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I had a refurbed one that had a scope notch added and a scope on it. First bench shot high as expected then all over the place. Thought maybe the scope was the cause, so shot w/out it on and the same thing. I played around with barrel/action shims, reducing wood pressure and nothing worked to improve the accuracy. I see other folks have the same accuracy problems w/SVT's also. Put it on a table to sell at a show and a buyer only wanted the scope and mount and offered me a few hundred dollars less then I paid for the rifle w/scope on it. I told him to add an extra few hundred and take the rifle also. I just wanted to get out of it what I paid for it a few years ago. Now in hindsight. I could kick myself for too quick a decision as I could have just sold the scope/mount and kept the rifle and sold that for another three or four hundred or more. Oh well, at the time, I just wanted to get rid of a problem rifle. Ray
Last edited by rayg; 07-14-2015 at 07:49 AM.
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07-14-2015 07:32 AM
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Just glad to have one
I obtained an SVT-40 a few years ago. Lookeds like someone tried to add some kind of scope mount to it as it has three small drilled/tapped holes on the the left side of the receiver and a piece of the stock was trimmed in that area. It has no grooves in the receiver for the Russian scope mount. It shoots Ok; nothing to write home about, but I still keep it in my collection of Milsurp rifles. They are getting expensive.
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Do you have the nifty, five-sided "ring" wrench to adjust the gas regulator?
If you are running "random" ammo, it may be worth your effort to tweak the gas back a bit in the event you are trying to feed the old girl some of the more "interesting" stuff loaded for machine guns.
Endless info on this-here internet thingy about the different loadings for the 7.62 x 54R, and the packaging marks identifying the contents. I once had two variants of the SVT-40: one with the "Cutts Compensator" look, (but not as "pristine" as yours), and the later variant with the BIG square ports in the "muzzle thingy".
Best "store-bought" ammo I EVER used was from a batch of WW1 vintage WINCHESTER, brass-cased stuff that was floating around here in quantity in the 1970s.
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Tools and Gizmos for the SVT; here
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