The K43 was issused with a scope mount but not all were issued with a scope. This philosophy went out the window as soon as the Germans went into Poland in 1939. Prior to WW2 the idea was to stop the advancing enemy, make him deploy or seek cover, and then rain artillery and mortar fire on his postion. The Springfield sights are marked out to 2800 yards.īoth Rifles, '03 and K98, were designed for a different/ slower type of warfare than was presented in WW2. A skilled operator could engage out to 900 yards and a true freak of nature could drop an enemy at 1500. I am of the opinion that both the o3 and the K98 were true "Rifleman's Rifles" and when fielded, with a competent operator, could engage targets in excess of 500 yrds with iron sights. "Snipers" more comonly were deployed in the "defense" or "reconnaissance" role, when positions were more static, and fielded the o3A3/4.Īs to the rhyme and reason why Germany did not equip more troops with the G43 I have to agree with the manufacturing "set backs" as stated in the earlier post. Just like the K98 and the G43 both American Rifles could be outfitted with scopes to make them a "sniper" rifle.M1C and M1903A3/4.īoth sides deployed "snipers" in the same fashion either as a "designated marksman" in the assault phase, using the M1C Garand or G43. The G43 was the Germans "equivelant" to the Garand. I'm gonna get a correct black walnut walther 1944 stock set eventually.They were a basic infantry rifle much like the Springfield 'o3. So the lower stock is bubbafied big time and not correct to the rifle. The birch and red glue lower stock is early 1945 till end of production/ war My upper hand guard is correct to early to late 1944 walthers.
They had a million tweaks on em throut the design till the end of the war. Then A B C D ect ect ect suffix after serial# for each run of next 10k rifles.Įarly gas system with no bleed off hole or holes in gas tube and 2 peice gas tube construction. Which makes it # 34629 made by them in 1944 Put their tweaks on it into G41,s early in the war.Ĭame out with G43 after the G41 proved feeble and unreliableĮlectro pen serial # 4629on gas tube matches all other #,s on rifle.
Germans took it from Russian svt 39 and svt 40 It would be interesting to see if the FN49 took any cues from its gas system. Seems to me that the gas piston and manifold ride up top, but they must be tucked in there very tightly. I'd like to see it with the top handguard removed.
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