Talk:Tokarev SVT-40

SKT-40/AKT-40

So, there's not much to go on for the carbine variants of these things, but it seems like a confusing mess from everything I've seen people say. There are claims that they were a rare field-trialed pattern, claims that they were the result of field armory repairs/modifications, claims that they were just a proposal and that no significant number were actually built (and various claims mixing and matching bits of all these), there are a couple sheets of drawings showing the things but most of them look slightly different, it just goes on. About the only thing it seems most people can agree on is that many of the supposed "SKT-40s" on the market aren't real - that they were either cut down after the fact by Canadian importers, or that they're custom one-offs by people trying to peddle their personal hack-jobs as fancy rare prototypes, hence why they often vary from one rifle to another (similar to how, say, most of the supposed "tanker" carbines out there aren't real - the T26 Garand was a prototype, but most of the ones on the market are post-war conversions for the civilian market). Does anyone have any reference books/access to primary-source documents that could help shed some light on the issue? Pyr0m4n14c (talk) 23:00, 30 March 2022 (EDT)