SVT-40 Shooting & Ammo Review

[Ridolpho]

Great thread Hardlickher. I can't wait to get one of my SVT's out to the range now for a test. I'm very impressed with the SVT design- very straight-forward and with some obvious advantages over K43's and Garands. I suspect the design might have been pursued further by the Soviets if they hadn't deviated down the SKS, AK47 path so strongly right after the war. As a sniper rifle its strength may have been in running battles between many "snipers" and large troop concentrations as opposed to the one-shot one-kill from a cold barrel version of sniping. Zaitsev ("Notes of a Russian Sniper") specifically mentions the SVT in a positive way in reference to an encounter where a group of several snipers engaged a few hundred german troops at a range of 300m.

Ridolpho

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