Post War use of MG42/MG3 by West German Army

[Warren]

The Norwegians converted a large number to 30-06 and quite successfully.
However, the 7.62 conversion was a problem. They could never get reliable ejections due to the dynamics of the shorter case spinning back into the action.
Several mod's were tried including a "bumper" as used in the original ZB 26 series but the conversion testing was finally dropped.
The MG 34 7.62 conversion will work on a private civilian conversion but not to the reliability spec's required for the military.
The 30-06 conversion was interesting as with the -06" round being longer they forged a grove in the feed tray and ground the receiver to allow for the extra cartridge length.