on your military SVD and it reminded me of this common myth
I hear
now and again. There is this idea that the AK and SVD stocks are so short because "Thems Russkies have shorter arms than us". Everytime I hear
some dealer or wanna be RKI at the range say that I laugh. The stocks are made shorter because they have to take the winter weather in to consideration
when designing these rifles. In the very cold Russian and Eastern European climates, the soldiers have to wear very thick coats. If they tried to aim with all that
padding with a standard length buttstock, it would be very difficult to get as good cheek weld. So the stocks are shortened to compensate. In the warm weather
a rubber recoil pad is sometimes used to increase the
length, but most commonly the soldiers just get used to
using the shorter stocks. And no, their arms ar NOT shorter
than American's and western European's.