This Rifle Was Stolen By WWII Era Germany
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2024
- Original Video: • SVT 40
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I miss how cheap the ammo used to be.
All the ammo is outrageous
My struggle nowadays isn't the cheapness of the ammo so much, we still get spam cans from China up in Canada, it's the thought of running this corrosive crap through my rifle that has more than doubled in value, and me potentially missing a spot or not giving it a deep enough clean that worries me as I'm tempted to keep mine for life. Gonna start looking into reloading for the ole girl.
Yeah. Even though I have enough spam cans (that were $79.00 when I bought them) that my grandkids will not have to worry about running out, you always want more.
@@Leebeaux1all ammo should be 5 times more expensive than it is. The general public has NO business handling or owning military weapons. BAN MILITARY WEPON OWNERSHIP!
@@user-je3ul4cs8x The Colonists turned their guns into military weapons. Case closed...
When I was 13 my dad gave me one of these to deer hunt with. Can you imagine a 13 year old trekking through the woods with one of these?
Ironically as I have no solid hunting rifle, just Russian surp, this might be my personal choice for a 'longer' range deer hunt as I sit right now, if I were asked to come on a trip for instance. As a 13 year old it would have been quite a violent rifle I bet, and these are not really the most svelt and handy rifles for the bush, ha ha.
Were you able to harvest a deer with it?
Not a bad choice. Very lightweight at only 8 pounds, slings well, packs a punch, and has a built-in muzzle brake to tame that recoil. Not a bad choice
These days the 13 year old would probably be trekking through the school hall with one of those.
Yes
In the early 60's Montgomery Ward had racks of Tokarev's for $69.95!
It makes me weep, to think that I could've picked up all kinda cool stuff - even in the Mid 1960s you could mail-order a Jeep in a crate for $250.00, or an M-1 Garand; M-1 Carbines(Like Lt Handley carried in TV's Combat! show) were dirt cheap, less than $100 I think. I remember having a P-38 C-Ration can-opener when I was in Cub Scouts in 1964(when I got a paper route and had spending money). It's a good thing I couldn't play guitar at that time.
But even by that time the population density was so bad that you couldn't hunt Whitetail deer except with shotguns, using slugs, because a bullet would go just too far, and reach another subdivision, and it got to be a chore to find wilderness one could hunt in seriously. But the past, they say, is like a foreign country - and they do things differently there.
NICE rifle, easy and pleasant shooting!! Must get mine out to the range again. Thanks for the reminder, Hickok45!
I guess it depends on the brake on it. Mine wasn't really what I would call pleasant.
What I was thinking, pleasant all the time it is not, but fun? One of the most fun guns I own to shoot bar none, I always come away with a stupid grin on my face. They feel so powerful!
Blew my chance to get one on the cheap several years ago. Regrets.
I had a chance to buy one of those when they were imported in the 90's. I should have as they were under $400 then.
Several importers offered deals where you could buy an SVT-40 for $185 and get a free Nagant revolver. The SVT-40s with the early muzzlebrake are rather enjoyable to shoot. 🤠
I got one for $200. Sold it for $1200.
I got one right before the bubble burst in Ukraine that cut their supply to Canada, was a bit of an impulse purchase I had been standing on for over a year, $300 ish (damn wish I had that receipt!). Now, they're worth $800-$1000.
That thing is in excellent condition.
I can remember roses having that same Rifle for a $129.20 years ago
I was an idiot, and didn't get into surplus rifles until right after Roses stopped selling them.
I want to kick myself for the missed opportunities.
A clip from one of my favourite Hickok videos ever, it probably actually factored partly into me getting one of my own.
Loving the clips channel!
It's funny how 80 years ago, firearms were more advanced than they are today. Bigger bullets, more power behind the bullet and most of the time, they had a higher rate of fire as well. The SVT-40 is scary enough but think about the MG42. 8mm Mauser firing at 1200 rounds per minute. That is hell on earth.
Many MG42 copies are in service around the world today. This mostly happened because of a shift in fighting style. Smaller rounds lighter guns for use in urban and mid range combat.
@@SLG-jt1rdMG-3 is the Direct 7.62 NATO variant of the original gun.
Soviet Automatic rifles were nasty opponent´s but they were plagued by production quality issues and design flaws which made them tempremental and ill-suited for war,even when the quality lottery winner rifle had been issued to someone, the person had to keep it neurotically clean order to keep it working. The Finnish Sako, and VKT-company made extenssive study of the captured rifles detailing their flaws and concluded that refurbishing and rebuilding the rifles was economically too unsound in terms of cost and complicated nature of the rifle.
The Germans had already experience with the M-41 and W-41 which had started in the 1930's . The M-38 /M-41 were not what inspired the G-43 , in fact the locking system is completely different .
Greetings Hickok from Apacheria in the Arizona Territories Ahe'hye'e
I have one I think it’s not as rugged as a garand I seldom shoot it but it is a great ww2 piece of history
I had one in the late 1990s . It had the plum color bolt also. The elctro pencil markings on the bolt handle looked terrible ! It was uneven and looked like a kid did it . But I would love to have it back !
Very cool gun. Its like an sks but better haha
4:55 It was April 8 hours ago? ! Time has gotten funny... oh, this is a clip from a previous video.
Very little to no muzzle rise when shooting svt 40. Nice firearms
I'm not really familiar with this rifle. It sure seems like a lot of fun.
Cheers, Hickok45
It looks like the most generic military/battle/WW2 rifle you could picture.
Good to see you revisit this rifle considering these guns have almost doubled in price over the last 5-8 years. I guess because less than 27k were imported back in the 1980s.
They weren’t importing rifles from Russia during the 80’s
I guess 1989 doesn't count as the 1980s.
