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Cool Mg34 Shrouds

Bigdibbs88

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A couple neat mg34 shrouds, unfortunately neither are matching kits. I own the dot 1940... I believe Myrvangs book speculated whether or not these exist, I think evidence was found in period documents but there were no known examples.

The other is a kit I don’t own but was able to photograph, I liked the serial number.
 

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Are you talking about the 10,000 serial number? I've never seen that before on any of their weapons. Pretty cool actually. :thumbsup:
 
Awesome dot 1940 mg34, worth building a dummy or semi out of it. Factory post war reports said none in 1940.


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Here is mine from my dummy 34, which was just an ordinary kit from IMA back in the day when MG-34 kits were plentiful, and cheap...I actually argued back and forth with Folke on this one, he said it didn't exist, I sent him pics to show him it did....

Now, I have studied it very closely, te entire thing is evenly milled and finished, there was no grinding and re finishing, or milling of original marks to be re-stamped...

It's odd that it is caps and not lower case, and looks hand stamped. Cant see the worth in faking a "rare. unseen" 34 shroud, not back then, especially when it was just a luck o the draw from IMA...

But Folke insists that Steyr did not make any in 44...I don't know, you can judge. It has other WaA, these are old pics, and of course its all mismatched, so you can't really glean anything from the rest of the gun, you have to take the shroud on its own....
 

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