Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier by David Campbell

Author:David Campbell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472813268
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

A Finnish soldier examines a Soviet sniping rifle, most likely captured in one of the battles around Suomussalmi and the Raate Road, 13 February 1940. The rifle, a 7.62mm Mosin-Nagant M1891-30 with a 4.2×29 PEM telescopic sight and mount (dating its production to the years 1936–38), would have been manufactured in the armaments factories of Tula and Izhevsk. Selections were taken from the production line, refined (with particular attention paid to the trigger assembly), then tested for accuracy. A Red Army sniper would be expected to hit a target at 400m with open sights, increasing to 800m with telescopic sights. Though Soviet sniper doctrine was well established by 1939, their impact on the course of the Winter War was rather muted, the laurels going to their similarly armed Finnish counterparts. Though, as with almost everything else, the Finnish Army was desperately short of sniping rifles, captured weapons like the one shown here were usually kept by the individuals who took them, to be used as personal hunting rifles when they returned to civilian life. (SA-kuva)

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