SVT-40 Shooting & Ammo Review

[jmoore]

Posssibly the greatest weakness of the SVT40 aside from the lack of interchangable parts is the requirement to remove the front end after every firing to remove primer residue. Unlike the M1 Garand and G43, there are several small parts that are easily lost and the user has to remember not only the gas setting but to also carefully align the port. A task that could be problematic on a dark night!

Had non-corrosive primed 7,62x54r ammo been available at the time, this rifle's history may have been far different.