(edited title) Museum's inventory: for your viewing pleasure... Schmeisser MP44

Terminology, Correct or not for Schmeisser, I worked with a WW2 Canadian Vet that carried a Thompson and a MP40 from North Africa to France. He also called it a Schmeisser and preferred it over the Thompson, but really liked the stopping power of the .45 round too.

Schmeisser, it just sounds so....###y for a smg!
 
If anyone gets to Las Vegas....check out Battlefield Las Vegas. Was there in may and shot the MP44 in full auto and single...switch selectable :)

jawes
 
German serial numbers ran from 1 to 9999 in a block, then 1a to 9999a, then 1b and so forth.

Each factory ran its own set of numbers and the numbers started fresh at thwe beginning of the year.

That said, your gun was built in 1944 and is the 1944 model and the number is 897, so it should be the 897th gun built.

If it is ever looking for a new home.........
 
sail32 said:
Hugo Schmeisser was a weapons designer that implemented faster methods of producing weapons.
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My limited understanding has me believing that he wasn't really a weapons designer but rather a stamped sheet metal expert who helped adapt designs for rapid production.
 
NavyCuda said:
My limited understanding has me believing that he wasn't really a weapons designer but rather a stamped sheet metal expert who helped adapt designs for rapid production.
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The Germans where masters at pressing and forming steel, still are, but the rest of the world has caught up.
 
People started to call it the schmeisser because the magazines had that stamped on the side of them. Not like it said mp40 somewhere. So not knowing of a better name that's the nickname everyone used.
 
Red_Liner740 said:
People started to call it the schmeisser because the magazines had that stamped on the side of them. Not like it said mp40 somewhere. So not knowing of a better name that's the nickname everyone used.
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^ WT? It must be "battlefield myth" day(s). Nowhere is the name "Schmessier" stamped on any of my MP40 mags. In fact they read ayf 42 on the backside and M.P.38u40 on the left. I liken the name of Schmessier to the MP40 the way the name "jeep" came about, nobody will ever know for sure how they came about to be named, it just is what it is.
 
The names add to the mystique and the legend. Whether correct or not, it really doesn't matter.

Black Widow - P08 Luger with Black Bakelite Grips

Slab Sides - 1911

Chicago Typewriter - Thompson SMG

Grease Gun - M3 SMG
 
Jeep = (g)eneral (p)urpose 1/4 ton vehicle. Soldiers like acronyms for their kit.


XRCD011 said:
^ WT? It must be "battlefield myth" day(s).
I liken the name of Schmessier to the MP40 the way the name "jeep" came about, nobody will ever know for sure how they came about to be named, it just is what it is.
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NavyCuda said:
My limited understanding has me believing that he wasn't really a weapons designer but rather a stamped sheet metal expert who helped adapt designs for rapid production.
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Hugo Schmeisser was one of the design team that came up with one of the worlds first submachine guns, and probably the first practical one to see combat, the MP.18. He was foremost a weapons designer and when he was approached to design the MkB.42 knew very little about manufacturing with pressed steel. The very first MkB.42 prototype was manufactured with machined steel. Other experts needed to be brought in to convert that to a rifle manufactured almost entirely out of sheet steel.

After the war Hugo Schmeisser was "invited" by the Russians to work in the U.S.S.R on their new assault rifle project. How large and what his contribution was to the AK47 is of course a contentious point.
 
Not so off topic. If anyone owns a copy of them, I will, today add some better shots of the MP44.

Will have a last check for its magazine and will disassemble it to make pictures of the parts.

Martin
 
dauph197 said:
Not so off topic. If anyone owns a copy of them, I will, today add some better shots of the MP44.

Will have a last check for its magazine and will disassemble it to make pictures of the parts.

Martin
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Please do!
It's rare to see a real unmolested original MP44.
It's next to impossible to see pictures of one broken down.
That would be awesome Sir.
 
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