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Yes, its a trigger limit bar. When you pull the trigger the bar hits the top of the hole, when you let go it hits the bottom. The sear, (which shares the same spring as the trigger) will shove the trigger all the way forward in the trigger guard while failing to create the proper spring tension for ...

First install the big spring with pin, then slip the trigger into the pack, Install the small "trigger limit bar" in question bevel up and to the rear in the back of the trigger. Then slip the trigger forward and install its pin. This will dis-align the limit bar to keep it from falling out. Then in...

Some ww2 cones, one has pretty fat ribs with fine knurling probably late war. both marked pj also another one with the fat last ring late war. Also added a picture of a yugo cone with some of the differences I notice.

Here's one I found that I know is WW2 that has six wraps that may have been re wrapped or original. Has what I can make out as hvq 43 with whats left of waffenamp.

We would be up for building one as long as its not completely screwed. We are a class 7 ffl 2 sot BlackbushArmory. We do a lot of ak and ar builds do saiga conversions and gunsmith work, but have built a semi auto mg that was badly demilled torched four times missing a 1/4" in some spots especially ...

Patsy57 wrote:Does anyone still have the images in this Thread???

Yes, but only this thread all other threads are not loading images for some reason.

Most of the early MG42s are in the ground around Stalingrad and the route back to Berlin. Same with mg34s. Anything before 1944 is less common. Iirc folke put the Sarac production at 170,000 or so. Export was very limited, probably only surreptitious events. I believe Rheinmatall numbers are compre...

I’m not sold on the number of wraps. I have German shaped stocks with more than six wraps. Ok maybe early yugo stocks were copies of the German shape. I doubt we will ever know. Agreed, I had a supposed yugo stock with six wraps that had the solid german button and also had been reserialized from a...

Generally yugos have a very course knurling. Late ww2 mg42 have fatter rings usually the last ring near the end of the barrel is the fattest on late ww2 stuff. Also visually the smaller part of the cone on a yugo looks smaller around than a german but the inside of the yugo booster is larger allowin...

I think they were made with miters on a jig to guide them for consistency. Almost like a computorless cnc. Then finished out by handsanding. The differences come from the different factories that made them for WW2 each factory had its own unique shape.
Thats my guess.

I am curious where are we getting the 700,000 figure? According to the highest" known" serial numbers made by the four factories there were 467,665 MG42's built in WW2. I know these are just the known serial numbers and there were more built but where is the extra 200,000 coming from? WW2 production...

1945 mauser df dd with short step sight no picture of the barrel gate

1944 mauser Ar code long step w/ screw

Well I've done a lot of looking and from what I've found I think Only Gustloff and Steyr Used the barrel gate rivet. From what see Mauser and Maget kept the screw and never used the rivet. Mauser did use long and short step front sight receivers by both grossfuss and arz but used the barrel door scr...

Thats Awsome! Nice gun. Are there any requirements to buying one? Do you have to have a permit? Or show ID?

On the back of the buffer where the buttstock teeth are look and see how it meets up to the back plate if there is a radius its german if its a sharp square corner its a yugo. In picture starting from the left is mg3, ww2 steyr, yugo and yugo notice the radius leading up the backs on the 2 german ve...

Ok, I know that in 1945 the ar code changed to dd but as far as the long step front sight vs short step and the use of barrel door rivet instead of the large screw. I have a front shroud with the long step front sight and barrel door rivet and I know the long step was only made by the arz rea code. ...