Where have all the magazines gone?

[glang1]

Being an owner of 2 SVT-40's with only 1 magazine each, I am wondering where all the spare magazines are? Apparently each SVT-40 was issued with 2 matching magazines. Does anyone have information on this? I talked with one firearms dealer about this & they had no answer.

George

 

[Pblatzz]

All SVT-40 parts are expensive and a bit hard to get. They are out there..

 

[1851 Navy]

The extra magazines are probably in a large pile next to all of the SVT-40 bayonets. Wherever that may be.

 

[ollie]

Good question. I've heard that ROMAK or Dragunov (not sure which) mags fit with a little fiddling. They're cheap and easy to find stateside, but good luck finding them in Canada.

 

[eos]

Russia, being thrifty with material, probably melted down the spares and a lot of bayonets for SVTs when they were officially removed from service in the late 40s. Same place all the Kar 98K rods, sight hoods and lock screws went.

The rifles themselves would have been laid away for last ditch/people's war scenarios as was done with the Mosins. Mosins retained the bayonets as they are considered an integral part of the weapon and designed to be kept on except for transit and storage.

 

[H Wally]

Good question. I've heard that ROMAK or Dragunov (not sure which) mags fit with a little fiddling. They're cheap and easy to find stateside, but good luck finding them in Canada.

They're very close. Problem is how to bump the mag walls in without crumpling the mag. If you've got sheet metal experience, you'll be able to do it. The difference is about a mag walls width, but can't be forced.

Also the lugs are in the wrong spot, but that's an easy fix.

 

[vettefever333]

Gone?

Being an owner of 2 SVT-40's with only 1 magazine each, I am wondering where all the spare magazines are? Apparently each SVT-40 was issued with 2 matching magazines. Does anyone have information on this? I talked with one firearms dealer about this & they had no answer.

George

My thoughts exactly. I have only one magazine and I heard that they were issued with up to 3. Would like at least a second one. Just missed one at EPPS that they had in stock for just less than a year. Even they could not figure out why it took so long to sell. I just happened to ask when I was at the counter and it had been sold the week before...

 

[Coyote Ugly]

I just buy two SVT-40's, keep the 2 mags, and throw away the extra rifle! LOL

Mag count, that's where it's at!

Problem Solved.

 

[K98ACTION]

The extra magazines are probably in a large pile next to all of the SVT-40 bayonets. Wherever that may be.

That pile is long gone... melted down into T55 Tanks....

 

[slicknick]

Doesn't the rifle take the same chargers as the Mosins?

 

[Sigismund]

Doesn't the rifle take the same chargers as the Mosins?

yes.

 

[1851 Navy]

Has anybody ever managed to get one of the repro mags that Numrich is selling?

 

[westrifle_sks]

All of spare ones were sold off to people who had one. Most were shipped to USA while they could.

 

[mikerock]

At my house. I have 3 mags and a bayonet. One of the mags is a 5 rounder though, and they all came with a Finn capture SVT I bought from here.

 

[Sicnessk4]

They're lost in never never land with all the 8mm ammo

 

[smellie]

People likely get messed up with the Russian chargers because nobody seems to know how to load them. They work fine if you look at Plate LXII, facing Page 192, of the "Text Book of Small Arms, 1909". The Russian charger is shown in X-ray view (as a drawing, mind you) and clearly shows the rounds loaded in three layers. Outside rounds lie in contact with the charger, inside rounds with their rims riding atop the rims of the outside rounds; the centre round rides on top of the inner rims of the inside rounds. It makes a PYRAMID, with the centre round the apex.
Load them like this and they work fine in Noisy Maggots and Tokawhatevers both. Likely they would work also in Dragowhatzitses as well, but I live in a free country: I can't have one of those.
But, to get serious, they do work in Moisin-Nagants and Tokarevs quite well.
Enjoy.
Make lots of noise.
Have fun.

 

[avroe]

They're lost in never never land with all the 8mm ammo

One day someone is going to find the long forgotten underground bunkers where all of these have been hiding over the decades.

And if it happens more than 2 or 3 years from now, when financial markets are failing again, and aid money is at all time lows, its going to be real hard to ignore the fact that collectors are willing to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for whats gotta be left cached all over the world.