{"id":28300,"date":"2025-11-24T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/tkiv-85-finlands-ultimate-mosin-nagant-sniper-rifle-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T07:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T13:01:30","slug":"tkiv-85-finlands-ultimate-mosin-nagant-sniper-rifle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/tkiv-85-finlands-ultimate-mosin-nagant-sniper-rifle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TKIV-85: Finland&#8217;s Ultimate Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h5eMChPYH_k?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Join the Kickstarter for &#8220;Forged in Snow: Finnish Small Arms 1917-2025&#8221; here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=b67xkl<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=b67xkl<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Finland&#8217;s final iteration of Mosin Nagant sniper was adopted in the 1980s to replace a mix-and-match assortment of m\/39-43, m\/27-66, and m\/28-76 rifles. The two options were a Mosin system using a new bedding block (developed by Border Guard officer E. Toro) or a purpose-made new rifle made by Valmet (the Model 86). The Valmet was clearly the better rifle, but the Mosin option was acceptably good and much cheaper &#8211; so that&#8217;s what was adopted. The parts for the conversions were made by Valmet and assembled at Asevarikko 1.<\/p>\n<p>Two different models were made. One was a military specific type, and the other was a dual-use rifle for competition shooting as well as potential military use. The competition rifles had a lighter barrel profile to meet the international competition weight limit and were fitted with competition aperture sights in addition to mounts for scopes. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Frozen Trigger in Finland for giving me access to these examples to film for you!<\/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>Join the Kickstarter for &#8220;Forged in Snow: Finnish Small Arms 1917-2025&#8221; here:https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/headstamp\/forged-in-snow?ref=b67xklFinland&#8217;s final iteration of Mosin Nagant sniper was adopted in the 1980s to replace a mix-and-match assortment of m\/39-43, m\/27-66, and m\/28-76 rifles. The two options were a Mosin system using a new bedding block (developed by Border Guard officer E. Toro) or a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/24\/tkiv-85-finlands-ultimate-mosin-nagant-sniper-rifle-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TKIV-85: Finland&#8217;s Ultimate Mosin Nagant Sniper Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28301,"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-28300","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\/28300","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=28300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}