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boltaction Photos of original FG42 05-23-2012, 01:13 PM
browningautorifle Very nice. Very... 05-23-2012, 02:08 PM
boltaction YEs, there are a few modern... 05-23-2012, 09:11 PM
Maple_Leaf_Eh As a fellow Canadian, I have... 05-23-2012, 10:30 PM
MJ1 Great picks can i keep some?... 05-24-2012, 12:10 AM
Calif-Steve M60MG copy, yes a of this... 05-24-2012, 10:02 AM
MJ1 I had a lot of gauling at the... 05-24-2012, 03:31 PM
boltaction Hmm, that's a thought. I... 05-24-2012, 11:55 PM
hansellhd Yes I do like the SMG42 but... 05-25-2012, 08:34 PM
villiers So is "SMGGUNS in TX" the... 05-26-2012, 10:02 AM
hansellhd They make there own in Texas.... 05-26-2012, 04:48 PM
Maple_Leaf_Eh Any test results you care to... 09-11-2012, 10:40 PM
jmoore Finally! A reproduction FG42... 02-16-2015, 03:20 AM
Calif-Steve Which factory made them? ... 05-24-2012, 04:44 PM
bigduke6 May be of interest, I guess... 05-24-2012, 05:44 PM
hansellhd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... 05-24-2012, 08:23 PM
MJ1 I love it when it goes... 05-25-2012, 12:11 AM
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boltaction MJ1, that's a beautiful... 05-25-2012, 12:17 AM
jmoore I was on the verge of getting... 05-25-2012, 01:28 AM
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hansellhd Yes I hope that their FG42... 05-25-2012, 08:49 PM
Peter Laidler BEAUTIFUL photo... 05-25-2012, 05:10 PM
marysdad Awesome rifle and great pics!... 05-25-2012, 09:13 PM
boltaction Here are some photos of my... 05-26-2012, 03:13 PM
marysdad Thanks so much Ed! I see... 05-26-2012, 05:05 PM
MJ1 This has been an interesting... 05-25-2012, 09:17 PM
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    Photos of original FG42

    Good morning:
    There really isn't a forum for miscellaneous military rifles, nor is there one for machine guns like Maxims, Lewis, etc, so this has been put in General Discussion. I've had some surgery on my knee, so am at loose ends today, and thought I would take apart my FG42 to clean it. While doing so, I took some photos, which I hope others will enjoy. Being in Canadaicon, and too young to own machine guns, this one is a CA. No, I didn't do the conversion; it was done several years ago. While I'm glad it was done so that I can own this piece, I wish in many ways it hadn't been done as it changes the gun.

    The unit is matching, and all original, except the magazine, which is a modern repro stamped "Made in Japanicon" and while the hold open works, the mag doesn't lock into place. I would love to find an original mag somewhere, or maybe one of those mags for the repro FG42s being brought in might fit.

    Typical of later war Germanicon weapons, this one is quite modular, and snaps together and apart quite easily. I would think it would have been rather ungainly to shoot, especially with a full magazine hanging off one side, but reportedly, recoil was fairly minimal because of the straight in line design. Like all light autos, I believe they tended to "climb" when on full auto. However, I would think one would only use the full auto function when doing support fire, which would probably be on the ground with bipod mounted anyway. The bayonet is kind of laughable, but no more so than the Frenchicon MAS.

    I have not shot this rifle, and while I would love to, probably never will as if something happened to it, I would feel terrible.

    I haven't labelled the photos; the sequence is fairly self-explanatory.











































































































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