The 1st 6000 M39's built at SAKO in 1941 had the straight stock due to not having the machinery for making the pistol grip stock at the time. The stock was made using the pattern from the M28/30 which in itself was also an excellent rifle built for the Civil Guard. The M28/30 was the rifle Simo Häyhä used during the Winter War.

@Gungeek

7 жыл бұрын

:)

@bussekuski1

5 жыл бұрын

So thats really m39.. Looks very much like 28/30. Just like my own. Thank you for the info.

@HavecksOR

3 жыл бұрын

Was about to say this one doesn't have the semi pistol grip, thanks for the info

Watching this video makes me proud of being a Finn.

need this in my life!

@CAted1996

7 жыл бұрын

yes you do, you need more milsurps on your channel and you need a wood stock on that M1A you just reviewed ;)

@adamcostilla1692

7 жыл бұрын

CAted 1996 ^^^^ He's right ya know..??

Eric please, do more videos about the M39. I love that rifle. Thanks for this video

You and Chad need to do a shoot off.. The M-39 Vs. the K-31 @ 600 yards.. Handloaded and Service surplus ammo. Now that would be a good Video. Dave.

@ayeapprove

7 жыл бұрын

GP11 kicks ass

@Thorsaxe777

7 жыл бұрын

Yep.. I love mine.. I did a Video on my channel with the up graded sights (Diopter) Available from Swiss products. 1/4 inch groups. @100 yards.

@Thorsaxe777

7 жыл бұрын

I agree, However It may be close with the M-39,, They were gone through by the Fin's. But.. Like you I believe that the K-31 would have an edge over the the M-39. I love mine.. Never going to get rid of it.

@StPaul76

7 жыл бұрын

There is no actual D166 surplus ammo available in the States. So it would be old and crummy Swiss 7,5x55 surplus ammo against hadloaded brand spanking new Lapua D166 bullets with Vihtavuori N140 powder and Brand spanking new Lapua 53R-brass and brand spanking new CCI-primers.. Actually I think some of the barrels on M39s were made by the same folks at Sig that made the K31.. Go figure.. :D

@Thorsaxe777

7 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that in his network Eric could get some Factory D-166, He has 1.343.445 and growing subscribers, There has to be someone out there who could get him some or tell him where to get it. You are right though, The Handloaded ammo would be a race in it's self. Good point though StPaul76.

perkele

@henrib7987

7 жыл бұрын

Tässähän pitää käydä torilla melkein päivittäin kohta.

@simontili3374

7 жыл бұрын

Karjala takaisin!

@meddler69

7 жыл бұрын

suomalainen voima (3/4 finnish here)

@raimondviiding957

7 жыл бұрын

No nyt on kyllä hurja meininki.

@mustangszz

7 жыл бұрын

Hi all you Finns, I just want to thank you on behalf of many Americans for your excellent rifles and for Linux, Angry Birds, and those once popular Finnish cell phones that we don't use much any more. You guys make good stuff. Please make us some more! Waiting....

Thanks Eric and Chad,I absolutely love my M39's and K31's so seeing a video on using handloads is great. I must have completely missed the D166 video so I'm going there after this......it was you Eric that got me addicted to the M39 and K31 so thanks again for continuing to do video on this two awesome rifles!!!

I really enjoy watching the range videos, love the live commentary on the Gun and it's history. I'm an English man and would REALLY ENJOY watching another range video (like this one) on the Lee Enfield. :-)

Love the long distance videos guys!! Keep up the great work.

1800 feet with open sights, and a gun that is what, 80 to 90 years old? That is way beyond cool. Big fun.

You all had already sold me on eventually getting an M39! Such a beautiful rifle and I love great engineering. Thanks for sharing.

@nathanevans6297

8 ай бұрын

I have 2 now. Amazing rifles.

I just wanted to say thanks for all the knowledge I have gained from all your vids. There are tons of large channels like yours but this is the one I always return to. Definitely my favorite non gaming channel although I believe I found this one from the BF1 related video LOL

Love my M39, great video. Love seeing y'all shoot!

They took the original reloading video down its on Full30 now. Thanks Eric! Buying a mint condition M39 SKY right now.

AWSOME video as always brother. Great shooting.

