There are mosin scout mounts available for approximately 15.00, I'm just curious as to whether or not the rear sights on the mosin and svt are the same.
What the cheap ones are is an 11mm to weaver rail adapter. Not saying that they don't work, in fact a lot of guys have had great success with them on their Mosins, which have a sharper recoil than the SVT.
What you have to do is knock out the locking pin from the rear sight with a punch, then drift off the rear sight, which exposes an 11mm rail (same width as on most European and some North American rimfire rifles). Then the adapter clamps onto that. The adapters sold as "Mosin rail adapters" are actually just repackaged 11mm rimfire rail adapters.
Now, whether that's the same rail underneath the rear sight of the SVT? I think it is, but I haven't knocked the rear sight off my SVT to check. You're going to have trouble finding people who have, because the SVT is only recently becoming common in Canada, so not many people have successfully modded them yet (I've seen a couple of horrible abortion attempts at the range already, but the learning curve, she is steep, when it comes to modding the SVT).
Absolutely no one in the US mods them. They're rare as hen's teeth south of the border, run for $1200-$1400 for a beater in need of resto and go up from there. It's actually cheaper to buy a PSL (Polish SVD), so why would you much around with an expensive collector rifle?
Any modding/sporterizing of the SVT is going to happen in Canada. We are THE ONLY current market for these rifles, thanks to Europe becoming a bunch of Hoplophobic panty sniffers, and the US still suffering from the market protectionism disguised as a "Military Arms Import Ban."
I think SVT modding threads are going to be pretty interesting around here for a while. Lots of guys thinking along similar lines and wondering what can be done.
