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Hi As some of you know last May (2012) I applied for a 7.62x54R Tiger rifle. The civilian version of the SVD dragunow russian DMR "sniper" rifle. I have finally received this rifle and oooh god is it bad rear end!  First, the story on how I got this rifle in weapon hating socialist dreamland Sweden  I applied for the rifle in May 2012 as I said above. In August 2012 I got denied the application because of BS reasons that had nothing to do with anything resembling the law. I of course appealed this decision and after pressuring the judge last fall I finally got my day in court. I got to meet the Swedish police so called weapon experts that probably know nothing about either weapons or the laws in Sweden. They had hardly even fired their service guns when I asked them about their experience! They basically wanted to ban everything because it looks scary. Anyway. I had to inform them in court that I had a lot of court cases in the highest courts in Sweden backing me up and that the police do not get to make politics in Sweden. Our representatives do that and the courts interpret the laws. Not "judge dread" police people... So I won in court. And because of the worthless communications in the police the one responsible for my case never appealed it because she went on mother leave for 6 months  = it became what goes for the police in handling these cases. So now I got my license for my rifle and everyone else in Stockholm could apply for whatever they wanted because of me! = I am a small hero for some people.Now I had to find a rifle I wanted. I contacted 2 gun stores in Sweden that was distributors for the European importer of this rifle. Neither even bothered to answer my email. So I contacted the European distributor to see what they had in stock since these rifles usually are made in small special order batches. The one with the awesome wood stock that I wanted was sold out long ago. And they only had the composite stock version with the shorter barrel in 7.62x54R. And I wanted the full length barrel. So I was hosed, I though. But then the sales manager contacted me and said "hey I have a private gun dealing business and I have a showroom example, never fired, that you can get for $kind of cheap". Awesome. This was the SVDS version, but with full length barrel. So I applied for this, got my license. Got my import permit. Got the export permit from Germany. And then he sent it to me. With a German firm that required personal delivery and id check + signed documents. But in Sweden this firm hands the parcel over to the Swedish postal office which sucks badly. They lost an AR15 upper in the post last fall for me and this was no exception. After calling around Europe I finally got my parcel ID number and tracked it to my local tobacco store. Where I picked up a fully functioning SVDS. YAY!   I have 3 10 round magazines for it. But they are really hard to find. I would have to pay 100 euros each for them if I wanted more. The posp 4x on the rifle is only temporary as it is intended for my AK and has the high mount. I have ordered the fixed 8x posp with low svd mount but customer service in Belarus is awful. So it will get here eventually. I expect ~2moa with surplus ball ammo out of this rifle. With handloads I might get it down to 0.5moa. The factory test fired it to about 1 moa. I will update this thread with videos and more pictures as I take them. I also got a sweet manual to this rifle with actually kind of good English. Signed by everyone that made the rifles with a lot of fancy Russian stamps etc. The rifle was made 2011 in the Izhmash factory in Izhevsk. Notable differences between this rifle and the military version. Bayonet lug is missing. The rear iron sight only has markings for 100, 200 and 300m. Also stampings are different. The original SVD has a lot of differences from modern ones as well. The dust cover is not ribbed on newer ones and is much thicker. Also the barrel is heavier on the SVDS variants. Mine especially since it is a special version with the original long barrel. The milled receiver is missing the original lightning cuts for greater stability with a wide variety of loads. And ofc the polymer handguards and folding stock. I have also contacted a fixer guy in Russia to score this thing:  <- Not my rifle <- not me  Since the handguard is semi free floating you should never attach a bipod to it or even hold it to get max accuracy. This solves this issue. You attach this piece of metal to the receiver and a bipod at the other end. It also functions as a hand hold as shown in the picture. Not sure when this arrives. The Russian guy needs to manufacture it for me but it is popular with Russian long range shooters / snipers that use the SVD. Questions on this? Updates to follow.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 12:51 |
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| # ? May 25, 2013 00:56 |
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My only question is: how did you grow up to be so awesome and what can I do with my future children to make them as awesome as you? Also make inside jokes about guns in Swedish ITT Moa's? Jag fick alla moa's du behöver
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DrakeriderCa posted:My only question is: how did you grow up to be so awesome and what can I do with my future children to make them as awesome as you? I have practiced a long time on being awesome (take your children out shooting).Here is a not so recent picture of me with the first rifle I got to shoot  Silly unboxing video I made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7WUHZ9k5VI
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 13:15 |
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Nice work, Swedish dude! Your gun is awesome and I'm glad you helped others get their dream guns.
