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The Type 38 rifle (三八式歩兵銃, sanhachi-shiki hoheijū) is a bolt-action service rifle that was used by the Empire of Japan predominantly during the Second Sino-Japanese War and Second World War. [9] The design was adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1905 (the 38th year of the Meiji period, hence "Type 38").
From a technical point of view the rifle that came to be called "Mosin–Nagant" is the design proposed by Mosin as further amended by Mosin with some details borrowed from Nagant's design. Only since 1924 the rifle was officially named "Mosin's rifle" in the USSR, although some variants were still known only by their year of origin.
The Model 91/98/23 carbine (Karabinek wz. 1891/1898/1923) often shortened to kbk wz. 91/98/23, and its variants wz. 91/98/25 and wz. 91/98/26, were a Polish modification of the Mosin–Nagant M1891 rifle to carbine form. The Mosin rifle was shortened and converted to use the 7.92×57mm Mauser cartridge. The carbine was introduced as an interim ...
The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) provides surplus U.S. Army rifles for sale, including the M1 Garand, M1903 and M1903A3 Springfield, M1917 Enfield, M1 Carbine, Krag-Jørgenson ,.22 caliber (surplus and commercial target), and commercial target air rifles to members of affiliated organizations.
M38 highway (Kazakhstan), a road connecting the border to Russia near Omsk and Georgiyevka; Miles M.38 Messenger, a 1942 British four-seat liaison aircraft; Messier 38, an open star cluster in the constellation Auriga; Model 1938 Carbine, a version of the Mosin-Nagant rifle; HMS Atherstone (M38) a British minesweeper; MAS-38, a French WWII ...
After gaining its independence in 1917 and after the Finnish Civil War of 1918, large numbers of Model 1891 Mosin–Nagant rifles were in the hands of the Finnish military. As the old barrels were worn out, they were replaced by new 7.83 mm (.308 in) barrels and the leftover 7.62×54mmR cartridges being in short supply, a domestic product was ...
Production of the Mosin–Nagant M1891/30 bolt-action rifle continued, and it remained the standard-issue rifle to Red Army troops, with the SVT-40 more often issued to non-commissioned officers [citation needed] and elite units like the naval infantry. Since these factories already had experience manufacturing the SVT-38, output increased ...
Karabiner 98k (Standard-issued rifle of the German army) [75] [249] [250] [248] Karabiner 98b [75] Gewehr 98/40 (Modification of Hungarian 35M rifle converted to 7.92mm. Ordered from Hungary due to shortages of rifles) [248] [251] Gewehr/Karabiner 43(Gewehr 43 was the early production name and Karabiner 43 was the later production name. Semi ...