Any Love for SVT-40?
- Thread starter V-Max
- Start date
.30/06 FTW
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- Thunder Bay, Ontario
You should post this in milsurps.
Oh.....Thought it qualified as a "Red Rifle"
SVT 40 is awesome. Shoots like a dream. I can hit a paper plate with open sights as far as the eye can see it. Marstar has crates of x54R that arrived this week, get it while it lasts. You also have a choice of several different commercial brands that shoot pretty good and available in both 150 and 180 grain, FMJ and SP for hunting. Make sure you buy a gas adjustment tool with your purchase or soon after. I like it, but very loud for hunting, in fact the loudest gun i own. It will blow out your ear drums if you don't wear hearing protection. Great gun, don't buy anything that some moron has Babba'd.
it's easy to get ammo, depending where you buy it from and what kind you get it ranges from 75c to a $1.05 a round. obv the milsurp stuff marstar has is closer to 30c/rd, but it depends on what you're doing with the gun, i suppose.
if you just want to go out and plink and don't mind pulling the rifle down and cleaning it after every session, obviously the milsurp ammo is the way to go, and 30c a pop is a pretty good deal.
There is a very good review on the forums here about the SVT-40. A great review+range report together. Here is the link: http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=498899
I found it extremely helpful and will definitely be buying one of these in the near future.
I found it extremely helpful and will definitely be buying one of these in the near future.
I remember reading how the SVT-40 was often issued to the marksmen/women among the Russians....
Like the U.S. Army
, there was a certain affection for the semi-automatic action among the Russians, even for snipers ! 
"Less" love if you're a reloader...
Like the U.S. Army
, there was a certain affection for the semi-automatic action among the Russians, even for snipers ! "Less" love if you're a reloader...
This is partly true. Once you have the gas adjusted properly, there is less damage to the cases. That said, you will get less loads out of your brass than you would compared to a bolt action.
I've been experimenting with pulling the fmj out of the surplus ammo and replacing it with soft points and or adjusting powder charges to try to improve accuracy and nothing to loose from the empty steel case. Nothing really to report but first time out shooting I've had some improvement with accuracy for the M91/30 with some loads. Not a lot of change with the SVT, it seems to shoot well with whatever I feed it.
Stop applying logic.
"Red Rifle" forum is for all the folks who rush out to buy inaccurate, historic arms, chambered in light cartridges, then totally f&*K any collectors' value sideways by sticking as many pic rail pieces and electro-optical doodads on 'em that they can afford for $200 or less.
When I asked a question about a Poison-Maggot MN44 on Red Rifles, I was quickly shooed back here...
"Milsurp: Doesn't belong HERE!", they said...
I countered: "But it is a RED RIFLE?"
"Not the right KIND of Red Rifle"
I'm not sure why we just don't fragment our world of firearms enthusiasts even more, and create a separate forum for each and every make, model, and application of a single firearm design... Oh wait - Then we'd each have nobody else to talk to. Bloody holier than thou SKS folk - What a laugh!
Pardon my spew of vitriol: It is early, and baby daughter does not understand shift work, and I need more coffee!
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Methinks one part bubbah with all the after market crap stuck on, one part lack of familiarity with the rifle, two parts shooter error makes for the "inaccurate" label.
Last hunting season at the rifle range my wife was out shooting seasoned hunters with their scoped hunting rifles while using her SKS and iron sights. The target was a small 300 yard gong.
This is REALLY going to divide my time, you know.
I'm gonna have to be on the "Rebuilt SMLE Mark I***" forum and on the "Factory Sporter Long Lee-Enfield forum" and that's gonna completely like toadally ROON my time for the "Jungle-rotted Halfway to Death Arisakas and Siamese SMLEs" forum.
Or perhaps that last forum could be two independent fora, with a third for crossover and comparison.
But I have noticed that Red Rifles seems to be far more concerned with plastic add-ons than they are with making their rifles more functional, more concerned with wasting huge piles of military ammo shooting AROUND a target than loading ONE round that will hit the thing.
I would think we have been, and will continue to, welcome serious folks here in Milsurps. The rifles themselves, after all, are classic military surplus.... and very likely the last of their breed.
What say you all?
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I'm gonna have to be on the "Rebuilt SMLE Mark I***" forum and on the "Factory Sporter Long Lee-Enfield forum" and that's gonna completely like toadally ROON my time for the "Jungle-rotted Halfway to Death Arisakas and Siamese SMLEs" forum.
Or perhaps that last forum could be two independent fora, with a third for crossover and comparison.
But I have noticed that Red Rifles seems to be far more concerned with plastic add-ons than they are with making their rifles more functional, more concerned with wasting huge piles of military ammo shooting AROUND a target than loading ONE round that will hit the thing.
I would think we have been, and will continue to, welcome serious folks here in Milsurps. The rifles themselves, after all, are classic military surplus.... and very likely the last of their breed.
What say you all?
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My Father had Milsurp in his blood and it got into my blood. After watching and buying, for 35 years of these rifles coming onto the market, they shoot best left original. I have yet to see any of the toy parts and modifications make by hacksaw heroes to actually improve a rifle.
The SVT-40 is definitely one of the classics and last of its breed. They shoot very well in its original configuration and one of the best long term collectors pieces.
This is very true.
Which makes me often wonder does every bubba with a dremel and a hack saw think they know better then a firearms designer /engineer? As I see it someone spent a lot of time, resources and thought into making a military rifle work.
Sure there are some things that may help...such as shimming under a barrel after the wood stocks have shrunk over the years but not the hacksaw and dremel routine.
Excellent Spew Sir! Poison Maggot indeed!! I'm liking the idea of an SVT and this forum more and more as time goes by.....
