• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    8mm Mauser Model 98, an old one. Those things make an earth-shattering kaboom. The Germans supplied most of the Finnish equipment in the Winter War.

    • Elizabeth
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      62 months ago

      Nah that’s an M96 (or M38) Swedish Mauser. The front sight is wrong, and it has the Swedish Bayonet. Still loud as hell, and 6.5 Swede is still no joke in terms of accuracy and stopping power today.

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        2 months ago

        Obviously, he is just posing for the photo with a different gun than his own.

        According to his Wikipedia article:

        He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30 rifle (a variant of Mosin–Nagant)

        M28-30

        Finnish 7.62 mm rifle M/28-30 with M/28-30 bayonet.

        Wiki commons (link doesn’t work using some clients, but with a browser it does)

        • Elizabeth
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          32 months ago

          The M28/30 was indeed his main rifle, but he had a Swede too. There’s a picture of him after he retired where they’re all in a rack behind him in his house.

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          22 months ago

          If I recall correctly, that picture is thought to be of a Swedish volunteer and not Häyhä, although it is often claimed to be him.

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              22 months ago

              It absolutely could be. I think the assumption is based on what’s known about the photo, not what’s actually in it.