I enjoyed the video. Years ago I somehow accidently found my way into an M39 for $70 at my local gun shop. I knew it was a moisin but I had never seen one like it before. I didn't actually know just what it was until several years later. I took it to the range with surplus Russian ammo and it stacked them on top of each other at a 100 yards. A very good shooting rifle. I was very pleased years later when I learned that they were very collectable and sought after. I want to load some D166 and see what she can do. Thanks guys, I really enjoy your videos.

I enjoy these types of videos from you guys, you are lively characters that are fun to watch shoot.

well done guy .. plzz keep posting more Videos .. I am an English interpreter I working With an american , british & Canadians military trainers here in kurdistan .. really I got a very great benefit from your videos

Love the M39 videos!! Keep it up!

You guys are great. MY FAVORITE GUN CHANNEL

It'd be cool to see the mosin, Mauser, enfield, Springfield and other milsurp bolts side by side at long range

I've been waiting for this vid! My body is ready!

@novaman3509

7 жыл бұрын

Taylor Petty Is your statement up for interpretation?

Swiss K31 vs Finnish M39 vs Russian 91/30 vs 1903 Springfield vs German Kar98 at 600 yards.

I'm surprised they still bring back good old memories Barry I do miss him a lot from go back to the old videos and listen from him

I have one of these, handed down through 3 generations. Still take it to the range every now and then with the old man. So much fun to shoot with the iron sights only.

I'm a simple man, I see milsurps I press like.

@ayeapprove

7 жыл бұрын

M39 = instaupvote

@darrinhatcher2013

7 жыл бұрын

dreyrugr well said man ...I feel the same way✌

@panzerpete3977

7 жыл бұрын

Same. Wood and iron all the way.

@mattrowley1675

6 жыл бұрын

Im a simple man too.... i see milsurps and i buy them 😂

@JohnDale1401

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see milsurps and I buy them. That's why my wife doesn't let me go to gunshops without supervision!

love the videos lately

Got damn, those rounds were smacking the shit outta that target. I absolutely love the sound of lead hitting a steel; one of the most satisfying sounds in the world.

I cuddled with my M39 while watching this video

@Porty1119

7 жыл бұрын

alaskajohn907 I know the feeling...I like to get out and fondle guns appropriate to the video I'm watching.

@JackOSUrulz

6 жыл бұрын

I thought I was alone in that respect LOL!!! I do the same thing. Then, I usually get all giddy and head out to the back acreage for some shooting of my own

If Eric is high and left we have a serious problem :)

@jarek94cze

4 жыл бұрын

I like your last name Mr. Sýkora.

@lacydowningjr8708

2 жыл бұрын

😂

Eric & Chad, Barry would be So Proud of you boys, he would dance an Ol' Timers Jig! Y'all Have Done Him Proud! Awesome Video, Thanks Much & Keep Having Fun!

Very entertaining watch. Wouldn't mind watching more!

Moving to the US was the best choice I ever made. I love my wife and I love my guns!

@humansvd3269

5 жыл бұрын

Where did you move from?

Impressive shooting with iron sights. I took my M39 out the other day and just wanted to empty the case on 6 HLs that were not working that I had for the brass (intended for a PSL) and even with my bad eyes they all were grouped nice and tight. Love those M39s.

I just bought a 1916 Spanish Mauser in 7 mm Mauser from J&G Sales. I absolutely love this rifle! I am thinking about buying one in 7.62x51 next.

@NCrdwlf

3 жыл бұрын

7mm Mauser is an awesome round I have a Chilean 95 short and it’s a plate ringer all day.. smooth action too .

challenge: i would like to see a .22lr out of chad's hoped up 10/22 on gelblocks at 600 yards

@sparrowm249

7 жыл бұрын

Next to no penetration

@A8vscRrabbit

7 жыл бұрын

Chad Dieffenbach i have gotten milk jugs to spill water that's about it at around 550

@A8vscRrabbit

7 жыл бұрын

I ask cause a buddy of mine has harvested several California ground squirrels at our farm at that distance with his hopped up 10/22. He did 3 in one day. If i wasn't there i would not have believed it.

@silverback7659

7 жыл бұрын

Chad Dieffenbach you'd be surprised

@A8vscRrabbit

7 жыл бұрын

jared Noah agreed.

Absolutely love the sound at the start when the round was going into the dirt

Mahtavaa kivääri! Terveiset Suomesta!!

