{"id":99072,"date":"2026-04-02T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99072"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:10:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:10:55","slug":"m-27ph-aka-m-37-finlands-first-standard-sniper-rifle-and-its-really-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/02\/m-27ph-aka-m-37-finlands-first-standard-sniper-rifle-and-its-really-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"m\/27PH aka m\/37: Finland&#8217;s First Standard Sniper Rifle (and it&#8217;s really bad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xJGqaNOBb_o?si=PEreiZ1521xLD2wj\" 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 14 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>The m27PH, aka the m\/37, was the first standardized Finnish sniper rifle. It was developed as part of the plan to make a whole family of m\/27 rifles for the Finnish Army, including cavalry, trainer, and sniper models. The sniper model was delayed because of the structural problems with the m\/27 base rifle, and it was not formally adopted until 1937. The rifle used a 2.2x prismatic scope made by Finnish company Physica Oy. The scope was heavy, fragile, and had a very short eye relief.<\/p>\n<p>When first adopted, the rifles had short, slightly bent bolt handled and standard stocks. Once they began to see use in the Winter War (for which they were Finland&#8217;s only standardized sniper rifle), experience showed these features to be problems. The bolt handles were largely replaced with much longer Soviet-style sniper bolts, and wooden cheek rests were added to the stocks.<\/p>\n<p>During the Continuation War, m\/27PH rifles were still in service, but as they were damaged their scopes were generally used to build new m\/39PH sniper rifles instead. 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The sniper model was delayed because of the structural problems with [&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":[62,7,5,1119,663,230],"tags":[1367,603,1366,49,1197,690,1255],"class_list":["post-99072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-russia","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-continuationwar","tag-finland","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-interwarperiod","tag-specialforces","tag-winterwar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pLW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99072","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=99072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101658,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99072\/revisions\/101658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}