5000 STG-44 rifles discovered in a cache in Syrian desert

What a WASTE!!

 

Haven't they been looting, and of late destroying, priceless artifacts by the mile over around there? Sorry to say it but it's hard to imagine what they wouldn't destroy or deface.

 

Good luck finding the ammo to go with those.

 

Wow! How many AK-47's could they have bought! So sad!

 

Heh, yeah....I was curious about that too, so...
http://www.ima-usa.com/original-german-wwii-stg-44-display-assault-rifle-with-demilled-receiver.html

But ammo is totally available from several sources for around $.85/round!

Fascinating history there. Weren't the Nazi's a day late/dollar short with several things at that time? And those Al Qaedain's? Thought they were AK's? Just imagine the chatter after they loaded up a mag, a mag should load 7.92 X 33 right? And then it wont chamber!

 

They probably made jewelry out of the damned things... desert gangsta-ghetto.

 

BTW- for just under $2k you can have a modern chambering SA version.


https://www.hmgunworks.com/product/hmg-sturmgewehr-standard-length-223/

 

Id still take one ammo or not pretty cool artifact and if in mint might make a cool mancave wall hanger.

 

If that's all your looking for then you can get a resin casted replica that can be made to look crazy-realistic.

 

Paintings are "Wall Hangers". Anything I own has got to shoot and shoot
straight.

 

lol

 

Feelin' REAL BAD for your pets right now!

 

Pets? Dog is at one end of the garden and the cat at the other, with a huge rat in the middle.
Don't want anyone/thing around (except the wife) that may out live me.

 

The original assault (storm) as in sturm der schloss (storm the castle) rifle that started it all with selective fire and a shorter than rifle cartridge 7.92 Kurz. They parachuted a 100 earlier models in to a surrounded German unit who used them to great effect in breaking out.
I am sure Kalashnikov would never admit it but odds are since earlier versions were being tested at the front in 1942 in Russia the AK owes much to the German design.

Personally, it is the coolest WWII infantry firearm out there.
70 years later it still looks bad @ZZ.

Brutus Out

 

The Nazis were late with this because Hitler heard requests for the new rifles and wanted to see it. After it was demonstrated he felt it's range beyond 400 meters was ineffective and an infantryman should have a rifle capable of shooting 1,000 meters. (Him being a WWI infrantryman) So, sneaky builders and generals started calling it a Maschinen Pistole MP43 and MP44 to get SOME in to production. Later Hitler gave in but another one of his bone headed decisions that kept a next gen weapon out of mass production. Hell, even some US troops used captured ones. It wasn't perfect but it was the leading edge of combat infantryman assault weapons. Far more accurate at ranges Tommies, Stens, MP 40s, PPSHs became little more than shot guns.

Brutus Out

 

Anyone ever see the WWii history episode, "High-Hitler"??

Dude was all jacked up on Eukodal and other narcotics. Small wonder he made such poor choices.... like believing he should bury his weapons when in fact he should have been digging them up!!!!

 

Federov's gun was not successful from a production or even service life standard. The STG 44 was and was produced in far larger numbers. You also don't see replicas being made. It had a slow cyclic rate and over heated.

Brutus out