http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=457345525

Picked this one very cheaply. After I won the seller even tossed in free shipping which made the deal only sweeter (guessing because he paid next to nothing for it). Bubba got hold of the stock but everything else is good. Nothing new refurb stock can't resolve.

Some known collectors bid against me but apparently did not know what it is, nor recognized combination of receiver features only found on 46-48 M44s (Low shelf side, machined right rear, unstepped rear tang, notched stripped clip guide).

Only two in existence so far have been documented as far as I know. First one, with same trails, from many years ago: http://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?65194-1949-dated-Izzy-91-30-Non-sniper

Thanks for the cross-post Spax, I knew you wouldn't let me down

lol

anytime pga

where can I get a recoil pad like that ?

lol....I'll just leave this here...

Can't wait to see AFTER it gets all fixed up...

Well looks like all it needs is another post-war refurb replacement toe-spliced stock that bubba messed up. Luckily those ones are dime a dozen. Since the stock is as original to the gun as Obama's birth certificate, there is no reason not to stick unmessed with refurb stock of the same type. Refurb is a refurb.

Nice find! I wouldn't mind picking up one of the 1955 Romanian M44's.

Nice one, I do think it is a real 1949 91/30. The receiver, like you said, is most certainly a post 1945 production for the M44 carbines. I would like to see what the barrel looks like under the wood by the front sight and where it meets the receiver, and close ups of hos the front sight was attached. Not sure why it would've been built that late, but we have seen 1950 examples with the huge Izhevsk stamp.

Well finally was able to link up with my FFL buddy since the seller would not recognized my FFL

But.....JACKPOT!

Guess this does make it the only second confirmed 1949 M91/30 in existence. Bore is like new, no counter bore.

Great find !!

Nice score OP!

Looks like the naysayers on gun boards poopoo'd a rare rifle out of ignorance. Excellent score, that's a very rare rifle ( rare is an appropriate term here).

Only non counterbored Mosin I have ever seen was the Finn I had. Looks awesome man.

Well you have to take gunboards comments with grain of salt. It's not surprising that the avid naysaying came from people that Vic lovingly refers to as "children"  It's unfortunate that Vic had to trash 1949 mosin thread over all the unrelated bickering in it. I did email him the pictures directly out of courtesy since so little is known about these.

I do kind of feel bad for Cpt. Nagant.  While I did find the auction right when it listed, I didn't think much of it (didn't notice the 1949 date) because it was Bubba'ed and just hit the back button. Only once he made a thread on it on GunBoards did I go back and gave it a second look and realized what it actually is.