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DE Shooter · July 12, 2013, 07:13 PM

US made Mosin Nagant M1891s were indeed issued to US sailors (USS Olympia) and US soldiers (339th, I think) to fight the Bolsheviks at Arkhangelsk. In July 1918, the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps’ Engineering Division officially designated America’s new weapons the “Russian Three-line Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm. (.3 inch)”, and had them marked with its “flaming bomb” insignia, an American eagle, and otherwise. Some collectors refer to the American Mosin-Nagants as the “Model 1916”, although that term was not used by either the Russians or the Americans. In its records the U.S. Army almost always referred to the guns simply as “Russian rifles”.

July 12, 2013, 07:13 PM	#18
DE Shooter Senior Member Join Date: January 20, 2009 Posts: 215	US made Mosin Nagant M1891s were indeed issued to US sailors (USS Olympia) and US soldiers (339th, I think) to fight the Bolsheviks at Arkhangelsk. In July 1918, the U. S. Army Ordnance Corps’ Engineering Division officially designated America’s new weapons the “Russian Three-line Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm. (.3 inch)”, and had them marked with its “flaming bomb” insignia, an American eagle, and otherwise. Some collectors refer to the American Mosin-Nagants as the “Model 1916”, although that term was not used by either the Russians or the Americans. In its records the U.S. Army almost always referred to the guns simply as “Russian rifles”.