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 Hitler's
Garands: German Self-Loading Rifles of World War II
W. Darrin Weaver (392 pages) PP
Price $89.95 SB
Hitler's Wehrmacht began
World War II armed with the bolt action K98k, a rifle only cosmetically
different from that with
which Imperial Germany had fought the Great War a quarter-century earlier.
Then in 1940, the Heereswaffenamt (HWaA, the Army Weapons Office) issued a
requirement for a new self-loading rifle. The resulting Mauser G41(M) and
flap-locked Walther G41(W) were both hampered by gas-takeoff at the muzzle,
which resulted in arms which were overlong, clumsy, muzzle-heavy,
unreliable, and consequently unpopular with the troops.
Taking their lead from the Russians, Walther copied (and patented) the gas
system of the Tokarev SVT self-loader, grafting it onto the flap-locked bolt
of the G41 to create the G43, which was only produced during the last
nineteen desperate months of World War II.
The collecting of the G/K43 and its accoutrements has become very popular in
recent years, with very high prices being realized for these rifles and
their accessories. This has created a burgeoning industry in "reproductions"
for the collector market. In response to this the author has gone to great
pains to illustrate the many fraudulent markings seen on components and
scopes, and to identify the many out-and-out fake magazine pouches, stocks,
and especially scope cases and mounts, which abound today. Spurious these
may be, but cheap they are not; and this chapter alone is well worth the
price of the book.
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