80 years lay in the ground. Elite Soviet machine gun of WW2 restored

[DougC]

Soviet era sub-gun in the ground for 80 years being brought back. Amazing workmanship and craft to clean it up but not destroy it. Impressed with how few new parts had to added. This gun seemed to have a lot of very small pins and springs.

 

[baboon]

Notice he drilled & pinned the barrel then ground off the firing pin. If I was doing it I would have filled all the dives with bonds or JB Weld & painted it.

 

[Grumps21]

Good watch

 

[Moonpie]

Interesting.

Watching these Russian vids of dug up machine guns makes me wonder how the FATF would freak if that was here.
Go out metal detecting, come home with an MG-42. LMAO.
They'd lose their damn minds.

 

[Cool 'Horn Luke]

Interesting.

Watching these Russian vids of dug up machine guns makes me wonder how the FATF would freak if that was here.
Go out metal detecting, come home with an MG-42. LMAO.
They'd lose their damn minds.

We should be able to do that.....in about 85-90 years.