Thanks guys.............meyerse I bought the gun from a local firearms dealer whom I know, I have looked very carefully over the scope using a magnifier and I cant find any maker mark but as MarkV has observed there are remains of perhaps an older serial number near the elevation adjustment turret....its a bit hard to distinguish exactly what the symbols are though, Im reluctant to remove the scope at this stage to examine further in case it affects the zero but may do at some time in the future when I'm more familiar with the re-zeroing procedure..............Is it an original sniper?...the eternal question...
....the gun shoots very well and acurately, trigger pull is very smooth and predictable, the scope has performed well in various weathers with no fogging or misting (some repro PU scopes I've seen suffer badly from this) I beleive the Izhevsk sniper rifles were not specifically stamped as such unlike the Tula ones but mine doe's have what I think are accurising inspection marks on the receiver, the receiver is rough but the rifle is dated 1942 so thats not unusuall...............numbers match on all the major components including the bayonet.
Thanks again for taking the time to comment.
Phil
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