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Cool man, congrats on the sweet rifle. I'm happy you get to enjoy a little bit of true american style freedom over in Sweden. If it makes you feel any better, your story makes me appreciate what gun rights I do have, even as a Californian, a little bit more. Considering how much cool poo poo I still get to have at comparatively little to no hassle.  Hopefully it stays that way and we don't go all New York up in this. That's neither here nor there though, enjoy your rifle.
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Eating the Pudding posted:Nice work, Swedish dude! Your gun is awesome and I'm glad you helped others get their dream guns. Yes, this is especially nice. I talked to a guy who managed to get licenses for an AK-47, AR-15, G3 och M1A1 because of me. Feels good. Damo posted:Cool man, congrats on the sweet rifle. I'm happy you get to enjoy a little bit of true american style freedom over in Sweden. I will enjoy my rifle. But some of you US people have a hard time as well. I have to motivate a need and be able to document it as well. = Give the police results from competitions etc. I basically had to start my own shooting club, rent a shooting range. (which is awesome, it is a bunker beneath a mountain 10minutes from where I live) and everything else that comes with having a shooting club. A lot of hard work has gone into making this rifle possible. Edit: Short video from the vault range http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLRSQ0fm8g moosepoop fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 13:49 |
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moosepoop posted:Yes, this is especially nice. I talked to a guy who managed to get licenses for an AK-47, AR-15, G3 och M1A1 because of me. Feels good. I thought you (or your family) owned that bunker?
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Akion posted:I thought you (or your family) owned that bunker? No, we own another bunker in the other end of Sweden where I hunt. We use part of it as an abattoir for moose. But mostly as a parking space for caravans and house cars during the winter. It used to be an underground tank parking space for the army. Edit: Best pic I have of our family bunker 
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 14:26 |
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That is a really beautiful rifle. STOPP FORBUD, lol.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 14:42 |
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Congrats! It's about time you got to take that thing home with you. Are you going to do any hunting with it? Because just about the only thing cooler than owning an SVD would be using an SVD to harvest moose jerky.
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moosepoop posted:I talked to a guy who managed to get licenses for an AK-47, AR-15, G3 och M1A1 because of me. This is awesome. I also liked the code-switching in the middle of the gun listing.  Way to go moosepoop!
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Cool rifle dude! All that work paid off. Also it's scary your post office is that terrible.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 15:18 |
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Benny Hill would be proud! Congrats on the win and getting it! Also have you ever considered upgrading your bunker to have a Commando-esque style weapons open up? Well that or building a right proper Ken Adam's style evil lair.
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gfanikf posted:Benny Hill would be proud! <Moosepoop giving a tour> *opens door* "Here we have the weight room" *presses button, opening Commando-esque gun room* "Here we have the leeeeeetle guns" *presses second button, opening door to a piece of coastal artillery* "...and here we have the beeeeeg guns" <Moosepoop tour ends>
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Akion posted:<Moosepoop giving a tour> I like it! The Commando room will need to have a sound system that plays selections from the soundtrack when people enter the room. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_24YWy71RXo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRjkqW9sIXk For the coastal artillery...we will need Bond music.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 16:11 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:Congrats! It's about time you got to take that thing home with you. Sorry, not allowed to hunt with this rifle  But it would be awesome. Ironically the manual refers to this rifle as a hunting rifle all over the manual.Sten Freak posted:Cool rifle dude! All that work paid off. I know... The state used to own it. When the state owned it everything was perfect. the mail came 3 times a day and always on time. Now .. nothing. Total poo poo after they privatized it. gfanikf posted:Benny Hill would be proud! There is a proper vault inside the vault where guns are stored and we have a nice meeting room with posters of guns all over inside as well it is actually really nice in there. At the one in Stockholm at least.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 16:13 |
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Please come to Australia and help fix our stupid gun laws. Seriously though, I'm glad you finally got your rifle. Edit to add: gfanikf posted:I like it! The Commando room will need to have a sound system that plays selections from the soundtrack when people enter the room. http://youtu.be/zN8GcRGNWe4 Unskilled Labour fucked around with this message at Feb 22, 2013 around 16:17 |
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Monolith. posted:STOPP FORBUD, lol. I bought a STOPP at IKEA once but it fell apart after a few years. My FORBUD is holding up nicely, though. I use it to cook spaghetti!
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 16:56 |
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Nice toy, heartwarming story. 5/5, would read again. Also bork the polis.
