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Today, 08:03 AM #10 Ratnik Ratnik is offline
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Production of regular SVT's was stopped at the summer of 1942. Sniper SVT's were produced untill october, 1942.
All regular rifles that were produced since summer, 1942, were AVT's
Originally 1944 AVT must have letters A (auto) and O (semi) at safety. Serial number at trigger guard must be stamped without letter prefix
As I see, safety at your trigger is early SVT safety
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Today, 08:11 AM #11 Bugelson's Avatar Bugelson Bugelson is offline
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Quote Originally Posted by Ratnik View Post
Production of regular SVT's was stopped at the summer of 1942. Sniper SVT's were produced untill october, 1942.
All regular rifles that were produced since summer, 1942, were AVT's
Ok. Then my sources must have something mixed up as they say that the AVT-40 production was cancelled in fall 1943. I wonder where that came as if I remember correctly also Bolotin argued above.
But in a sense it all could make sense. What if all the rifles post fall 1943 were build in AVT-40 construction but they were non -capable on full-auto as they would have had neutered AVT-40 trigger group? That would actually seem to make sense as full-auto proved to be useless but the AVT-construction was very serviceable as being more robust.
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All rifles were produced as AVT's, with possibility of full auto. Production plans, factory reports says only about AVT's. But quantity of produced rifle in 1944 was not very high, comparing with previous years
Recently bunch of AVT's, produced in 1944, in untoched, in original condition appeared on Russian market. But they were converted to semi auto with pin added to safety. This was the only part that was not in original condition
Late SVT's were produced with same receiver as early AVT's (#3). Such receivers appeared at the beginning of 1942. But later, some improvements were introduced
P.S Late sniper SVT's were produced with AVT stocks, because there was no sence to produce special stocks for them, when producton of regular SVT's was stopped
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Thanks again Ratnik for new information!
It seems that here outside of Russia and Ukraine there has been and still is quite a bit of false information going around.
Interesting to see an unrefurbed plum-bolt. Any idea when they started to bluing the bolts?
Ps. Quite a trigger modification...not too firm way to stop anyone willing to do some serious shooting
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I've got a '43 Tula SVT-40 in an AVT-40 stock. My understanding, possibly ill-informed, is that the AVT stocks were thicker at the wrist area and were preferred over the more fragile SVT stock when these rifles were refurbished and put away for reserve use.
Thanks, Ratnik, for the information. Pics and/or documents--even if we can't read Russian--would be most welcome! Спасубо!
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Quote Originally Posted by Bugelson View Post
Interesting to see an unrefurbed plum-bolt. Any idea when they started to bluing the bolts?
Plum bolts are mentioned in prooving ground reports from 1942. I belive that most, if not all, rifles since 1942 were produced with plum bolts
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Thanks Ratnik