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hmm, it started its life as Tula, but stock is odd, the sling mounts look pretty crude. The stamp on metal buttstock is Izzy bow and arrow. Also bayonet mount is very interesting. I don't know which bayonet this would support, but likely it would be the key to figure out what happened to this one.
Looks like an early Mauser H band. Instead of the bayonet lug being pinned to the stock and the H-band slid over it, it was attached by screwing directly through the band spring mounting hole, through the bayonet lug, and into the stock. Not another 8mm conversion is it?
The bolt head might give further evidence.
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someone who would be issued Mauser bayo. May be Austro-Hungary? It's old enough to take part in WWI.
Also, just noticed, the year came from 191. to 1916 so right around the end of WWI for Russia. It's got to be a capture by some army.
Because the "re-arsenaling' is somewhat crude and I don't see some give away marks on it, I wander if this was done as a fix by a second tier army or volunteers, guards.
Where do you dig this stuff up martin?
http://www.mosinnagant.net/USSR/JPS-bayonet-one.asp
http://7.62x54r.net/MosinID/MosinRareMausBay.htm
^ the 7.62 link first pic looks very similar .