Hey guys. Had a thought for a video that I think would be really fitting for you bros. A ballistic comparison of various barrel length ARs with a chrono from 100-600 yards. SBR, 14.5, 16, 18 etc all in 5.56 for the guys out there trying to decide what to do with their next build. It would be great to see the benefits and differences with real, tangible evidence to help decide. Hope you guys see this and hope it's not something you guys already have done. Keep it up. Congrats on 1.3M subs! Well deserved!

you have made me a fan of the mosin and im going to have to get one. so keep the videos coming.

Nice video, well done.

the sound of ringing steel is a great thing. did some of that Saturday.

I must agree with Eric such a nice gun to be old as it is and shoots is remarkable in my view glad to see your still having fun tack care and keep the video clips coming thanks and a hello frump the United Kingdome

Hey. I reloaded the rifle M 39 cartridges with Lapua 6,5g bullets. They are accurate up to 150 m. Shooting with this bullet is pleasant the recoil is low. Nice video 👍👍🎯🎯

Thanks for the video.

I watched this and the reloading video when I was living in UK and couldnt own guns, now that I live back in Finland and have m39 and cant find your reloading videos anymore thanks to YT.......

good video, i personally usa wolf wpa 200gr. match extra in my m39 finns and i get great accuracy and it only costs about 20 bucks a box no need to hand load.

Six hundred yards in the wind with an off the rack antique rifle and you're still hittin' steel! Nice shootin, Eric!

550 meters, damn thats good shooting!

@clintonscottwalsh

7 жыл бұрын

Krasi Radev is that what 600yards is. well a thousand yards is 920meters

@5000Kone

7 жыл бұрын

548.64 meters

nicely done good shooting!

love hanging out with you guys, the finns still build good guns.

That snap sound is so awesome

mauser 98 600 yard please.thanks for great videos

@mobstamaniac

7 жыл бұрын

Better be seeing the Lee Enfield after that

@LightTackleEthusiast

6 жыл бұрын

mauser 123 He just did a video on that

Great vid man as usual. Ya know gun broker is gunna get hit with a bunch of peeps wanting one of those now lol 😁 that does look really, really fun, I've gotta do more distance shooting for sure

I really need on of these in my life.

The Finnish m-39 is not an off the rack mosin. It is a refurbished mosin. A much better rifle than a conscript mosin.

LOL.yea once you found the hold it was spot on.Looks like too much fun.

Do a comparison test between finnish m39 and the russian standard mosin! please

@ayeapprove

7 жыл бұрын

depends on the condition of the russian barrel

@sanfordhoffman2392

7 жыл бұрын

Bleach That would be an interesting video. I'd love to see that too. Just to see how much better the Fin does.

@gromann

7 жыл бұрын

Sanford Hoffman you know, with handloads my 91/30 seems to shoot a little better than my m39.

@sanfordhoffman2392

7 жыл бұрын

gromann That's inspiring. I have a typical Russian 91/30 that I put into an archangel stock. I was thinking about digging up an m39 barrel and having it put onto my 91/30. Maybe I'll hold off on that and see what kind of accuracy I can get out of the original before I go dumping even more money into it. I put a Timney trigger into and got a bipod etc etc. Really jazzed it up more than it's worth. Luckily it's a project gun for my son and I don't plan on selling it cause I'll never get out what I put into it. Just wanted to see how much accuracy I could get out of an old milsurp rifle if I gave it some help. I haven't really had a chance to put it to the test but before I put anymore into it I'll see how well it's doing. This is probably more info than you were expecting. Sorry.

@gromann

7 жыл бұрын

Mosins react very well to accurizing. The action lends itself to great feats of accuracy, but that's also why their accuracy is so inconsistent. There may be a 91/30 that did 1 moa out of the factory just because it happened to have that lovely luck of having perfect tolerances from luck. A 3-4 MOA rifle being average - with handloads, bedding and floating, then a better trigger (or just a trigger job) can get very respectable groups. I'd say upgrade the barrel as a last resort if you have good rifling and the crown is intact.

Great video guys!! Love the M39. Would love to see the Lee Enfield at 600.

I recently got a M39 in a trade at a gun show. I bought some Monarch green cased ammo from our local Academy and hit the range at my local gun club. I set the ladder at 600 yards and fired at the 24" gong at that distance. I was ringing it 3/5 shots each magazine. I'm very satisfied with the weapon.

geterrr done good shot!

I liked what I saw. 600 yard is by no means an easy shot. I would like to see you guy work up a custom cast bullet load for the M39. For all of us casters it would be great to see you find a bullet mold (albeit custom probably an NOE or accurate mold) that would be awesome in the M39. Lee/ RCBS etc. would be great too as long as it was a great load.

