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Seeing service in such early conflicts at the Boxer Rebellion in China in and the Russo-Japanese War of , by the beginning of World War One, there were still not enough s to equip the burgeoning Russian Army. The bolt's cocking piece also functioned as a safety. When turned to the left, the action was "on safe. Contracts were let to Remington and Westinghouse in the then-neutral United States. Difficulties with Czarist inspectors as well as the onset of the Russian Revolution of resulted in few, if any, Yankee guns making it to the Motherland during Russia's involvement in the Great War.

Many ended up being used in the U. The Mosin's five-round steel magazine had a release which dropped the floorplate allowing rounds to be quickly dumped. Older guns were altered, and thousands of arms captured during the Winter War were refurbished and modified by the Finns.

Until the more recent importation of Russian and Eastern Bloc rifles, Finnish Mosin-Nagants were the ones most commonly encountered in the United States. Mosin-Nagants were made in many variants — from long rifles and carbines to sniper rifles. Ultimately they were manufactured in a plethora of countries including Poland, China, Finland, North Korea and Hungary. Truly a universal weapon — and one that is still occasionally seen on the battlefield. Less belligerently, they are great, historical collector's pieces and also a lot of fun at the range.

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Get Digital Access. Subscribe To The Magazine. Through some deliberation, it was difficult to select a winner, as initial tests proved Nagant to be the winner, while additional ones turned things in favor of Mosin.

In the end however, Mosin's rifle was chosen as the basis and Nagant's rifle lended features to improve what Mosin had. The colliquial use of "Mosin-Nagant" as a moniker for the rifle was brought about by western writings, as the rifle was never named this in Russia. This is easily the most common Mosin iteration, making the inclusion of Nagant's name all the more ironic. The Mosin-Nagant has been in service from with about 37,, being produced.

It has seen action in wars such as the Russo-Japanese war all the way to the Vietnam War and has been used by nations all over the world including Russia, China, Finland, Hungary, Poland and almost every nation that received aid from the Soviet Union. Many nations have also produced their own copies of the Mosin-Nagant.

The Mosin-Nagant was even used by the United States. Many of these American-made rifles about , were used for training purposes in the United States, who used some of the rifles in the early s for National Guard and ROTC units.