help identify this mg42 any one seen a hqu coded receiver

[greatguns]

help identify this mg42,,, any one seen a hqu coded receiver was told it might be a hqu note how the landing for the front sight base is flat and long i just have the front half

[Blanksguy]

greatguns..........

Do you have a clear photo of the markings on the left-rear of the receiver....the "hqu" you were talking about (?)
Receiver looks to be a standard MG42 receiver (for now), and not one of the early "prototype" receivers.

Last......there was a member of the Board that has a "MG42-Receiver-Study" that he started that has a lot more "detailed" information on MG42 receivers manufactured at different German WWII Factories. Maybe a moderator could "link" that "Thread" here for us to view (?)

Regards, RichardS
US Army, Retired.

[greatguns]

greatguns..........

Do you have a clear photo of the markings on the left-rear of the receiver....the "hqu" you were talking about (?)
Receiver looks to be a standard MG42 receiver (for now), and not one of the early "prototype" receivers.

Last......there was a member of the Board that has a "MG42-Receiver-Study" that he started that has a lot more "detailed" information on MG42 receivers manufactured at different German WWII Factories. Maybe a moderator could "link" that "Thread" here for us to view (?)

Regards, RichardS
US Army, Retired.

look at how the front sight base go's way back there rare brp says they seen one before and thought it was a hqu i dont have the rear and nothing behind the rear sight base its got ehs on the barrel stop and sight base

[Blanksguy]

Greatguns,
From reading on another Board (and given additional information on "prototype"/very-early MG42 "bpr-Receivers......possibly what "Folke" refers to as the MG39/41 and or the pre-production run for troop-tests.......the receiver's forward air-cooling-hole is not "round"....but an unlongated slot on the left-side of receiver. Front-sights had the front-sight-leaf screwed onto the top of the front-sight and not "dovetailed" as in later production sights.

Possibly you have historic photos to show us of these being used by WWII German troops .... and not of reenactors using some fantasy-weapon (?)......would be interesting to see your "verified" photos of this "hqu" receiver in the "wild" of WWII Combat (?).

What did you find out on that MG42 receiver-study showing most of the differences in receivers by "details" (?).

Regards, RichardS
US Army, Retired.

[jonathanseverin]

Hello,
To me it looks like a 'type 3' making it a late war Mg42 or an M53 which someone has added
an AA sight bracket.
hqu is not a code used on any WW2 German receiver.
ehs stamps are a positive though as to it being WW2 German.

Jonathan.

[greatguns]

i found what it was svq not hqu mystery solved thx everyone

[anjongni]

According to Folke, "SM svq" indicates a Gustloff gun from 1945, one of only 10,000 made by them that final year. I hope you scored the other half of it. Nice find....Phil