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

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Hey Guys,

Just because I love it... I'll post some pictures. I find it... elegant!

In fact, I'm curious about the serial number. It is 897 and it was made in 1944. Is it the 897th taht was made?

Enjoy.

Martin















 
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The original "assault rifle". It must have been quite a noticeable departure from typical firearms of the period.

In my view not so much beautiful but apparently quite functional and more producible under the conditions of the time.

If you mentally superimpose the outline of an M-16 or even more so an AK-47 on the top photo it is easy to see the similarities.

Nice photos, thanks for posting.
 
Nice!
Is she dewatted, CA or a servieable restrict/prohib Sir?

I actually got a chance to handle one of the restricted repro ones a few months back at a friends house.
It breaks down like a FAL with an AR15 type buffer spring in the stock.
You can see a hell of a lot of this rifle design in many many future military weapons.

Very cool pics, thanks!
 
Wow, I wish I could own one of those...they're just beautiful and far ahead of their time!
It's a good thing they didn't come up with this end design earlier, or we might be speaking a different language... :p
 
Oh no!! Fully operational and in total fitness. I would go on the range with it tomorrow if it was allowed.

Because people seem really interested about it, I will make better pictures on Thursday. I took 15 minutes looking for the mag and was unable to find it. It appears that we don't have it or it is well stored.

Not bad though for iPhone pictures?!

Stay tuned...

Martin
 
Travis Bickle said:
Nice!
Is she dewatted, CA or a servieable restrict/prohib Sir?

I actually got a chance to handle one of the restricted repro ones a few months back at a friends house.
It breaks down like a FAL with an AR15 type buffer spring in the stock.
You can see a hell of a lot of this rifle design in many many future military weapons.

Very cool pics, thanks!
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I have a BD44 and while I have a small collection of firearms the STG is one of the easiest to field strip, clean and reassemble.

The STG44 is proof of how advanced the German war machine really was. It's a good thing Hitler tended to ignore his advisers and engineers.
 
The engineers ignored Hitler on that one and went behind his back.When he asked his front line troops what they needed ,they stated "more of the new guns". Hitler had no idea what they were talking about but got to fire it and let them go ahead with production...Harold
 
mbogo3 said:
The engineers ignored Hitler on that one and went behind his back.When he asked his front line troops what they needed ,they stated "more of the new guns". Hitler had no idea what they were talking about but got to fire it and let them go ahead with production...Harold
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They knew they were onto something that's for sure.

I'd love to shoot a real one in full-auto. I would love to own one.

The BD44 is fantastic to shoot, and while the rifle does bounce around a little bit recoil is non-existent. It's hard to describe but a .22LR would leave a deeper imprint in ones shoulder.
 
The weapons I post here are in a Museum's collection. I'm doing the inventory. When I struggle identifying one I come here and get some help and sometimes, to say thanks, I post those you might be interesting...

Martin
 
This museum sounds good, is it open to the public? Would like to visit if possible. Thanks again for the pics Martin.
 
With all due respect---there is no such thing as a Schmeisser MP44.--perhaps 'Sturmgeweher' ---StG43/44.
The MP40 was incorrectly named Schmeisser after Hugo Schmeisser.

The photo below shows an MP44 and an MP40 (a.k.a by people that don't know any better -a Schmeisser) (Both CAs)



A book on the history of the MP44.



A book on the history of the MP40 (aka Schmeisser)



David
 
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FYI that was not commonly called a "Schmeisser".

The MP 38 and MP 40 were often (erroneously) called the Schmeisser.
 
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