Polish soldiers fought for all Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia during the Great War. When the Second Polish Republic was formed after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Poland had thousands of M91 Mosin Nagant rifles in its inventory. This number increased after Poland's victory in the Polish-Soviet war in 1921. Despite this, Poland standardized on the 8mm Mauser cartridge, which was used in rifles like the K98az and the wz. 29.

In the early 1920's Poland would experiment with converting some of their Mosins into 8mm Mauser. This had already been proven to be possible by Germany during WW1, although their process was relatively sketchy and was done in small quantities. Poland came up with a less terrible method that allowed them to preserve more of the existing chamber material. By 1925, Poland had developed a full conversion process that was satisfactory, thus the 91/98/25 was born. These new rifles typically retained the existing barrel by simply boring it out and re-cutting the rifling. The barrels were shortened to 20.7 inches (approximately 525 mm)

Approximately 77,000 of these carbines were created, and they were mainly used by Artillery and Cavalry during the mid 20s. By the 1930s, they were mainly used by Polish police forces and border guards. These would have been some of the very first rifles used in WW2, and only a small handful still survive today. There is speculation that some of these were in the rifle shipments that Poland exported to the Spanish Republicans during Spanish Civil War, which would explain how many of these later made it to America

Production Quantity:

• 77,000