what happened to the millions of spare original SVT mags??

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These rifles were all issued with multiple mags (2 to 3) and there would have been hundreds of thousands of spares manufactured as well... potentially up to a million mags made including the one original we end up seeing with each rifle.

What happened to them if we still have the rifles? Why are they so rare and expensive and only available in aftermarket?

Just curious, it'd make sense for there to be a surplus of spare mags given the number of rifles lost or destroyed or captured.. all the spares would still have been floating around with units and in depots in the 40s and inventoried in the 50s with the postwar stuff going on....

Just had to buy a couple spare mags for my SVTs and thought I'd gripe for some answers.
 
:D))))))
anyway, think of your poor svt after having fired three magazines
the barrel (not that heavy) is hot to make the kitchen
and accuracy is not really
 
ADHDCanuck said:
These rifles were all issued with multiple mags (2 to 3) and there would have been hundreds of thousands of spares manufactured as well... potentially up to a million mags made including the one original we end up seeing with each rifle.

What happened to them if we still have the rifles? Why are they so rare and expensive and only available in aftermarket?

Just curious, it'd make sense for there to be a surplus of spare mags given the number of rifles lost or destroyed or captured.. all the spares would still have been floating around with units and in depots in the 40s and inventoried in the 50s with the postwar stuff going on....

Just had to buy a couple spare mags for my SVTs and thought I'd gripe for some answers.
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Think about the production numbers in correlation to the huge amount of wartime service this platform saw.

At approximately 1.6 million units made, and going by commonly suggested issue numbers of 3 mags per unit, that's 4.8 million magazines (and I believe that to generous).

WW2 alone would have taken an enormous toll on all manner of kit for this firearm, not to mention the almost dozen other conflicts it served in (all the way up until the late 90's).

With production concluding in 1945, and with a small amount of rifles produced, it's quite obvious why these magazines command a premium.
 
They were imported into Canada quite a long time ago, as there were very few rifles in the country, sales were poor and they were sent to the scrap yard. I think they were sold as complete sets with pouches.
 
Surplus is sold by lot number. Guns are sold in one lot. Parts and accessories are sold in another. Buying the guns doesn't mean you get anything else. if someone pays more for the
parts or the accessories they get them. Sometimes, the original buyer of the guns keeps the accessories and sells them for additional monies.
 
this makes the most sense... thanks. greed is usually the answer. a lot more mags should have survived all the various conflicts...just sad about it.

can14 said:
Surplus is sold by lot number. Guns are sold in one lot. Parts and accessories are sold in another. Buying the guns doesn't mean you get anything else. if someone pays more for the
parts or the accessories they get them. Sometimes, the original buyer of the guns keeps the accessories and sells them for additional monies.
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ADHDCanuck said:
this makes the most sense... thanks. greed is usually the answer. a lot more mags should have survived all the various conflicts...just sad about it.
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You wouldn't believe what I paid for 5/30 mags for my Norinco 84s, at the time I was a wee bit younger and a whole lot stupider. I am still peeved at myself.
 
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the original mags are sitting in crates in some musty warehouse, and when almost all the rifles are sold, they'll magically appear out of nowhere, and we'll be charged some astronomical price per unit. Anyone wanna bet against me?
 
cainesy said:
If I had to venture a guess, I'd say the original mags are sitting in crates in some musty warehouse, and when almost all the rifles are sold, they'll magically appear out of nowhere, and we'll be charged some astronomical price per unit. Anyone wanna bet against me?
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If they go for very much more than they already do, it will be cheaper to just buy another gun.:)
 
I know what happened. Every greedy owner of SVT wants to have several mags (for sure I have more mags than rifles and keep getting them). Now there are irresponsible collectors that try to collect all variation of the magazine and I recall at least 6 of them, maybe there are more (and I will collect all variations as well). That's where all SVT mags are :)

P.S. as for slings -that has been already discussed, those slings are not SVT slings. SVT slings are rare and pricy.
 
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