SVT-40 price range?

Bobby Ironsights

Bobby Ironsights

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Hi, I'm going to start saving up for an SVT-40, hopefully have enough by christmas. I've been thinking about an autoloader for a year or two, and now with the liberals making noises, I
ve decided I better get on that.

I'm curious about the price range I should be looking for. What is a reasonable price for a good shooting gun?

Now, it's important that I say that I'm unlikely to leave it completely original, so I'm OK with "bubba'd" guns, as long as bubba wasn't a butcher. Now mind you, I'll be shooting and tweaking my loads looking for tight groups, so I don't want a wreck either.

I'm not a collector, I'll leave that to you old guys, who can afford to own guns you don't shoot much. I own only one high power rifle so far, a mosin nagant, I shoot it every week; and am pleased with its accuracy.

What I am looking for is a nice autoloader that shoots the 7.62x54r cartridge, I'm already set up to load for my trusty mosin nagant. I like and respect the rimmed russian.
 
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I am not sure, but I paid 475 with shipping and tax from our good old friends in the east.......TEC trade ex.

Good gun overall, some electro forced match stuff on there, no frosting on my barrel, and it shoots great, Stock was HORRIBLE though.

gluck though
 
I'd say they're between 400-500. Cost a bit more from the dealer, but that's the price of first ownership. Good fun guns, some are very tough on brass. Sell a gun you don't use and buy a crate or two of the surplus stuff from frontier taxidermy while they have it. Canam was supposed to have some last month or so I heard, but seems the slow boat from europe got waylaid.
 
Put a post on the EE, you should be able to get one for $400. I paid around $600 for my repro sniper one:D They're a lot of fun, and not all of them destroy brass. Best deal for an autoloading milsurp, IMHO, you'll like it!
 
david doyle said:
Are you reloading for the 7.62x54R?
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Oh hells yeah! Paying for factory got old after the first box of privi.

Now I load with the lee loader, cost me a little under thirty bucks shipped from Sir. Three or four cheerful hours with a loading block, primer, powder, bullets, and a wooden mallet, and I'm ready for saturday at the range.

I have a primer pop from time to time, maybe every 150 rounds or so when I seat the primers, so I've taken to wearing headphones and watching internet t.v. while I load so I don't hurt my eardrums again.

I load varget so I can't double charge, and the kit neck sizes only so the same brass I bought in the spring shoots fine still this fall (I only shoot powderburners weekly). I'd guess I've got twenty or more reloads on some of those cases (graf), and no signs of fatigue yet.
 
When I said I'd not be likely to keep it original, I didn't mean I'd be tacticooling it, so much as just refinishing the stock, maybe glass bed the action, probably stone the sear for a gentler trigger pull, little stuff like that, that does reduce collector value for museum peices, but help me shoot tighter groups.

(except for refinishing the stock, that doesn't help me with my groups, but with my clothing. I don't know what it is, but my mosin, my cousins sks's, his arisaka, and my uncles mauser, all seep oil after I've heated them up in long strings of fire.)

Happiness might be a warm gun, but get orange/brown oil all over you and your clothes and everything else that went in the washing machine that load and see what kinds of hell the GF gives you!
 
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Bobby Ironsights said:
When I said I'd not be likely to keep it original, I didn't mean I'd be tacticooling it, so much as just refinishing the stock, maybe glass bed the action, probably stone the sear for a gentler trigger pull, little stuff like that, that does reduce collector value for museum peices, but help me shoot tighter groups.
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Be sure to mount a flashlight.
 
skirsons said:
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Be sure to mount a flashlight.
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Hate if you want dude, but I'm one of the many average guys pumping 200+ rounds of 54r into the backstop on any given saturday. The collectors keep history remembered, but the shooters and hunters keep the cartridges alive, the load data developed, the reloading equipment available, the chamber reamers on hand, the barrel contours made, and the cottage industry of hobby machinists making replacement parts as we wear them out.

Don't spit on the unwashed masses, One hand washes the other.

Long live 7.62x54R!
 
Bobby Ironsights said:
Hate if you want dude, but I'm one of the many average guys pumping 200+ rounds of 54r into the backstop on any given saturday. The collectors keep history remembered, but the shooters and hunters keep the cartridges alive, the load data developed, the reloading equipment available, the chamber reamers on hand, the barrel contours made, and the cottage industry of hobby machinists making replacement parts as we wear them out.
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I think the implication that "shooters and hunters" recklessly destroy historic rifles might offend some of them. The fact that you shoot or hunt with a milsurp does not make you bubba.
 
skirsons said:
I think the implication that "shooters and hunters" recklessly destroy historic rifles might offend some of them. The fact that you shoot or hunt with a milsurp does not make you bubba.
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Destroying my milsurp with a trigger job and refinishing the stock?:confused: I don't think so.I'm not taking 6 inches off the barrel with chopsaw and welding a scopemount to the reciever.

Also, not every single example of the million and a half SVT-40 is a priceless museum piece that should be behind glass inviolate.

Right?
 
Personnaly, I see nothing wrong with modifying a milsurp, if it can be brought back to its original status. I think that putting another stock on it, to the owner's taste, while keeping the original one somewhere in the house for later use, is one way to enjoy the rifle while still keeping it's historical value present. That, incidently, should also help the rifle keep its value on the market, and even see it rise. A modification that can easily be un-done isn't that terrible (that being my own, humble opinion of course...)

In other news, some day, I'll need to get a SVT-40 too! :)
 
Bobby Ironsights said:
Also, not every single example of the million and a half SVT-40 is a priceless museum piece that should be behind glass inviolate.

Right?
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No, some were converted by Globe into exploding .303 sporters. Besides, no one is arguing that they should not be shot and used.

I agree with Louthepou, You should put it in an ATI Dragunov stock instead of refinishing the old stock.. and it will look so much like a Dragunov.. people will be like "Hey man, is that a Dragunov?" and you can be like "F**k yeah, it's a Dragunov" just like in Counterstrike. "This is how i pwn all the newbs, so 1337!!"

That's how much like a Dragunov it will look.
 
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