Additionally, production of PEM scopes was stopped in 1940, the existing stock could not cover the additional production of sniper rifles.
However, the model 1936 mount was not suitable for mass production during the rough wartime conditions, it required very precise machining. Wartime pictures show that even trial prewar sniper rifles were issued to troops as a stopgap measureĪs a temporary measure, the production of PEM sniper rifles was restored by the Izhevsk and Tula factories (newly created factory No. From 22 June 1941 until 22 September 1941, 3,135 sniper rifles had been lost. A nice illustration of this is a report from October 1941, which shows that three armies (15 Divisions) of the North-Eastern front had only 89 sniper rifles instead of the 3,330 that they should have according to doctrine.
