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Soviet svt-40 vs. M1 garand – best battle implement ever?
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IMO This is proper place for this post as History, but need be please move it to the collection forum.
SVT40 vs M1 Garand article just came out and very good reading you be surprised with what you find... link below. copy right here.
My self i am torn to half with this "FTF" now-- I shoot /collect both, I will stay neutral on this one. If you have a favorite by now, I think, you will still keep it. It is interesting though!
Armen
BEST BATTLE IMPLEMENT EVER?
General George S. Patton once called the M1 Garand the “best battle implement ever devised.” But was he correct? The run up to World War II saw a giant leap forward in technology for weapons of war. The jet airplane was invented for WWII. Of course the atomic bomb was invented for WWII. But more importantly, the weapons that saw the most combat, the infantry battle rifles of the war, changed considerably as well, worldwide. In 1936, three years after the famous German false flag the Reichstag fire, and three years before Germany invaded Poland, considered the “official” beginning of WWII, the US adopted a new battle rifle called the M1 Garand. During that time the Soviets also developed a new rifle, introduced in 1938, then re-released in 1940, called the SVT-40. Over 1.6 million of the SVTs were made during the early stages of the war, and many of these rifles came to the US in the 1990s. Many are in collections, but you can still find them if you look, for around $1,200 – $1,500. Was the Garand really a better rifle, or is our American perspective just skewed by nationalistic writers. The SVT-40 never really got out of the gate due to the later popularity of the AK-47, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was an influential rifle on the Eastern front during the war, or the fact that it totally rocks. We got to test an actual 1943 SVT-40 side by side with an M1 Garand, and the results may surprise you.
IMO This is proper place for this post as History, but need be please move it to the collection forum.
SVT40 vs M1 Garand article just came out and very good reading you be surprised with what you find... link below. copy right here.
My self i am torn to half with this "FTF" now-- I shoot /collect both, I will stay neutral on this one. If you have a favorite by now, I think, you will still keep it. It is interesting though!
Armen
BEST BATTLE IMPLEMENT EVER?
General George S. Patton once called the M1 Garand the “best battle implement ever devised.” But was he correct? The run up to World War II saw a giant leap forward in technology for weapons of war. The jet airplane was invented for WWII. Of course the atomic bomb was invented for WWII. But more importantly, the weapons that saw the most combat, the infantry battle rifles of the war, changed considerably as well, worldwide. In 1936, three years after the famous German false flag the Reichstag fire, and three years before Germany invaded Poland, considered the “official” beginning of WWII, the US adopted a new battle rifle called the M1 Garand. During that time the Soviets also developed a new rifle, introduced in 1938, then re-released in 1940, called the SVT-40. Over 1.6 million of the SVTs were made during the early stages of the war, and many of these rifles came to the US in the 1990s. Many are in collections, but you can still find them if you look, for around $1,200 – $1,500. Was the Garand really a better rifle, or is our American perspective just skewed by nationalistic writers. The SVT-40 never really got out of the gate due to the later popularity of the AK-47, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was an influential rifle on the Eastern front during the war, or the fact that it totally rocks. We got to test an actual 1943 SVT-40 side by side with an M1 Garand, and the results may surprise you.
), way better sights, and a rimless cartridge. Overall, I'd pick the Garand, or better yet, a Garand with a proper mag (pity they didn't want his original design). With that said, I love my SVT-40, and the price of ammo doesn't hurt that love at all 
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