German captured soviet weapon pictures

[Warrior1354]

Picked up two really cool pictures on ebay last week. One of the pictures shows a couple German soldiers armed with SVT38 rifles and the other is an entire German company armed with M91/30 rifles. But the second is the most interesting. It gives some details where this photo was taken. Maybe this will add more info about captured M91/30 rifles. I did contact the seller if he has more of these, waiting to hear back from him.

 

[mrfarb]

Refreshment break for a Luftwaffe construction company on an airfield in the central section on the Eastern front. Makes sense, cool photo!


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[armenjs]

The man on bottom can't tell but looks like M91/30 and far right is SVT.

 

[Hambone]

Yes, very cool pics!

 

[agentcq]

Very cool!
The Soviets certainly would have lost quite a few arms. My SVT-38 for example is a Finn capture and I have several Finn Captured Mosins, one is even originally a WWI Austrian Capture sent to the Finn's for aid.

 

[Pat]

Nice ones! I love how clear the first one is.

Pat

 

[Dave Roberts]

Jordan , Great photos thanks for sharing them .

 

[Warrior1354]

Thanks guys anything I buy cool pictures I'll try to post them up.

 

[mrfarb]

Thanks guys anything I buy cool pictures I'll try to post them up.

Do it, by the way I'm going to need that photo for the Beutewaffen book I'm working on.

 

[Warrior1354]

Well you know I will!

And you told me you were done with books!

 

[mdarnell19]

The guy on the right actually has a SVT 38. Very cool pictures. Thanks for sharing

 

[ugafx4]

Wonder if they are FLP marked.

Interesting variety of slings on the 91-30s. Looks like they made some wire sling swivels. The swivels look similar to the ones used during the Spanish Civil War.

 

[Absolut]

Since you seem to like this, I thought I should then share three of my German pictures showing captured Soviet stuff.

 

[Pat]

Neat photos, thanks for sharing. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen a German soldier armed with a Mosin that had a non-Mosin bayonet strapped onto his belt. It seems like they wore bayonets more as fighting knives and had them because they were available.

I have a number of Beutewaffen bayonets that were modified by reducing the muzzle ring radius. Some were rendered incapable of attaching securely to their original, intended rifles as a result, so the use of them as available fighting knives would seem to make more sense.

Pat


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[zeebill]

Wonder if they are FLP marked.

Interesting variety of slings on the 91-30s. Looks like they made some wire sling swivels. The swivels look similar to the ones used during the Spanish Civil War.

Your comment on the sling types and what we often see on rifles coming into the country with the "wrong" type of slings on them according to some experts points out the plain fact that they used what they could find and the quartermaster of the armory could provide. This is especially true of Finnish used arms and the main reason I tend to leave things the way I find them when it comes to accoutrements that are arms related. Great pictures! Thanks for sharing them with us! Bill

 

[Erniesq]

Here's another one - pretty sure that's a German soldier posing with that SVT-40.