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Just want to thank North Sylva for the heads up on this. Ordered a nice 1940 production off a dealer before the supply of un-marked runs dry. It'll be a nice match for my 1940 SVT-40
Yes, Russia is ridiculously bureaucratic state (we are catching up with them, though). Half of Russia's population works in different sorts of budget-financed organizations. This testing center which stamps the firearms is one of them. They take refurbished firearms from the arsenal, take their sweet time testing and retesting them, then stamp them in a way approved via some sort of departmental instructions, and that's their job. Couldn't be better life than that! The markings they put on the guns is the justification of their salaries, without markings - why pay them?
2 and 2 is 4, no matter how many people it offends.
I am so Happy I got my WWII manufactured Tok. I struck it lucky with one that was put away and fired so little it was like brand new. No ugly stamps just 1942 unmolested beauty in its wholeness. That being said cleaning the 74 year old packing grease out of it was a bit of a chore!
Yuck. Those things will have to be given away to sell them.
Keeping it real on the range since before there was a CGN.