Damm if only i was an American hahaha

Too bad I don't live in the US and I presume I can only enter if I'm in the US as the website doesn't allow me to change the +1 area code to something else.

@@marcl.1346 "The Sweepstakes is open to legal residents of the USA who are at least twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of entry and are able to legally possess the firearm Prize listed below (the “Entrants”)." www.getenteredtowin.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Sturmgewehr-Sweepstakes-Official-Rules-5.3.23.docx.pdf

I entered to win! I hope I do win because it’s probably my only shot of getting one of these rare beauties. Either way I love the mug and the video!

@@captaincrazyhat Good luck

@@rdrrr The VZ 58 is closer to the Stg 44 i think

@@rdrrr Well... appearance and concepts, engineering choices, and team of germans that were retained and forced to help design guns.

Just a gentle reminder that the AK turns 100 in 24 more years.

@@madcapHPSlol no

​@@off6848Well, not really. "Assault rifle" is not really a word in russian language, and 'Automat' is a word used in Soviet manuals for Submachine guns such as PPSh-41 and PPS-43, and similary, Warsaw Pact countries designated AK as submachine gun.

I can help as a french here, a lot of german soldiers joined the foreign legion (légion étrangère) after WWII and some still used german weaponry. Some german songs were also translated in French and adopted by the legion like "teufelslied" le chant du diable. Hope I could help :D

@@Sam-gz7om Yep! A lot of German soldiers did indeed join the Foreign Legion after WW2. One of the more ironic events post World War 2. 😮

@@Sam-gz7om I once heard a historian make a joke and call the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam "The Wehrmacht's Last Battle", because there were so many ex Wehrmacht soldiers there. There also is this irony that the Soviets had given most of the StG-44 they took from Germany after WW2 to the Communist rebels in Vietnam, so at that Dien Bien Phu battle you had this weird situation of having lots of former Wehrmacht soldiers in French uniforms, using American surplus guns from WW2 that had been shooting at them in WW2, being shot at by their own former guns in the hands of Vietnamese Communists.

In Algeria some Sturmgewehrs (given by Warsaw Pact countries) were used by the outlaws/freedom fighters, Georg Puchert, a German arms trafficker was killed by a shadow organisation called La Main Rouge = The Red Hand, likely a front for French intelligence service.

A whole bunch of them quite recently popped up in Syria. Therefore, whatever they wear there today would be appropriate, too.

Hmm I dunno, I'd take the FG42 over the ST44. Mainly for the optics for those longer shots. But it's a close thing lol.

@@roadsweeper1 not in call of duty though. Too much recoil…

@nolanharris2341 haven't played that for a couple of years, since they sold it and it went downhill.

This is half true for Enlisted

Good news! The PSA one will only be like $2500 to $3000

@@davidmendez9256 wrong. They said it would be more than the hmg guns, you're looking more at the 3.5 to 4k range

@@DrtyZero huh really? Well shit my bad

@@davidmendez9256 it's unfortunate. Stg44 is easily one of my favorite weapon designs, aesthetically at least

Try finding a GSG StG-44 in .22LR. I've got one and it's pretty fun to shoot.

With all the kibble - the reinforcing ribs, the stacking prong, the pins etc - it looks like some kind of sci-fi blaster. Like something from Rogue Trooper. I'm not surprised it was used as a prop in Star Wars.

​@Ashley Pomeroy yeeep, the Galactic War rebel classic, the A280.

Totally would have fit the French post WWII theme

That, or the P35.

Or better yet a Luger,

​@@actionjksn nah, they were waning out during WWII.

Or PP and PPK. The Germans also still had some broomhandles and FN Browning high powereds in service iirc.

Hopefully, although you can sometimes get toothing problems in the other direction as well: if a design is meant for a certain grade of steel, and all you can get on the modern market is a "better" grade that isn't identical, that can take a little troubleshooting to work out. Or the specs call for a certain kind of tempering with the knowledge that impurities in the metal are going to mean you won't actually get quite that hard, and then you temper exactly to spec, you'll get a part that's too hard. Similarly, if the designers really knew their business and built in allowances for the oddities of wartime German machining, and your machines don't have those oddities...

Glory to the Omnissiah!

I live just over the border in Michigan. I feel so bad for freedom loving people like yourself every time I look across the River and see your country. It’s such a shame that such a beautiful country is being run by tyrants.

