My little collection. Russian M44 Mosin-Nagant and a Tula SVT-40

G

Gav624

New member
Rating - 100%
2   0   0
Location
Nova Scotia
The start of my little Russian family. If you guys want to see more pictures let me know and I'll get some after work.

So far I have taken the SVT-40 to the range and it ran beautifully. Got a decent group from the standing at 50m but going to set up on a bench with the two next time I go to really test them.

JFUrLSR



http://imgur.com/JFUrLSR
 
Lol take a recoil device if your shooting PRC surplus out of your little moon they are like a little 12 gauge shotgun shooting slugs. I did not have this issue with factory barnaul or MGS ammo. I still love my little M38 (same as m44 less the fixed bayonet essentially) it shoots nice little fireballs out of the barrel with each round. Fun light accurate (actually) little shooter. The SVT40 is the nicest shooting large calibre rifle variant I own, low recoil with a nice weight and balance I really like the SVT40. After 2 or 3 breakdowns you'll begin finding the ACT easier to take apart/put together than the metal puzzle of your moon bolt that gets me everything for some reason. If on your Russian guns your using anything but the gun and it's parts to break it down your doing it wrong. Bayonet or headspace tool is your screwdriver on your mosin. Then your SVT40 uses just the cleaning rod to press out the tab on the receiver. Beyond that everything should fit/breakdown by hand. The only exception to that for me is one Tula SVT40 I own requires a brass/rubber hammer to tap on the front barrel band as it is tight fitting. The other rifles break down and reassemble at least as easily as an SKS.

Expect your SVT to shoot approx 2-3 inch groups avg at 100m with irons and type of ammo. Scoped aside from the first round flyer which can go anywhere in 6 inches in my exp your groups can come down to 1inch in my exp. I have only ever used irons on my m38 and with factory MGS GUN shot 2 inch groups, I couldn't shoot more than 10rds of ORC I really hope my other crates are not as hotly packed lol.

Enjoy your surplus rifles and keep them in separate cabinets, unfed after midnight and for gosh sakes don't get them wet....lol
 
I've start my Russian family pretty much the same way. Be carefull and keep a good amount of spare place to stack em up cause the family WILL grow...
 
The SVT came in cosmoline so I learned very quickly how to disassemble, have the stock tool and gas wrench which come in handy. Currently I have been shooting the MFS 7.62x54r 203gr SP and had no problems on the SVT at 1.3 gas setting. I'm pretty excited to take he m44 out and shoot. Going to have to control myself from doing a bayonet charge at the target!
 
Gav624 said:
The SVT came in cosmoline so I learned very quickly how to disassemble, have the stock tool and gas wrench which come in handy. Currently I have been shooting the MFS 7.62x54r 203gr SP and had no problems on the SVT at 1.3 gas setting. I'm pretty excited to take he m44 out and shoot. Going to have to control myself from doing a bayonet charge at the target!
Click to expand...

Good on ya breaking it down and cleaning up a milsurp. Lol I feel like I'm going to break my new rifles when I break them down, Not like an old milsurp.

I really like the MFS 203 SP. Wish I'd loaded up on more. It's much bettershooting than the FMJ of the same brand I had. Grouped tighter and while sighting in my scope at the cottage I accidentally cut down a tree with 6 shots across the target stapled to it. My scoped Izzy shoots 1 inch groups 4/5 with one always about 2" with MFS203grSP. Add a half to one inch for the FMJ I had. Don't bother with brass in your SVT40 it shoots about the same and the gun eats the brass, stick with steel and if you feel like hunting save the brass for the Mosin.
 
...i started my russian family years ago, but after years of the privacy of being side by side in the gun locker, still no little ones :(

...they all look like peasant ancestry but have perhaps been influenced by the recent proliferation of eastern block models, want to stay trim, and can't figure out the joys and inevitability of eventually being a babushka?

...i hope yours are breeders...
 
Gav624 said:
Sks would be a great addition, I have my RPAL but I have been waiting to open up the pistol route for a while. Not like I need another addiction!
Click to expand...

The wait is over! Get a nice TT33 from the EE without the latest export markings. There is a nonrefurb 1952 last I checked, good time to buy!
 
There's two sides to the refurbished rifle coin. Original blue with matching everything is great but sometimes the rebuilt rifle is the better rifle at the end of the day. The refurb can look&work better and cost way less than a fully original rifle. As a collextor piece i totally underatand the appeal and value. Also I can't help but think that many refurbs saw more action than the perfect condition original that lived in a crate during the war.
My personal rarest rifle ever is a refurbished 1941 Izvesk SVT40 with serial number 1980 when I was born. Looking into it there were approximately 14 Izvesk rifles made with serial 1980 with various cyrilics from 1940 to 1941. I litterally won the personal gun lottery finding that rifle. It may not be rare to you but they made approx 3-600 SVT40s in 1944 and they are just not seen and may be lost of history, so you get the idea no need to compare $.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom