The Zastava M91 is a semi-automatic designated marksman rifle chambered in 7.62×54mmR, developed and manufactured by Zastava Arms company in Kragujevac, Serbia.

Soviet M91/59s are cut down from M91/30s and utilize the same rear sight base and leaf. The primary difference is all graduation marks above 10 (1,000 meters) are milled off. Occasionally rear sight bases without the later retrofitted pins holding them to the barrel are found on M91/59s.

2024年12月7日 · The easiest way to recognize an M91/59 is the rear sight which is the longer M91/30 type with all graduations above 10 milled off the leaf. The M91/59 was not issued with a bayonet and will not accept the M91/30 bayonet due to it's heavier front sight base.

Soviet M91/59s are cut down from M91/30s and utilize the same rear sight base and leaf. The primary difference is all graduation marks above 10 (1,000 meters) are milled off. Occasionally rear sight bases without the later retrofitted pins holding them to the barrel are found on M91/59s.

M91/30s were used as the basis for sniper rifles from the mid-'30s with several types of mounts and scopes. The most commonly encountered today is the PU which was adopted in 1942 and uses a side rail mount.

2024年10月3日 · M91 (Model 1891) The "original" version of the gun is the M91 or M1891. This is the original design submitted by Capt. Sergei Mosin. However, it uses a feed system created by Leon Nagant. This rifle was 51 ½ inches long and was manufactured from 1893 - 1925. It featured a hex receiver and a curved rear sight with adjustment markings.

2020年3月13日 · The M91 was the result of a program to replace the M76 with a 7.62x54R chambered rifle, and it was adopted by the Serbian military as Yugoslavia broke up. The original M91 rifles were made with milled receivers, as the M76 had been.

2018年12月28日 · The fact that they milled the rear sight ladder to meet the USSR's standard of 1000m max standard for their carbine sights, suggests the USSR. The observation of captured Finnish M30s converted to M91/59s, also points me to the USSR that would have captured them in the first place (see the MosinNagant.net site).

2006年12月29日 · The so-called M91/38 carbine is essentially an early M91 infantry rifle or dragoon/cossack rifle which has been reworked and converted to a late-war pattern M38 carbine.

Note the early production large diameter cocking piece flange milled at the bottom to clear the tang like on an M91. Not long after this rifle was produced the wartime smaller diameter flange was phased into production.