StG44 with Original Matching Scope!

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  • Опубликовано: 16 мар 2023
  • Many design platforms today owe their origins to the German StG-44. Birthed during World War 2 by Huge Schmeisser, the select-fire Sturmgewehr utilized an intermediate 7.92x33 Kurz cartridge which allowed for a smaller overall profile, was more appropriate for the common distances of engagement, and provided more controllable recoil. Stamped parts made production inexpensive and quick. The StG44 quickly made their mark on the Eastern front where it was found to be accurate, offered more range than the MP40, more CQB potential than the Kar 98k, and could still lay down suppressive full-auto fire.
    This particular example is in extraordinary condition, with 90% of its original World War 2 combination phosphate & blued finish and all matching numbers, right down to the RARE ZF4 scope. STG44 were not chosen for sniper or DMR duty, but this scope clearly indicates that such things were once strongly considered by Mauser, enough to warrant a scope specially calibrated for the 8mm Kurz cartridge.
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  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 Год назад +332

    After watching Gun Jesus for so many years, RIA's official channel is FINALLY recommended to me! Great presentation!

    • @RockIslandAuctionCompany
      @RockIslandAuctionCompany  Год назад +29

      Welcome!

    • @CocoLeCat
      @CocoLeCat Год назад +1

      Same

    • @petterderter6354
      @petterderter6354 Год назад +2

      Dont mock the Lord

    • @AliMer20
      @AliMer20 Год назад

      Same here, algorythm things i guess

    • @kingjoe3rd
      @kingjoe3rd Год назад +2

      I don't think I have ever seen a person on the internet with as many grown men that are in love with him as Ian from Forgotten Weapons has. You guys have some hot and heavy crushes on him that would make anyone blush.

  • @Rudeljaeger
    @Rudeljaeger Год назад +14

    Jesus that gun looks like something from the '70s. We were fighting with M14s until Vietnam, meanwhile Germans had a proper Assault rifle with scope decades earlier.

  • @Miohunter444
    @Miohunter444 Год назад +190

    I can't even imagine how much that will go for!!

  • @leonardjanda6181
    @leonardjanda6181 Год назад +58

    Perfect condition way ahead for its time classic with scope 🍀

    • @RyleKittenhouse
      @RyleKittenhouse Год назад +6

      Krout space magic.

    • @tiamat_023
      @tiamat_023 Год назад +2

      That's exactly what I thought - these guys were so ahead of the pack on this one.

  • @koriwest
    @koriwest Год назад +5

    The most beautiful and influential rifle ever made.

  • @TheStrayHALOMAN
    @TheStrayHALOMAN Год назад +5

    The STG-44 was ahead of it's time, it created a new class of firearm and even had an optic like nearly every issued rifle today.
    If only more countries saw to power of a low powered optic on the gun of every rifleman.

  • @AJ-gk7bn
    @AJ-gk7bn Год назад +27

    Absolutely gorgeous.
    Thanks for showing us!

  • @alexkrueger5571
    @alexkrueger5571 Год назад +131

    The two versions of the Sturmgewehr that you mention,"H" and "W", were not both designed by Hugo Schmeisser. H was the designation for the Haenel design whose design team was led by Hugo Schmeisser. W was the designation for the Walther design based on work done by Karl Brauning. Reference "Sturmgewehr!" Handrich

    • @stever8776
      @stever8776 Год назад +2

      Thank you for the correction!

    • @berryreading4809
      @berryreading4809 Год назад +5

      Also reference some old school Gun Jesus Forgotten Weapons videos that cover the topic and designs quite well for short videos 👍 Also big shout out and thanks to RIA for allowing Ian access to so many awesome pieces of history over the years! 👏👍

    • @chrisbrent7487
      @chrisbrent7487 Год назад +1

      Indeed. Both are still manufacturing weapons to this day. Haenel and Walther that is. Obviously old Hugo is long gone. Haenel has some really nice stuff.

    • @user-ok9lm3fj5l
      @user-ok9lm3fj5l Год назад

      I don't even speak English very well and I already thought he was saying something wrong while I was watching the video. Though there's an exceptional example of John Browning in America and Belgium, having guns designed by a same designer in two different companies is an odd thing to see in war time Germany, I think. Thank you for the correct information.

  • @christophersmith2608
    @christophersmith2608 Год назад +5

    A beautiful piece of artwork !!

    • @liamg1706
      @liamg1706 Год назад

      It's a gun not the sistine chapel

    • @christophersmith2608
      @christophersmith2608 Год назад +6

      @@liamg1706 I guess it really depends of what you appreciate or consider artwork doesn't it ?? I have my opinion...you have yours, I just happen to appreciate German engineering from that time period !

  • @vast9467
    @vast9467 Год назад +2

    I never knew I needed an stg with that coloring

  • @berryreading4809
    @berryreading4809 Год назад

    Looking forward to watching RIA's channel now that the algorithm smiled on me lol! Thanks for allowing Ian access to show us so much history and awesome content over the years! You guys are legends! What some may call a disciple of sorts 😉👍

  • @johnsanko4136
    @johnsanko4136 Год назад +2

    That's really interesting, thanks for showing off this historical oddity.

  • @kevinkent6184
    @kevinkent6184 Год назад +2

    Beautiful piece of kit

  • @DH-.
    @DH-. Год назад +1

    That is the coolest thing ever I thought it was a modern add on from the thumbnail, but geez

  • @literallyshaking8019
    @literallyshaking8019 Год назад +3

    The aesthetics are just flawless

  • @pjansen2010
    @pjansen2010 Год назад +14

    Not quickly impressed but this is something special, the rifle with mount and matching scope you don't just find another one.

  • @davecopp9356
    @davecopp9356 Год назад +1

    Well done. Great video and great Strumgewehr.

  • @beardly0121
    @beardly0121 Год назад +3

    Wow, i'd love it if you guys could give us a glimpse of this rifle being fired and also a look through the scope.

    • @Soldierb0y42
      @Soldierb0y42 4 месяца назад

      This rifle will probably never be fired again, it is to rare if had the money and bought it I will still pry shoot it lol

  • @jerrydonquixote5927
    @jerrydonquixote5927 Год назад

    That's the one that started it all absolute work of art the Sturmgewehr! It is an absolute Beauty! And a side note I haven't made enough money in my lifetime to purchase this piece of military perfection! Lol

  • @MGB-learning
    @MGB-learning Год назад +1

    Great video!

  • @maxmakaveli1
    @maxmakaveli1 Год назад +1

    Haha he presented the rifle like a sommelier a wine.
    Nice Video

  • @willivonfromhold4524
    @willivonfromhold4524 Год назад +1

    WoW....
    The last STG I seen for sale was 10,000 dollars,...
    This one is probably a one of one, with its scope mount and scope...
    20-30 thousand estimated price...
    Due to the fact that there will be so many people who want it for their collection...

  • @legendofspeed118
    @legendofspeed118 Год назад +2

    Legendary love the love the stories amazing thank you

  • @herrlich1461
    @herrlich1461 Год назад +6

    Excellent presentation for an exceptional piece of history.

  • @laf43777
    @laf43777 Год назад +1

    Work of art

  • @DrDurango15
    @DrDurango15 Год назад

    Awesome piece of history

  • @timothywood4402
    @timothywood4402 Год назад +3

    What a beauty! I’m sure it will hit high six figures.

  • @luciankristov6436
    @luciankristov6436 Год назад +3

    My dream gun ! Man im praying the PSA and HMG venture comes to fruition

  • @dilanmukidisi4lanz986
    @dilanmukidisi4lanz986 Год назад

    Wow those are beautiful Stuff you got there.

  • @Pompomgrenade
    @Pompomgrenade Год назад +4

    That is the crown jewel of the museum of handheld modern warfare tools!
    No wonder I'd love to buy one of the new replicas of that design.. in a modern caliber😂 ... Lucky for me, it's all possible today! Silenced 300 blackout STG 44 anyone??? ❤

    • @liamg1706
      @liamg1706 Год назад

      Handheld modern warfare tools .ok

    • @rUSTYfrfr
      @rUSTYfrfr Год назад

      300 blackout STG 44 sounds cursed, 5.56 or .308 all the way

  • @yuular6218
    @yuular6218 Год назад

    I never understand why people would press dislike on these kind of videos
    What're they disliking it for? Are they angry that the guns aren't pristine and with zero scratches? Sad that they aren't firing the gun?

  • @Thelubbockraider
    @Thelubbockraider Год назад

    GET SOME !!!! Awesome rig....

  • @johnnymematik8649
    @johnnymematik8649 Год назад +2

    Exceptional weapon of war.

  • @Midnorme
    @Midnorme Год назад +7

    I was hoping to see what it looks like to view down range with that scope, what the reticule looks like, etc.

  • @magg9812
    @magg9812 8 месяцев назад

    wonderful video!

  • @rymanjones3
    @rymanjones3 Год назад +8

    thats amazing

  • @tiamat_023
    @tiamat_023 Год назад

    I'll see you guys there, I gotta get started on my mortgage paperwork.

  • @nchokie80
    @nchokie80 Год назад +1

    a literal dream gun

  • @qwert1111gel
    @qwert1111gel Год назад

    Great video! Just one note. I would not translate it "Storm"rifle even though Sturm does translate to storm. Sturm also means attack/assault, especially in this case. Example, the attacking position in football/soccer is also called Sturm. So it is, quite litteraly, the first Assault rifle. Keep up the fantastic work guys and greetings from Germany.

  • @kian-88romanov86
    @kian-88romanov86 Год назад +3

    The most beautiful weapon in the world

  • @Sub-If-You-Are-Against-Zionism
    @Sub-If-You-Are-Against-Zionism Год назад +1

    That beauty will sell for more money than most ppls houses are worth

  • @TheItalianoAssassino
    @TheItalianoAssassino Год назад +1

    Hopefully the buyer makes content. Never seen one with an OG scope

  • @thegreenman7
    @thegreenman7 Год назад

    Amazing!!!

  • @David-cj8wv
    @David-cj8wv Год назад

    Insane how ahead of its time this thing was, this thing up against a bolt action or even something like an M1 would be like a Corolla up against an Aventador

  • @broadhead4311
    @broadhead4311 Год назад +2

    That's a bad ass weapon.

  • @owenlien1593
    @owenlien1593 Год назад

    I definitely need a remade stg it’s so good looking

    • @p.a.c.5889
      @p.a.c.5889 Месяц назад

      Stg44 22lr by Mauser. It looks identical and functions similar and it’s only $400

  • @altspitfire
    @altspitfire Год назад

    I would live to see Ian get his hands on this

  • @bagoistvan3182
    @bagoistvan3182 Год назад

    I want this for x- mas this year ! 😁😁😁

  • @claymore7773
    @claymore7773 Год назад

    Amazing rifle

  • @eclipsegst9419
    @eclipsegst9419 Год назад

    This is the exact gun i would have if i ever win the lottery. I love me a battle rifle with an ACOG, and this is the forefather of them all.

  • @Lt._Nut
    @Lt._Nut Год назад

    Very cool!
    I will be taking it now lol

  • @mikejones590
    @mikejones590 Год назад +17

    Wowza what a neat gun, the Germans are certainly good engineers!

  • @notamexican91
    @notamexican91 Год назад +1

    I've always wanted to win a big lottery jackpot but now I know what I'd buy with that vast expanse of funds.

  • @eliakachun9993
    @eliakachun9993 Год назад

    Ian needs to review this

  • @mrshort2379
    @mrshort2379 Год назад +4

    man that STG-44 is beautiful, and the aesthetics are out of this world. the STG-44 is the epitome of everything I think the AR platform should be. As much as I would love to have an original STG-44, I cannot wait for PSA to release their version of the retro STG-44 chambered in various different calibers, wil probably be the closest think that I could remotely afford and to be honest It will be an act of God if I can get a PSA version of the STG 44

    • @eclipsegst9419
      @eclipsegst9419 Год назад

      I might just have to nab one at tax return time after they release, but it may be an act of God if i can convince my wife why i need a gun that cost 3x what building my AR15 did lol.

  • @rogercude1459
    @rogercude1459 Год назад

    Now that's a thing of Beauty An well out of my Price range...

  • @belligerentinstigator944
    @belligerentinstigator944 Год назад +1

    This is going to be expensive. How many known examples with matching scopes are there?

