Posted on 12/29/2016 9:45:15 AM PST by w1n1
This gun was featured in the video game Medal of Honor about 10 yrs ago.
It was a major prize that you found in an estate hosting some big nazi party. Once you got the gun, you killed everyone at the party, including the cooks and bartender!
Was an awesome game....
I found a semi auto Sturmgewehr two years ago for $600 and was going to buy it, but scoured the internet looking for 7.92x33 Kurtz and couldn’t find a single round. That sucked. I did manage to find 3 mags for one, though. Cheapest one was $75
The STG44/ MP43 is my favorite light assault weapon of WWII. It is a beautiful, innovative design and provided a basis for many future assault weapons (AK47, FAL, G3).
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I heard they go for thousands of dollars now. Am I correct?
“Was an awesome game....”
Correction- it IS an awesome game. I still play it and yes, the STG-44 kicks ass!
That is too bad, as now 7.92 Kurz is being manufactured by a couple of companies and can be obtained for $16 a box at Sportsmans Guide, among other places.
When I saw the main character carrying one, I said, "This movie is going to suck." And, it did.
The 5.56 ones take AR magazines.
https://www.hmgunworks.com/product/hmg-sturmgewehr-standard-length-223/
Registered, transferrable STG-44s go for tens of thousands.
I don’t know what the market value is for a semi auto version now. The one I saw was $599 and its the only for sale Sturmgewehr I’ve ever seen. I’m trying to remember where I saw them. It was that long ago. What I do remember is I stumbled on it accidently
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Guess it depends on the quality of the food.
Uh... the FAL isn’t descended from the StG44. Completely different action and it fires a full power rifle cartridge, not an intermediate power one.
Depends. Were they watering the drinks?
Yep, and there are only a handful of Mkb 42(H) on the registry, worth 100k+...up there with the FG-42s that are legal to own. Last FG 42 I saw for sale was $125,000.00.
I’d rather have a Johnson M1944 Light Machinegun though. ...those are around $75,000.00
Armored Cav friend of mine found one in great condition in a weapons cache in Iraq. He tried to get his commander to save it for a museum or some other purpose. He made him destroy it along with the other weapons.
Rather, I should that the tilting-bolt idea that the FAL and StG share *predates* the StG by quite a lot (1920s Czech and Polish rifles, among others); the FAL got its specific *version* of the tilt-bolt locking system from the FN49, a pre-war design by the same man (Saive) that came out in 1936. The FN49 in turn was heavily influenced by a creation of Saive’s mentor, the WW1 Browning Automatic Rifle and combined many features of that rifle’s system with the bolt carrier actuated, rear-locking, tilting bolt from the French MAT 1926 of, uh, 1926.
The FAL doesn’t really share any heritage with the StG other than early prototypes used the 7.92x33 Kurz cartridge as that was ‘the new hotness’ in the immediate post-war era. To say the FAL is a descendant of the StG is like saying the first Ford V8 was inspired by the Small Block Chevrolet - the chronology doesn’t work.
I don’t think it ever went out of production, it’s just that nobody bothered importing the ammo to the US for a long time. Wasn’t like we had a lot of 7.92 Kurz weapons here.
My father had great friends and my gun club had some amazing old guys. All important in my formative years.
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