This has bothered me since the watching my cousin play the beta. The SVT40 did not have a plum colored bolt and electropenciled numbers on the bolt handle. This was all done POST WAR, most likely in the late 40's or early 50's. The SVT left the factory with a bolt that was "in the white" essentially looking the same color as the 1891/30 bolt. The reason the bolt is the strange plum color is because they tried to blue them when they did the re-arsenal. The high nickel content in the bolt reacted with the hot bluing process creating the plum color. The electro pencil numbers were used to force match the bolts to the receivers after they had undergone cleaning (as these guns were stripped and cleaned the parts were just thrown into various bins, so on rebuild the parts to a given rifle did not have matching serial numbers).
Tripwire most likely found a rifle as a model and it undoubtedly was a Russian re-arsenal. I have a 1941 re-arsenal and it looks exactly as in game. The only time you might see an original looking SVT is if you find a Finnish captured rifle or a vet bring-back. A quick google search will get you a photo of an original and a little more will get you to an in depth story.
This would be a really easy fix that would make the game more correct.
Tripwire most likely found a rifle as a model and it undoubtedly was a Russian re-arsenal. I have a 1941 re-arsenal and it looks exactly as in game. The only time you might see an original looking SVT is if you find a Finnish captured rifle or a vet bring-back. A quick google search will get you a photo of an original and a little more will get you to an in depth story.
This would be a really easy fix that would make the game more correct.