{"id":26209,"date":"2025-01-13T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:25:22","slug":"bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"BD-44: The New Semiauto Sturmgewehr from D-K Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0ctRKeDTZY?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>D-K Productions is a collaboration between the rGerman company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years &#8211; including Sturmgewehrs. Their guns are really good recreations of the 1940s originals, but there have long been issues importing them into the US. This was solved at last by forming a US company and doing the receiver manufacturing here in the States. While the company has plans to offer a whole bunch of different models, the one currently available is the BD-44, a copy of the standard production model of MP-44\/StG-44. <\/p>\n<p>I was really impressed by the use of not-finish-machined forgings for parts like the stacking rod and gas block, correctly duplicating the original German production. The stampings look good, and the handling matches the original guns (don&#8217;t expect it to be AR-level ergonomic!). The gut &#8220;feel&#8221; of the gun is an excellent match for an original MP-44. The 8&#215;33 chambering and use of original magazines (alongside new-production magazines made by D-K) is the correct choice, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I did not like the mismatch between the magazine well and magazine stops, and I did have a couple malfunctions in the two magazines I ran through it so far. Not that the gun I have at the range is my second one; the first one (which is what you see on the table) had consistent feed problems and D-K replaced it when I sent it back to them.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the gun is worth the steep asking price is a personal decision, naturally. Hopefully this video gives you the information necessary to make your decision if you were considering getting one!<\/p>\n<p>Tour of the SSD facility in Germany: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XN10HDr3Z_Y\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/XN10HDr3Z_Y<\/a><br \/>My video on the BD-38: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bh6dpfbQqHE\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bh6dpfbQqHE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv D-K Productions is a collaboration between the rGerman company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years &#8211; including Sturmgewehrs. Their guns are really good recreations of&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BD-44: The New Semiauto Sturmgewehr from D-K Productions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}