The depicted rifle was bought from P&S Militaria.
With these recent import refurbs, you really only have two choices these days:
1) German proof marked (not UN markings - it's a German law thing regarding proofing of guns that transit through Germany). These were likely brought in by Tradex and sold at some dealers such as P&S. All have mis-matched but proper length magazines. Actually this is the second batch, the first batch was about 5 years ago but those guns, although generally in slightly nicer shape, were also laser-etched on the flash hider assembly with UN-compliant origin markings but did have full length mags that were EP'd matching.
2) Recent Westrifle import, also sold at some other dealers who got them from Westrifle. These are not import marked, but have mags physically shortened to 5 rounds (cut the mag body, not pinned). The original serial number having been cut off, these mags are EP'd matching very recently atthe exporter's facilities. These mags were nto reblued, so the bottom halfs are covered in black paint like a franken-pinned SKS.
The best you could hope for is to maybe buy a P&S rifle for the $200 mag and stick it into a Westrifle non-import marked SVT, and then re-sell the P&S rifle with the short mag stuck in it - lol. Frankly, I'm not that anal - the markings are reasonably discreet as proof markings go. Nothing like the dot-matrix markings in Century Arms mosins and no worse then the commercial proof marks applied to most Lee Enfields from when they were surplussed.
Of course, the best possible finds are the Finn capture SVT's from the 1960's and 1970's, but they are uncommon these days and after 50 years of use in Canada, most have ratty bores. Most of those were also not matching... and most of the ones that were imported back then were sporterized commercially at Globe Firearms in Ottawa, adding to the rarity of the Finns.
With these recent import refurbs, you really only have two choices these days:
1) German proof marked (not UN markings - it's a German law thing regarding proofing of guns that transit through Germany). These were likely brought in by Tradex and sold at some dealers such as P&S. All have mis-matched but proper length magazines. Actually this is the second batch, the first batch was about 5 years ago but those guns, although generally in slightly nicer shape, were also laser-etched on the flash hider assembly with UN-compliant origin markings but did have full length mags that were EP'd matching.
2) Recent Westrifle import, also sold at some other dealers who got them from Westrifle. These are not import marked, but have mags physically shortened to 5 rounds (cut the mag body, not pinned). The original serial number having been cut off, these mags are EP'd matching very recently atthe exporter's facilities. These mags were nto reblued, so the bottom halfs are covered in black paint like a franken-pinned SKS.
The best you could hope for is to maybe buy a P&S rifle for the $200 mag and stick it into a Westrifle non-import marked SVT, and then re-sell the P&S rifle with the short mag stuck in it - lol. Frankly, I'm not that anal - the markings are reasonably discreet as proof markings go. Nothing like the dot-matrix markings in Century Arms mosins and no worse then the commercial proof marks applied to most Lee Enfields from when they were surplussed.
Of course, the best possible finds are the Finn capture SVT's from the 1960's and 1970's, but they are uncommon these days and after 50 years of use in Canada, most have ratty bores. Most of those were also not matching... and most of the ones that were imported back then were sporterized commercially at Globe Firearms in Ottawa, adding to the rarity of the Finns.
belonged to an oldtimer before that.
