Shooting USA: History's Guns: The Gewehr 43
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2023
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My great uncle served in Europe during WW2, When i was a kid he would go deer hunting with us every year, having grown up during the depression, he was a very frugal guy. As a kid, I was always curious about the rifle he always used compared to the rest of us, wasn't a scoped bolt gun like the rest of us. It was this weird small scoped automatic rifle. Fast forward years later, we were at deer camp all talking by the fire and the subject of uncle Bob's (by now passed) old hunting rifle. My dad new the story and told us. Bob and his squad was pinned down by a german sniper in a small village in germany, Bob, tired of seeing guys getting hit, took personal initiative, and made is way around the buildings and got in the building with the sniper, bum rushed him and shot and killed him. Like what was allowed at the time, if you captured a enemy's weapon, and you filled out the right forms, it was yours and could return home with you. Bob received the silver star for this action. And the rifle he captured was one of these rifles. Again being a frugal depression era kid. He was taught you save and use what you already have. So this was his deer hunting rifle for years. Rifle is still in the family and now passed to his grandson, it is very well cared for and cherished.
Very cool story:)
That is awesome. God rest his soul.
this is a great story, thank you for sharing it with us. my grandpa was telling me also some storys from that time and how a part of my family was able to leave germany before the war started and moved to the us, because there was already family living there.
Family treasure for generations.
I first shot the M1 at military school at the age of 14 and again in Army basic training. There we were then issued the new M14's and had to go back to therange to qualify again . That we liked .
The Walther G/K43 rifle was and is a fine rifle, plenty good enough to replace the Mauser K98k which was used to conquer Europe with. I've had mine for 25 years and as long you take care of it, then it will take care of you. It's not overly complicated either. All you have to do is change the two recoil springs every 5-600 rds and you're good for the next 5-600 rds Change the recoil springs every 5--600 rd and they're fine. Like everything else in the WW2 German weapons inventory they work fine if they are taken proper care of. The Walther G/K43 rifle was and is a fine rifle, plenty good enough to replace the Mauser K98k which was used to conquer Europe with. I've had mine for 25+ years and as long you take care of it, then it will take care of you. It's not overly complicated either. Fighting against the British Empire, the USA and the Soviet Union the germans never ever had a chance of winning WW2. Despite very easy peace terms offered to the British in June/July of 1940 the British wanted nothing at all to do with any peace. Churchill must have had assurances from FDR that he would eventually actively bring the USA into the European War on the Allied side or there was no reason to continue with a war Britain could never hope to win in by itsself.
With the exception of the cupped buttplate, the trigger guard and perhaps a few other minor parts, the G43 wasn't a weapon largely made of stamped components as described in the video, the cost savings were put on the outside of the receiver which was left rough pretty much as it came out of the forging dies.
The Gewehr 43 was a good gun that helped show that semi automatic battle rifles were the future and was a good design but like many of the Wunder Waffen they were more expensive more complicated than most standard issue rifles. I do wish that some more companies could make inexpensive reproductions of these guns because I want a G43 but it’s too expensive and rare to find in a auction or gun shop.
A lot of guys up in D-Day Conneaut have always had issues with their G43s/K43s jamming largely due to the adaptors for shooting blanks work with the system.
Jim has such a great voice.
Love your Content.
Big shout out, stay safe and healthy. Sascha from good old Germany
I played his statement about not being able to top off the M-1 enough times to hear him really say it. He needs some M-1 instruction, I got one of my M-1s out and was able to top it off quiet easily. I hope he doesn’t think the ping gives the shooters position away.
Just a sidenote, it took me 11 years to procure an M1 receiver, so I could complete my Garand rifle build. The barrel is in 308 and 20 inches long. It was a labor of love to complete this rifle with 100%G.I. Original Parts and is called as the tanker Garand because of its short length. Thanks for the reference between the two rifles. 6:37
The tanker, the garand that never was
Thanks for the info have enjoyed your show for many years and always get the honest opinions.
Ed from Lynchburg
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Thank you
thank you for that very interesting video
a ten rpund clip for this weapon,,noice
I will not tell you how long that I have been a subscription holder and followed you all. Let's say it was when you had to go get the paper version and I see some good ol faces and some new ones. Good video, good morning to you all and I will hope that you all have a great day today.
