gallows
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Is the SVT-40 a good large game hunting rifle? Will It work well in very cold and dusty areas and how is the accuracy of it?
Svt-40
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No Expert, but I know the 7.62R is a nice powerful cartridge, and I'm sure it's accurate enough out to 300 or 400 yards... If you do your part. It was used as a military rifle, that means it has to be somewhat reliable in adverse weather conditions. The problem i find with it however is some places dont allow semi-automatic rifles for hunting, and on top of that, they wont allow other strange things like detach mags, or mags that accept more than 5 rounds etc.
driftrider
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The SVT-40 would make a fine rifle with approriate bullets. Keep in mind that the bore will be .310-.313". Also, if you handload you might have problems with the fact that the chamber on the SVT-40 is fluted and fired cases have the flutes in them when they are ejected. I think they did this for reliability. I used to have an SVT-40 (and I still regret selling it), and it was a decent semi-auto and very accurate. The only problem with mine was that it had a floating firing pin (like many semi-auto military arms), and it would slam-fire once in a while with Wolf ammo. Also, the muzzle brake is effective, and therefore LOUD.
I bought mine way back for under $200, sold it for $500 and have been kicking myself ever since. I see them now selling for $800+.
Live and learn.
Mike
I bought mine way back for under $200, sold it for $500 and have been kicking myself ever since. I see them now selling for $800+.
Live and learn.
Mike
nalioth
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The 7.62x54R has taken every large game animal on every continent.
it was supposed to be. It used corrosive ammo, which can lead to alot of problems in a rifle with complicated parts (for its time) and a touchy gas system. But it worked way better than G41 rifles, so the Wehrmacht made good use of them when they took them from dead Soviet conscripts.
Ignition Override
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The Finns still hunt large animals with the round in their MNs.
Last summer I "hunted" a large green steel oxygen cylinder, about four feet high, which was helpless in the sights of my MN 44.
The Bulgarian heavy ball round came out the rear wall and made a much larger hole, almost twice the diameter of the entry hole.
I have a large book with many photos which were taken in the Soviet Union in the late 80s.
An 'action photo' shows a Siberian Eskimo standing in a motorboat underway in the Pacific, aiming his MN 38 or 91/59 at a large seal or walrus, to be used for a meal or such.
Last summer I "hunted" a large green steel oxygen cylinder, about four feet high, which was helpless in the sights of my MN 44.
The Bulgarian heavy ball round came out the rear wall and made a much larger hole, almost twice the diameter of the entry hole.
I have a large book with many photos which were taken in the Soviet Union in the late 80s.
An 'action photo' shows a Siberian Eskimo standing in a motorboat underway in the Pacific, aiming his MN 38 or 91/59 at a large seal or walrus, to be used for a meal or such.
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