8x57mauser
Senior Member
This one isn't German used, but captured by the Finns and taken up into service against its former owner.
Its a pretty much text book Finn capture SVT-40, [SA] property mark on receiver and mag, no matching numbers, stock refinished with the Finn pine tar finish, modified gas adjuster (removed 1.1mm setting and drilled it to 2.0mm to reliably cycle the heavier Finnish ammo in the cold, original though thinning bluing, no import marks, complete mix of Tula and Izhevsk parts. Bore on this one is excellent. The barreled receiver, sights, and muzzle brake are all the original rifle, the rest was put together by the Finns from salvaged rifles to make serviceable rifles, some 15,000 total SVT-40 were captured, by the 1950s when they surplused them out to the US market less than 4,000 guns remained and of them no more than 800-900 were still in functioning condition. These tend to command a higher price than the Soviet refurbs even though the numbers on these never match nor were they ever force matched.
This one I snagged for $650 because it was not matching not knowing that the Finn captures never match and in similar condition in the last few months have been selling for $1700-2100.
My Soviet heavy hitters, if the Winchester '73 is the gun that won the West, then these are the guns that won the East(ern Front)
Its a pretty much text book Finn capture SVT-40, [SA] property mark on receiver and mag, no matching numbers, stock refinished with the Finn pine tar finish, modified gas adjuster (removed 1.1mm setting and drilled it to 2.0mm to reliably cycle the heavier Finnish ammo in the cold, original though thinning bluing, no import marks, complete mix of Tula and Izhevsk parts. Bore on this one is excellent. The barreled receiver, sights, and muzzle brake are all the original rifle, the rest was put together by the Finns from salvaged rifles to make serviceable rifles, some 15,000 total SVT-40 were captured, by the 1950s when they surplused them out to the US market less than 4,000 guns remained and of them no more than 800-900 were still in functioning condition. These tend to command a higher price than the Soviet refurbs even though the numbers on these never match nor were they ever force matched.
This one I snagged for $650 because it was not matching not knowing that the Finn captures never match and in similar condition in the last few months have been selling for $1700-2100.
My Soviet heavy hitters, if the Winchester '73 is the gun that won the West, then these are the guns that won the East(ern Front)
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