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HumptiDouji said:
Some people were mad as fuck that it wasn't 7.92x33mm. A few people were also beyond infuriated that some of the aesthetic details differed (especially the lower receiver). The actual technical specs and drawings for the old Sturmgewehr family was lost in the war, you can find fake ones on the internet, which those guys looked at but couldn't use because they're actually bogus, and the lower in particular is apparently a super obnoxious shape to stamp.
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At least, that's what HMG claimed, I don't know just how true that claim is.

Personally, I'd be fine with something mostly aesthetically similar in .300BLK, using the tilting bolt and long-stroke piston, but with a simplified FCG, and then some little cast metal cover piece to stick on the side of the lower to emulate the right look.
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I remember someone in particular who insisted the project would be worthless if it didn't faithfully replicate this entire mess.


Yeah, it really was kind of a hunk of shit in a lot of ways, handy gun for those who had it, and economically smart in using kinda shitty steel for less critical parts, so you only have to use a little bit of nice steel for the important ones, but that also means the things are not built to last. I suspect the idea of a bayonet lug was floated but rejected because the gun really wouldn't be up for much vigorous spearing, the magazines do not last long either, as a whole these were almost certainly expected the used up until they broke, then trashed and replaced with a new one.

The original ones are not good shooters for someone who has one. I once heard from someone who owned a transferable one that mismatched parts isn't too uncommon, because you'd cannibalize parts from other (also broken) rifles to repair yours.
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The HMG guys said they were using G3 style internals because of the comical amount of parts the STG lower had. Back when they did an interview with Ian or whoever years ago.
 
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Luwinkle said:
The HMG guys said they were using G3 style internals because of the comical amount of parts the STG lower had. Back when they did an interview with Ian or whoever years ago.
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That’s not surprising as the development linage as far as I have seen is the STG-44 proved the concept of the intermediate cartridge and Mauser had almost almost completed trials of a delayed blowback design that used the 7.92x33 round. The research from this was scaled up and became the G3.
 
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Luwinkle said:
The HMG guys said they were using G3 style internals because of the comical amount of parts the STG lower had. Back when they did an interview with Ian or whoever years ago.
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Which is incredibly sensible, because that saves you a lot of obnoxious trouble. I think also there would be the added bonus of being able to use something like a transferable Flemming Sear (or if you're an SOT, a sample sear), unless the AFT was being really fucking gay about it (probably).
Again, just put little cast aluminum plates on the sides of the lower for looks.

Smoke Manmuscle said:
That’s not surprising as the development linage as far as I have seen is the STG-44 proved the concept of the intermediate cartridge and Mauser had almost almost completed trials of a delayed blowback design that used the 7.92x33 round. The research from this was scaled up and became the G3.
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Mauser's second 7.92x33mm rifle at the time (the Sturmgewehr 45(m)) was technically adopted, in the sense that it passed trials and some bureaucrat huffing paint in a bombed out office somewhere decided it was worth his time to rubberstamp an initiative like this after everything was completely lost.

I don't recall just how similar the FCG was to the later CETME and G3, but it's less relevant than the fact that it's an easy and existing FCG which you can use when you're already going to have to do near everything from scratch anyway.
 
Kenosha Kyle needs to do some PT. Gettin' a little tubby.

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Luwinkle said:
He might have actually slimmed down a bit. He was rounder back in the kenosha pictures.
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I'm sure the stress of being on trial and the entire leftoid mass baying for his blood doesn't give you much of an appetite.

White Devil said:
Maybe he can throw around some kettle bells in full battle rattle.
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Yeah, just like Sinestral...

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Oh god, don't let Kyle touch the kettlebells!

Ironic that the man who went to such effort to take OZs off a gun can't do the free thing that takes LBs off your kit (not eating).
 
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I know Ian's content has been in decline for a number of years now and I hate to beat a dead horse but is a video on a magazine backpack really the best he can do?


This kind of weak content combined with cutting up what should be just one video of the gun and then shooting are now split into two separate videos to pad the schedule. If he's really struggling this much he should just reduce his upload rate like he has before.
 
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Godd_Howard said:
I know Ian's content has been in decline for a number of years now and I hate to beat a dead horse but is a video on a magazine backpack really the best he can do?


This kind of weak content combined with cutting up what should be just one video of the gun and then shooting are now split into two separate videos to pad the schedule. If he's really struggling this much he should just reduce his upload rate like he has before.
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He found out there weren't an infinite number of interesting guns and is now finding that out for just GUNS.
Inrange could've extended his shelf life if Karl wasn't fucking KARL.
 
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Puff said:
He found out there weren't an infinite number of interesting guns and is now finding that out for just GUNS.
Inrange could've extended his shelf life if Karl wasn't fucking KARL.
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To be honest, I'm perfectly fine with Forgotten Weapons picking up the kind of content InRange used to do (testing weapons, historical tales, etc). It was fun before Karl went off the deep end, we could do with more of that.
 
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White Devil said:
A Finn mosin can go over $2000 now.
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If you mean those accurized ones, it was inevitable. Very nice historical rifle which saw use by the underdogs in an inspiring war to retain independence against what'd later be America's number one nemesis during the Cold War? Surprised they didn't rocket a lot faster.
 
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