greywolf67nt
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SVT-40 reality check :-)
- Thread starter fat tony
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my svt is lose inside the stock I can feel its moving a little. trigger group is well snap inside the stock but the cross pin in the middle doesn't stop when I screw it in. It might be the problem. any inputs on how to fix that ?
Replay the segment from 6:24 to about 6:37 repeat if necessary.
Watch it again and listen carefully. He said the firing pin was broken. In addition, he was talking about a specific incident with a specific rifle at a specific time & place. There is an abundance of hooey stories on the internetz, lets not start another eh? Regards, Tony
Took apart one of my new to me 42's last week and noticed the firing pin had quite a bit of rust. I had a brand new pin ready to install thanks to a fellow from Bulgaria on Fleabay. Not bad after shipping etc was 38$.
I don't know about the stock bolt, but the looseness of the receiver in the stock is common. There have been several discussions of on the board - I think the SVT sticky above (or maybe the one in "Milsurps") includes discussion of bedding. The traditional fix, or at least with traditional materials, is to bed the stock using shims of heavy paper or light card stock, like manila file folders. On my SVT-40, I used one thickness of file folder on the top of the stock under the sides and rear of the receiver, and down in the sides of the inletting, then a thicker shim of four (5?) layers behind the recoil lug that the trigger group locks into. This is very snug and requires some effort to latch the trigger group in and to get the stock bolt started. If I recall correctly, I added one more thickness behind the recoil lug after the first couple of range sessions when things had settled in.
Barrel bedding is a somewhat separate matter - some like free-floating forward of the chamber and others prefer upward pressure at the forend tip. Mine came with the worst of all possible bedding - light and off-center (hence inconsistent in use), upward pressure at the tip and some contact part-way back, but it had good snug fit of the handguard, forend, and heat shields under the barrel band. I went with a one-layer shim under the chamber and several pounds of centered up-pressure at the tip, with no contact in between.
Maybe others can cite their experience in this.
Regards,
Joel
I use foil tape to shim stocks before I properly bed them. It works pretty well but after a few range trips you can see wear on them. It's easy to do a nice neat job and doesn't cost too much. Unlike paper or card stock it will hold itself in place due to the glue on it.
No more first-shot strays or any stringing. With my old eyes and current glasses, I'm only shooting about 4MOA at best right now with open sights, and the SVT shot about 5MOA with Bulgarian surplus (h/s 10/71) on one occasion, and about the same as my M91-30 with Chinese surplus (h/s 71/73) on another day, similarly at ~5MOA (all groups were 10 rounds or multiples thereof). On the other hand, oddly, neither of them much liked the Norinco export MG (h/s 61/11) LPS that most folks have had decent results with - the 91-30 strung them vertically and the SVT threw a 10MOA+ 20-round pattern. On some other days, I wasn't shooting at all consistently and the results were not indicative of rifle/ammo performance.
Regards,
Joel
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Porkchopsandwhich
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I turned the stock bolt to the sweet spot where it was tightest and lock tighted in in place
