[AnalogReigns]

In one of the cable TV programs about life in Alaska, I saw a family--which hunted cariboo & bear to survive--using an open-sight Mosin.

The nicest Mosin versions are Finnish--gun's seized from Russia by Finland in WWII, and re-barreled and re-stocked and named the M/39. The Finns make the best rifle barrels in the world.

[vladimir998]

“The nicest Mosin versions are Finnish—gun’s seized from Russia by Finland in WWII, and re-barreled and re-stocked and named the M/39. The Finns make the best rifle barrels in the world.”

I suppose some were re-purposed Soviet weapons, but most were made by the Finns: http://www.mosinnagant.net/finland/finnish_mosin_nagantm39.asp