5/27/2023 0 Comments Ppsh 41 tula marks![]() While the 10-round magazine was detachable, the rifle was designed to be loaded with two five-round Mosin-Nagant stripper clips. The SVT used a short-stroke gas-piston system, and its bolt was locked by a tilting block. The design that would eventually come out on top was crafted by Fedor Tokarev and adopted as the SVT-38. Following the Russian Revolution, the decision was made to stick with the decades-old 7.62x54 mm R cartridge, prompting the who’s who of interwar Soviet small-arms designers to put their hands to developing a semi-automatic battle rifle chambered in that cartridge. The Russian Empire began experimenting with automatic service rifles early in the 20th century, with its Fedorov Avtomat appearing in 1915, firing the 6.5x50 mm Japanese cartridge.
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