I ordered an SVT-40 from Lever Arms for $250 this past Tuesday. The rifle arrived via Canpar this Wed. Good work Lever Arms. Cleaned the rifle. Not too much cosmoline on it. Thanks to Youtube vids on how to dissassemble the rifle. The buttstock is not long on my rifle, I would say small or medium size stock for a WW2 enfield. Rifle was in good shape. The stock was not beat all to heck and after pushing Accelerator and Patch Out through the bore, (after cleaning the cosmoline out of the barrel) there was no sign of copper or rust.... a small amount of powder residue was evident. All other parts were in excellent shape with no huge signs of wear or rust etc. I have a 36in Clean-Bore coated rod which was JUST long enough to clean the barrel through the breech end. Even then, I had to use pliers to pull the patches out of the muzzle end.(the compensator) The metal parts were blued with some sort of black colour. All in all, a very nice rifle for the price. I was beyond impressed when I took it to the local range and shot it at 100 metres. After a bit of playing around with the military blade sight at the rear, I set the blade at 2 (assuming 200 metres ) which I found to give me a group which averaged 3 inches above my POA at 100 metres. My best group of 5 shots using PPU FMJ 182 gn Boat tail 7.62 by 54R (Serbian manufactured) was .98 inch (center to center) wide by 6.5 cm high group. Gas setting was 1.3. No problems ejecting or feeding. The recoil was light in the shoulder. This rifle is easy to aim and is well balanced. The 7.62 by 54R is very close to the .308 and 30-06 as far as ballistics go. One hell of a good deal and great service from Lever Arms.