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Please delete the thread. The only person to have viewed it so far seems to be the mod and thats to tell me I need a picture lmao..

Thanks for your time.

Both are Romanian surplus that were painted Green. These are ORIGINAL ww2 German Lafette tripods in very good working condition. There's spots of rust, mold and paint loss which is typical of 99.9% of these unless you find a mint one which I've never seen. 1940 FSU 1942 No marker(likely under the gr...

Thank you, pretty sure I'm going with a 1940, its the earliest I could find.

Looking at picking a semi auto up and would like to know if there is any more value in a particular date?

Pretty sure its not the front as it moves freely up there. I redid the front twice just to be sure. Builder again offered to take it back and see whats going on so I will take him up on the offer and report back with the findings ASAP. He is being very helpful about it so I cant ask for more at this...

After my pitty party post I went and once again completely disassembled the gun. Still the bolt will not go out or in without the trigger pack being removed. Once I got it all back together(minus the barrel of course), the trigger would not release the hammer, almost as if it were jammed into someth...

The builder offered to take a look at it if I sent it back. But I frankly waited 14 months and I do not have a spare dollar after paying him $2400 to rebuild the thing to spend $100 to send it back to him and I sure as heck am not willing to wait 1-2 month minimum to get it back. I don't know at thi...

The fun continues.. I now cannot get the barrel back in due to the recouperator blocking it from being fully seated, its not even close to seating. I have tried removing everything at the muzzle, even removed the bolt and everything from the gun. Tried using a punch and a hammer to drive it back but...

OK.. More headache but at least the problems are allowing me an education on the subject. The bolt would not come out.. at all. No sliding free, not even with light tapping of a hammer. I checked 2 different manuals including the BRP manual. I watched several youtube videos(including DARIVS even tho...

So I went out again today with the semi mg42. It would not fire at all the first 5 times I tried, I then placed a blank in the belt and it fired that no problem, then after which it started firing the romanian, sometimes up to 5 or 6 rounds before it would fail to set off the primer. I fired over 30...

Sorry to hear this, I have been there before myself. You are a good man not to tell your wife that you are selling your things.. I'd be interested in an 8mm barrel and the tripod. However, another thing you can do is if you have a bill me later with ebay, you can buy gold and silver at slightly abov...

Heres a couple pictures. My question on the receiver is the eagle marking.. It looks post war? Says something and an 84? I just lazily tossed a belt on there to make it look better for a quick picture. http://s29.postimg.org/w7d5vzfzr/20140412_180841.jpg http://s29.postimg.org/4b2vryi0n/20140413_130...

Yes, I think the beautiful weather is what is keeping me in good spirits.

Will keep y'all updated.

So my nearest range is well over an hour away so I went to a friends house and fired 3 or 4 rounds of .308 blanks.(The german plastic olive drab ones). All fired, all extracted just fine. The primers in these are very slightly raised so it could be chalked up to that. Obviously the gun did not cycle...

Do you think if I replaced the hammer spring with a heavy ar15 spring, that could do the trick?

I want to shoot Romy 8m exclusively through this weapon. The BRP trigger setup is ar15 correct?

Thanks!

He used Czech 8mm. I am in the situation where if I cant spend less than .50 a round, I dont want to shoot it. I have stokepiled a bit of Romy 8mm and its all I have. I cannot find the czech stuff he shot ANYWHERE. :/ Any suggestions on other ammo to try? Could a new trigger spring help eleviate thi...

Took the MG42 to the range, I am 100% confident I was loading it right, it would chamber a round just fine, it would even eject the round just fine. But it would not fire a single round. I was using romy 8mm on german ww2 surplus belts. What I first noticed was the firing pin protruding from the bol...

Thank you for the good advice, I have learned more about these guns in the past 10 hours than I have in the past year of reading up on them. I guess it takes being hands on for me to learn. I hope I do not have a run away.. Not at the public range im going to. It can save such fun events for the pri...

Two quick questions on how to load my semi auto mg42. I pull the charging handle back to open the bolt, open the cover, place the starter tab with the first round holder on the tab empty(the round spot that does not have a nipple). I place this empty spot over the bolt. Then I close the cover, then ...

Would you SN your home build Semi auto mg42? Sent it off to Bob naess for work and it sadly needed basically a complete redo. I am getting it back shortly. Question though Should I SN/Put my info on this gun? I plan on taking it to public gun ranges here and no doubt it will attract attention and I ...