When Evgenie Fedorovich Dragunov went to work for the Soviet military’s small arms plant at Izhevsk in 1939, no one could have imagined the contributions he would make during his life. While these were many, Dragunov is most well-known for the rifle that bears his name: the Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, or Sniper’s Rifle Dragunov (SVD).
Designed in 1959, the SVD was in simple terms, an enlarged variant of the Automat Kalazhnikov (AK), firing one of the most accurate full-size rifle cartridges of it’s day: the Russian 7.62 x 54 mmR (rimmed). Adopted in 1963. the SVD became standard issue with the sharpshooter of the Soviet and Chinese armies and was used throughout the Vietnam War. Variations of the SVD were also used by other ComBlok countries. Based on the AK. the SVD differs in several ways. Perhaps most importantly is that it uses a Tokarev-style gas system where, unlike the AK. the piston is separate from the bolt carrier. At the rear of the gas block is an adjustable collar. Turned with the head of a cartridge, this collar allows more or less gas to operate the rifle. The SVD uses a machined steel receiver for rigidity and while it operates in the same ways as the AK, its rotating bolt has three locking lugs instead of two. Also, the rifle is capable of semiautomatic fire only, using a ten-shot detachable box magazine.
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Although the SVD comes with standard-style Soviet iron sights, these are meant to be used only as backup, as the rifle’s primary sighting system is the INI-1 Pritsel Snaipersky Optichesky (PSO-1), or Optical Sniper Sight. Of 4x magnification, this scope has a range-finding reticle graduated to 1.300 meters (1.422 yards).
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