The French MAS 49/56.

[Phloating Phlasher]

FN49 is Belgian, not French.
Sweetest shooting semi-auto I ever shot in 7mm Mauser.

[dryheat]

FN is Fabrique National. Belgian for sure. I can never keep; Dutch, Holland, the Netherlands, Deutschland straight. Some very good disigns produced.
The M-39 is a beautiful rifle and accurate. Made from a lame assed Mosin Nagant. I never owned a Mosin Nagant that I liked. Just bad luck.

[Allen]

FN is Fabrique National. Belgian for sure. I can never keep; Dutch, Holland, the Netherlands, Deutschland straight. Some very good disigns produced.
The M-39 is a beautiful rifle and accurate. Made from a lame assed Mosin Nagant. I never owned a Mosin Nagant that I liked. Just bad luck.

I bought one years ago. A model 91. Bought it because it is stamped 1917, the year my father was born. It was made for Russia by Remington Armory and has the old Imperial Russian double headed eagle on it.

I only shot it once to test it. Big clunky action.

[lyman]

had a thought on buying one of each US produced military rifle once, and picked up a New England Westinghouse M91, that was finned,

paid $100 for it, and had a tin of ammo too,

kept the ammo to shoot thru my SVT, but sold off the Mosin years ago w\o ever shooting it ,

got $800 for it, come to find out the funky mark on the top flat of the receiver was were the receiver was a subbed out part, made by AH Fox, (the shotgun people)

[dryheat]

Just to clarify: The M-39 was created in Finland. The unique wood work is eye catching. The M-38 and 44 were Russian short rifles. A little off subject. I don't know if the FN-49 was ever used in combat but I think the MAS-49 was at some point.