Globe Mohawk?

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A friend of mine has one of these (well, his dad does anyways)...it was their truck gun for years apparently. It sounds like an SVT-40 rechambered to .303 British from what I understand. Does anyone else have any info on these things? Are they worth any more than a regular SVT?

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Eep, my bad..this should have gone in milsurps...mods please move if possible.
 
Globe Firearms was a company that imported surplus rifles and sportered them. The Mohawk was indeed a SVT converted to .303 british. Most looked good but some nasty head space issues developed. If you don't know about the history of the gun a .303 semi is appealing. I would stick with an original SVT for safety purposes. I hope some folks with more info can chime in...

regards, Darryl
 
They're worth less, by a fair amount. Having held one, and heard a lot of stories, which may or may not be true they're apparently hit and miss. Some probably work fine, but you tend to hear about the ones that do interesting things at interesting times and turn themselves into wall art.
 
Ha, well, I'm pretty sure this one hasn't done anything to qualify it as interesting, but no sense in tempting fate.

From what my Googling turned up, Globeco was actually a Canadian company. I don't know if they were just the importer, or whether they would have done the conversion...it seems like that may have been done by the Finns?
 
When these things were made, you couldn't give an SVT40 away. Neither could you give a Mosin away. There wasn't any ammunition available for them so no one wanted them.
When Globco converted these to 303Brit, they had a bunch of rifles they had to do something with. Many of them were very pretty rifles. They were certainly a lot easier to handle than a military garbed rifle.
As far as head space issues, show me. They all were chambered to milspec and we all know how generous a milspec chamber can be.
I've bought and sold several. I liked them and they shot well. The fit and finish were excellent as well. All they did to convert them was set back the barrel and rechamber, then bob the barrel and add sporter sights.
 
I replaced a firing pin on one. They are a pretty scary hack job of an SVT... The particular one I worked on was a SA marked SVT38.... Globeco cut the gas system essentially in half and made it non-serviceable. Quite a disgusting rifle.
 
bearhunter said:
When these things were made, you couldn't give an SVT40 away. Neither could you give a Mosin away. There wasn't any ammunition available for them so no one wanted them.
When Globco converted these to 303Brit, they had a bunch of rifles they had to do something with. Many of them were very pretty rifles. They were certainly a lot easier to handle than a military garbed rifle.
As far as head space issues, show me. They all were chambered to milspec and we all know how generous a milspec chamber can be.
I've bought and sold several. I liked them and they shot well. The fit and finish were excellent as well. All they did to convert them was set back the barrel and rechamber, then bob the barrel and add sporter sights.
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They also probably recognized that no semi-auto .303 was available to civillians at the time....:yingyang:
 
Globco-Ottawa company-early 70's-SVT conversion (re-chambering) to .303- extraction issues abound if not immaculately cared for-also did .303 'bubbas'-Sussex,Essex etc.
 
Globe aka Globeco are also responsible for many a Bubbaed Norvegian Krag 6.5x55 mm rifles and carbines, almost impossible to find now in military issued condition.
 
Their problem was not rifle supply, but ammunition supply. During the Cold War, 7.62x54R was unavailable for the longest time. But, 303BR was very common. Put 2 and two together. What they did was move their inventory, cover the bills and meet the payroll.
 
Globeco has been added to my "Time Machine List".

It's a list that if I ever get a time machine, I will use it to travel back and kick the offender in the nuts.
 
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