From the Vault: Tokarev SVT-40 Rifle

Privyet! Think the M1 Garand was the only military semi-auto rifle to see widespread service in WWII? Oh, Comrade, think again! The other was the Russian Tokarev SVT-40: “The very best there is when you absolutely, positively have to smoke-check every Nazi trying to invade Mother Russia. Accept no substitutes.“ That’s what Brownells Gun Tech and collector Keith Ford tells us. Tokarev’s SVT-40 is an innovative gas-operated, short-stroke pistoned, tilting bolt lockup, magazine-fed design. Keith pops the hood,