SVT 40 stock

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I have an SVT 40 , Picked it up a few weeks ago, any ways I have the only two usualy complaints , the fluted chamber chews brass and the stock , we all know about the stock is a beautiful example no cracks in it at all, but its like pine.
and the reciever has scope grooves in it so it could be a ex sniper

any way I am looking at after market options something in walnut maybe,
Reason being all my guns are shooters and i want to preserve the origional stock , and I want to be able to switch it back to origional if i decide to sell it

if i am forced to make one (first time but i am handy with wood)
am thinking about a pistol grip or maybe a SVD type stock.

opinions remarks recommendations?
 
SVT-38 & SVT-40 parts are always a premium. That is if you can find them (that is parts). Repro or synthetic stocks do not exist. You'll have to make one.

Peter
 
there was a russian guy on a russian gun forum that made a custom SVT thumbhole stock. looked pretty good, he had some work in progress photos. i cant for the life of me find it though, ill keep looking i think i saved the pics somewhere.
 
Don't do anything to your original stock. Replacement stocks are very hard to find and costs around $200. If you make a stock from walnut please show us pictures. Dragunov style stock would look very cool. I read on other forum that some guys were persuading Boyds or Richards microfit to make special run SVT -40 stocks.
 
I had a look at Shortandlong's SVT. It is an early WWII production and yes it has the two narrow grooves for the sniper scope base. No other indications it is anything unusual or distinctive. The stock started life as the classic yellow shellacked white birch wood, and at some point the old-canoe-paddle chic offended its owner. Whoever he was stripped and stained the wood a walnut shade. Not hard to look at, but recognizably not original.

There are guys in the US selling surplus SVT parts, and they come up on epay routinely. A replacement stock might be problematic. The wood is spindly on everyone's rifle and stocks might be a desireable item.
 
the two narrow grooves along the side of the receiver were on thousands of receivers.

its the wider milled locking notch groove perpendicular to the bore along the back of the receiver that indicates it was designated as a sniper, and is required for installation of the sniper scope base.

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this is not a sniper, yet still has the two parallel-to-the-bore grooves along the sides of the receiver cover.

i cant find a photo of the locking notch right now, perhaps someone else has one.
in this photo you can see the pin that is inserted crosswise to lock the scope on the receiver:
svt_sniper_mounted_scope.jpg
 
"The sniper version is distinguished by two grooves on either side of the receiver, parallel to the bore, to accommodate a scope mount. Some of these grooved receiver rifles are being sold now, although the scopes and mounts seem to be rarer than the rifles that will accommodate them. "
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this is what many people believe regarding SVT snipers, but it is incorrect.
if it were correct, almost every SVT owner would have a 'sniper'. it seems that everyone who lists one of these 'SVT snipers' for sale seems to think they have a sniper model just because of the two grooves on the side of the receiver.

there was one in the EE recently that had the rear locking notch on it, lemme see if i can find the pic.

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here we go. THIS is an SVT sniper:
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here you can see why the notch is required, to lock the scope onto the scope rails:
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yes, this locking notch can be machined onto the receiver after the fact, but then it is not an original sniper.

apologies to Pblatzz for stealing his photo - the rifle is for sale now on the EE.
 
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Thanks MANBEARPIG for the tutorial (sorry for not responding earlier)
I never knew that

In your opinion and based on MapleLeafs assessment (whose assessment of my SVT I trust implicitly) would it be worth it to get the receiver milled?
 
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