07-30-2011, 11:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2011, 11:58 AM by Jeffrey Meffert.)
HuliganRS Wrote:Phillip,
Although the the Nagant's that you find are technically the same gun, OGPU & NKVD had a short barreled version. they are very rare guns and highly desirable.
At a gun show last month a guy had a nagant target pistol which i didn't even know existed. It had a carved grip and an extra heavy barrel (and a highly modified trigger pull obviously). It was manufactured in 1938...perhaps in anticipation of the 1940 olympics which never happened. He wanted $300 which seemed like a lot of money for a nagant so I passed.
With some time to think about it and get the collector juices flowing I went back this month to buy it....gone. Ah, well.
The one shown below is off the web, the one i passed on (unfortunately) had an even more elaborate and massive grip
