Enemy at the gate: Sniper rifles

[axel]

Caught about the last 45 minutes of Enemy at the Gate (Jude Law and Ed Harris). Anyone know what kind of sniper rifles the Soviet and German were using?

[kalashnikovluvr]

Soveit: Most likely a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 sniper rifle
German: Most like a Mauser K98 sniper rifle

The only difference between the Soveit M91/30 sniper rifle and the regular M91/30 that I know of is that the sniper variation of the rifle had a bent down bolt that allowed the bolt to be operated(if it had the regular bolt that was in the infantry rifle(straight bolt) it would've hit the scope), a small cut in the stock which allowed for the scope mount, and the scope, other than that I believe the sniper M91/30 and the reg. M91/30 are the same rifle.

Don't know much about the German K98. I'm into Soveit/Russian weapons, but someone else on the site will have plenty of info.

[thisaway]

Ed Harris uses a Mauser K98k with some type of Hensoldt 'scope, IIRC.
Jude Law uses a sniper-version Mosin-Nagant M91/30 with Soviet 3.5-power PU 'scope.

[cjlandry]

Damn good movie! ^c

I was paying more attention to the software (Rachel Weisz) than I was to the hardware. She's at the top of my list these days.