I'm new here and one of the Marlin Talk refugees. I posted this over here last week and since this is the exotic weapons forum thought you might be intrested in this piece of history. For those that don't know it the MP44 was the first true assault rifle design by the Germans during WWII. Guns and ammo are hard to find. Right now I'm in Iraq with the gun.
We ended up shooting 75 of the 90 rounds of the 7.92x33 Kurz out of two MP44s. Again only have one magazine for the two. The gun I'm shooting was found inside of one of Saddam's palace's here in Baghdad and is in excellent shape for being 60 years old. The second is in lesser shape but both fired flawessly. One failure to fire (good firing pin hit, fired second time). Ammo was East German manufactured in 1961 and was said to have been found in Uday's palace. Seems they liked MP44 too. Very controlable when firing 2-3 round bursts. Cyclic rate is 500rpm and I was even able to fire single shots on auto. Taking the gun apart it is very aparent which parts the Russians copied for the AK and how CEMTE and HK developed their guns from her. The dust cover is almost copied the same for the AR15/M16. The first assault rifle was very advanced for its time. Had a great time shooting the guns only need more ammo now. Enjoy the pics.
Here Saddam's MP44. Persian Mauser 98 below.
Here I'm firing a 2-3 round burst off. Yes that's a M1911A1 in the holster.
The cartridges
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