I was very excited to see the video on reloading the D166, and this is the proof of its deadly reputation. Until I did some long distance shooting myself last year I didnt realize how much the wind factors in. Some might watch this, and think its accuracy was nothing to sing about, but quite the opposite is true, 600 yards, open sights, 20mph crosswinds, is nothing to "sniff-off". I'm 100% confident, if one of those cows had made a mis-step, it would have been met with a very swift end, those rounds struck the plate with plenty of authority.

@OKA_91

Жыл бұрын

Where is this video on reloading the D166? Im very interested ! Thanks

“Uh, Eric... that’s not a milking cow” I freaking lost it haha 😂

Nice vid, thx!

Definitely wanna see more Mosin stuff, or milsurp stuff in general, even if it's sporters that you've worked on. Really interesting.

That was impressive! Good fun too.

Awesome tutorial!

Very nice!

Straight stock M39s were all used in combat. It was a small batch made with old specification stocks and those were delivered to border guard units which were advancing into east at the beginning of the continuation war. (And I've got one.)

It'd be cool to see y'all do a similar video with the Swedish Mauser in 6.5x55, seing as that still is kinda the go-to caliber here in Sweden when it comes to hunting!

Hey Eric, I wanted to share my information for you and the others, now I know what the big "T" in a m39 stock means. Those rifles were kind of a reference rifles which units had and adjusted or checked zeroing of other rifles somehow with those marked rifles. So they were not allowed to be used in combat to avoid losing the reference values in them. I don't exactly know how that was done in practice, but those rifles should be in a better condition than some others. Hope this was helpful and greetings from Finland! PS "T" could indicate "tarkka"=accurate, "tarkistus"=check, inspection etc...

A Mosin M91/30 was the first gun I ever owned, I still marvel every time at how accurate a 1944 milsurp is. One day I'd like to get my hands on one of the Finnish models.

You need to revisit the "how far will a 12 gauge kill" thought y'all were going to make a follow up vid when you had a bigger range...cant wait

Impressive shooting Eric would love to add an m39 to my mosin collection!!

Thank you. ...

Love the old M39 - the Finns made great guns. Like to see more of old war guns being shot - such as the small ring Mauser 96s, and other European shoulder arms of the previous two world wars.

Pretty damn impressive!

Really appreciate your guy's channel. Always entertaining. Grew up around guns, shooting, hunting and whatnot. Haven't fired a round in years though, this is definitely giving me the itch. Also really enjoy the milsurp and antique vids. Piece of history and fun to watch.

You made it!

Do you guys have a microphone near that gong ? It sounds much clearer and closer than usual. Superb content as always !

Eric did u know that people actually use the M39 and K31 at the Camp Perry vintage rifle matches

Sometimes I curse the fact that I was born a Millennial. I feel like the best days of milsurp collecting has long passed. It just makes it more urgent to start collecting now. I'm hoping to get an M39 as soon as I get a steady job.

I have m39 it was captured by the Finns and Sako modified it. super accurate

that M39 is no joke!! that's one accurate gun :)

I'd love to see you guys do this with that accurized K31 build you guys did.

Happy xmas

Damn! Bring them back!! Have only 3...

Going to look at one today. Hope it is in good condition

I love the Mosin video's!

Am I only the one that loves the sound when he misses.. reminds me of those suppression scenes in war movies

Nice!

Good shootin Eric :)

That is quite impressive

Aww, that comment about Barry just made me smile

Nice shooting. I would love to see that that Tikka of yours can do and maybe that B-barrel. And then yea put it up against the K31 or the K11 at that range. Would be a heck of a day of shooting

oh yeah! now just want to see you ringing that gong with a wonderfull K31!

Simo Häyhä, got over 800 kills with one of those rifles durring the winter war with no scope.

@beefcakes27

5 жыл бұрын

Since the M39 rifle emerged after the Winter War Simo's feat was not only extraordinary but unbelievable...

Great video, and good shooting with that wind. Can you all take a M1903A3 up there? I have one and would love to see one shot at that distance.

Some things we'd all like to see: Pattern 17 Enfield video; K31 vs M39 at range; "Winter War Special"; m1903a4 at 600 yards; scoped milsurps; milsurp shotguns; more milsurps in general. Thank you.