https://gunlab.net/life-at-gun-lab-studying-the-mp-44-receiver/ Adventures in gun building! Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:49:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 https://gunlab.net/life-at-gun-lab-studying-the-mp-44-receiver/#comment-11989 Sat, 26 Sep 2015 04:28:26 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=4163#comment-11989 Compare this to AKM stamping (made 10 or so years later), like comparing Porsche to Lada.
Germany was world leader and pioneer in stamping industry… but at the same time spending too much resources and money on overly complicated state of the art weapons,
while the other side had a (statistically correct) thinking “100 of our ppsh give better results then 10 stgs44″.

]]> https://gunlab.net/life-at-gun-lab-studying-the-mp-44-receiver/#comment-11586 Fri, 04 Sep 2015 01:54:01 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=4163#comment-11586 Metal sculpture. Way neater than some old million dollar painting.
Pete

]]> https://gunlab.net/life-at-gun-lab-studying-the-mp-44-receiver/#comment-11583 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:07:56 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=4163#comment-11583 Looks to me like y’all are coming along quite well! Keep it up! I still think that a Yoderroll rotary press is the best way to make a sheet metal rifle or machine gun receiver.

]]> https://gunlab.net/life-at-gun-lab-studying-the-mp-44-receiver/#comment-11582 Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:05:53 +0000 http://gunlab.net/?p=4163#comment-11582 Looks like a complicated stamping process…

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