More commonly referred to as the M24 in America, the Finnish M91/24 would start the trend of Finland re-barreling Mosin Nagant rifles. In the early 1920's, the Finnish Civil guard found many of their Mosins needed new barrels, and because domestic production had not started yet, they would contract with Germany and Switzerland for 26,000 new Mosin barrels. The money was provided by the Lotta-Svärd, who collected around half a million Finnish marks for this project

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The easiest way to identify one of these M24 rifles is the Finnish Civil Guard shield that is found on the center of the barrel: