Larry Vickers Podcast Ep. 4: STURMGEWEHR Presented by Firearms Trainers Association

[@richstone2627]

I saw a video a couple years back which was filmed in Syria. The rebels were opening crates which contained Sturmgewehr's as well as a crates with mags and ammo. The rifles looked like they were new, still greased. Thanks for posting.

[@joshuagibson2520]

This podcast is what I've been asking for. Yeah, we love to watch you light em up, but the education and history is far more important to me.

[@djsity]

Damn this was incredible, can't wait to watch the rest! Thx for posting!

[@xipingpooh5783]

Great work Larry👍🏼🇺🇸

[@Swearing0000]

That looks brand new, just out of the box.

[@alexcampbell3743]

love this format, great content

[@denismaksimov3775]

Love your podcasts, Larry. Thank you! Very solid info. I wish this series had more likes and coverage. Great job!

[@endederfahnenstange4283]

The STG 45 (Ian has a video on this) features a Bakelit handguard to solve the hot barrel problem.

[@Leadfarmer337]

I wish we had more lighting and close ups

[@magoid]

Nice video about the Sturmgewehr and nice comparison with the AK and AR platforms. Interesting to note that the AR has more in common with the SG than the AK, which some uninformed people insist to call a copy of the German gun. Only have to disagree with the Fedorov Avtomat being called a assault rifle. I wouldn't call 6.5mm Arisaka to be a intermediate caliber. Also it didn't fill the niche between a full rifle and a machine gun.

[@BloPsy_Actual]

Well tbh, 6.5 Arisaka (~2600J) was really close to a modern intermediate cartridge. And actually, it was kinda intermediate in Russian army - the power was between a full powered cartridge like 7.62x54R (~3700J) and pistol cartridge. Also when shot from AF, the muzzle energy was only ~2000J.

[@magoid]

​@@BloPsy_Actual True, but the Avtomat is still closer to a M14 than a Sturmgewehr, feature wise. Which BTW, makes me think the AR-15 only became a true assault rifle by the end of the 60's, when the CAR-15 paired with a 30 round magazine made its debut.

[@Hibernicus1968]

When I was in high school in the early '80s, I went to a gun show with my dad and I saw one of these for sale by a class III dealer at a gun show. This was before the 1986 Hughes amendment completely closed the full auto registry, so the supply of transferable machine guns was not fixed as it is now. The gun was selling for $1800. That's rought $4700 in today's money -- not cheap, but less than a fifth of what you'll pay today. I was too young to buy any sort of gun at the time, but if I had known what was going to happen with the registry, and how crazy expensive these things would become, I swear I would have blackmailed my dad into buying that thing if I had do. I've always wanted one of these things, and I'll never be able to own one now, not with what they cost these days.

[@Mrgunsngear]

solid info

[@kiwi_comanche]

These videos are superb. The HK416 vid is brilliant.

[@williamdolan2673]

LAV, thank you. Your knowledge, opinions, and insights on this rifle was fascinating. Brilliance like this should be in the Smithsonian - this truly is an invaluable preservation and explanation of a turning point in human history. I would've put this clip on the Voyager alongside the languages and Chuck Berry tunes!

[@TheDeltatangowhiskey]

I just found this channel. Im in heaven

[@williestyle35]

21:04 Larry makes an excellent about the threaded muzzle nut and small pistols the Nazi's made late into WWII. "Too little, too late" is the real issue. While there would be a very few devices made to work with the threaded muzzle, it was all just wasted time and material. Thankfully the competition among the leadership and military projects did more to drain precious resources and time, than anything else. The Germans never really got a handle on war supplies and logistics on the scale necessary for their situation.

[@CKMxMaSteRx]

Take a drink for every “pretty slick” lol This video is fantastic though; that take down is so simple

[@hairydogstail]

Stoner and Jim Sullivan first saw constant recoil in the MP44 9STG44)

[@GUNTHER-lx6vu]

Such an awesome beautiful piece of history

[@apneaman3084]

Is the gas tube pug also a stacking rod?

[@bobbioook5612]

Great stuff 👍🏻🇺🇸

[@WanganTune3DXPluDeaf]

best!! rifle

[@johnbrowningsghost6596]

So awesome!

[@yourmomma8065]

I am confused. Even in the states you say: to give up the ghost like by us germans? Den Geist aufgeben. Didn't knew this before. Or Larry picked it up from Germany somehow. Greetings from K-Town, Germany. Larry probably knows. 🇩🇪

[@davekrab3363]

I thought the threaded muzzle nut was for that wierd around the corner device?

[@williestyle35]

I had thought the Nazi corner shot device attached without screwing on the barrel. Both Forgotten Weapons and the ( old ) History Channel have covered it.

[@albertptran]

Any Walther guns coming to the series?

[@eratno111]

I wonder what would've happened if the Germans produced this rifle earlier. Would they have been able to improve its early faults?

[@MichaelVanHeemst]

More!

[@johnbrowningsghost6596]

Sweet!

[@GeorgeSemel]

Why they threaded the muzzle well for the same reason the Heer was having problems with transport and supply and a lot of transport and the logistics of that transport was dedicated to the transport of people( Jews and others) to camps in Poland. The Germans did a lot of things that were cutting edge in WW-II and it didn't matter a wit, they were going to be and were crushed by the allied powers.

[@pauljohnson9445]

@John Doe That's a big what if. Could've changed a lot.

[@williestyle35]

John Doe, there was never a time that the Nazi's as led by Hitler would not attack the Soviet Union. It was both ideology *and logistical need* that insured the Nazi's would have to go east ( as illustrated by the original comment about the persecution and shipment of Jews in the Holocaust ). WWII in Western Europe did not solve all of Grrmany's need for plundering war materials.

[@23GreyFox]

The Heer transported jews? In which universe was that?

[@gregkollaeg2365]

Stg 44 => Stg 45 => H&K G3

[@chasecross6063]

German small arms design during WWII in a nutshell: one genius engineer, five borderline developmentally disabled logistics officers (which, being fascists, I know is redundant).

[@23GreyFox]

Not just redundant, but also wrong.

[@robertpatter5509]

The US sent their morons to fight. McNamara's Morons they were officially called.