Found this in Cabellas

I just wish it was warmer than 20 degrees here so I can go out and shoot. I really don't want to do any Stalingrad recreations so I will wait until the weather warms up.
 
RyanE said:
The Russians removed an older stock serial number (from an earlier rework) in a very crude fashion. Very common on RC that were reworked more than once.
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Mine has the same affliction, looks like someone went to town with a belt sander.

Kind of begs the question, why the heck were they reworked more than once? Not like they went through another war after the first rework.
 
I think the Russians kept them just in case they needed to import their brand of 'liberation' to other countries. For very little in outlay of material they could get reliable weapons into their 'friend's' hands. Just like anything you have to fiddle with it from time to time. Keeps someone employed.

We did the same with M1 Garands and even 1903 Springfields. That's why you can buy Greek and Korean 30-06 right now.
 
Wklink said:
I think the Russians kept them just in case they needed to import their brand of 'liberation' to other countries.
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Right, and that explains why they reworked them once. What confuses me is the rifles that were clearly reworked at least twice, like the one pictured above and one of my RCs. We know they gave some to friendly governments, like Vietnam, but I seriously doubt any of these were returned. So what happened that they needed to be reworked again? Was it some sort of Communist busy-work program to keep the arsenals occupied when they didn't have anything else to do?
 
Possibly. It could also be that they were pulled out of storage and this was done in preparation for export, then they were restored. Who knows with the Soviets. They threw away nothing. I'm sure that there are some T26 tanks somewhere in an armory. I know they had T34s stored long after the war, much longer than they ever needed to keep them.
 
Wklink said:
Possibly. It could also be that they were pulled out of storage and this was done in preparation for export, then they were restored. Who knows with the Soviets. They threw away nothing. I'm sure that there are some T26 tanks somewhere in an armory. I know they had T34s stored long after the war, much longer than they ever needed to keep them.
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Boy if D. Mitchell could get his hands on a few of those he could bring a whole new meaning to the term "tanker" model - bet they would shine up nice!
 
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