Sniper Rifles by Martin Pegler

Author:Martin Pegler
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978 1 84908 659 2
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

A Soviet sniper with Mosin rifle and PEM scope explains his technique to admiring local women. (From the fonds of the RGAKFD at Krasnogorsk via Nik Cornish)

The 3.5x Soviet PU scope, mounted here on an SVT40 semiautomatic sniping rifle. With its large and simple to operate range and windage drums it was a revolution in telescopic sight design and was soon copied by Germany. The rifles proved to be competent but not outstanding sniping weapons.

In 1940, the SVT38 was modified and re-introduced as the SVT40. The SVT40 used the short PU scope with a clever tuning-fork-shaped mounting bracket that slid into rails on the rear of the receiver. It proved to be a competent but not outstanding sniping rifle, with an effective range of about 650yds (600m). Its main virtue lay in its rapid-fire capability, as reported by sniper Vassili Zaitsev:

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