Interesting Thanks
Some things are just what they are and I always did like how you all have given unbiased information and reviews on the firearm over the years. Even though it isn't a M1 Garand, I will agree with you that it is a good solid weapon. The German army did have a great bunch of weapons and they didn't have any in the amounts that they needed or if they would have been a little bit more up to date and waited, they would have possibly been carrying those and the STG44 and between the 2 of them could have been a little different story. Good for us their impatient and greedy government, didn't use the brain bank they had and we as usual got the job done, wasn't easy but it was finished.
I hate to be the contrarian, but for those who read the comments, there are some things I'd like to rectify. Firstly, do you own one? How would you know how solid it is. It's said that German soldiers did not particularly like the G43 because it was unreliable in the field. And the thing was overgassed. Bolt cracks and other deformations are very common because of this. The war was soon to be over for the Germans. If you waited till the tail end of a losing war you started to finally put some semi-auto's of your own onto the battlefield, you'd be impatient too! They were churning these out en masse, factory to front. And greedy? Wat! 🤣
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The Shotgun News writer Pete Kokalis called the G43 "near pathetic".
I get why it was colloquially known as "Hitler's Garand," but it seems like "Hitler's SVT-40" would be more appropriate, given their similarities and functions inspired from the Soviet autoloader.
I made it to the end. 😀
Where can I get I the gewher 43
Prices for a g43 are steep.
It was better than the garand because it didn’t use a clip. It used a magazine. 5:59
That sick kind of holding rifle really disturbs me
The idea for the 43 came from the Russian SVT
Kind of... The Germans saw the simple mechanism on the SVT-40 and copied it to replace the very complex and problematic G41 system, and they created the G43.
If German made G43 instead of the bolt kar98 it might be alittle different.
did the historian say that u cant top up a garand?
u totally could
The G43 was inspired by Soviet semi automatic rifles. It had nothing to do with the Garand.
Yes sir. The Germans copied the SVT-40 system.
An interesting rifle to be sure, but the Greatest Battle Implement Ever Devised was clearly superior 🇺🇲👍
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They G43 system is a copy of the Russian SVT-40.
Random guy : ak 47 is an awesome gun..
Some old american grandpa: meh, it ain't no garand.. nothing is better than the garand.. and no bullet is better than the .30-06...
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actually the gun was invented and created by a pilipino revolutionary officer's during pilipino-american war in 1896 it was a breakthrough design a game changing advancement technology of a modern firearms the 1st prototype gun was G39 gas operated peston system the mechanism is like a m16 peston driven and m16 extractor then the trigger mechanism is like the m1 garand yes your right the creator of m1 garand copy the gun principal which mean the gas operated driven peston design not the gun style then the creator of G39 modified the design then it become a G40 the designer and creator of the gun was emmanuel Miguel a close friend of the creator of the m1 garand emmanuel Miguel was a naval officer of the late german empire the gun was ahead of it's time the rest was history
G 43 not a war winner. Looks pleasing more so than garand but tin combat that's no issue
When he said he had "no complaints" about the G43, he forgot to mention that they were so over gassed (just to make them fire reliably in bad conditions or varied ammo) that without a conversion kit you CANNOT shoot today's ammo or the rifle will quite literally beat itself to death. It's a good rifle, I'd love one, but 'no complaints? 🤨🤔
This is a beautiful rifle but from what I understand, it is severely over gassed and will destroy itself over time.
looks like a good one for lefties to shoot with that charging handle on the other side.
Voice over.
Why do Americans pronounce Walther using a "th" sound as in the word "the?" Only Americans do this. There is no "th" pronunciation in the German language. Even Americans don't say Bee "th" oven. Weird.
It's not pronounced GarAND.
It's GAIRand.
the guy wearing glasses, shooting, needs to be removed...he's a terrible shooter whose stance and trigger pull are not the type you should be depicting...he's surely no marksman...retrain or replace.
I'm doing a ww2 roleplay (acting scenario) and this video really helps very informative and interesting for me, thanks y'all for making this video! 🫡
Japs were behind more so with semi automatic and fully weapons ww2.