It's not a Mosin but.........

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It's not a Mosin but.........

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It is in x54r and it is a "Finn". :D

Hey guy's, Just out of curiousity, I thought I'd ask if anyone knew or had estimates of how many of these were imported from Finland?

Please feel free to add/post yours, I know we'd all love to see them. :thumbsup:

TIA.

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Wow!!! Bravo!!! That is one pretty rifle.
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Nice :thumbsup: , I have a fairly close relative to yours :lol:
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:Drool1: Very cool SVT! Couldn't have been many of the Finn capture imported into the US. Nice find! :thumbsup:
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I think there must have been maybe some thousands exported as Finns captured over 15 000 SVT-40s during the Continuation War. Numbers of serviceable rifles dropped during the war and after the war quite a lot, but there must have been good number of rifles left to export too.
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That's pretty sweet looking!
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Per Vic's article, it says approx 15000 SVT's (both 38's and 40's) were captured and about 10000 complete rifles were made from those. I doubt the full 10000 were exported to the US, but I'd consider less than that as the maximum after attrition. While I consider Finn captured SVT's to be uncommon, you see them for sale all of time.
For rarity on the Finn captured Toks, you may want to look for an SVT38 as well as '40 and '41 Factory 460's ;mywink;
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FINNADDICT wrote:Wow!!! Bravo!!! That is one pretty rifle.
Thank you!
Bugelson wrote:I think there must have been maybe some thousands exported as Finns captured over 15 000 SVT-40s during the Continuation War. Numbers of serviceable rifles dropped during the war and after the war quite a lot, but there must have been good number of rifles left to export too.
So the original number is roughly 15,000 explains why they are fairly uncommon and hard to come by.

Thank you, Bugelson!
Knuckledragger wrote:Per Vic's article, it says approx 15000 SVT's (both 38's and 40's) were captured and about 10000 complete rifles were made from those. I doubt the full 10000 were exported to the US, but I'd consider less than that as the maximum after attrition.
So down to 10,000 and didn't many of these end up in Canada and how many stayed in Finland? Subtracting SVT38's dimminishes whatever number further? Are we looking at maybe less than 5000?
Knuckledragger wrote: For rarity on the Finn captured Toks,you may want to look for an SVT38
So you had to bring that up! :Drool1:

Definately on my wish list! Thank you!
Greasemonkey wrote:Nice :thumbsup: , I have a fairly close relative to yours :lol:

Nice! Let's see some more guy's!
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Very Nice rifle :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :vcool:
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:big shock: :big shock: Awesome!!!!!! :vcool: :vcool:
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Knuckledragger wrote: For rarity on the Finn captured Toks,you may want to look for an SVT38
So you had to being that up![/quote]

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I want one of those, but it's a liiiiitle bit out of my price range !!!! Plus i would have to buy more ammo !!!

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