GSG STG 44 in 22LR Whats the big deal?

LA has a spazzy thing about how much a gun weighs... so much that he has to start a thread about a gun he doesn't own, just so he can "rag" on it... and on the owners of it.
 
"Eeeew, that's too heavy...."

jjohnwm said:
It serves the same purpose that your built-up 10/22's do: to make the owner smile. If it does that, it's all good. If it stops doing that, you can sell it. If it never does that to begin with...don't buy it. That doesn't mean that it won't make someone else happy.

Jeez, I can rationalize a gun purchase as well as anyone...how else would I wind up with dedicated skunk rifles, starling rifles, house sparrow .410's, bumblebee guns, dinosaur rifles, and zombie scatterguns? Life gets easier when you stop rationalizing, and just get stuff because you like it. :)
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"Like"!

Ja, 'It is what it is'. If you don't like it, then don't buy it. The weight and other specs similar to the original make it more attractive to the enthusiast. I'd rather it was ~10# of steel than 5 # of cheezy tin and plastic. So it weighs about the same as my M-14. So "What's the big deal"? Would you be whining about the weight if it was chambered in the (expensive) 7.92×33mm Kurz? I'll have a lot more fun plinking with this faithful replica with 25 non-stop rounds than I ever will with my CF semi-autos and their incessant stopping to swap mags after every five rounds. If I decide to hunt deer or if we find ourselves in that fantasyland of a world without law, I'm pretty well prepped for that as well, but happily I'm not confined to owning just one firearm. Oh, and I'm not some 'wannabe soldier'--I'm actually a 'used to be soldier' who still maintains an interest in military history, so I collect weapons of by-gone eras--especially ones that I can shoot.
Remember--the StG was good enough for Brad Pitt in "Fury", eh?
Oh, and did any of our contributors remember to mention that our 'Stuggie' is NON-RESTRICTED??

"I prefer a gun with a little heft to it."
Robert Duval in Open Range :rockOn:
 
After reading the posts in this thread I see a fudd is whining over something that does not concern him. Personally I couldn't give a rats ass about a .22 built to be as light as possible and wouldn't waste my money building one. But then again I enjoy the heft of 9+lb battle and assault rifles. As mentioned above, if it was a 5lb plastic plinker I'd have zero interest in it whatsoever. I absolutely love the STG-44 and if I could legally own whatever guns I wanted then I'd have a real one and it would be a major part of my collection. Being a more authentic weight, look and feel is what makes the GSG STG-44 such a big deal. So much more so than aluminum sleeved barrels and cheap plastistocks. If you don't appreciate milsurps and can't understand the draw some people have to them then you're lost under your rock of selfish closed mindedness.
 
They're going mainstream now...

The STUGGIES popped up in the Cabelas online catalogue yesterday AM
at a relatively decent price, especially considering our pathetic Loonie....
I'd say, if you want one, you'd better act fast. Oh, and you might as well
toss in a couple bricks of LR so we can all start hoarding again.

'Pap-pap-pap-pap-pap-pap-pappaapapapapapapapapapapapapapaapapap...pap."
 
hoytcanon said:
LA has a spazzy thing about how much a gun weighs... so much that he has to start a thread about a gun he doesn't own, just so he can "rag" on it... and on the owners of it.
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If you dont like the thread I started, simply skip it.
Oh ya, thats right whos trolling now Hoyt? As for Super, how many battles has you been in?
Agsin call a spade a spade. There are alot of wannabe soldiers.
If you having fun, great.
I just dont see the point of a semi auto rimfire needing to be 10+ lbs.
Thats why I asked what the appeal was, plain and simple.
I got my answer with a bunch of trash and a few honest answers.
Now I know.
 
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Just pulled mine out of the shipping packaging. The wife found it on the heavy side for her. I like the weight...sure feels solid. Seems well made and I'm happy. Slapped on the repo sling (complete with period markings) and I'm ready for the range.
 
Got mine, the rifle is a great piece to have, weight is not an issue as I will shoot it at the range only and from a table...
 
Shoot it like a German.

jermyzy said:
^Did you get a smaller magazine? I found it hard to shoot from the bench with the 25 rd magazine
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I'm still waiting for mine to arrive, but I'm wondering about that, too. Our pistol/.22 range is fine, but the benches at the 'big boy' (CF) range are a problem.
Heaven forbid I'd be forced to shoot off-hand, sitting, or kneeliing (like a German soldier!).... :ar15:
 
little_airwolf said:
If you dont like the thread I started, simply skip it.
Oh ya, thats right whos trolling now Hoyt? As for Super, how many battles has you been in?
Agsin call a spade a spade. There are alot of wannabe soldiers.
If you having fun, great.
I just dont see the point of a semi auto rimfire needing to be 10+ lbs.
Thats why I asked what the appeal was, plain and simple.
I got my answer with a bunch of trash and a few honest answers.
Now I know.
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Clearly you're trolling, you started a whole troll thread.

Its built to be heavy, the engineers who designed it knew this, the people buying it know this, its the whole point of the rifle. A point which you apparently refuse to understand.

Did no one inform you as a child that people have differing likes and dislikes besides your own and they are not wrong because of this? By the sounds of things probably not.

We all get the rifle is too heavy for you to handle so you are not going to buy it, thanks for sharing with us, now give it a rest and let everyone else enjoy their purposely heavy rifles.
 
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