The SVD's we played with were far from "superlative"..Cocking them sound like rattling a box of spanners and accuracy while "ok" was not in the same league as Brit or American sniper rifles we also had..Reliability was a bit mixed but that may be down to the fact they had seen a hard life by their original owners..

In todays parlance, I'd say it was more of a "designated marksmans" rifle than a true sniper rifle...