  • @Obakedake
    @Obakedake Год назад +1

    A beauty

  • @mudy7471
    @mudy7471 Год назад

    Its brown in colour, which is brilliant because it blends into the backgroubd better, or its just rusz

  • @Wade-1
    @Wade-1 3 месяца назад

    Thats history

  • @theblackcock6607
    @theblackcock6607 Год назад +1

    Ooof so much money that owner is a very lucky person

  • @Blktailhunter53
    @Blktailhunter53 Год назад +1

    Yes please

  • @aznmarty256
    @aznmarty256 Год назад +2

    I hope whoever wins the auction phones up Gun Jesus and some firearms antiquities experts and asks them how best to preserve (note: not restore) this weapon, or decides to donate it to a renowned firearms museum.
    If this gun were restored to shooting condition, I think we'd all be in an uproar. You just don't find rare pieces like this with 90% of the finish and matching serials everyday.

    • @bottomshot4546
      @bottomshot4546 Год назад +1

      this beauty is in shooting condition and ready to go. Guns of this rarity are often just investment pieces. You want a shooter you find a lesser example and a handful of mags and enjoy.

  • @lopezalehandro1666
    @lopezalehandro1666 Год назад

    what a find

  • @Maus1able
    @Maus1able Год назад +2

    Where is Gun Jesus at when you need him the most?

  • @dksdg
    @dksdg Год назад

    My man lost my keys to the rolls but if he finds them soon we shall be there

  • @nerolike2burn13
    @nerolike2burn13 Год назад +1

    Ja schöne Waffe 😍

  • @hairydogstail
    @hairydogstail Год назад

    The MP-44/STG-44 was the first place Stoner and Sullivan saw constant recoil..Stoner called it that run out thing...

  • @glenstg
    @glenstg Год назад

    That is just the business

  • @TheHippieGunner
    @TheHippieGunner Год назад +1

    “I have three dollars”- Patrick Star

  • @gyrro6377
    @gyrro6377 Год назад

    I wish I had the disposable income to throw at something like this. I'll likely never have the privilege of owning such a remarkable piece of history.

  • @pyreotusbark8954
    @pyreotusbark8954 Год назад +1

    I want one!!

  • @FinalFront
    @FinalFront Год назад +2

    How come the lower is blued while the rest of the gun has a phosphate finish? Is that how it came from the factory?

  • @crisibarra6850
    @crisibarra6850 Год назад +2

    You can tell the HK G3 was aesthetically designed after it

    • @FinalFront
      @FinalFront Год назад +1

      And from the STG-45 internally

  • @RyleKittenhouse
    @RyleKittenhouse Год назад

    What a job

  • @GazalAlShaqab
    @GazalAlShaqab Год назад

    Maybe German guns are not my favorite, but I have to say, there is a strange beauty in this!
    THANKS a lot for showing it, before it dives into some private collection of a wealthy person :)

  • @psychobeam99
    @psychobeam99 Год назад

    God I wish. Thats a collectors wet dream.

  • @robalexander2591
    @robalexander2591 Год назад

    Wow i dont think there is a more beautiful assault rifle in my opinion

  • @badmonkey2468
    @badmonkey2468 Год назад

    didn't know they had scopes for them

  • @lapplandsjagare
    @lapplandsjagare Год назад

    Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

  • @maxartusy6378
    @maxartusy6378 11 дней назад

    It is not a PLATFORM, it is a rifle.

  • @dougshelton69
    @dougshelton69 Год назад +8

    I held one in 91...dude wanted 1500 for it.....😢 who knew???

    • @activatekruger446
      @activatekruger446 Год назад +14

      That would haunt me to this day.

    • @benjohnson5552
      @benjohnson5552 Год назад +7

      I just got sick reading that
      My thoughts and prayers

    • @Fausto410
      @Fausto410 Год назад +3

      You slept bro

    • @19viECh81
      @19viECh81 Год назад +2

      -adding to my 3 pre-speakers. Plus am crying rn.
      Plus am sad, another time, at that it seems to me as if all weapons had been swept out of my beloved homeland Germany, where I grew up and live(Bavaria), neither my two Grandpas had any equip left, nor did I ever see stuff from ww2 anywhere here.
      Tho, I had the opportunity to shoot, disassemble, assemble and practice with P1, G3A3 and MG3 when I served in the Bundeswehr 2001 - 2004.
      Stg44 shown as here is a dream, I wouldn't need more, ever.

    • @19viECh81
      @19viECh81 Год назад +1

      @@benjohnson5552 loved your Humor

  • @badxradxandy
    @badxradxandy Год назад +53

    Imagine if they had these a few years earlier

    • @activatekruger446
      @activatekruger446 Год назад +19

      Imagine if they had these at the start of the war. We'd be speaking German!!

    • @PastaLaVista.
      @PastaLaVista. Год назад +78

      I can guarantee you there wouldn’t be drag queen story hours right now

    • @surfingtothestars
      @surfingtothestars Год назад +31

      @@activatekruger446nah. We’d still win the war but at a greater cost. These weren’t as reliable as you would think. The Allies, particularly the US, still had the logistics and factory power to outmatch the Germans by 100 fold. Plus they couldn’t fight a multiple front war

    • @misterstrongerman
      @misterstrongerman Год назад +6

      ​​@@activatekruger446 Really? Do Germans speak English or Russian now because Germany was defeated? Can't force the people to change language they speak except if done gradually for a century or so. Not losing control over the territory for that long is next to impossible though.

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn Год назад +20

      _Imagine if they had these a few years earlier_
      Absolutely nothing would have changed.

  • @axelibrotherus3526
    @axelibrotherus3526 Год назад

    Daamn the scope is just there the whole video and we cant even see the reticle.

  • @zillsburyy1
    @zillsburyy1 Год назад +2

    does it come with the vampire night vision?

  • @jorgefierro8241
    @jorgefierro8241 Год назад

    Bruh that drip the man has.

  • @DystopianBlues
    @DystopianBlues Год назад

    So what did it sell for? I see prior auctions of STG 44‘s selling for between 43-70k

  • @richardkudrna7503
    @richardkudrna7503 Год назад

    I really can’t guess what the closing price will be but I’m thinking $175,000?
    This might be the best of its kind on the planet.

  • @hughgrection3052
    @hughgrection3052 Год назад

    Btw if PSA pulls it off finally, we all can have a STG, and yes... with a scope!😃

  • @RyleKittenhouse
    @RyleKittenhouse Год назад

    What was the final bid sir ?

  • @RobBangma
    @RobBangma Год назад

    Got an MP44 from 1945....serial number 3045y/45....late war production...my most prized possession and second comes my MG42... ❤

  • @oldpain7625
    @oldpain7625 Год назад

    Good Lord. It's stunningly beautiful. Germany may have lost the war, but some of the equipment they created was revolutionary.

    • @nilanjangupta763
      @nilanjangupta763 Год назад

      Exactly, along with the equipment they came up with evolutionary doctrine to go with it.

    • @oldpain7625
      @oldpain7625 Год назад

      @@nilanjangupta763 That's one way to phrase it. Nobody has ever killed people faster.

  • @Nate_the_Nobody
    @Nate_the_Nobody Год назад +1

    It really is crazy how advanced germany was at the time, imagine if they had all the resources they needed to sustain the war and hadn't attacked russia

  • @4element3
    @4element3 Год назад +1

    It’s amazing all these guns went threw the 68 amnesty’s act.

  • @DARIVSARCHITECTVS
    @DARIVSARCHITECTVS 8 месяцев назад

    The ZF4 scopes and scope mounts were never widely used in the field. Their use was abandoned after trials proved that the accuracy using the scope was far below expectations. The fact that many MP-44/StG-44's still had scope mounts on their receivers was either due to the Germans not wanting to make another design change to the production line to remove it, or the expectation that the mounts could later be used with vampir infrared night vision, if vampir would be made in numbers great enough to be widely issued for the rifles. RUclips videographers need to delve deeper into research so they don't present a false impression, such as the use of ZF4's in field service on the MP-43/44/StG-44 series of rifles.

  • @davidwas77
    @davidwas77 Год назад +1

    There's 100% gonna be some boomer screenshotting this and putting it on GunBroker with the caption "I know wut I got"

  • @hydrolistconlanka4729
    @hydrolistconlanka4729 Год назад

    Dont you have a functional Fedorov Avtomat somewhere there?

  • @fuddlemuddle
    @fuddlemuddle Год назад

    I'm curious why the upper area and lower area a slightly off colored from one another, can anyone please explain?

    • @fuddlemuddle
      @fuddlemuddle Год назад

      I'm sorry If I sound dumb, I really am curious why

  • @NeonVars
    @NeonVars 7 месяцев назад

    With that matching serial numbered scope, 20 bucks is the best I an do.

  • @g.galordy9853
    @g.galordy9853 Год назад

    one please