Bobby Lee Swaggert's 50
macabre, but Vasily Zaytsev's Mosin
I saw that rifle on display in Prague in 1978. It was a travelling exhibit. It was a plain jane Mosin Nagant sniper with a miniscule scope and a side mount. The rifle looked like any other milsurp sniper with dings in the wood and little bluing left. The photos of him were a seaasoned young man uncomfortable being photo graphed. Back here in North America he would have been a farm boy doing his duty.
My uncle Mac's FN Hi Power accompanied him five years during WWII, and his son owns it now. It is where it belongs. I am a bit odd I guess but do not have a desire to own a particular rifle because of its famous history.
My brother and I own Dad's rifles, and our kids and grand kids will inherit them.
