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stubbicatt · September 22, 2013, 09:38 AM

Mueller. I appreciate your sincerity, but where are your authorities? Your sources? For statements such as the SVT40 was developed for the light ball ferinstance? I do not know for sure, (which is why I asked my initial question) but I have read elsewhere on the internet that this is not true. I had read that the soviets were transitioning from heavy ball to light ball at the time of the development of the SVT38, which is the primary reason they incorporated the gas regulator in the design... and carried forward to the SVT40... so the end user could adjust his rifle to shoot either heavy (185 grain) or light ball..

By adjusting the regulator, one can accommodate many varieties of propellant and port pressures.

Thanks for the heads up on the short throat issue. I will utilize time tested, tried, and true, techniques to ascertain the origin of the rifling.

Thanks guys for the input.

September 22, 2013, 09:38 AM	#5
stubbicatt Senior Member Join Date: September 15, 2007 Posts: 1,707	Mueller. I appreciate your sincerity, but where are your authorities? Your sources? For statements such as the SVT40 was developed for the light ball ferinstance? I do not know for sure, (which is why I asked my initial question) but I have read elsewhere on the internet that this is not true. I had read that the soviets were transitioning from heavy ball to light ball at the time of the development of the SVT38, which is the primary reason they incorporated the gas regulator in the design... and carried forward to the SVT40... so the end user could adjust his rifle to shoot either heavy (185 grain) or light ball.. By adjusting the regulator, one can accommodate many varieties of propellant and port pressures. Thanks for the heads up on the short throat issue. I will utilize time tested, tried, and true, techniques to ascertain the origin of the rifling. Thanks guys for the input.