Trudeau is to busy wearing a traditional Indian banquet outfit and wearing blackface to listen to your problem. Namaste.

Thankfully, Trudeau enacted all those laws thus ending all criminal use of firearms in Canada. Umm, right?

I'm already not excited about "must make purchase to enter", but $50 a pop is a little much. And its just an over-priced mat that I don't need even at a normal price? No thank you. Good luck to everyone else.

LOL! Wonder how many backed out when they found out they had to buy a $60 gun mat? 🤣 From my 40's of shooting and 25yrs of gun collecting. So many gun owners do NOT even donate or join the NRA, GOA or whatever. I am a lifelong member of the GOA and NRA and you would not believe how many new shooters that I see and hear hwo only whine online about some new ATF rule etc. But never join the fight for our rights. Nor do they donate to these great guys like Ian etc.

I got to spend the day shooting an original one that a friend owns. Spent a long time handling it, not just a quick ten rounds like a rental…it’s a brilliant gun. It’s very very pleasant to shoot, soft and smooth controllable recoil, very comfortable ergonomics, extremely easy to shoot well because of how well it handles despite the weight. It feels super cool as it cycles, it’s oddly mechanical feeling/sounding in a way that is really satisfying. The Germans really hit the ball out of the park with the design, and it’s one of the relatively few iconic historical firearms that absolutely lives up to the hype. The biggest user experience flaw, in my opinion, is the hand guard and chamber area…it gets very hot very fast, even shooting it semi. With enough rounds/heat soak, the front of the mag well can even get too hot to touch. And it doesn’t cool down very quickly. Gloves are absolutely necessary if much more than a mag or two gets put through it, even slowly. Not a gun you can plink with unless you let it cool down regularly.

Right Choise

I agree that it's great to see in a video, but I'm afraid in a normal match video it'd be gilding the lily. No one is going to be shocked if Ian just top-3's a BUG match on a given day with it. Putting it in the hands of someone new to it and seeing how THEY perform might be interesting though, maybe as an investigation of the question 'does this top-shelf pistol also overperform?'

The materials used to make them and accessory rails are all that separate a lot of modern firearms from 20th century firearms...

Whatever made you feel that it wasn't?

@@Kerithanos does that really need explaining ?

Why cater to international supporters? And partnering with a lottery business is super sleazy to begin with.

@@toolthoughts Not really the same as a lottery, since you get something anyway.

Hate to hear our brother's across the pond being unable to enjoy the hobby as easily.

@@AdamantLightLP Us Brits are gonna have to wait for the French to invade again before we get to use any of these bits of kit!

Kid: Mom, I want life round replica of EM-2! Mom: We have a life round replica of EM t... Kid: Don't. You. Dare. To say. It's SA-80. Just. Don't. Mom: wo at home... Kid: Really, mom. Don't.

Anything is possible, but almost certainly not.

@Forgotten Weapons this would be a great place to insert a link to your video about the economics of making gun replicas...

Really? I fired a replica STG 44 but it was a semi auto .22 and so a bit underwhelming. Still fun though.

😮😮😮 If you had got these, some may have ended up in the hands of criminals in all Europe.

@@renaudfabre4791 ?

@@renaudfabre4791 leave it to a pro-UN person to worry about it being used in crime. Guns attract attention. Criminals worth their salt do not want attention. Most likely these guns, if they survived would have either been 1. Stored in a barn for later use 2. Sent to gun friendly nations for recreational/defense use 3. Destroyed by the UN anyway 4. Some could end up as a museum piece 5. And the very last and very small use is crime. Different methods to strike fear into the opps have came into fruition recently. No longer do criminals use antiquated weapons. American gangsters stole their guns from the government in the 1930s. European gangsters can get it by similar means through theft during transport, war in Ukraine, other criminal groups based in other parts of the world, and through home manufacture.

that's crazy. I assumed all the ammo in 8mm Kurtz died with the 3rd Reich. I didn't hear him say what this was chambered in but I assume 7.62x39 .

It's in 8x33. PPU (Prvi Partisan) makes ammo still.

There was also the German Sport Guns .22 lr version that looks almost identical for about $450.00. I have one and it's pretty reliable.

Looks like it failed to eject.