Norwegian MG34 F2.

[olli]

Got it today. Missing a few small parts, but have spares.

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[42rocker]

Looks Good.

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[anjongni]

Looks nice, Olli. Is it live, US-de-milled or European de-milled? Looks like a good receiver - are some other parts "permanently fixed", shall we say? If so, they did a nice job. What is the meaning of the receiver inscription? Congrats!....Phil

[olli]

Its demiled: Buffer is welded to reciver, a pinn is welded in beetween reciver and barreljacket, and the barrel is welded If I ever get license on a live one, this might be a good one to demill. But then again it would have to be built in semi-auto.
HÆR stands for ARMY and then the new serialnummber it got in the norwegian army follows. The army was also the one who grinded away the original markings on the barreljacket.

[anjongni]

It's really a nice weapon. Was it used in the German occupation of Norway and left there? Too bad that they removed the original barrel jacket code. Did they leave any original markings/numbers on the top rear of the receiver?..Phil

[olli]

I gess it was left here after ww2 and then taken in to the army. Looks pretty unused, so this one has probable just been laying in its crate ever since. It has how ever a norwegian but-stock and is reconfigurated twice, first for 3006 and then for 308 nato. The finish is also probable not original. from the wwa marking, wwa4, I can say that it was built at BSW.

[messerschmittfan]

The German Army North surrendered in 1945 without firing a shot. All of their combat gear was left in the countries that they had occupied. That is why the Danish and Norwegian Armies had so much German equipment to equip their reserve forces, most of it was new or little used. After the Germans occupied the counties they only had to deal with the partisan warfare flair-ups and were never really engaged in major combat after 1941. The German High Command kept a good amount of troops stationed in those countries as they were afraid of an English invasion into the North of Germany as they did not have the resources to fortify that area in 1944/45. I purchased a warehouse full of German helmets and winter uniforms (the padded ones that fit over the standard uniforms) back in the late 70's and wholesaled most of it off to the dealers that were selling it on the US market then. I believe it was something like 2,400 helmets alone. Some had been painted with the Norwegian Army OD some were still in the original Wehrmacht colors. The uniforms were still packed in the original shipping paper as were all of the field gear such as canteens, bread bags etc. The wholesale price on the helmets was $4.00 for more than 100, $7.00 for quantities less than 100. I sold everything in less than a year. I think I paid about $1,600 for the entire lot. You have to remember that there was not a market for this stuff in Europe then and it was hard to sell this stuff. A lot of the metal stuff went to scrap yards. The Danish and Norwegian Armies were updating their reserves and had no need for these items. The rifles, MG's and their accessories had too many restrictions on them back then to mess with. I was a Liaison Officer (Major) in the US Army then and had to steer away from those items as well. Ah the good old days. Harry

[Woodey]

Nice score