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Value of SVT-40??

TacticalAssultTacticalAssult Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
edited March 2009 in Ask the Experts
Hello, I have a NEW, never fired, matching numbers Russian SVT-40 manufactured in 1942 at the Izhevsk armory. The gun is FLAWLESS! No rust, dings, chips, cracks or anything of the sort anywhere on the gun. It has the cleaning rod and is still sticky with cosmoline. The only catch is it is missing the mag. I am curious to know how much a gun like that would go for. Thanks in advance.
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  • ern98ern98 Member Posts: 1,725 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Do you have a personal history with this rifle to say it is new never fired? There are some arsenal refinsihed SVT-40 rifles around that are very near to looking like NIB, but they aren't. As far as the collectors go; how do you know it is NIB other then looking at it? Mags are not hard to come buy and some are not serial numbered. Post some pics and let us see what you have.....
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  • magicmanml2magicmanml2 Member Posts: 213 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    other gunbroker auctions show between $700 - $1000
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  • TacticalAssultTacticalAssult Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks for the replies. The answers are as follows.

    Yes I have a personal history with the weapon, if I didn't I would not have made the statement "New, never fired." Also, this was purchased years ago, before the days of assault rifle bans and other such garbage. There are no import marks or anything of the sort. Before someone asks, yes I know what to look for. I own other imported rifles as well as armory refinished.

    As far as the other auctions, I have seen some real nice ones go for the $800-$900 range but they are missing cleaning rods or have damaged or cracked stocks and most have mismatched numbers. Granted mine is missing the mag, but I can find those.
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  • vicg1vicg1 Member Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by TacticalAssult
    Thanks for the replies. The answers are as follows.

    Yes I have a personal history with the weapon, if I didn't I would not have made the statement "New, never fired." Also, this was purchased years ago, before the days of assault rifle bans and other such garbage. There are no import marks or anything of the sort. Before someone asks, yes I know what to look for. I own other imported rifles as well as armory refinished.

    As far as the other auctions, I have seen some real nice ones go for the $800-$900 range but they are missing cleaning rods or have damaged or cracked stocks and most have mismatched numbers. Granted mine is missing the mag, but I can find those.


    $700

    No offense, but as others have said unless you know the history of this rifle chances are it is the typical arsenal rework... and by history they don't mean being the first to buy it at a gun shop, but actually knowing that someone brought it back, new, unfired, decades and decades ago.

    Import marks have been required since the 60's.

    What color is the bolt carrier, and the charging handle? Shiney metal or a plum like color?
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  • Wehrmacht_45Wehrmacht_45 Member Posts: 3,377
    edited November -1
    Yep the only SVT rifles that were imported prior to the Gun Control Act of 1968 were captured rifles. Now unless it was captured without it every being fired, which I doubt highly, its a 700-800 dollar rifle.

    I actually have the adds from the late 50's where these guns were advertised in excellent to like new condition captured rifles.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    1k with a mag..nambu
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  • 50-70RB50-70RB Member Posts: 706 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    If your receiver is grooved for a scope mount vs. plain, it may make a difference in value. Mine is grooved and I have a B-Square mount on it. I have seen ungrooved SVT-40s. I've never seen it's predecessor, the SVT-38. Magazine articles I have indicate that only 123-125gr. ball or 147-150gr. ball ammunition is to be used in them but maybe you already know that.They also say that shells loaded into SVT-40s need to be pointing up as they are pushed into the magazine.
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  • TacticalAssultTacticalAssult Member Posts: 4 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The receiver has the rails on both sides.


    quote:Originally posted by 50-70RB
    If your receiver is grooved for a scope mount vs. plain, it may make a difference in value. Mine is grooved and I have a B-Square mount on it. I have seen ungrooved SVT-40s. I've never seen it's predecessor, the SVT-38. Magazine articles I have indicate that only 123-125gr. ball or 147-150gr. ball ammunition is to be used in them but maybe you already know that.They also say that shells loaded into SVT-40s need to be pointing up as they are pushed into the magazine.
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  • vicg1vicg1 Member Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The scope mount groove on the sides is not uncommon... more than half of the SVTs out there have them... the key is the other notch on the rear... this means it was actually once set up as a sniper rifle.

    what color on the bolt, carrier, cocking handle?
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