Battle field damaged bcd g43

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Here is my battle field damaged bcd G43, all matching numbers. Bullet strike through the trigger guard
 

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wow !! thats great.. Not sure whats up with the small holes near that other piece of damage ? Possible repair ? Anyways nice un touched Bcd these stocks tend to have a slight orange hue when un messed with.. I owned a killer example at one time..
 
I'm actually surprised someone takes such a rifle back home. Maybe he was the one who shot the hole? Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
 
I have told this story before, but years ago I passed on a Soviet Refurb SVT40 - I stopped counting at 20x stock repairs/patches - why they bothered saving a stock that suffered that much damage was beyond me (I can only assume shrapnel damage). In hindsight, it would have been a nice rifle to have as it was so unique.

This G43 is awesome! I assume that the person maybe took it home because it was damaged? Just like battle damaged helms?? Or maybe it was the only G43 that he could get his hands on?
 
A friend of mine who is a long time collector told me American GIs were intrigued by seeing a G43 among a pile of bolt action K98s and more were brought back than sometimes thought. He has bought many from veterans and family members. I had one tell me "Hitler ordered a semiautomatic rifle made to counter our M1."
 
David said:
A friend of mine who is a long time collector told me American GIs were intrigued by seeing a G43 among a pile of bolt action K98s and more were brought back than sometimes thought. He has bought many from veterans and family members. I had one tell me "Hitler ordered a semiautomatic rifle made to counter our M1."
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Well, the G43 was more of a response to the Russian SVT-40.
 
mdarnell19 said:
The Germans where not think of the M1 when developing the G43. That is just another one of those Gun Show/Vet stories that won't die.
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I am perfectly aware (I've studied and collected the German WWII self-loading rifles for 40 plus years) the Germans were reacting to the SVT-40 when they developed the G43.
 
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David said:
A friend of mine who is a long time collector told me American GIs were intrigued by seeing a G43 among a pile of bolt action K98s and more were brought back than sometimes thought. He has bought many from veterans and family members. I had one tell me "Hitler ordered a semiautomatic rifle made to counter our M1."
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I think simply an uneducated and unfounded ethnocentric "American" conclusion.

;)

Somewhat teasing of course - but that would be a logical explanation for a US GI during the war, especially if they never came across any Soviet arms. It simply HAD to be a copy of a US design and America single handedly won the Great War!!
 
That's cool. I think that shrapnel, which is "better" actually. Back in the day when I set up at shows an old guy brought in a "Nazi KIA helmet" with a bullet hole in and out and a bloody liner that was hanging behind the bar at the VFW. It looked quit legit. He said they had found it in the garage at a buddy's place and put it on top of a live chicken and shot it with a .30-06. So it was a Nazi helmet, but the KIA was a chicken. They could not have generated high speed shrapnel in a cost effective manner. I think a rifle bullet would have blasted out of the stock.
 
Hambone said:
That's cool. I think that shrapnel, which is "better" actually. Back in the day when I set up at shows an old guy brought in a "Nazi KIA helmet" with a bullet hole in and out and a bloody liner that was hanging behind the bar at the VFW. It looked quit legit. He said they had found it in the garage at a buddy's place and put it on top of a live chicken and shot it with a .30-06. So it was a Nazi helmet, but the KIA was a chicken. They could not have generated high speed shrapnel in a cost effective manner. I think a rifle bullet would have blasted out of the stock.
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I have a beautiful otherwise mint SD Lufty helmet whose liner suffered the same bloody “upgrade” 🙄
 
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