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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #20 on: April 24, 2016, 08:29:46 AM »
Slab-sides that rare?
      
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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #21 on: April 24, 2016, 09:06:50 PM »
Slab-sides that rare?

I was exaggerating a bit, especially about the relic, but yeah, slab side Russian mags are relatively rare and go for considerable cash. I'm not really an AK mag collector but I think they go for at least $80.

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2016, 07:00:10 PM »
A thread worth reviving  :)

And then we find stuff like these AK mags and buttstock cleaning kits:


Those AK mags will still work  rofl

Could probably get $100 for the relic slab sides on fleecebay  :o


Phosphorus scroll down to "Chapter 14" for a look at some very early AK carbines (some experimental models) and these slab side magazines.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://coollib.com/b/195891&prev=search

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2016, 08:05:21 PM »
Nice link  thumb1

Yup, the slab side mags were the earliest type. Ribbed ones emerged quite quickly.

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2019, 11:07:11 PM »
This thread is just too cool to not be a sticky.
      
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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2019, 07:22:17 AM »
Amazing stuff. I'm a little nervous to hit those links though. HA!

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2019, 04:36:42 PM »
HOLY SMOKES! What a find! In '98 I came across a similar site in Kosovo. Serbs had a small arms and ammo facility outside of Pristina. Loaded with abandoned goodies. Snapped up a pristine JNA helmet and an AK bayonet.

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2019, 06:39:10 PM »
HOLY SMOKES! What a find! In '98 I came across a similar site in Kosovo. Serbs had a small arms and ammo facility outside of Pristina. Loaded with abandoned goodies. Snapped up a pristine JNA helmet and an AK bayonet.

I caught that...a pristine helmet from Pristina  :))

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2019, 07:51:30 PM »
Anecdote : one of the helmets I picked up had a bullet hole in it - some dried fragments of the previous owner 'decorated' the webbing and metal. The local guard force guys went ape-****e over it - put on display in their CP!

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2019, 12:25:49 AM »
Lets play a game of (Identify these rifles).   You go first. 


      
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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #30 on: October 16, 2020, 10:34:48 PM »
I want to move to Mother Russia now Da! WOW!

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #31 on: December 26, 2020, 03:06:57 PM »
Update: Alexander Yushchenko recently posted some of these photos as well as others and has identified the facility as the Moscow Military District Armament base, No. 38. This is a refurbishment facility that used the famous "MO" marking on Mosin Nagants, which for years was speculated to be some special marking, but much like the /1\ "ex-DDR" marking, has been uncovered as another refurbishment facility marking. It's located in Pavlovska Sloboda, a village west of Moscow.

https://www.m9130.info/repair-depot-markings

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Re: Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)
« Reply #32 on: December 26, 2020, 11:22:26 PM »
I bought a copy of Chumak's new book on markings. Still waiting for the delivery (It's been more than one month already)