SVT 40 accuracy

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Ive been shooting my svt for a while now and on my best day i put 10 rounds within 3" at 100 metres. Open sights.

I have been challenging myself to shoot better with it but im still relatively new to shooting so im just wandering what others can achieve with theirs.

I am using the copper coated corrosive milsurp ammo. Its supposed to be czech from 67.

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Thanks. Appreciate the video.

I am by no means an experienced shooter but it looks like you are yanking the trigger and if your rifle is snything like mine that will make em fly.

The travel on my trigger is soo long i fall asleep between shots. I press steady and slow.

I recently bought an mk2 savage bvss from wanstalls to improve my shooting. Ive gotten 1 inch groups at 50m but i think the rifle is capable of much better. Ironically, i shot my svt last sunday and my accuracy actually worsened. Bad day maybe.

I love shooting the svt and id like to get better with it hence this post.

Thanks again.
 
It's a very accurate rifle as far as a 70 year old battle rifle goes.

I had one with a very good bore on it and it would shoot within a 6-8" groups at 100 meters with irons and surplus 147 gr Russian ball with ease.

They are very accurate rifles if the bore is solid.

Don't expect to be hollowing out dimes with it or any surplus rifle. Usually if they shoot within what I call a dinner plate grouping at 100 meters they have done all that was ever expected of them when they were designed and manufactured brand new.

If yours is still doing this after potential service in a war, refurb and 70+ years later, it's about as good as it will ever be man.

I hear lots of people say they are shooting half MOA with a Mosin using irons at 100 meters etc lololol BS........
 
3 inch groups at 100 meters with surplus is more than acceptable, wouldn't you say?

You could probably tighten that group with handloading if you don't care about your brass, as the SVT-40 tends to maul all brass beyond usability, but why? Travis Bickle made a good point, it isn't made to be a MOA rifle. Most SVT-40's shoot worse than three inches at 100 with surplus or even new manufacture ammo that's considered to be decent. I'd be quite happy with your groupings if I owned an SVT. It's doing what it was meant to do: group small enough to kill a Nazi at 1-400 meters, 3 inches at 100 is certainly acceptable for that intended goal.

Finally, Travis, as for your comment about people shooting a half inch with a Mosin at 100 yards: I can totally see it....if it was a Finnish Mosin with a like new bore from the prone position off of a rest with a very competent shooter using handloads tailored to the rifle. Of course, most of these people who claim to shoot under an inch with a Mosin are using a 100 dollar 91/30 that's been refurbished more times than it's been shot, and doing it with corrosive surplus that's older than them. Perfectly believable, you're just jaded and probably jealous of their immense shooting skills. :p
 
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3 inch groups at 100 meters with surplus is more than acceptable, wouldn't you say?

You could probably tighten that group with handloading if you don't care about your brass, as the SVT-40 tends to maul all brass beyond usability, but why? Travis Bickle made a good point, it isn't made to be a MOA rifle. Most SVT-40's shoot worse than three inches at 100 with surplus or even new manufacture ammo that's considered to be decent. I'd be quite happy with your groupings if I owned an SVT. It's doing what it was meant to do: group small enough to kill a Nazi at 1-400 meters, 3 inches at 100 is certainly acceptable for that intended goal.

Finally, Travis, as for your comment about people shooting a half inch with a Mosin at 100 yards: I can totally see it....if it was a Finnish Mosin with a like new bore from the prone position off of a rest with a very competent shooter using handloads tailored to the rifle. Of course, most of these people who claim to shoot under an inch with a Mosin are using a 100 dollar 91/30 that's been refurbished more times than it's been shot, and doing it with corrosive surplus that's older than them. Perfectly believable, you're just jaded and probably jealous of their immense shooting skills. :p
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Hahahaha Yes Sir, that is exactly what it is ;)
 
Hell I almost beat a guy at a milsurp competition with my old SVT and surplus russian ammo. Buddy was shooting a "milsurp" Norinco Tuned up M14 with high quality ammunition and I came very close to beating him with my beat up old SVT and surplus soviet ammo lol

They are very consistent and relatively accurate rifles for their purpose.
 
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