stg 44

easygreen · 16-01-2007, 08:19 PM

A while back I posted a request for some help in saving a G98/40 rifle from certain destruction. Sadly to say the rifle is going to be destroyed. Its a shame to because it would have looked nice in my collection. But on a good note, I do have a chance to get a Stg44 or MP44. This was seized many years before I joined the department. Back then the paper work wasnt as strict as it is now so my chances of getting this weapon look good. The weapon is clean with hardly no rust. Its has all the Nazi swasticas and appears to have the original magazine. The only flaw with the weapon is that it has a plug welded into the barrel.

But still a nice bit of history. Anyway I thought I would share my excitement with you all.

von Poop · 16-01-2007, 08:29 PM

Nice one.
I fully understand your excitement.
Even in deac form they can be shockingly pricey, I assume in the USofA there are people who can make it breathe again?

marcus69x · 17-01-2007, 09:31 AM

What's the difference between an MP44 and an STG44? They both look the same to me.

von Poop · 17-01-2007, 09:47 AM

Pretty much the same thing, was named MP as a distraction because Hitler didn't approve of new rifle production, after a stilted politicised development period eventually the weapon was demonstrated to him personally and enough pressure was applied for him to accept it. Sturmgewehr (Stg.) was then chosen as a stronger name to identify a new class of weapon (to the Germans

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Za Rodinu · 17-01-2007, 11:06 AM

I can't locate it now, but there is an Austrian firm selling semi-auto replicas.

montgomery · 23-01-2007, 06:44 AM

lucky you I wish I could have one.

cpstu1 · 24-01-2007, 06:07 PM

The StG44 is a very 'attractive' (if that's the word) weapon, but you can't help but marvel at how cheaply built it is....stamped metal parts.....(wouldn't sell mine for an FG42...well maybe....)

stuart

von Poop · 24-01-2007, 07:36 PM

FG42's are insanely expensive, even a quality repro one (by Arai... very odd) was up for £1500 last time I saw one.

cpstu1 · 25-01-2007, 06:18 PM

Von Poop - I wrote....'maybe'........

Most StG44's in the flesh are really......rough looking weapons....as are PpsH41's......

stuart

von Poop · 25-01-2007, 06:36 PM

Met a chap in Jersey with several 44's, he was a little cagey about their condition but I know they have rather more tolerant Gun laws than we do..... thankfully his Teller mines were fully deactivated

16-01-2007, 08:19 PM	#1 (permalink)
easygreen Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 13	stg 44 A while back I posted a request for some help in saving a G98/40 rifle from certain destruction. Sadly to say the rifle is going to be destroyed. Its a shame to because it would have looked nice in my collection. But on a good note, I do have a chance to get a Stg44 or MP44. This was seized many years before I joined the department. Back then the paper work wasnt as strict as it is now so my chances of getting this weapon look good. The weapon is clean with hardly no rust. Its has all the Nazi swasticas and appears to have the original magazine. The only flaw with the weapon is that it has a plug welded into the barrel. But still a nice bit of history. Anyway I thought I would share my excitement with you all.

17-01-2007, 11:06 AM	#5 (permalink)
Za Rodinu So you hear voices too? Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,238	I can't locate it now, but there is an Austrian firm selling semi-auto replicas. __________________ "Tell me again, son, who lost the frigging war?"

24-01-2007, 06:07 PM	#7 (permalink)
cpstu1 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London Posts: 32	The StG44 is a very 'attractive' (if that's the word) weapon, but you can't help but marvel at how cheaply built it is....stamped metal parts.....(wouldn't sell mine for an FG42...well maybe....) stuart __________________

24-01-2007, 07:36 PM	#8 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,682	FG42's are insanely expensive, even a quality repro one (by Arai... very odd) was up for £1500 last time I saw one. __________________ It's only the Internet.

25-01-2007, 06:18 PM	#9 (permalink)
cpstu1 Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London Posts: 32	Von Poop - I wrote....'maybe'........ Most StG44's in the flesh are really......rough looking weapons....as are PpsH41's...... stuart __________________

16-01-2007, 08:29 PM	#2 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,682	Nice one. I fully understand your excitement. Even in deac form they can be shockingly pricey, I assume in the USofA there are people who can make it breathe again?

17-01-2007, 09:31 AM	#3 (permalink)
marcus69x I love WW2 meah!!! Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middlesbrough, UK Posts: 1,362	What's the difference between an MP44 and an STG44? They both look the same to me.

17-01-2007, 09:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,682	Pretty much the same thing, was named MP as a distraction because Hitler didn't approve of new rifle production, after a stilted politicised development period eventually the weapon was demonstrated to him personally and enough pressure was applied for him to accept it. Sturmgewehr (Stg.) was then chosen as a stronger name to identify a new class of weapon (to the Germans )

23-01-2007, 06:44 AM	#6 (permalink)
montgomery Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: ashurst Posts: 100	lucky you I wish I could have one.

25-01-2007, 06:36 PM	#10 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 7,682	Met a chap in Jersey with several 44's, he was a little cagey about their condition but I know they have rather more tolerant Gun laws than we do..... thankfully his Teller mines were fully deactivated __________________ It's only the Internet.

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