- Nov 11, 2009
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I used to have a Nagant. My late father-in-law who was a Marine in the Pacific brought it home at the end of WWII when his final duty was with the 6th Marines accepting the Japanese surrender in Shanghai. Funny thing is it had Cyrillic script on it and a lanyard ring. One of the Russian ex-patriots at a gun show a couple of decades ago said the language was Bulgarian. Not sure how it got all the way to China.
Hop skip and a jump. Russo-Japanese War, 1904, for one possibility. Nagants have been around a while.