Editing Mosin–Nagant (section)

==Civilian use==
Mosin–Nagants have been exported from Finland since the 1960s as its military modernized and decommissioned the rifles. Most of these have ended up as inexpensive surplus for Western nations.

In the USSR surplus military carbines (without bayonet) were sold as civilian hunting weapons.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Снабжение промысловиков спецодеждой и оружием |date=1969 |magazine=Охота и охотничье хозяйство |number=10 |page=3}}</ref> Also, the Mosin–Nagant action has been used to produce a limited number of commercial rifles, the most famous are the Vostok brand target rifles exported in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s chambered in the standard 7.62×54mmR round and in 6.5×54mmR, a necked-down version of the original cartridge designed for long range target shooting. Rifles in 6.5×54mmR use a necked-down 7.62×54mmR cartridge and were the standard rifle of the USSR's Olympic biathlon team until the International Olympic Committee revised the rules of the event to reduce the range to 50 meters and required all competitors to use rifles chambered in .22 LR.

A number of the Model 1891s produced by New England Westinghouse and Remington were sold to private citizens in the United States by the U.S. government through the Director of [[Civilian Marksmanship Program]] in the interwar period. Many of these American-made Mosin–Nagants were rechambered by wholesalers to the American [[.30-06 Springfield]] cartridge.

With the [[revolutions of 1989|fall of the Iron Curtain]], a large quantity of Mosin–Nagants have found their way onto markets outside of Russia as collectibles and hunting rifles. Due to the large surplus created by the Soviet small arms industry during World War II and the tendency of the former Soviet Union to retain and store large quantities of old but well-preserved surplus (long after other nations' militaries divested themselves of similar vintage materials), these rifles (mostly M1891/30 rifles and M1944 carbines) are inexpensive compared to other surplus arms of the same era.