Mossberg Model 44US

About the Mossberg Model 44US

The Mossberg Model 44US is an American bolt-action .22 Long Rifle training rifle produced by O.F. Mossberg & Sons for the U.S. War Department during and after World War II. Feeding from a 7-round detachable box magazine and fitted with a heavy target barrel and a micrometer-adjustable receiver peep sight, it was issued to teach basic marksmanship fundamentals to U.S. troops rather than to prepare them for combat. Its full-length military walnut stock and sling swivels approximated the handling of the service rifles of the era at low ammunition cost.

The 44US series gave a generation of American servicemen and later civilian riflery programs an affordable, accurate .22 trainer that mimicked the feel of a full-size military rifle, making it a prized collector piece with its U.S. Property markings.

Mossberg Model 44US specifications

Manufactured under War Department contract; roughly 58,000 units were delivered from 1943 to 1945, with a further 19,000-plus scheduled but cancelled near the end of the war. Postwar civilian and successor variants (44US(a) through 44US(d)) continued into the late 1940s.