Magazine size is 5 rounds." ―Mosin-Nagant description in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Uses special 7.62mm x 54R tranquilizer rounds. Adapted by The End from the M1891/30, a bolt-action sniper rifle used by the Soviet military during World War II. A tranquilizer sniper rifle, and The End's weapon of choice. Like The End's rifle, it functioned as a tranquillizer weapon, presumably being modified by Drebin himself due to his being a fan of legendary units such as the Cobra Unit. In 2014, gun launderer Drebin 893 stocked the Mosin-Nagant scoped rifle in his store. Guns of the Patriots Incident See also: Liquid Sun, Solid Sun, Third Sun, Twin Suns, Old Sun, and Naked Sin/Naked Son Just like The End's rifle, it functioned as a tranquilizer weapon. It was modified to include a skeleton stock and eventually a suppressor, as well as gaining improvements on its scope. The Militaires Sans Frontières private military company procured design specs for the Mosin-Nagant rifle during the Peace Walker Incident in 1974. Peace Walker Incident Main article: Peace Walker Incident The normal stock was also replaced with a paratrooper's folding stock and a pistol grip, possibly for parachute jumps. This weapon fired battle rifle-sized tranquilizer rounds instead of the standard lethal 7.62x54mmR round. It was believed to have been modified after the war. Usage Operation Snake Eater See also: Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake EaterĪ modified Mosin-Nagant was used by Cobra Unit member The End as his primary weapon. However, it kept its role as a sniper rifle until the 1960s, when it was finally replaced by the SVD. By 1951 it was finally replaced by the Kalashnikov AK-47. The Red Army gradually began supplanting them with newer automatic rifles: first the Tokarev SVT-40, then the Simonov SKS. Though it remained the standard Soviet rifle throughout WWII, the Mosin-Nagant was showing its age. Because of its overall success, it was also highly valued to the point that the Germans preferred using captured Mosin-Nagants over their own sniper rifles. Another famed user was the most successful sniper of all time, Simo Häyhä, who used a modified Finnish version during the Soviet invasion which is called M/28 (nicknamed "Pystykorva" in Finland). Perhaps the most famous user of this weapon was the "Hero of Stalingrad," legendary sniper Vassili Zaitzev.
These rifles had been fitted with down-turned bolt handles to allow the use of a 3.5-power PU marksman scope mounted to the receiver. When Nazi Germany turned on its erstwhile Soviet allies in 1941, the Russians promptly established a sniper program of their own, issuing modified Mosin-Nagants. The Red Army first discovered the combat potential of snipers during their invasion of Finland in 1939, when entire Soviet divisions were pinned down by determined Finnish snipers. These were issued concurrently with the more numerous standard model during World War II and remained in production until 1950. The rifle was very long and somewhat unwieldy, prompting the development of a shortened carbine version in 1939 and another even shorter variant in 1944. Afterwards, it remained the standard-issue rifle of Stalin's Red Army.
It first saw combat during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, and later in the Eastern Front trenches during World War I, the bloody October Revolution of 1917, and the civil war that followed.
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