{"id":98991,"date":"2026-03-29T02:00:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98991"},"modified":"2025-11-10T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T19:47:20","slug":"adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Surplus! Finnish M28 &#8220;Ski Trooper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xK_Bo2KIBrM?si=K0Q2y2BAjL9pChVa\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 10 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Today we are going to take a look at just how much historical [information can] be read from the features and markings of an individual rifle. This is an early production Finnish M28 &#8220;ski trooper&#8221; Mosin Nagant that can be traced from Russian manufacture to WW1 Russian use, Austro-Hungarian capture, rechambering to 8x50mm Mannlicher, concession to Italy as war reparations, sale to Finland, rebuilding as a Civil Guard M28, use in the Winter War and Continuation War, transfer to the Finnish Army, and finally importation into the United States.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The best firearms reference books: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.headstamppublishing.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDJaTDE4WTU2dUVpWmh5elNodFFLem1qZTlKZ3xBQ3Jtc0trdHZVQUxhNE9LVVE2S0dCREFlbk92bmFzX1paLV9Vd0FFaFpockRBSmFScjEySHJVdDVHZ3hFTE5FT1JHb3FtOGVabnRFNVlpN3ZmZy1uNUd3R3Z6RmhOYmdrN1VBSGllUEh4OTRpTmpRVmU2eWlNcw&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=xK_Bo2KIBrM\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 10 Nov 2025 Today we are going to take a look at just how much historical [information can] be read from the features and markings of an individual rifle. This is an early production Finnish M28 &#8220;ski trooper&#8221; Mosin Nagant that can be traced from Russian manufacture to WW1 Russian use, Austro-Hungarian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,339,5,1119,663,246,230],"tags":[418,1367,603,1366,49,1197,1255],"class_list":["post-98991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-italy","category-military","category-russia","category-weapons","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-austria","tag-continuationwar","tag-finland","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-interwarperiod","tag-winterwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pKD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98992,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98991\/revisions\/98992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}