You can find SSD's US offerings through their US partner, DK Production Group: www.dkproductiongroup.com/

The fact that you have enough credit and pull in the firearms industry that a company will empty their workshop and let you paw through their stuff is such a silent flex to everyone else in the guntubers community. Everyone else gets an escort in a running shop. You get free rein.

The way Ian is zipping about from room to room, box to box has some real kid in a toy shop vibes😅 "oh!oh! Mum come look at this one!"

Ian has major “kid in the candy store” vibes in this video!

As a German i'm always happy to see one of our Companies invite you in! More should do it Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

This is absolutely astounding. And yes, >$6000 is an order of magnitude out of my price range but honestly these are newly made museum pieces, functional industrial art. I mean, you guys would know better than I what an original StG44 is going for - not only is there that five figure price (guessing) but there's the added tax stamp nonsense, so these new ones aren't all that expensive comparatively.

Workers showing up on Monday: who messed with my work station? ;-)

The ghosts of the Eastern Front moaning in the tunnel as the 44 is fired.

When a gun company takes "forgotten weapons" as a challenge. Love it!

The Sign on the door at :10:25 says "Military Secutiry Area. Unauthorized entry prohibited. Carefull Fire arms in use." and Ian, not knowing german, just casualy strolling in "Lets see..."

Not only is he making vintage firearms but a lot (not all) of his machines are vintage as well. The quality of the work speaks for itself.

5:54 i think that's supposed to be the US test gun where the took the top cover of a Mg42 and put it on the side of the Fg42. This would later become the M60

Very cool, I imagine Ian had to keep himself calm wandering around that facility. Thank you to Sport System Dittrich for allowing us to see inside.

"What'll it be pal?" "All."

I know it would be a lot of work and no short video, but seeing the entire production process for a single gun, each part, start to finish, would be phenomenal.

I give the Dittrich Sturmgewehr credit over the PSA model on the grounds that the Dittrich even exists. Also, I would trust the Dittrich to work.

One of the things I appreciate the most about Ian and Forgotten Weapons in general is the ability to understand and convey the perspective of both the engineering and the manufacturing of the firearms involved. Many engineers cannot speak fabricator and many fabricators cannot speak engineer, when in reality the best engineers and fabricators can speak and understand each other's language. How many times have we heard an engineer say "Tell the shop to just make it!" and a machinist say "Tell the engineer to redesign this!"? Although I ended up walking the path of the fabricator, I spent a lot of time in the engineering world when I was in school. I quickly learned that an effective engineer needs some shop experience, and an effective machinist needs to keep an open mind to learning theory and principles that aren't always found on a blueprint. One of the biggest parts of my job now as a manager is acting as a liaison between our shop's workers and our customer's engineers. Communication is key, the best shops and engineering firms promote this above all else.

schön dass es dir gefallen hat

10:24 - "And, let's see..." he says as the camera flashes upon a decidedly authentic bit of Weimar decor.

SANTA’S WORKSHOP?? He IS real!!

wow it is my fist time see Real Gun Workshop/Shop, Thanks Ian (FW) and Thanks SSD (Sport System Dittrich)

Ian was so excited he stumbled over his words, very rare occurrence! Got me excited and looked at DK website - going to be interesting when they post prices...thanks for a fascinating tour of a machine shop cleaner than my kitchen

I've been to a German machining workshop many times during my research days - I agree about the cleanliness.

What is impressive is all the jigs they must have for all the stampings.

I am ecstatic that someone is doing what I always wished for, reproductions of older firearms. I'll take all of them good sir.

two things i really want to see is one, what kind of modernisations occured on the new FG-42 version and two, what the designer thought while designed the new version.... and interview and breakdown of the system would be neat

I'm glad you got out of there before Herr Ditrrich arrived! (You were rushing around like you weren't supposed to be in there, but I know it was simply your excitement.) Great video!

DK is taking pre-orders for their StG-44 repro, but they want $6200 for it. I want one, but I don't have that kind of spare cash. 😞

I managed to handle and shoot one of their PTR44s from the early 2000s that was imported and it was a genuine work of art. The owner unfortunately passed away and it was sold at RIA for like 14-15K IIRC. I can't imagine how much one of their FG42s or STG44s would be nowadays because in all honesty these aren't replica firearms they're genuine works of machinist art.

This was awesome! Thanks so much for showing it off!

I think this is one of the MOST INTERESTING FW-VIDEOS EVER !!!

This one of my all time "Favorite" videos from you. Appreciate it !

Ian: Gives the STG-44 copy bedroom eyes. Stg-44 copy: I need an adult.

Would love to see more of these in the future!

Seeing ian in that setting is like seeing a child allowed to roam free inside a candy factory without any adults in sight 😂

Ian, as always, you manage to find THE most interesting of historical items, and kudos to those guns being brought back to life.

Ian, your enthusiasm is so infectious! It absolutely made my day 😊

A very clean shop. Nice.

Thank you so much for creating the consistently highest quality videos of it's kind in the world.

Wow....the muzzle flash in the darkened shooting tunnel was impressive!! Shows the need for a good flash hider even with intermediate cartridges.

Saturday morning episode of Ian. Gotta love it

STG 44 has been a bucket list gun for me for a very long time. I got to shoot one that a WWII GI brought back at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot back in the mid 90s. Loved the gun.

Great episode . Thx Ian

Absolutely fantastic thank you very much for the tour 😀 😊

My last job was managing the janitorial crew for the Bangor Maine GE power systems turbine factory. At one point I was told it was the cleanest one in the US. It was about half as clean as this shop. The machines and directly around them/ other workstations we weren't supposed to clean got a bit worse but everywhere else was similar until my CEO decided to keep my staff underpaid when wages went up and then tried to understaffed me when my best employees left after realizing even Dunkin donuts was paying a dollar more per hour

I'm really glad someone is doing this. I'm really sad that I almost certainly won't be able to afford any of them.

