Any way to find an unissued/non refurb svt40?
- Thread starter D3vin
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I have my doubts that you will find unissued or unrefurbed SVT-40, closest you can get is early import Finn capture SVT-38 or SVT-40. However, unissued AVT-40's do exist (obviously not importable into Canada as per current legislation). According to a Russian source a batch of appr. 4000 unissued AVT's was offered for sale in Russia as hunting rifles. According to the source that the only alteration was done to it is some kind of internal pinning of trigger mechanism to make it fire semi only and internal pinning of the barrel for ballistic trace. Even mags are original matching to the rifle. When their site is back to normal I'll post the link.
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
A gun produced solely during war, during a siege, and always on the front line. Hard pressed to find one all matching. Busted up, wore out and pieced together guns from bits that would still work. I'm amazed any survived in any condition.
One of mine is a '41 Tula (the year they were besieged). It shoots and functions fine, but somehow still seems like a cranky, cantankerous old bugger. Gave me a 3rd degree arm burn last summer when it rolled a hot casing across the bench and under my arm, where it stuck and burned right in. Its like the thing has a pissed off Soviet ghost in it or something.
DJdeadlyDALEK
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- Waterloo Region of Ontario
Al at Westrifle said for every 5000 SVT-40's he sees, he does see one that is non refurbished and all matching. Using that example, chances are slim that we'll get one. I'm interested in hearing more of this AVT cache, though....
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
At those numbers, you'd have people that wouldn't believe it even if they saw it. Would be quite the addition to a collection, regardless of condition.
Mines a '43 tula and I've had a few of those, obviously not as bad as your burn.
I know of an example of an svt that had a finn capture mark, then a soviet capture mark and then a german capture mark lol sucks to have been whoever was issued that rifle lol
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- East of Home, West of the Rest
Sucks to have it issued. Awesome to own it now! A Russian/Finn/Russian/German svt40! The history alone is amazing.
gewehr76
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The thing with Russian government is that all firearms that ever were adopted by Russian army and still in storage. No matter what it is 91/30 or SKS or AVT40 are still on army reserve and can be pressed back to active service in case of national emergency. So the firearms that we see now are just the bottom of the barrel units that have outlived its usefulness and storage requirements, while units that are new and slightly used are kept on reserve and can be put in use as needed. New firearms are designed to fire same 7.62x54 and x39 in case old firearms needed to be used again.
DJdeadlyDALEK
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- Waterloo Region of Ontario
I have an SVT-38 from 1939 and SVT-40's from 1940 to 1943, all Tula made and should soon have a 1944
With the exception of the 38, they're all refurbed. I'd love to have a non-refurb'd SVT-40. Even a mismatched Finn capture would be nice. A really nice Finn went up on the EE a few months back for $700 and it was gone in a few hours
With the exception of the 38, they're all refurbed. I'd love to have a non-refurb'd SVT-40. Even a mismatched Finn capture would be nice. A really nice Finn went up on the EE a few months back for $700 and it was gone in a few hours
