Lookin good for 73!

Noice.

My local shop has one. If I win the lotttery I'll be grabbing it...

Looking great! That's awesome.

Do you wear a glove for longer shooting sessions to handle the heat?

Awesome.

Lovely

Very nice. Got to hold a real transferable one a few months ago, which was pretty cool.

Always wanted to shoot one though.

After experiencing numerous issues with our three MP-44's, I would recommend purchasing a spare set of trigger pack intervals to include the sear and hammer. I would also recommend you find a good gunsmith or machinist to fabricate some new pins instead of the factory rivets if you plan using it a lot.

V/R
Ron

NICE!  Throw in few spent cartridges in the picture for 100% bad ass contribution.  I've got you at 97%

My grandfather picked one up in Germany and carried it for a while. He bought the American Tactical .22 version and the semi-auto 7.92x33 version. A transferable would be a dream come true!

I shoot it, but don't shoot it often.

Very cool!

Too bad he didn't send the one he had home and registered it.  It was my understanding WW II vets could register war trophies for free from '45 to like '51 or '52.  I've gotten to shoot a reweld.  Great shooting machinegun.  Dam good thing for our side the Germans didn't develop and issue that gun earlier.  Lots more G.I.s would not have come home.

Scott

Post war Hungary, my father and grandfather had some hidden after the Germans left.


Wanted to go find it but the area was excavated for a ghetto style housing and it was probably found.

These guns were just "old war junk" back then.  Many were sent home, and most were never registered.  Many were even then given to kids, only to be lost in ditches across the country while those kids went out and played war.  I've heard some funny, yet depressing, stories about several machine guns like that.  Different times.

I've got 3 or 4 of the MP 44 family including a shooter that I got from the vet who brought it back.  He registered it in 68.  
They are fun to shoot.  
I'd post a photo or 2, but don't see how to do so.    
Sarge

Nice.
I use TinyPic, but there are other free image hosting sites. AR15.com only hosts pics if you have a paid membership.
Once uploaded to TinyPic (or other), you'll get a URL ending in .jpg
Hit the photo button (or CRTL+SHIFT+1) while you're authoring a new post, and paste the URL there.

If you still have trouble, shoot me an email with the images and I'll post them here.

TRUTH.

Knew a very advanced WWII memorabilia collector locally.... Tony. His house was a museum. Focused primarily on Axis helmets, uniforms, flags, and insignia. He had a FORTUNE in authentic material. Plenty of firearms...no MGs/DDs or the like by the time I met him. Was collecting since he was 10 years old.

His father was a Merchant Marine. After the war in '46 he set up a card room in downtown Vancouver Washington. Lots of vets would bring in trophies to sell or use as credit for the tables. His Dad usually gave Tony all the memorabilia including firearms on some occasions.  

As a kid Tony (post '46) would play war with the local kids in town. As he was Italian and his friend was Dutch "not German...but close enough"....so naturally they always had to play the bad guys. Most of the gear Tony would provide and his garage was their pre-war game storage and assembly area....with the exception of one gun....

And Tony and the poor Dutch kid always had to carry it. One of the other war gamer kids Dad had managed to bring back an MG34. Tony and the Dutch kid would grab opposite ends of it and lug/drag it to the nearby empty lot that substituted for far off battlefields their Dads talked about.

Little Tony and the Dutch kid...in German Tunics, M35 double decaled helmets, and web gear carrying a real MG34... followed by three or so other kids wearing their Dads US uniforms and steel helmets....with an M1 Carbine, a 1911, and a 1903 between them..... all around 10 to 14 years old. Walking down the middle of a suburban residential street. NO ONE BATTING AN EYE.

Different times indeed.

I passed on a transferrable MP44 about 10 years ago.  The seller wanted 17k for it and there was no way I could justify it to the CFO(house).  Shoulda bought it if only for the investment.  The rifle has the strangest recoil impulse that I've ever experienced.  I got to shoot a full magazine out of it.  Half semi and then a few bursts.  God, what fun.

ka

17k in 2007 was very high though.  I paid less than that for this one 2 years ago.

Well lets see if this workz.  
IF so here are my MP 43/44s and spare parts.   Damm~! looks like it did.
Sarge  
Attached File

Very nice collection!!!  I am envious.  What are the details on all of them if you don't mind me asking? That's 90% the fun for me.

The MP 43 is a vet bring back registered during the 68 amnesty.  I bought it from the widow in about(?) 1975.  
The MP 44 u. Stg 44 are both dewats that I have had for many years.
Sarge

That's impressive stuff!  I don't even want to hear what you paid for them!  Haha.  Enjoy!

 

Been so long that I don't remember for sure, but I think I paid $100 for the MP 43 shooter - no mag and no handguard - in the mid 70s.  
The 2 dewats probably cost me between $25 & $50 ea in the 60s.
The cut receiver at the top probably cost me less than $50?
Sarge

What the hell?!  Insane.

Nice MP44 OP!  I just wish we could bring stuff back with us from Iraq.  Had two 1944 dated ones in 04'.




CD

Very nice!  Yea, it sucks that there are no more legal ways to have bring backs. :(