Any Mosin Nagant collectors here familiar with refurb rifles that have stocks painted with a reddish-brown paint (not the standard red shellac)? I've seen a few of these over the last couple of years (most recently a PU sniper, but I also recall seeing a few standard 91/30s painted this way). The paint is over wood, the metal at the ends of the handguard and pretty much all other exposed metal on the stocks (but not on the action or bands). One I saw recently (the refurb sniper) had the matching serial number stamped in the buttstock. I'm trying to figure out what country refinished the stocks this way (or if Century or some other importer was just trying to "pretty-up" ugly rifles).
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