Who has the nicest svt-40

Between the 91/30 and SKS I've bought of him this year, if I was going to get another SVT (I lucked out on the $200 SVT's over Christmas last year, so don't need another), I would go with Corwin-Arms.

Right now, I'm holding out to get an M38 from them in the next month or so (paychecks and dental work for my daughter permitting), to round out my Red 54R collection.
 
I suppose what I really want to know is.. did all the SVT's in Canada come from one single source?.. 1 importer.. were they all refurbished at the same arsenal? I believe the sks had at least 2 sources of importation too Canada and were refurbished at different arsenals.
 
midnightpossum said:
I suppose what I really want to know is.. did all the SVT's in Canada come from one single source?.. 1 importer.. were they all refurbished at the same arsenal? I believe the sks had at least 2 sources of importation too Canada and were refurbished at different arsenals.
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Different arsenals. Some are still clearing out the inventory they acquired from the Ukraine before that pipeline shut down. Some are coming from Polish arsenals. Those are just the two I know of from talking to a couple of dealers. I think some are actually coming directly from Russia, although not super sure about that.

The SKS's came from all over the East Block. Russia, China, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Ukraine, etc. etc. The SVT's were scattered all over the place after the war, so I would expect that the ones coming into the country now have pretty varied sources.

WestRifle, CanAm, and Marstar are the big importers/distributors, IIRC, but a lot of the smaller dealers have import permits, and work out their own deals.
 
Having purchased a few of these refurbs now the biggest differences I'm seeing are:
1) Colour of stock- varies from the typical red shellac to a more golden colour (maybe varnish of some sort?). The latter doesn't seem to flake off as badly.
2) Amount of wood patching- from none to huge patches, often at the rear of the receiver.
3) Bluing of the refurbs usually seems quite decent but some were badly pitted prior to refurb.
4) Stocks vary from old and well used with only single serial stamp (and often pins in wrist area due to prevalent cracking) to newish looking with single serial, to obviously re-stamped. The ones I've seen where a thicker late style AVT stock was used in refurb only have a single stamp like they were NOS.
5) From an operational point of view, the fit of barreled action to stock ranges from nice to horrible. Equally important, bores range from poor to excellent. From my experience you have to search to find the excellent ones.

I've only seen a few dozen of these. Has anyone been able to identify markings that correlate with one arsenal or another (ie for the refurb work).

milsurpo
 
bp2626 said:
I wholeheartedly concur.

Check weimajack's thread on the EE. If you want guaranteed hand selected quality and exactly as described or better he's the man to buy your SVT-40 from.
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Unfortunatly Weimajack will not be getting anymore of those SVT's any time soon as his supplier is all sold out.
 
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