I think Jason's numbers are adequate to explain some of the reason. However, there is also distribution to take into account. SVTs were never issued to rear units, for example. So they were disproportionally found in the Rifle Squads. How many is anybody's guess. They certainly were on the way out, but as with everything Soviet... things tended to stay at the front until they were lost in combat. With losses in late 1943 and early 1944 being comparatively light, the rate of los