New toy!

[Pat Harley]

DSCF1859.jpgNew toy arrived today 1944 Russian Maxim,as seen on many clips being dragged through Berlin.Impulse buy,but you can never have too many!F.ck knows what the Parcel Force bloke thought he was delivering,as he dumped 3 heavy cardboard packages at my back door!

[Kit Karson]

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Does it fire?

[Pat Harley]

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Unfortunately not!The powers that be are a bit touchy about us peasants being armed with such things,bastards!

[Don the Mod]

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Unfortunately not!The powers that be are a bit touchy about us peasants being armed with such things,bastards!

Well that's no fukkin use...what we going to use for the revolution? There's a lot of politicians need killing, i'm sure they would have been delighted to have been dispatched with the efficiency that could've offered.


Suppose it's a bit different from the brass things you used to get sitting on fireplace hearths, wouldn't try it with that though.

[Dave Burgess]

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That,s a great physical jerks item Pat! Thad bi able ta gerra full body workout wi that. Across thee showders, 50 full squats, Lie on the floor 50 bench presses, Stand, pick it up at arms length, 50 Bicep Curls, lift to shoulder level, 50 military presses. Finish off 3 mile run dragging the fukker. 6 months time thall bi able ta compete wi me fer The Worlds Most Perfectly Ruptured Man title!

[bob9739]

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Nice bit of kit there Pat, living history, wonder if it was ever used in anger. Be nice if it had some history to it relating to WW2.

[Pat Harley]

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The pic of it on my phone caused a stir in the bar tonight anyway.Don't know the history of it,but the date on the top of 1944 suggests it might have history!

[trubrit2411]

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Pat ... I bet that thing gave the Krauts a pasting if it's got a 44 date on it. That was when the Russians got the upper hand starting with the fall of Stalingrad in Jan 44. The Russkies would have been unlikely to let something like that sit idle for the simple reason they never had enough kit to to go round. I betcha that has put a few rounds Westward.

[treeman]

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Who needs a guard dog when you can have that poking out the kitchen window.

[Forever Young]

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Armed and dangerous right enough....it looks as if it can still fire!

[Pat Harley]

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Unfortunately not,as it's been deactivated to the new European specification,with bits removed,and all moving parts welded,unlike my MG42 on the sidecar,that could,with a new barrel definitely be got back to working order!

[stephenfrank]

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Wheel it into the bank,Pat. See if anyone says anything.

[Pat Harley]

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Nah,too much effort!I find the Glock does the job,and leaves one hand free for carrying the loot!

[trubrit2411]

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Just looked at it again. Looks dead awkward to fire. Be hard to aim would'nt it ? If its fired from a sitting position. Which I presume it is. That break up into three parts. So it takes three blokes to move it. Lot to be said for a good old Gimpy. Even a Bren, though I doubt a Bren would have been appreciated in the Russian cauldron. Not with a magazine.How do you aim any of those weapons that are fired from a sitting position. Watch the other sides blokes falling down ?

[Pat Harley]

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Think it was designed to generally be fired lying down,hence the armour plate with a cut out to sight through,and the wheels meant it could be towed around by a couple of blokes,rather than carried.The whole thing must weigh about 200lbs,the heaviest bit being the carriage,which I had to roll end over end in it's box into the house.The design of it is great,with a cracking traverse and elevation system,and a clever little attachment on the trail that turns from a towing eye into a little spike for anchoring it against recoil.On the top of the barrel sleeve is a round hatch,so they could pack snow into the cooling jacket instead of water.The two firing grips at the rear have screw tops that come out to become brushes coated in grease/oil to keep the parts moving.Lot of thought went into this thing!