Today we are out at the range with a 1943 Izhevsk M91/30 PU sniper rifle to see how it shoots…
For more, check out the 9 Hole Reviews video taking a 91/30 PU on their full 800m course of fire:
Prototype
Mayn Experimental Carbine
To the left there is a Soviet memo on the subject of the experimental carbine designed by a Colonel P.I. Mayn. The memo reads: To the chief of the Red Army GAU, General-Lieutenant-Colonel comrade Yakovlev […]
Commentary
Everything Wrong with the Sniper Rifles in “Enemy at the Gates”
One of the very few blockbuster American movies about the Eastern Front in World War Two is Enemy at the Gates, a film about the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev. The movie is based around a […]
Ammunition
Max Popenker on Russian Pistols and Ammunition: 7N21, 9x21mm, 9x18mm, and more
Today I am again joined by Max Popenker, Russian small arms historian and researcher. Max is explaining the basic history of Russian handguns and ammunition, starting with the adoption of the 7.62x25mm Tokarev cartridge to […]
Ian, the hat is not THAT much out of sync – several Military Districts in USSR wore that exactly type of brimmed hat during WW2, see https://heroesofstalingrad.fandom.com/wiki/PPSH-_41?file=1369863045739.jpg
So only the plastic-fantastic chin strap would be anachronistic…
All the shooting put aside, the veshmeshok is a great piece of kit. Almost unchanged since the Napoleonic era.