The elusive 1945 svt40, Who owns it?

Had one, since passed on to another CGN'er. I won't out him on here, as I doubt he wants people PM'ing him every few months asking to buy it.

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Was a nice mix of early and late parts. Had the fatter stock with the cross bolt-reinforce built in, and a pristine bore.

Here it is with my '43 up top, '45 on bottom.

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At the end of the day, it's the '5' in the date which makes it rare. Nothing overly different from any other SVT.
 
Didn't that come to you via SFRC, when an employee accidentally shipped you the 1945 that was set aside for the boss for his personal stash? Lol

I could be mistaken. That was a few years ago now....
 
Shop owners tend to have nice collections......unfortunatly. Although I managed to score a rare piece in the same scenario as the OP.
 
Well, as I can see those are the same rifles circulate between collectors. Tyler's 1945 in ON, svt1940's one is also in ON. There are two more as I have only four serials of 1945 recorded. And for these 4 confirmed I heard probably 10 "true" stories about another one 1945, however they all turned out to be false.
 
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Didn't that come to you via SFRC, when an employee accidentally shipped you the 1945 that was set aside for the boss for his personal stash? Lol

I could be mistaken. That was a few years ago now....

I'm still not happy about that. It was taken out of my personal section of the vault and shipped out to a customer by mistake.
 
I'm still not happy about that. It was taken out of my personal section of the vault and shipped out to a customer by mistake.
Thats where all the rare ones go, in the vault where the collectors never get a chance to buy the real gems, to bad someone made a big mistake ,guess they were looking for a job after that.
 
Yes, the rare 1945 and an SVT38 are all I need to round out my collection.

Hopefully someone might have a moment of weakness and PM me, wishing to sell ;)
 
After buying my SVT 40 I found that it has a 1945 stock on it. I've been told by people that there are less then 10 known examples of a 1945 stock. I don't know how accurate that is, but after reading through this thread it sounds like it could be fairly resonable.
 
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