Artillery Weapons Base - Moscow Region (pic heavy)

[Loose}{Cannon]

Slab-sides that rare?

[Phosphorus32]

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.

[Dannyboy53]

A thread worth reviving 

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

Those AK mags will still work 

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

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

[Phosphorus32]

Nice link 

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

[Loose}{Cannon]

This thread is just too cool to not be a sticky.

[Bob_The_Student]

Amazing stuff. I'm a little nervous to hit those links though. HA!

[Matchka]

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.

[Phosphorus32]

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 

[Matchka]

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!

[Loose}{Cannon]

Lets play a game of (Identify these rifles).   You go first. 

[100Acre]

I want to move to Mother Russia now Da! WOW!

[Phosphorus32]

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

[pcke2000]

I bought a copy of Chumak's new book on markings. Still waiting for the delivery (It's been more than one month already)