How many rounds have your SVT-40's seen "by you" and had any breakages?

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Like the Title says everyone, how many rounds have you put through your SVT-40's.

I love SVT's but they have always struck me as a little fragile mechanically. The receivers are a little on the light side for such a powerful round and they flop and bend like a wet noodle when fired on slow mo cams.

Depending on gas settings, bullet weight and air temperature you can see fairly large increases in pressures and recoil as well.

I'm wondering if anyone on here has had any parts fail on them, bent receivers, piston rods, recoil rods/springs, broken firing pins, warped barrels ect.

I wanna hear about failures to fuel my curiosity/hopefully put my mind at ease.

So far so good with mine running MFS 185GR FMJ but I have only fired a couple hundred rounds
 
almost a thousand rounds

Failures Recoil Spring got jammed in bolt
Failure kinda person shoved 7.62x51 in magazines.,.,.... it fired off 2 before ooopps person was wondering what went wrong of course and started blaming the gun
Odd Failure Brass pieces worked theyre way into Recoil Spring causing Bolt to lock in place and then dissemble on its own while firing dissemble
 
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I have had the dreaded "spent shell case stuck in chamber with bolt stuck closed too" a couple times.

The "fix" is to shove the cleaning rod down the barrel and "tap" it free. Believe me, the first time I did some measuring with the rod to double check it was a spent round, lol.
In the confusion, I was not 100% sure!

Of course it was, and now I understand that they are prone to this, unless the chamber is kept clean: I swab it out after every 15 rounds or so. The black crud is what helps the casings to stick, extractor and all.

I suppose tapping the bolt handle back might work, but I worry it might damage the extractor, so I use the cleaning rod "tapping" instead...bolt and casing frees right away.

They are tremendous fun and cool-looking rifles, but there's a reason the Mosin was still be issued as late as 1945! (well, cost was one I guess)...
 
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Recoil spring jammed can be an issue depending on which way they are put back in on reassembly. The brass pieces is really weird though, never expected that!.

As for the stick chamber, also was aware of that although luckily have not had any issues with all of mine so far.

I'm more concerned with major "failures". Thanks for the input so far!, keep it coming Gents.
 
I have seem slo-mo pics of an AK-47 firing, and the barrel looked like a wet noodle, wagging it's tail!
Hopefully, like the gentle willow that bends in the breeze, these Russian guns will hold up...
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Mine have been mostly good. Oldest one has probably seen a couple thousand rounds from me. I've had brass get stuck in there with the bolt closed a couple times. Always did the "pogo trick" to get her out.

Had the magazine fall out while shooting on 2 different ones. Haven't had to replace any parts on any of them yet but my Finn Capture hasn't been shot by me but I would replace the gas piston cup on that one if I ever change my mind and decide to take her out.
 
About 2000 rounds.... nothing big. A couple sticky casings, cleaned out the chamber from the rear and had no problems. I usually shoot a couple mags fast( for fun) no problems.
 
baD mR fRosTy said:
I have seem slo-mo pics of an AK-47 firing, and the barrel looked like a wet noodle, wagging it's tail!
Hopefully, like the gentle willow that bends in the breeze, these Russian guns will hold up...
tagged for interest
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I have fired about 80 rounds through it.

My understanding is that the wobble happens as the barrell gets warm? So after 4-5 rounds let it cool down?
 
40 rounds no failures - I did manage to not click the trigger assembly all the way in, so on first shot it disassembled itself ;)
 
I've had my '45 SVT for 2 years now. It's seem at least 3000 rounds by me as of this point. A few stovepipes here and there and the very rare fail to extract but, otherwise no issues.
 
Just out of curiuosity (I purchsed one for my son for Christmas) what gas setting would you use in a cold climate setting? Why? We will be firing surplus of course.
 
Snoopycda: I start out on the lowest setting with all of mine and increase until I get reliable functioning and no more. I have about 250 rounds through one rifle with excellent reliability including at minus 20C. Right now I'm most concerned about accuracy issues! As to the ultra-slow mo movies, I suspect a lot of rifles would show surprising things if filmed in a similar manner. I'd love to see an SMLE filmed like that.
 
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I have fired about 80 rounds through it.

My understanding is that the wobble happens as the barrell gets warm? So after 4-5 rounds let it cool down?
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They wobble from the first shot. The SVT 40 is designed especially so that it can wobble freely, it's not a problem.
 
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