Your rifle is typical Soviet refurb (1960x, not 80x). All parts are mixed and force-matched. In most cases from original rifle only receiver and barrel were not separated during refurbishing.
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Your rifle is typical Soviet refurb (1960x, not 80x). All parts are mixed and force-matched. In most cases from original rifle only receiver and barrel were not separated during refurbishing.
In the footage section this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvkWnxm_U2c&feature=youtu.be&t=1m21s is AVS-36, not SVT. I have a lot of Ukrainian Insurgent Army pictures with SVT-38 and SVT-40.
You've been told already on another forum - it's not original sniper and it's not "all matching" rifle as magazine is mismatched. As for shooting God knows who fixed that repair so you better find...
Late pattern bayonet in original unrefurbished condition - very good find.
It looks like mine was definitely refinished. It's hard to tell why - maybe stolen parts were in white or maybe somebody decided "to improve" the old finish. I don't see any sign of serial number...
Here another lunch box special, №1 Mk1 as I understand. Very clean example, escaped from serializing and cutting the slot for stock.
https://www.milsurps.com/images/imported/2015/03/sfIalPb-1.jpg...
Lot of Mohawks made they way to US and can be found at your LGS from time to time (remember, some time ago it was not an issue to move firearms between Canada and US). Most of Mohawks have SVT...