{"id":28182,"date":"2025-11-10T06:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T06:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:48:32","slug":"adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Surplus! Finnish M28 &#8220;Ski Trooper&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xK_Bo2KIBrM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Get your exclusive preorder copy of Forged in Snow today!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=7jsg1p<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=7jsg1p<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Today we are going to take a look at just how much historical 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.<\/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=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get your exclusive preorder copy of Forged in Snow today!https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=7jsg1pToday we are going to take a look at just how much historical 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,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/10\/adventures-in-surplus-finnish-m28-ski-trooper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in Surplus! Finnish M28 &#8220;Ski Trooper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}