It's not easy to replace the Mosin Nagant rifle. The gun proved fragile and the magazine would fall out during action. The SVT-38 was in production but performed poorly in the Winter War with Finland during the winter of 1939-40.
World War II had begun, and the Germans and Russians stood by their uneasy non-aggression treaty. A few weeks later, the Red Army invaded Poland from the east. In 1939, German forces invaded Poland from the west. unloaded and was chambered for 7.6x54R ammunition.Īn Izhevsk Model 91/30 Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle. The magazine-fed rifle weighed in at about 9 lbs. By 1938 they had one, the Tokarev SVT-38. The Soviets, like many countries during the inter-war period, worked to develop a semi-automatic rifle to serve as a battle rifle for the Red Army, replacing the reliable but long-in-the-tooth Mosin-Nagant rifle. SVT 40s for sale can be found frequently at Rock Island Auction Company, as well as other popular Russian guns like the SKS rifle and the Mosin Nagant. A weapon on par with the M1 Garand, the SVT-40 was the gun the Soviets wanted but it wasn’t what they needed when the Germans invaded. The semi-automatic Tokarev SVT-40 doesn’t get its due in the history of the weapons of the Eastern Front because of its disrupted production.
