>>65176467Wouldn’t that be the SVT-38/40?
>>65176540Not with the detachable mag and all the design flaws, in addition to relatively low production numbers and poorly received service adoption.
>>65176467>Stalin's GarandOnly worse than a Garand.
>>65176600>worse thanchecked, may we see how?
>>65176467That's an SKS, not an SVT 40, dumbass.
>>65176467More of a bebe anti tank rifle.
>>65176467no, that would be >>65176540although an m1 garand in intermediate caliber would be kinda neat if scaled down to size
>>65176467More like mao’s garand. Shit lasted the PLA up to the fucking 80s.
>>65177881A burn.
>>65176658Objectively>7.62x39>inferior sights>tilting boltSubjectively>use of stripper clips vs an enbloc>folding bayonetWhere its better>easier to field strip>lighter, and generally handierI listed all of these things out intending to make it a landslide for the Garand, but really I think the SKS is just fine. It would be better to compare the M1 to the SVT, but actually the SKS is just a good rifle.
>>65177881>>65177933>herpDURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRp ------------> >>65176568
>>65177905>m1 garand in5.56 would be kino
>>65177881>>65177933'sks' in OP filenameHow dumb is this board?
>>65178248Nobody ever calls the SKS "Stalin's Garand", so not as dumb as you, faggot.
>>65178450>reEEEeeeeeEEEeeee 'n-nobody sez dat'the SKS *is* Stalin's Garand and a far more successful widely deployed and produced rifle than either of those two footnote relics, tranny.
>>65177905>>65178245You guys are not going to believe what Ruger made since the 70’s
>>65178674No. (Topic of a 5.56 mm Garand has been previously discussed, noted on /k/)Mini-14 is a neat concept, shabbily-70s engineered and executed by Ruger. It's an M1 Carbine/M14 hybrid. I'd still like to see a properly engineered example of the idea.Garand is very different. We're talking about an ~85 percent scale replica, with en bloc clip, full gas system (re-engineered to scale), the furniture, sights, all of it.
>>65176467>>65176600>>65178170>>65178450 sounds like a cool 9 holes review combo 3 challenge
>>65176568>relatively low production numbersMore SVT-40's were produced than MP40's by the Germans. Drop the crack pipe.
>>65178670 maybe in call of duty the SKS was technically used in WW2 but barely acknowledge because it was made so late it was used so late only in "experiments" whatever the fuck that even means I can't even quickly find any photos of it used in WW2
>>65178717Hitler should had dropped the crack pipe and put them to regular use like the SGT. By what has been said its more likely he didn't put them to use
>>65178719Garand was used in Korea. What's your point?
>>65178717Compared to both SKS and Garand (not to mention actual deployed usage), they're low.
>>65178670Nobody cares. The SKS is not "Stalin's Garand".
>>65178719Experiments probably means troop trials. iirc some of the early long cased 7.62 rounds were found in Berlin but maybe that's just fuddlore. Who knows.
>>65178170Having all three I can saySKS > GarandGarand > SVTI love my Garand, but the SKS is just a more practical rifle all-around. The SVT gets completely shit on by both, though.
>>65179421Yeah, I will have to begrudgingly agree with you. I wanted to shit on the SKS, mostly facetiously but still, and concluded the SKS is better in most ways.
No. Pic related alone will forever make the SKS retarded and suboptimal
>>65179160>dilating all the way
>>65176467It's funny how people use this picture as proof that the SKS saw combat in WW2 when it's actually from the 1956 Hungarian Uprising, pretty much the only major conflict the Russians actually used the SKS in frontline use in (unless you count the 1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict)
>>65180526>muh prooooooooooOOOOOOOoofThat's not the point of OP or why I posted it.It's that it was the Soviet leader Stalin's contemporary equivalent of the Garand<--that saw primary issue rifle service in Korea, by the way.Cope itt can be smelled from the planet Jupiter.
>>65180526actually I believe that's a fake old photo, like a reenactment. That's a Chinese SKS due to the bayonet being a spike. No way a Hungarian would get a newly produced Sino Soviet SKS in time for the uprising. Not to mention the author of the article misidentifies Chinese SKS as Russian throughout the article.
>>65181026also they didn't start using the spike in China until the 60s.
>>651803197.62x39 is a good round in the SKS, it's terrible in fully automatic rifles.
>>65181026Actually the really early batches in 1949 did have spike bayonets, but they pretty much completely transitioned to blades by 1950.
>>65181087there is some irony there as the chinese started with blades and transitioned to spikes
>>65181083Stripper clips, in anything but an old bolt action or behind the lines filling mags, are completely retarded. They'd have been better off with even an enbloc clip. FN49 has the same dumb problem that holds it back
>>65181087I stand corrected and learned something new. thank you
>>65181203Its super easy to load an SKS with stripper clips though.
>>65181249It's like making a new car but making the transmission be a 3 speed automatic from a 1990 Oldsmobile.
>>65176467Stalin’s Garand is the AK. The SKS is a downscaled PTRS.
