Museum's inventory: German MG34

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I don't know why but this one is my favorite one. Maybe because it was used by the Star wars Stormtroopers, maybe because of its rate of fire, maybe because of its general look or a little bit of all these reasons.

German MGs are fascinating by their conception and the fact that they still actual today.

Here the first of the two MG34 we have. It is sadly incomplete as few parts are missing.

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Reason they were used by the Starwars troopers is that's all the budget allowed. ;) Those movies are a firearms museum in their own right. Often wondered why. Are all these guns deactivated? Seems a real shame if they are.

Grizz
 
Nice early MG34! Nice to see the production variances between this and the more common late war guns. Also I wonder if the miss matched top cover is because the original was of the type that used the saddle drum?
 
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whats really sad ,is all us old guys have this stuff and can’t use it . and all you young fellows will never have it ,unless its destroyed.
 
I, for one, had the pleasure of shooting one of these babies a few weeks ago!

It was converted to semi-auto only by some Texas based company & the receiver was marked 1936 (if memory serves me correctly).

I was shocked at the ungodly weight & the trigger pull... about 35 & 15 pounds respectively. The young lads tasked to use this weapon were made of sterner stuff than me... I'll never complain about the weight of a C2 again!

The offset sights were a little awkward but definitely designed for prone use. Since the bipod is on the muzzle, you still hold up most of the weight unlike modern MGs. Even with all that weight, this puppy had plenty of recoil. I managed to get all 5 rounds on paper but my group was laughable... you can blame a possibly shot out barrel or my school boy giddiness!

Overall it was a treat to shoot this piece of history. :)
 
JetRanger said:
I, for one, had the pleasure of shooting one of these babies a few weeks ago!

It was converted to semi-auto only by some Texas based company & the receiver was marked 1936 (if memory serves me correctly).

I was shocked at the ungodly weight & the trigger pull... about 35 & 15 pounds respectively. The young lads tasked to use this weapon were made of sterner stuff than me... I'll never complain about the weight of a C2 again!

The offset sights were a little awkward but definitely designed for prone use. Since the bipod is on the muzzle, you still hold up most of the weight unlike modern MGs. Even with all that weight, this puppy had plenty of recoil. I managed to get all 5 rounds on paper but my group was laughable... you can blame a possibly shot out barrel or my school boy giddiness!

Overall it was a treat to shoot this piece of history. :)
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I'd bet that was my mg34. Haha. I posted it in a thread a couple weeks ago. Probably 2nd page by now.


Op- nice one. Feed tray is easy to find.

I love your Bakelite/steel buttstock!! Bakelite with steel tips is my fave. I recently changed to Bakelite from wood. A step in the right direction.
 
My late German father-in-law was a Panzer Grenadier. He was lucky to get out of Stalingrad before the full encirclement of the 6th Armee.

I asked him what were his favourite weapons of the war. Answer: "VW Kubelwagon and MG 34." I asked why? Answer: "Because when you needed them, they worked."
He never even saw an MG 42, much less used one.
A soldier can't ask more of his equipment. The Kubelwagon got him out of Stalingrad, only to be captured later by Ukrainian partisans, turned over to the Red Army and shipped to Siberia.
 
JetRanger said:
I, for one, had the pleasure of shooting one of these babies a few weeks ago!

It was converted to semi-auto only by some Texas based company & the receiver was marked 1936 (if memory serves me correctly).

I was shocked at the ungodly weight & the trigger pull... about 35 & 15 pounds respectively. The young lads tasked to use this weapon were made of sterner stuff than me... I'll never complain about the weight of a C2 again!

The offset sights were a little awkward but definitely designed for prone use. Since the bipod is on the muzzle, you still hold up most of the weight unlike modern MGs. Even with all that weight, this puppy had plenty of recoil. I managed to get all 5 rounds on paper but my group was laughable... you can blame a possibly shot out barrel or my school boy giddiness!

Overall it was a treat to shoot this piece of history. :)
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remember, the mg34 was alot of steel, mostly machined, and it was a true light machine gun capable of long periods firing bursts with the belts and changeable barrels, the c2 was really a heavy automatic rifle much like the BAR, and it could never sustain the volume of fire that a bren or mg 34/42/3 could

i think the tnw guns also have a much worse trigger pull than the originals
 
CanadianAR said:
I'd bet that was my mg34. Haha. I posted it in a thread a couple weeks ago. Probably 2nd page by now.


Op- nice one. Feed tray is easy to find.

I love your Bakelite/steel buttstock!! Bakelite with steel tips is my fave. I recently changed to Bakelite from wood. A step in the right direction.
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Thank you once again for allowing me to shoot that beauty... & the wood looks great on it!
 
Martin, thanks again for your work on these posts,much appreciated. Marstar [site sponsor] would likely have any parts you might need...for a price of course,check out the Full Auto section. Museums are one of the only places they can sell their live stuff to so parts should not be a problem. Your example is largely matching, especially the barrel which is unheard of by John [ Marstar] who has dealt with thousands of 34s in his long career.I look forward to visiting the Citadel next time I'm heading west.
 
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