What a 1000 Mosins look like

In this picture snarfed from Forgotten Weapons we see a pair of Finn Civil Guard SAKO armorers (the Suojeluskunta insignia on their sleeve) working in an arsenel ‘somewhere in Finland’ in the 1920s. Besides the two French Chauchat light machineguns and a Maxim M1910 (probably captured from the Reds in 1918) you see a wall of Mosin rifles. At 20 rifles per shelf, ten shelves high, each rack holds 200 guns. With five racks…that’s a thousand Mosin Nagants folks!

mosin nagant rifles stored on racks in 1930s finn armory along with Chauchats and a Maxim

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