Repro VG1-5 Rifles

[tiriaq]

Available soon in US. US$4000. Allegheny Arsenal. Lots of information at w ww.gunlab.net.

 

[fenceline]

Voila...

 

[CanadianAR]

Ive followed this build for quite some time. While its a really neat rifle, I think there are better rifles to go plink with. It was a last ditch design, not meant for long term usage. While really cool, Id rather have an original German gun of a different type over a total repro. If I had the money id get and original....haha

 

[tiriaq]

I suspect that an original would be $15k or so.

 

[Coyote Ugly]

I wonder what the life expectancy was of a person or soldier, in the last days of Nazi Germany, that was issued a VG1-5? A few days or less than a week?

 

[mrbeil]

That buttstock looks original compared to the handguard

 

[can14]

With all that is going on in the world these days, for US 4000.00 you can do better at I run guns on modern stuff

 

[tiriaq]

With all that is going on in the world these days, for US 4000.00 you can do better at I run guns on modern stuff

???

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

All you need is $4k, a period fedora and trenchcoat, a Volkssturm armband, and a frightened expression, and you too can be a reenactor!

It'd be an interesting piece to own - kind of the Hyundai Pony of firearms -but for $4k, and no actual historical value? For the completist only, I should think.

 

[tiriaq]

There is a very slim chance that a collector could acquire an original.
A reproduction is about the only possibility. These particular repros are being made in very limited numbers. The descriptions of manufacture at gunlab are very interesting.

SSD made a repro as well. Don't know what the price was; don't know if any made it to North America.

Another rifle that could be reproduced is the VG1. This would be a simpler project than the 1-5. A few years ago, a VG1 sold for about $10k.

 

[CanadianAR]

I'm just not desperate enough to need a total repro. Maybe Id never get an original but $4k for a Design, with not a single real part isn't what most collectors chase.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I wonder what the life expectancy was of a person or soldier, in the last days of Nazi Germany, that was issued a VG1-5? A few days or less than a week?

X2. Not my idea of a rifle one would buy to shoot.

Grizz

 

[fredqc]

Very nice picture. Never saw this one before. Armed with italian 91/38 cavalry carbines. I was lucky enough to find one with nazi marking made and captured in 1943. maybe she is in this picture!

All you need is $4k, a period fedora and trenchcoat, a Volkssturm armband, and a frightened expression, and you too can be a reenactor!

It'd be an interesting piece to own - kind of the Hyundai Pony of firearms -but for $4k, and no actual historical value? For the completist only, I should think.

 

[contact148]

I wonder what the life expectancy was of a person or soldier, in the last days of Nazi Germany, that was issued a VG1-5? A few days or less than a week?

hours they had little to no combat experience and were thrown against battle hardened soviet troops and in many cases German officers who needlessly threw volkstrum troops away in pointless engagements. anyone who was not a fanatical Nazi got out of there asap and ran towards American lines