Felt recoil. SVT vs SKS

Going to depend upon how your gas system is set up on your SVT. It has more recoil than the SKS, but a lot of it is only perceived due to the powerful muzzle brake.

I find the SVT is more pointable. The SKS feels much heavier and the bayonet does it no favors. The longer sight radius helps with target acquisition.
 
lalunette said:
First time shooting an SKS was last Sunday (Father's Day). I found it to be a breeze compared to my SVT-40, which I also fired on the same day.

The SKS has these teeny tiny baby boolits that are really cute when compared to the manly SVT-40 round.

Also, I would never fire my SVT-40 without ear protection as it usually causes my ears to ring... but I blasted away with the SKS without any adverse effect.

The felt recoil is stronger on the SVT-40 than on the SKS, no doubt about it !!
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Shooting an SKS with no ear pro? Don't worry, you're " used to it " I guess because you've already damaged your hearing.
 
Ok I found this one showing my son and I shooting a couple of SKS'es at a milsurp match, during the "Mad Minute"


My son (with the yellow earmuffs) weighs 100 pounds. His SKS is bone stock. I'm to his left, with a Tapco-stocked SKS with a pistol mag adaptor.

You can see that my son is more than ok with the recoil, and my target acquisition was fairly fast (towards the end I'm throwing my last 10 rounds in some 4 seconds, but then my red dot was staying, let's say, more or less on target).

I don't think my son and I could both do this with a SVT :)
 
Tenguns said:
Shooting an SKS with no ear pro? Don't worry, you're " used to it " I guess because you've already damaged your hearing.
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WHAT ?? CAN'T HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING !!!

No worries... I'm 50 so a lot of things have begun to fail... what's one more ??

Seriously though, it was only for 10 shots... so no big whoop.
 
I personally find the recoil just a little bit harder on my SVT, although it was at the 1.5 setting last time I shot it. I would say overall though that I find the SKS is better to keep on target because it doesn't have as much muzzle climb as the SVT in my hands. As far as the recoil beating back into my shoulder, I find they actually do feel very similar, and I've never had trouble shooting either for long periods of time.
 
grinder08 said:
This doesn't account for the muzzle brake which reduces the recoil a lot. I find my SVT using milsurp is very soft shooting. Recoil is not an issue with either, so long as you are not a wimpy reporter that is.
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I just put a round thru my SVT40, effectively fought in the Battle of Moscow.
 
To wrap up and old thread I started...

Last night I finally fired an SKS (having traded away the one I bought without firing it), and did so in-between shots with the SVT.

Recoil felt about the same, and was not at all offensive.

On the SKS I understand this to be due to the heavy chassis and light round. On the SVT I understand this being due to the thundering muzzle brake.
 
warrenlikesboats said:
SVT 40 will leave bruises on my colar bone when shooting prone, SKS does not. Put a muzzle brake on an SKS and your golden, SVT 40 will seem like cannon in comparison.
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I'm with you on that. I have a muzzle brake on my sks and it feels like not much more recoil than shooting a .22 magnum.. A bit more, but way way way less than a lever action 30-30. Very pleasant on the shoulder. All day in any position, and very little muzzle climb.
 
I was shooting my SKS wildly missing the Deer I was shooting in the direction of........ anyway I think the recoil on my SKS and SVT40 are darn near the same. I have a small recoil pad on my SKS to give it an couple inches more length as I'm tall with gorilla arms.

Last I shot my svt at the range I let a 12 yr old shoot it and he fired 5 rounds he liked it so much because it had no kick. That was a 41 Tula.
 
The SVT 40 is my favorite rifle of the designs I own. I do own a K98 that is aces for accuracy as irons go but, SVT40 has identified history attached to them. I can date all 4 of my SVT's to particular months and factories or origin which suggest location and time frame used. Absolutely I believe my Tula would have been used in the defense and/or later Moscow offensives which would have turned the Germans from the city in 1941. This continued the campaign into 1942. My podolsk 41's sure would have tales to tell used likely in the Caucuses and possibly Crimea campaigns. None of my svts were captured so they fought a brutal 4 yr conflict and now are in my basement :)
 
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