FG42 & STG44 Krummlauf examination - 1945
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Winchester Cowboy
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Thanks for posting!
pitfighter
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Have not seen the fourth pic down - nice, thanks for posting these.
It would certainly have been a loud report shooting close to that stone wall - !
You can really see the chemical-blue "tide-mark" mid way down the magazine (not in the rifle) - this is encountered on many FG42 magazines, mine included.
Also appears that one off the mags is phosphate finished, I have seen these, do not own one.
A rumor from an old time collector in Europe was that two were issued with each gun marked, Sjl01 and sjl02 - this I find difficult to believe.
I have seen several sjl01 (mine is one) and only one sjl02 marked mag (Bapty & Co).
Fascinating pictures of the two "curved-barrel" attachments, apparently the bullet broke to pieces and came out in fragments, very ineffectively, I don't know I have only read this. The lesser curved one being the more effective.
wish we could see the serial # on that FG - !
It would certainly have been a loud report shooting close to that stone wall - !
You can really see the chemical-blue "tide-mark" mid way down the magazine (not in the rifle) - this is encountered on many FG42 magazines, mine included.
Also appears that one off the mags is phosphate finished, I have seen these, do not own one.
A rumor from an old time collector in Europe was that two were issued with each gun marked, Sjl01 and sjl02 - this I find difficult to believe.
I have seen several sjl01 (mine is one) and only one sjl02 marked mag (Bapty & Co).
Fascinating pictures of the two "curved-barrel" attachments, apparently the bullet broke to pieces and came out in fragments, very ineffectively, I don't know I have only read this. The lesser curved one being the more effective.
wish we could see the serial # on that FG - !
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pitfighter
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GEM
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Picture may be associated with immediate postwar technical Intel collection by US Field Information Agency, Technical (FIAT). This Joint Chiefs of Staff organization derived from the wartime UK/US Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee (CIOS). Both organizations did extensive surveys of a wide variety of technologies and industries, collected equipment for intelligence exploitation and published hundreds of reports, including Mauser Oberndorf. Several Mauser references cite the latter. Reports are on file at the National Archives and fascinating reading.
Guillaume d'Orange
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For those who speak German, there's a 30-pages special on a 1977 issue of Waffen Revue about the Krummlauf
