FG42 Rifle Review (Smith Machine Group Reproduction)
by
Alex C.
Published: June 17th, 2016
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The German FG42 (Fallschirmjägergewehr 42) was a rifle designed as a multi-role combat small arm for airborne troops that was part rifle and part light machine gun. Only about 10,000 were made during WWII, but the design was very influential after the conflict ended (especially in the USA).
A company In Decatur Texas is now reproducing these guns in semi-auto only configuration, and in this video we put one to the test!
Alex is a Senior Writer for The Firearm Blog and Director of TFBTV.
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As with most quality reproductions (the BAR also comes to mind or the various semi-auto U.S. Browning machine guns reproductions) the price is so astronomical the average working man would have to re-mortgage his home just to buy one. And of course an original would cost a Kings Ransom even if the local Sheriff would agree to graciously permit you to own one. A few of the top 1% of the population who control 99 per cent of the wealth of this country will buy them but not us, the troglodyte proletariat that all work for part time slave wages at Wal-Mart, the new U.S. workers paradise.
Me personally I would not buy one even if I had the money as it is not true to the original that could be fired in the semi-auto mode. Have you ever tried to hit anything with a semi-auto that fires only from an open bolt. Good luck unless you are the re-incarnation of Daniel Boone and few of us are or ever will be.
Very little muzzle climb.