I Have This Old Gun - Soviet SVT-40 Rifle

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Watch another episode of American Rifleman Television's "I Have This Old Gun": Soviet SVT-40 Rifle

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@JF-xq6fr Жыл бұрын

I love my 1941 Tula SVT-40. Ironic that the Russians figured out the fluted chamber to allow reliable functioning, where the Germans had to copy the idea to get their SA rifle to work.

@Chiller01 2 жыл бұрын

The Poles (like the French) designed a beautifully simple gas operated semiautomatic rifle. It was due to enter trials in 1939 but then……..

@sandman93449dm 2 жыл бұрын

mine is a sniper version. SVT 40..museum quality...can drive a nail into a board..it's beautiful..run in at 1.3 on the gas valve...run only 148 grain steel jacket thru it...beautiful rifle...mine has a hard wood stock..early 1940..from Tula I think

@mikesabota2570 11 ай бұрын

Yep..buddy has one..very accurate and I handload rounds up to 160 gn..heavier loads do not do very well with it..Usually stick to 150 gn. BT FMJ..

@sparkyfromel Жыл бұрын

in 1939 at the people commissary for military and Naval affairs , the report on the failure of the hopefully new SVT-38 rifle came for discussion it was bad news , the rifle was rejected by the army as too fragile ,too complicated , too prone to failure and too heavy Stalin just said "well it looks like we are stuck with the old "three lines " for a bit longer "

@SirDiggyDawg 5 жыл бұрын

My svt-40 is astoundingly accurate, great rifle imo

@otherdalek 3 жыл бұрын

"The French had not been able to make a gun that work" So the 80K RSC197 rifles deployed in WWI don't count. "The SVT 40 was not a success" More then 2 million were made.

@FLVCTVAT_NEC_MERGITVR 4 жыл бұрын

4:20 "The french hadn't been able to make a gun that worked" : lies they invented the RSC 1917, RSC 1918, and the A6 Meunier rifles in WW1, and we're just about to roll out production on the MAS 40 at the outbreak of WW2. All of those are fantastic rifles. Garand used the RSC 1917 system to inspire the M1!

@rodgersmith1573 4 жыл бұрын

So, according Mark Keefe at around the 4:55 mark, the 5 round internal magazine of the Mosin-Nagant is nothing compared to the *huge* "clip" of the Tokarev, and the semi-automatic fire also "doesn't give away your position.". Hmmmm.... And this man is the Editor-In-Chief of the American Rifleman Magazine? For those unaware, the SVT-38 and SVT-40 both utilize a 10 round detachable box magazine. Early on, the general issue was for, if I remember correctly, 3 magazines per soldier, during peace-time, which quickly became one magazine throughout the rest of the war. The Tokarev is fed via the same 5 round stripper clips that the Mosin-Nagant uses, and therefore requires two clips for a full magazine. The nonsense about "semi-automatic rifle fire not giving away your position" is just that. Nonsense. You'd certainly have more firepower than with a Mosin-Nagant, but there is nothing, such as flash-hiding capabilities from the muzzle brake. Especially not with the later 4 port brakes.

@Nooziterp1 4 жыл бұрын

Plus with a bolt action you can eject an empty case at any time. With a semi-auto it is thrown out to the side immediately after the shot is fired. Where it can be spotted by the enemy, giving away the sniper's position.

@DelGTAGrndrs 2 жыл бұрын

@@Nooziterp1 yup! Brass on a sunny day… forget concealment

@butchkaminsky9470 5 жыл бұрын

Have one, it's a total beast.

@simonbarabash2151 5 жыл бұрын

Its funny that due to different import restrictions and laws, Soviet rifles like the SVT and especially the SKS became staples, and even symbols of Canadian gun ownership.

@macbethmeyer1592 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can't even get that now

@88997799 Жыл бұрын

I have 3 Russian SKS rifles from the 1950’s…. Also two M91/30 Mosin-Nagant. One dated 1923 hex barrel with PU scope the other dated 1938… also have milled receiver AKM-47 with one of only 1000 AK-47 barrels made by Smith&Wesson!! I have #119!

@acrookedtoes 5 жыл бұрын

When a tokarev is not keep clean it stops working , says the guy who has apparently never owned one.

@Nooziterp1 4 жыл бұрын

The same applies to any firearm to a greater or lesser extent. Even an AK47 will need cleaning some time.

@scottbuckley6578 5 жыл бұрын

Dont forget the M1 was design by a Canadian

@surplus3728 4 жыл бұрын

Canadian born, but an American citizen going on 8 years when he first designed the prototype.

@theob.8458 5 жыл бұрын

you forgot Poland who had a rifle at the outbreak of WWII but was invaded by Germany before it hit mass production.

@Militainment 5 жыл бұрын

2:54 "Other countries lacked behind" Yeah easy to say, when you enter the war 5 years later than everybody else.

@jmcfintona999 3 жыл бұрын

They had the garrand in 1937, they chose it over the m1941 Johnson. The garrand wasn't even produced in numbers until 1940 which is why the US army &marines were using m1903 & m1917. The US wasn't even on a war footing until 1941 when they started producing arms whereas the Soviets were involved since 1939 when they invaded Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Estonian and Latvia. The soviets were preparing for barbarossa for 2 years and like every other power other than the us decided to stick with whatever battle rifle they had so mossin nagant for Russia, kar98 for Germany, lee Enfield for Britain. Most other powers decided to invest in light machine guns rather the semi automatic rifles whereas the us stuck with the heavy bar with 20 round mag. Russia had some great military equipment too. They had the best tanks at the start if ww2. The t38 in my opinion was better than the sherman and mk4 panzer. The pps submachine was a great design.

@infantryski11b64 4 жыл бұрын

The "clip" he says. Nice

@lovepeace9727 5 жыл бұрын

2 500 000 of SVT-40 were made.

@jamiejonssonfroby4889 3 жыл бұрын

Wth are They talking about SVT 40 is good rifle

@300blk8 5 жыл бұрын

I was watching this decided to go get mine out and look at it instead I found the note saying sold January 16th 1995

@FoneStar78 4 жыл бұрын

I have this old gun too.

@rodgersmith1573 4 жыл бұрын

The trick is finding its older cousin. The SVT-38. Unless you're Canadian, good luck. Even then, it might be the same story.

@piligrimm2 4 жыл бұрын

1:52 "lot of precision machining, something that soviets were not particularly good at" What a propaganda, well they made most reliable guns, which were later copied by germans and not only them. Germans were hunting soviet guns, since their own guns were jamming and cracking .