Rare Russian Izhevsk M91/30 Sniper Rifle Pem Type

SERIAL NUMBER: ZHI1101 [ TRANSLATED] BARREL: 29" CALIBER: 7.62 X 54R MANUFACTURED: 1938 Made at Iszevsk plant Russia. The Soviets received the bulk of their sniping expertise from military exchanges with the fledgling Nazi regime in the 1930s, and the PE and PEM 4-power scopes mounted on the first 91/30 sniper rifles was a direct copy of a design by the famed German optical manufacturer Zeiss. However, as fine as these earlier Soviet sniper rifles were – to the point they were prized items often pressed into service when captured by the German invaders, who often had to rely on civilian target and hunting rifles pressed into service as sniping weapons – Russia could not produce them in the quantities demanded by a massively expanded military, fighting with its backs to the wall against a p...