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Just add one more to the many reasons I despise Kahr Arms and anything they produce.

Hey gents, I figured I'd share this one. This is a really cool, mostly matching 1942, dated MG42, made by Maget. I picked this up recently. This gun does have some usage and characteristic to it. However, this gun is extremely cool in the aspect that it retains mostly matching serial numbers, with the exception of the barrel, which is unnumbered, the feed tray, and the bolt. However, the feed tray looks to be from an earlier 1942 MG42, given that it has the full four digits instead of the last two. Wanted to share, and also wanted to see if anybody might have another Magit 1942 dated MG42 to compare? It's rather interesting on this one, as the lower two seems to have a mismatched serial number on the left side by the trigger, but was force-matched by armor or matched somewhere along the lines in the field with the last two digits. This one alao has the early style MG34/42 bipod as well. Enjoy, gents.

I couldn’t sleep last night and while laying there around 2:00am I had an idea on how to rebuild a Port Said kit into a functional post sample to test suppressor designs on. First off I machined the alignment jig and then deburr’d the demil cuts on the cut pieces. I then squared up the round portions of the tube so a repair section could fit up cleanly. Then I assembled it all on the alignment jig and checked the fit of my repair section and the overall length….all looked good so then it was onto welding….welded in the repair section on the round portion of the receiver then filled the open section on the bottom of the receiver. Following this I ground everything smooth and blended all the welds, now you have to really look to see there was any repair/new section of tube in the receiver (1 1/8” of new material) Took it out this afternoon and after playing with some different ammo, it ran like a top….now I’ll try some of the Egyptian +P+ 9mm SMG ammo in it. This was a fun project and it was interesting to see the whole thing come together. Once the new blast cabinet comes in this week I’ll get it blasted and coated.

Be sure to take the bolt apart and clean the INSIDE where the firing pin and spring reside. I am convinced that a lot of the FP failures that are reported are due to accumulated crud jamming the firing pin in the forward position

While browsing the Swiss archives, I found the fabrication drawings for every part of the Swiss MP43/44, which was a licensed copy and adaption of the Finnish Kp31 SMG. They were high resolution scans. So the details are top notch. I started doing some modeling and so far, this is what I’ve been able to get done so far. I will reproduce the whole thing. The motivation for doing so, is that I have a few Finnish Kp31 kits. I also have a Swedish M37-39 kit; which was a licensed copy and adaption. They made their own changes to it, as did the Swiss. I will have the geometry of the trigger pack modeled and then I’ll be able to come up with my own semi-auto trigger design and be able to use it in the three variations.