Izhevsk 1940 SVT-40

Nice score on the mint bore. Looks like correct muzzle break and sling swivel for the period as well.

P.S. I use white vinegar to strip bluing off of steel.
 
DILLIGAF said:
Trigger guard is electro penciled, but there is no ###XX # anywhere on it.... the only ###XX I have is the mag....
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I have seen them with the serial number stamped into the trigger guard bow. Other rifles have had this sanded off, with sometimes just a shading of where the numbers were showing through the bluing.
 
The strange coloured bluing (light and dark plum, bronze, and red) is a characteristic of the refurbs and probably all or some original output ftom Megnogorsk from '42 on (red). Judging from the pitting on some, some sort of rust protection was necessary and I leave my refurbs as they are. One with a deep plum bolt/carrier shows no wear on the finish after several hundred rounds so I think the re-furb factories knew what they were doing. Making them white in no way makes them correct as a true non-refurb would have a neatly stamped serial on both parts. The strange colour is supposedly due to the composition of the steel in bolt/ carrier/ bolt support insert. It would be interesting to see if cold-blue on a bare one makes a strange colour.

milsurpo
 
Horilka: My memory may be failing me and I'm at work so can't check but I think in the Chumak book he says the instructions allowing bluing of bolts/ carriers originated during '42. Have you (or anyone else out there) ever seen a non-refurb '42 with coloured bolt/ carrier?

milsurpo
 
Just took a quick pic

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milsurpo said:
Horilka: My memory may be failing me and I'm at work so can't check but I think in the Chumak book he says the instructions allowing bluing of bolts/ carriers originated during '42. Have you (or anyone else out there) ever seen a non-refurb '42 with coloured bolt/ carrier?

milsurpo
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I stand corrected. Plum bolts were spotted on some original 1941 rifles, also Tokarev's trial rifles had plum bolts as well. And the end of 1941 is the point when Mednogorsk switched to some new features (4 port muzzle brake and rear sight leaf with no notch). Until recently that change in production was thought to be in early 1942. I think will be corrected in the new edition of the book. With all amount of refurb SVTs in Canada and Fin captures in USA, North American collectors also contributed to this book. (Well, I did a little). So new information keeps coming and no book can be up to date in all details.
 
Just got my 2 slings from Numrich today.

They are both different, any of the SVT gurus on here know witch one should be on the riffle.

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