StrangeRanger

If you epoxy it in place WAX THE GRIP MOUNT before you insert it or you'll never be able to remove it. Grip mounts actually are a service part. The tiny lug that rides on the barrel shoulder does break so the mount needs to be replaceable

I like my MAB38/42 better than ever.🤣

Probably should have explained why. We'd like to do a display of the enemy WWII SMGs at the TCA show this year (similar to the UK display last year only larger) if we can get enough types to be interesting. We've already got the Italian guns accounted for and both an MP40 and MP34 but would like to have a couple more different German guns

FWIW I was there at the time but at the other end of the hall. I did not sound like a rifle, not very loud, no crack.

According to OGCA it was a .308 A couple of people who were there said it was a sneaked in loaded CCW Only the Clinton County Sheriff knows for sure

The display show this year has been moved to the previously scheduled Cleveland IX Center show in June, one of two shows scheduled for NE Ohio this year.

The Wolff action bar spring isn't the best part of their kit. I ended up taking mine out. If you think about how the action bar works, it never loads that area of the bolt. That lug is pushed from the front only when you manually charge the gun, hardly enough to do any damage. However it is impacted from the rear every time the hammer strikes the back of the bolt. Because the rear of the bolt is tilted up when it's in battery the impact is borne almost completely by the area that fails. This is basically a fatigue failure that occurs after tens or more likely hundreds of thousands of impacts and the sharp corner has set up a stress concentration. The small radius we added (I was also involved with Jason on the project) reduces that stress concentration. Instead of 80 years, the new bolts should last a couple of centuries. Everything breaks eventually The hammer spring massively increased reliability in my gun; I was getting too many light strikes with the H&R spring. I was reluctant to install the Wolff after I realized what was causing the failures but I really had little choice

Which resulted in having all the people from SW Ohio not coming just like most of us in NE Ohio no longer go to Wilmington. The last IX Center Show was a joke because there aren't enough of us left up here to fill it that size facility. Moving back to central Ohio would keep the show quality up because while we might lose some Cincy-Dayton people we'd probably gain a few from Columbus and a whole lot from Akron, Canton. Cleveland and Youngstown not to mention all of SE Ohio which has no good highway connection to Wilmington. It might take time to rebuild the membership in those areas but it would result in a much stronger organization and better shows. We need to regard this setback as an opportunity and act accordingly

I've already emailed OGCA reminding them that it's the OHIO Gun Collectors Association not the Cincinnati-Dayton Area Gun Collectors Association and suggesting that they look for a site in central Ohio so we all can attend more easily. Six hours on the road to walk a two hour show makes little sense and less so in the winter

If anyone coming to the TCA show this year has an MP18,1, an MP28,II, a Bergmann MP35/1 or an ERMA, or an MP41 please PM either Got Uzi or me.

You might want to weld a U shape across the back to stabilize/strengthen it

I messaged the seller telling him what he really had and why it worked on MP40 mags. No response and no editing of the ad. BTW nobody bought it, it just rolled over for another week

Gotta love this: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1091843033 We all know that genuine Wehrmacht stuff brings a buyer's premium so it's described as "MP40 9MM GERMAN SMG WWII MAG LOADER." However it's clearly marked "VIGN" as in Vigneron which was Belgian and not introduced until 1952-53. It is obviously patterned after the Btitish Mk2 Sten/Lanchester loader, so there's nothing German about it. It should work with MP40 mags since Vigneron mags are very similar and only slightly wider but still...

It's properly called a "retainer, plate, bottom" in Brit Milspeak or a "magazine bottom plate retainer" for the rest of us. The armourer's catalogue number is BE 9989. I have no idea where to get any but now you know what to call it, better than "the thingy that holds the bottom plate on the mag" I wish you luck.

For double-stack double-feed mags loaders are a convenience not a necessity like they are for double-stack single-feed ones