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Awesome rifle, I love the SVD and I wish I could even touch one let alone own one. Glad you got it in the end and won another small victory against the police forces's bullshit.moosepoop posted:I know... The state used to own it. When the state owned it everything was perfect. the mail came 3 times a day and always on time. Now .. nothing. Total poo poo after they privatized it.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 18:33 |
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gfanikf posted:
gently caress that. Theme music from "the guns of Navarone" or go home.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 18:36 |
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You really need to get the wooden stock for that. It would be so pretty! Keep Fing the P, moosepoop. You do us all proud. 
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Really nice gun, way to persevere too! Would wood be difficult to source or are you happy enough with the polymer on there?
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ZenMastaT posted:Really nice gun, way to persevere too! Would wood be difficult to source or are you happy enough with the polymer on there? I think I remember him saying that he couldn't get a wooden stocked SVD, but preferred the polymer/tube stock anyway.
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ZenMastaT posted:Would wood be difficult to source Not in this thread 
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 19:35 |
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How long is that rifle? I love long rifles as long as I don't have to carry them around.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 19:42 |
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Very nice. Question though, what is it about your case that made it easy for other people to get licenses?
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Bummey posted:You really need to get the wooden stock for that. It would be so pretty! No wood for me since I have the folding stock. The receiver is different. ZenMastaT posted:Really nice gun, way to persevere too! Would wood be difficult to source or are you happy enough with the polymer on there? Polymer is fine. It is functionally superior to wood. But wood is ofc nicer. Atticus_1354 posted:How long is that rifle? I love long rifles as long as I don't have to carry them around. Not sure about the oal but the barrel is 620mm redscare posted:Very nice. Question though, what is it about your case that made it easy for other people to get licenses? We have our own rulebook we use to motivate a need for our rifles that is basically "any semi auto rifle". For now this is legal. But the police want to make this illegal and add 10000 new hoops to jump through. We basically have until the summer of 2014 to buy whatever we want for the rest of our lives. Friend made a video of me taking the virginity of the SVDS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N1SaVoprQ8
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moosepoop posted:Hi You are a big beautiful swole hero to me.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 22:22 |
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You can magdump cheap 54R all day long, too. 
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Bummey posted:You can magdump cheap 54R all day long, too. waste of a perfectly good svd.
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 22:26 |
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Feel good thread, I wanna shoot in a bunker so bad 
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Miso Beno posted:waste of a perfectly good svd. Yeah, no way would I add to the roundcount on a gun like that with magdumps. Well, I'd probably do it once.
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Herr Tog posted:You are a big beautiful swole hero to me. Awww, thank you  But I have dropped some weight lately. Mostly fat though.Bummey posted:You can magdump cheap 54R all day long, too. That is what cheap x54r surplus is for. I will load some nice lr rounds at a later date and do some proper shooting at longer distances. Capn Beeb posted:Feel good thread, I wanna shoot in a bunker so bad The bunker is awesome. But the sound levels in there are horrible...
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Cyrano4747 posted:Yeah, no way would I add to the roundcount on a gun like that with magdumps. SVDs don't feel much different than shooting an SVT. Why not waste garbage ammo through a garbage gun like a PSL instead?
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It was one magazine. Do not worry guys.
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moosepoop posted:The bunker is awesome. But the sound levels in there are horrible... I was wondering about how bad it would get shooting rifles and such in there. I'm assuming you double up on earpro, but is it still bad? Also, how do you guys ventilate that place?
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BadgerMan45 posted:I was wondering about how bad it would get shooting rifles and such in there. I'm assuming you double up on earpro, but is it still bad? Also, how do you guys ventilate that place? Yes we double up on earpro. It is still bad. We had one guy shooting .308 and another one with a snubby .44 revolver as well. That poo poo is loud!
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| # ? Feb 22, 2013 23:15 |
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It's probably too expensive but you could install some sound damping foam or tiles.
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Sten Freak posted:It's probably too expensive but you could install some sound damping foam or tiles. Kind of hard because the walls are not "walls" but basically jagged rock. Nothing to put the foam on really. What we have been talking about is putting up rubber walls that would be self healing = more shooting angles for IPSC for example. And no ricochets. Also just to make myself clear. I am not going to magdump hundreds of rounds of crap surplus through this rifle. I am planning on getting more rifles in x54R in the future like a mosin nagant for example. Those rifles can shoot the cheap stuff while I reload for the SVDS.
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