Neat Silenced FG42 pic

[Bulldog]

Found this while browsing some old sites I bookmarked. Thought some of you might get a kick out of it.
http://www.silencertests.com/gallery/FG42/MG_4014?full=1

 

[SDC]

Nice rifle, but that's not a suppressor, it's one of the intermediate muzzle brakes they tried to get the recoil of the full-power 8mm Mauser round on full-auto under control.

 

[Otsoa]

Nice rifle, but that's not a suppressor, it's one of the intermediate muzzle brakes they tried to get the recoil of the full-power 8mm Mauser round on full-auto under control.

Ding, Ding, Ding....this man is correct. That is indeed not a silencer on the end of the Fg-42.

 

[Steppenwolf]

wow, I actually spotted that also.

SW

 

[rottenfuher]

Yes I beleived they called it a beehive muzzlebreak.