I Need Help With Another Heavy Rifle~

[Bill_in_VA]

Eric, it looks like your rifle is a Soviet M44, made at the Izhevsk arsenal as evidenced by the arrow-in-the-triangle stamped on the receiver ring. Your photo leaves a little to be desired though. Chinese Type 53 carbines carry Chinese characters, not Cyrillic.
$200 is a pretty typical price for the M44, too. IIRC, most distributors that have these in stock were last asking around $229.

[danielsand]

Originally Posted by Bill_in_VA

Eric, it looks like your rifle is a Soviet M44, made at the Izhevsk arsenal as evidenced by the arrow-in-the-triangle stamped on the receiver ring. Your photo leaves a little to be desired though. Chinese Type 53 carbines carry Chinese characters, not Cyrillic.
$200 is a pretty typical price for the M44, too. IIRC, most distributors that have these in stock were last asking around $229.

When I blew up the pic, I saw the triangle (but not the arrow). As you probably know, some Chicom weapons (SKS/AK types) also have triangle with a letter for the factory marking. The characters were all blurry in Eric's pic also. 229 seems right in today's pricing, but back in late 70s-80s that was a LOT of money for milsurp.

Izhevsk made weapons are "top tier" of the Russian manufacture, with Tula being second. Great little rifle, regardless of the origin.