who shoots their SVT a lot?

I dunno. I thought mine was easier to strip/clean/reassemble than my SKS. I found the trick was securing the spring in the notch at the rear of the dustcover. Then it doesn't matter where you're at at all; the thing just slid right in.

Giggity.

Cannon
 
The hardest thing to remove and reinstall on my SVT 40 is the front stock band. It's on there so damn tight, I have to tap it off carefully with a wedge and a hammer. (don't want to mar the finish).
 
Horilka said:
OK, I often see complains that SVT is hard to disassemble and suggestions on how to improve. I just checked top 10 video on the subject on the YouTube and now I know why. I am shocked with how ppl field strip SVT. DON'T DO LIKE VIDEOS SUGGEST as only some of them are just partially correct. Nobody bothered to read translated manual, nobody bothered to create correct video on field strip. I don't know how many times I disassembled SVT, probably more than thousand times and never had any springs flying or challenges. But I was smart enough to do first field strip with original manual.

Field stripping SVT is easy as hell. Here's how according to original manual:
- place rifle on the table in front of yourself so the barrel is pointing forward and trigger guard is against the edge of the table (so it won;t move forward).
- right hand is holding rifle in the grip area, left hand slides bolt cover forward
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- while holding cover with left hand use right hand thumb to fix the rear spring guide (without touching the cover), now you can remove cover.
- slowly allow the spring to move guide to the rear position to the back wall of the receiver. now everything is back in place except we have no cover.
- left hand index finger and thumb grab _middle_ spring guide near the bolt carrier and right hand index and thumb hold _rear_ spring guide. With left hand move middle spring guide backward (to yourself) (just about inch or inch and a half so it leaves bolt carrier) and with right hand move the rear spring guide out of the receiver back wall. (You can actually simultaneously move middle guide backward and rear guide forward and move whole assembly to the side). Remove guides and springs completely. Now remember this - pressing both spring guides against each other and holding them together is the key for easy removal and installation.
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Then you know what to do do. When assembling back - put guides/springs back into carrier, again compress together middle and rear guides in the same way with left hand on middle and right hand on rear. Put assembly back so it rests against rear wall of the receiver.

It takes couple of seconds to do and 30 minutes to type... Once you do it once you'll never forget.. there's simply nothing that could go wrong when you do field strip in the correct way as manual suggests.

Here's almost correct how-to with pictures (except rifle should be oriented from you, not sideway and thus you grasp guides differently, like on the pictures above) - http://www.mosinnagant.net/USSR/svt_on.asp
But this one gives you idea on how to compress the guides.
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It's the reassembly that takes three hands, getting the rear spring guide to fit in it's slot in the cover. And I use the dummy 308 round trick, but getting the round out , with the spring pressure is the big hurdle.
 
big bear said:
It's the reassembly that takes three hands, getting the rear spring guide to fit in it's slot in the cover. And I use the dummy 308 round trick, but getting the round out , with the spring pressure is the big hurdle.
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Try my trick using side of your right hand index finger knuckle I posted earlier.
It works very well.
You can compress the spring fully then use your thumb and remaining fingers to grab the rifle and hold the spring in place.
Then bring the dust cover down on an angle with your left hand, catch the spring in the notch and slowly release the spring letting it pull the cover with it.
Very simple.
 
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