Thanks so much, Ian! The machine shop tour was awesome!

Workshop/manufacturing tours are my favorite. Very cool.

So neat to get a glimpse behind the scene :)

Girl : "i bet he's thinking about another women" Me : (imagining myself walking through a room full with antique weapon and admiring its beauty)

What an incredible opportunity, marvelous ! Thanks. Ian !

For the U.S. enthusiasts, DK has had tables set up at the annual Show of Shows in Louisville, KY for the past several years (in February) where you can buy parts and see some of their goods. Very nice people and informative.

The vises are so awesome!

In New Zealand we had East German Police refurbished STG-44s , that sold as semi-autos at basically $1000 USD in the 1980's , the thing that stopped a lot of people was no ammo for them available , so it was a reloading only type deal to get ammo for them .

I enjoyed you showing where all the magic takes place , I have a background in manufacturing and enjoy seeing the firearm side , I concour that is the cleanest machine shop I have ever seen. I love it. 😊

Great tour !!

Nice shop reminds me of mine half the machines are dinosaurs and half are newer but sometimes the older machines are better running and better built than new ones

Absolutely beautiful, with craftsmanship to match

Great tour!

I do wonder if that ATF BS surrounding open bolts will last given the SCOTUS case around Chevron deference, after all its a not banned in law, rather by ATF policy.

I always knew, seeing his enthusiasm, there's a little german inside of Ian. 😁

Thank you for the fascinating tour. What a neat workshop, and I mean 'neat' in the tidy and Germanic sense.

AWESOME, great vid dude. Cheers

I can hear Brandon Herrera's bank account crying right now.

If they want to expand their katalog of Teutonic goodness, an MP28 (ummm, "BD28") would be *so* awesome...

Very cool! Thanks for the tour. Can't wait to see the BD-44s come to the US.

Rarely do I watch a video 3 times over. But as a gun loving machinist and Forgotten Weapons fan, I had to divide my attention. Thank you Ian!👌

"if you know, you know" WAS THAT AN M60 PROTOTYPE CLONE???? I know it was based on a FG-42 blended with an MG42

Fan of his work, been meaning to order a repro from him for a long time. Hope he picks up the G43 one of these days.

We are so lucky to have Ian. Thank you for helping keep the history of these firearms alive.

Ian found Aladdin's cave, that smile pushed his ears back by 4 inches. ☺ What a brilliant upload. 10/10

It looks like a very clean machine shop. Iv done metal fabrication with robotics and hydraulic breaks. Im also a ammunition feed systems specialist. You never want a gun to jam or run out of ammo 😎⚡

Wow! Amazing reproductions! I will buy them all and get a second mortgage!

Great video once again

Yes the cleanness of that shop is impressive. I wish the shop I worked in was that clean.

If they're making full auto STG44's but "not for the civilian market", then who are they making them for? Surely militaries aren't buying them?

10:24 typical machine shop decoration

Lovely video ❤

I really liked this video, it's like Ian snuck into the factory over the weekend and just poked around for a couple of hours!

Was that an integrally suppressed MP-38 on that table? I’m very interested in seeing some of the oddball stuff they’re making.

typical german workplace, lol - always clean up your workplace........greetings from Germany, funny to see your enthusiasm going through the stations ! 😆

THIS IS ALL SO UNBELIEVABLY COOL, what a time to be alive

That is so cool that someone would tackle the monumental challenges of so finely reproducing a single model but amazing at the scope of doing it for so many different models. Thanks for showing us. Looking forward to watching you use them at a match when available.

I still got a few copies of the registration documents for Dittrich's registration of their StG44 reproduction on my disk drive from back when they they first applied for a registration. Always wanted to buy one, but they were too expensive for me back then.

Good Day ..I Really enjoy your show.. as always .. but I have a question about the m1941 Johnson and its sharp recoil .. has anyone shot it with a bayonet to see the effects of the mass on the recoil .. I figured this would be the place to ask .. Thanks to all …!

Fantastic, thank you Ian!!!!

I love videos like this i love to nerd out on the actual construction of guns how they are machined and hpw they work that was one of the maon reasons i fell in love with your earlyer videos breaking guns down and explaining everything love to see morelike this bit more in depth

Most of the SSD guns are not available to sport shooters in Germany. Our law only allows hunters to own the cool replicas.

Probably better quality than war time production

Great stuff 👍👍👍

This is a great idea. I am glad someone has done it.

I wonder if the reproduction magazines are compatible with the corresponding historical arms.

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Very interesting information, thank you for sharing this with us.

I've never seen how guns are made so it's really interesting to see the shop with the tools and the parts in different stages.

I wonder who is buying full auto reproduction Stg 44. I can think of people with machine gun licenses (like there are ranges that specialize in sort of thing) and the film industry (though this point is tenuous at best since movie guns would be blank-firing guns). I can't think of any modern military or law enforcement that would want an Stg 44 unless they are time travelers.

Pretty exorbitant prices to boot, but hope to see these guys flourish in the US market and see those prices drop to a bit more reasonable state in the years to come.

The fact you tried going full auto, shows how authentic the rifle looks and how often you’ve had the chance to fire full auto. Great pieces to see, thanks for all you do to bring us such fantastic content.

I just love the Haidenhain controlled mills. The fact that it is the OLD HH makes it even more interesting

DK is taking pre-orders for their StG-44 repro, but they want $6200 for it. I want one, but I don't have that kind of spare cash. .