{"id":3416,"date":"2019-05-29T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/mud-test-gewehr-43\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:45:47","slug":"mud-test-gewehr-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/mud-test-gewehr-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Mud Test: Gewehr 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sRIj454pWg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The G-43 is an improved G-41 in which the rather wonky and heavy gas system of the G-41 was replaced with a short-stroke piston that was nearly directly copied from the SVT-40.  <\/p>\n<p>In addition to modifying the gas system, they also added a 10 round detachable box magazine and a scope rail (for which a small number were fitted with the ZF-4 scope to serve as designated marksman rifles).<\/p>\n<p>The G43 is so mechanically similar to the G41 that a large number of the parts are entirely interchangeable.   Both rifles are chambered for the full power 7.92&#215;57 8mm Mauser cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>The mass produced American M1 Garand failed the InRange mud test miserably, only being able to fire 1 round.   Did the German engineers do better in this regard?  Let&#8217;s find out!<\/p>\n<p>InRange is entirely viewer supported:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/inrangetv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/inrangetv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>j6j<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The G-43 is an improved G-41 in which the rather wonky and heavy gas system of the G-41 was replaced with a short-stroke piston that was nearly directly copied from the SVT-40. In addition to modifying the gas system, they also added a 10 round detachable box magazine and a scope rail (for which a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/29\/mud-test-gewehr-43\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mud Test: Gewehr 43<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":3417,"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-3416","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\/3416","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}