{"id":8068,"date":"2019-10-31T12:09:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/an-american-30-06-mg-42-and-gpmgs-after-wwii\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:31:47","slug":"an-american-30-06-mg-42-and-gpmgs-after-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/an-american-30-06-mg-42-and-gpmgs-after-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"An American .30-06 MG-42, and GPMGs after WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFza-dZ02aw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The perk for $100 Patrons is choosing a gun they would like me to find and film, and one such Patron (Mark) expressed a curiosity about US testing and lack of adoption of an MG-42 in .30-06 caliber. So, today we will discuss that (the trials gun was designated the T24) as well as why it took so long for the FN MAG to be developed and adopted. <\/p>\n<p>For the full T24 trials report and photos, go here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/light-machine-guns\/us-t24-machine-gun-mg42\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/light-machine-guns\/us-t24-machine-gun-mg42\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resources for this video included:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MG34-MG42: German Universal Machine Guns&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VtY314)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2VtY314)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;German Universal Machine Guns, Vol II: MG08-MG3&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2M2f67t)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2M2f67t)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Rock in a Hard Place: The Browning Automatic Rifle&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/315Dbi2)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/315Dbi2)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The Browning Machine Gun, Vol I&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2M4KgeA)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/2M4KgeA)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Ars Mechanica&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/324JT9h)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/324JT9h)<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The Machine Gun, Vol I&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/hyperwar\/USN\/ref\/MG\/I\/index.html)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/hyperwar\/USN\/ref\/MG\/I\/index.html)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The perk for $100 Patrons is choosing a gun they would like me to find and film, and one such Patron (Mark) expressed a curiosity about US testing and lack of adoption of an MG-42 in .30-06 caliber. So, today we will discuss that (the trials gun was designated&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/an-american-30-06-mg-42-and-gpmgs-after-wwii\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An American .30-06 MG-42, and GPMGs after WWII<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8069,"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-8068","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\/8068","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=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13326,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/13326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}