Tough ask but anyone know more about these in NZ? Any for sale? Expected price & their wartime/postwar history?
Any info appreciate. In the hunt
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Tough ask but anyone know more about these in NZ? Any for sale? Expected price & their wartime/postwar history?
Any info appreciate. In the hunt
STG 44's have showed up in Africa and Syria. Google "ww2 after ww2", a blog about ww2 weapons and how they were used post war.
More specifically the ones that have made it to NZ [emoji106]
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They turn up at auction now and again, both e and c cat. Have seen an e cat go for $3500 but they have jumped up since then.
Bloody hell a genuine one would go for $12000 usd but I'd expect to pay a lot more in NZ
I know of one on E, but he'll never sell it in a million years, and the queue will be deeeep. You're going to pay an arm and a leg for one for sure, IF you can find one
I take it C is going to be worth more than an E cat one. Due to fact an E will have been tootooed with to make it semi. ?!?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HenKmaxF2ys
This is one that made it to NZ...
Good luck in your quest.
Perhaps, although some people (myself included) would prefer to have something that they could shootQuote:
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That’s my boy Ted.Quote:
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OK @Burb122 so you know this guy who has two AND you are asking us plebs where to find one???Quote:
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I don’t know him haha, just used to subscribe to his YouTube channel. He ( in my opinion ) is one of NZs most high end collectors.Quote:
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They were worth a fortune, and then the Syrians found container loads of them lying around that yugoslavia and Russia had captured from the square headed sausage guzzling Nazi's, and had given to them in the 1950's. I read that they have about 5000 of them in play in the Syrian war at the moment. I wondered where they got the ammo from*, but they are using them still.
(*Privi Partisan still manufacture military 7.92 Kurtz)
FYI there was a C cat MP43/1 in the last Ted Rodgers auction in August. Estimate was $5-6K. Sold for $5775 inc buyers premium etc
Kurz
Oh my!! For a replica too. Dam I think I will focus on a G43 or SVTQuote:
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I shot one years ago in Palmerton North. Not mine and you had to return every fired case after shooting it.
Cases were formed from anything with the .473 case head size.
Hi SystolicQuote:
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You had to return the cases because they are rare?? For reloading??
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Gunworks had one for sale last time i looked for 6500.
According to their website its been sold.Quote:
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I cannot believe they are worth so much. Pretty iconic gun I suppose. Mbk42 all the way to STG44. Bloody hard to find.Quote:
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*Mkb42
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There's a 22 or replica available from gsg arms in USA. Only E cat though.
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Not rare, but the owner had to make all his reloadable cases. It cost him quite a bit of money to import the dies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burb122
Anything with the .473 case head size like the .308, 8x57mm, 30.06 worked, but he had to individually cut, form, trim and, I think, neck turn each case.
Factory ammo, except for a few surplus military rounds, was impossible to get.
It makes the HMGunworks rejig look like a good buy. Not the history behind it, but at least the ammo is a lot easier to come by so not so much pain reloading.Quote:
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Another option are the SSD (sport systeme dittrich) BD44's - they're supposedly built using original tooling and are as close to identical as you can get. Marketed as PTR44's in the US. Only issues with them are that SSD had issues with their heat treating so hammer and trigger sears tend to break along with small springs. I've heard of the lug shearing between the bolt carrier and bolt but don't really think that's an issue with them. I had one and really liked it - lucked into one that had been heat treated properly. The 8mm kurz is a fantastic cartridge - hornady makes brass and dies for cheap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS_xUzIjouI