin – Nagant M1891 / 30 bolt-action rifle continued, remaining the standard-issue rifle to Red Army troops, with the SVT-40 more often issued to non-commissioned officers.

* M / 52 ( rifle ), see Mosin – Nagant