Soviet SVT-40 Tokarev Rifle
A Wartime Sprint Toward Semi-Automatic Firepower Right side profile of a Tula Arsenal-produced SVT-40 Tokarev rifle, chambered in 7.62x54R. Photo property of Eisel Armory. The SVT-40 (Samozaryadnaya Vintovka Tokareva — “Tokarev self-loading rifle, model 1940”) was adopted by the Soviet Union in 1940 as its intended principal self-loading service rifle, chambered in the same 7.62x54R […]
Finnish SAKO M/28-30 Mosin-Nagant Rifle
Finland’s Precision-Built Civil Guard Rifle of the Winter War Era Right-side profile of a Finnish SAKO M/28-30 Civil Guard Mosin-Nagant rifle. Photo property of Eisel Armory. Finland’s SAKO M/28-30 emerged in the early 1930s as the Civil Guard’s refined take on the Mosin-Nagant platform, chambered in the same 7.62x53mmR round as its Russian ancestor. Built […]