{"id":5971,"date":"2016-09-27T12:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/sturmgewehr-mp-44-part-i-mechanics\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:26:46","slug":"sturmgewehr-mp-44-part-i-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/sturmgewehr-mp-44-part-i-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturmgewehr MP-44 Part I: Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HnXBshjGFo8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sold for $32,200.<\/p>\n<p>The MP-43 (which is mechanically identical to the MP-44 and StG-44; the differences are the subject for another video later) is a tilting bolt rifle with a long stroke gas piston. It was manufactured primarily from complex sheet steel stampings, as a way to minimize the amount of high-quality and thus difficult to acquire steels needed for its construction. The rifle is heavy by today&#8217;s standards, but remarkably ergonomic (except for the metal handguard, when heats up quickly). Its sights come right up to the eye when shouldering the rifle, and it disassembles quickly and easily.<\/p>\n<p>It really is one of the best small arms developed during World War II.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\nMP44 Part 1, Mechanics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnXBshjGFo8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnXBshjGFo8<\/a><br \/>\nSturmgewehr vs Kalashnikov: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sPWJOJZQCs8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sPWJOJZQCs8<\/a><br \/>\nMkB-42(H) with ZF41: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-0wzi6qaoVQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-0wzi6qaoVQ<\/a><br \/>\nStG-44 with Krummlauf: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HSsFiS2Voxg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HSsFiS2Voxg<\/a><br \/>\nLast Ditch Innovation &#8211; Development of the Gerat 06 &#038; 06H: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WEPwmYcCPFs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WEPwmYcCPFs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sold for $32,200. The MP-43 (which is mechanically identical to the MP-44 and StG-44; the differences are the subject for another video later) is a tilting bolt rifle with a long stroke gas piston. It was manufactured primarily from complex sheet steel stampings, as a way to minimize the amount of high-quality and thus difficult&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/sturmgewehr-mp-44-part-i-mechanics\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sturmgewehr MP-44 Part I: Mechanics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5972,"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-5971","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\/5971","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=5971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15164,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5971\/revisions\/15164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}