Schwimmfahiger Gelandeng Typ 166

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by cliff
The MP44 is a lovely weapon to fire. I owned one converted to semi-auto in New Zealand some years back. Hard to believe it is the forerunner to the AK series of weapons all those years ago.

Cheers
Cliff

Funnily enough, I never have. I've fired just about everything else from WW1 and 2, from the Lewis (lots of fun watching the magazine rotate!) through to the the MG-42 (an expensive, nasty piece of work - the Bren is far more civilised). I've fired every submachine gun from the era and believe it or not, I put the Thompson and Canadian-made Sten neck-and-neck. The pain in the arse about the Thompson (no relection on you, Jan! ) is that it's bloody heavy, but then it needs to be... plus, when you're at grunt-level, you have to rise up too high to use it properly. With the Sten, you can make like a snake-in-the-grass when you have to.

You can only imagine how much money I've spent on ammunition in the last 40 years...