SVT38 and SVT40

Coyote Ugly

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Why does the SVT38 and SVT40 have a "Round Hole" in the handle?

-Cigarette Holder.

-Lightening the weight for bolt cycling.

-To build more T-34 Tanks from the scrap generated from the hole.

-To tie a string or rope to for the one handed man or to use your teeth to pull the bolt back with the rope.

-To hold a twig or a cartridge for better grip when pulling back the bolt.

-To hang on the wall using a nail.

-Because Donuts have a round hole too.
 
Coyote Ugly said:
Why does the SVT38 and SVT40 have a "Round Hole" in the handle?

-Cigarette Holder.

-Lightening the weight for bolt cycling.

-To build more T-34 Tanks from the scrap generated from the hole.

-To tie a string or rope to for the one handed man or to use your teeth to pull the bolt back with the rope.

-To hold a twig or a cartridge for better grip when pulling back the bolt.

-To hang on the wall using a nail.

-Because Donuts have a round hole too.
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when you get a jam you can take a live round or spent cartridge put it through the hole & you get tons more leverage ... came in handy more than a few times using that steel cased surplus ;)

Incidentally, you use a live round to release the trigger group as well!

Classic Russian design.
 
sean69 said:
when you get a jam you can take a live round or spent cartridge put it through the hole & you get tons more leverage ... came in handy more than a few times using that steel cased surplus ;)

Incidentally, you use a live round to release the trigger group as well!

Classic Russian design.
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You are right on the money.
That's what I read as well.
 
Ya - I found that out completely by accident one day after I first got the thing. Shot a bunch of rounds, got one stuck in there 'but good' nothing handy around to bash the bolt handle with or against, dropped an empty in there - one good yank was all it took.

One of the cleverest things I have seen in a while. neat stuff those Russian designs.
 
sean69 said:
neat stuff those Russian designs.
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They may be crude and ugly, but the Russians(soviets) make things that WORK.

My favorite example of this deals with the space programs. The US spent many tens of thousands of dollars developing a preasurized pen that will write in space. The Soviets just took pencils.
 
gaff said:
wonder why they didn't use it on the sks and ak ?
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.... hard to say? the 7.62x39 round is prolly too small, not sure what size the AK uses/ed ... maybe it was more expensive to manufacture, saving a few pennies on a few million rifles would buy a LOT of vodka!
 
Cdn303 said:
They may be crude and ugly, but the Russians(soviets) make things that WORK.

My favorite example of this deals with the space programs. The US spent many tens of thousands of dollars developing a preasurized pen that will write in space. The Soviets just took pencils.
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nasa spent zero dollars to develop thhe space pen, it was done independantly by paul fisher, further more, the russians bought them (their first batch in 1969) after realizing that broken bits of pencil lead floating around a space capsule does wonders for sensitive equipment, and it was too easy to accidentally erase grease pencil.

parts of a space pen also were used ad hoc to fix a broken switch on an apollo mission, cant say that for a pencil
 
Maybe I'm just over enthusiastic here but I'd go out on a limb and say that the SVT40 is one of the more ingenious designs the firearms world has seen.

I never even gave much thought to the hole in the charging handle. Brilliant!

Especially if you take into account the era in which it was designed and built. The emergency production in which it was produced. It's very high accuracy for a military rifle. Simplicity of design. Reliability. The adjustable gas system for use in any climate with any ammunition.

Makes you wonder if the Soviets published books on it and included it in every video game ever made that it would get the recognition it deserved like it's distant cousin the Garand lol
 
Shhhh, the American brain shorts out if you ever dare say that the SVT-40 was anywhere near the same legue as the Garand. The Garand s the end all be all of creation don't you know. If it's not American it's Crap!! I can't wait to get rid of this snow and get out to the range with my SVT.
 
Colt .45 said:
The pin that comes in the cleaning makes dissassembly & reassembly very easy. Especially with holding the spring in place for the dust cover...
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please elaborate - the only thing I have found use for that pin was to punch out the firing pin retainer pin...
 
PsyEx said:
Shhhh, the American brain shorts out if you ever dare say that the SVT-40 was anywhere near the same legue as the Garand. The Garand s the end all be all of creation don't you know. If it's not American it's Crap!! I can't wait to get rid of this snow and get out to the range with my SVT.
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Not to get off track but note that the inventor/designer of the M1 Garand was John C. Garand, a CANADIAN! Typical for Canada, he couldn't get what he wanted for work here so went to Springfield Arms in the USA and never returned. Just like most of our unrecognized Canadian talent! (and that includes most of those that formed NASA too)
 
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