@@my1968gto The Berlin Wall fell in November 1989 just in time for them to pack up 27,000 rifles and ship them over in less than a month.You are incorrect sir.
I bought one back in the ‘90’s. It was in excellent condition. I shot it a couple of times but sold it when I needed some cash. Wish I still had it.
Do a video on 300 blackout
nice flinch
Good looking SVT.
Used to have one . Very soft shooting, probably due to the muzzle brake.
Healthy caliber!
God, I miss mine 😢
Better then g43 in hell let loose
First!
Love your content!
The problem is the price of these rifles have gone not past the moon; out to the next universe.
My favorite gun on CAll of Duty WWll
It is April?
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VIVA O SPORTING
Roses department store sold surplus firearms in the early nineties. Enfields $58, Finish M-39s $79, SVT-40 $230, French 49/56 $249, FR8 308 $69. I got 2 M-39, one of each of the others except for the enfield. Little voice in my head said to get another SVT 40. I did not listen. Young and dumb😮 I listen to that voice a lot more in my older years😊. Those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end. But, they did.
Germany type classified, made manuals, and kept spare parts & ammo in their supply system for both the SVT-40 & M1 Carbine. But, for some reason, they didnt like the Garand. Would leave captured Garands in piles while taking every SVT-40 & M1 Carbine they could find. 🤠
Because outside of American Exceptionalism and bias the M1 Garand wasn’t that good of a gun.
I've seen photos of Germans carrying Garands. But maybe it wasn't widespread.
@@SolarGeneral BLASPHEMEY!!!! HERETIC!!! THOW MUST REPENT THY EVIL WAYS OR FACE THE LORD'S WRATH!
@@SolarGeneralmore likely due to having to produce the Garand spring clips.
@@davidpetersen329 yeah, why go through the trouble to reproduce an inferior product. But I repeat myself.
I love mine too
When I got mine, it was listed in fair condition. I don't care as I get to blast away at 500m with mine accurately.
The assassination of JFK, I heard it said that his head would not blow backwards if he was shot from behind. I don't know, but watch that (2:25) bucket of water launch itself towards the direction it was shot from. Small hole in front, large hole in rear. Sound familiar?
JFK was killed with a 6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, it´s far less effective round altogether,further the round was Full jacket round with Copper-jacketing of course it´s gonna make a large exit wound.If he had fired 7.62 Russian that hole would have been far bigger..Further JFK was shot from an elevated position, the bullet´s came from relatively high angle, and thus the kinetic impact followed as such..Comparing them water bucket´s is not comparable in terms of raw physics.
I had a SVT-40 and when it got hot, it would go full auto.
Isn't it still illegal in some states to smoking pot (pots)?
Another very good video! Some people are just-ss holes. . Jelious , etc.. Probably had two wonderful parents. Learned a lot from them. O yah, just a comment! Take care
Interesting thought, during WW1 the Russians contracted American firearms manufacturers to produce Mosin rifles.
I wonder, during lend-lease, if the Russians ever explored the idea with the 38/40.
Interesting the US cavalery proving comission didn`t want to get the Christi Tank into US Army service arsenal & production ; but the russians took the Christi Tank in army service as BT- 7 and made this Tank the granddad to all T-34 Tanks.
@@wolfgangemmerich7552
The Army decided not to go with the Christie suspension because it felt that it was a developmental dead end. In fact, the Soviets had in 1940 already began design and prototyping of the T34M which would have replaced the Christie suspension with a torsion bar suspension. It was abandoned in favor of the legacy T34 because of the German invasion.
Remington did produce early m91´s for the Tsarist Army along with the machinery and technical experise to machine the Mosins, allowing Tula arsenal to transition from Berdan to Mosin.
@@wolfgangemmerich7552Christie design was 1st adopted as BT-2, which eventually lead to BT-5 and BT-7, through improvement´s in design, similarly Soviets produced Vickers-Armstrong 6-Ton Mk.E as T-26.
@@johngalt2506Having a Complete redesign made no sense in terms of economic´s. The soviets had to revork the torsion bar suspension components of the KV-1 several times before, they were able to stop the issues, soviet´s did eventually completely remove the issues after designing the IS-family.
I like the rifle. This rifle legal in California.
14th, 18 March 2024
Is there ANY gun that Hickok CAN'T shoot well...😊
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It was the least of their crimes
Genocidal maniacs stealing from other genocidal maniacs.
I have a special question to amerikan gun owners : Is the 5.7 X 28 ammo & the guns in this Cal. legal to buy - sale and own in the US ?
It's legal, expensive and some times difficult to find. The 5.7 X 28 is as safe as any other modern center fire cartridge in my opinion.
@@johngaither9263 This ammo is banned to own by privat / non governmets authorothys within europe because its the one and only body armor pircing round . As far as i am rigt informed its only legal to own & use for government organisation like police / government special operation units. How ever , thanks for your fast answer !
It was actually a smart move on the Soviets part to stop full production on the SVT40 and go back to bolt action 91/30 Mosins because their new " volunteer " Red Army soldiers were mostly illiterate peasants that had little to no experience with firearms. The desperate times of the day really gave the Soviet Union no choice.
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A semi auto rifle Is a new concept in tbe 30's , the polish army have a semiauto in development when Is invade for the germans AND the soviets in 1939.
SKS on steroids
Sks designed it
Kind of similar designs, but different designers - SKS by Simonov sort of as a miniaturized PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle, not directly related to the SVTs by Tokarev.
@@joelvca I think simonov was part of the design program
and then later became the FALwhen combined with german gun engineering after ww2
While reading this comment Cetme/G3 in the background...´´Am i a joke to you?´´
Well you have that slip-on decelerator a/m pad onn the butt, 😉