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Originally Posted by 69camfrk

Is it Russian or another country? China made the "Type 53". It's cool that you have one without import stamps. If it is Russian there are two arsenals. Izhevsk and Tula. The Izzy guns have a triangle with an arrow on top of the receiver, and Tula has a star with an arrow mark in the same location. In so far as rarity, if it is a 1944 Tula M44, it is pretty highly prized. Still not crazy low production (approx 100,000), but the factory was overrun by the Nazi's, and all subsequent production of the M44 carbines went to the Izhevsk factory.

Its a Izzy. The story of how he got the gun never came up, I know he saw action, he was a 03! Gun was in sort of decent shape and I shoot it on occasion!

I did find out that the bayonet has to be on the carbine to get good accuracy, something to do with barrel harmonics.