My "MP44"

[rdp91356]

Images link: http://rdperry.com/mp44.html
For those of you who haven't had a good close up look at one of the Shoei model guns, they are quite impressive -- and the closest thing I'll ever have to a pristine MP44.

The Kurz ammo is live, headstamped hla st 17 44.

The booklet is a reproduction of my own making. I shot the photos using my Shoei and re-set all the type, printed it on a laser printer, trimmed and assembled it, then "aged" it.

[reidmuller]

they are real beauties and allmost exactly like the origionals and here is what you can do with one with some work
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/whitty1/AmhurstMP44.mpg

[rdp91356]

they are real beauties and allmost exactly like the origionals and here is what you can do with one with some work
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/whitty1/AmhurstMP44.mpg

WOW! What kind of work was done?? Did you start with a gas blowback model or what?

[reidmuller]

im not sure exactly what has been done but is is one of the replicas you have with a strengthend reciver put in and operates the same as an origional hammer and floating pin and gas blowback it uses 9mm and has a 9mm mag put in the mp44 mag somehow

[Chris_Reeves]

sure is pretty if you dont mind me asking how much was it? looks just like the real thing

[C7riS]

Awwwsome!!! been lookin into the replicas for a while now, just havnt had the money to buy em..
But this is not live fire is it?

[Peter Wiking]

Nice replica. Nice movie. One thing though to the shooter of the weapon. Never hold your finger on the trigger while loading ammo into the chamber. The trigger finger should only be there when the weapon is on the target.

Cheers.
Peter

[reidmuller]

Awwwsome!!! been lookin into the replicas for a while now, just havnt had the money to buy em..
But this is not live fire is it?

The one in the video is a blank fireing one he conerted one of the model ones

[C7riS]

The one in the video is a blank fireing one he conerted one of the model ones

Well, issnt these blank fireing in the first place? I mean, they look and act that way anyway dont they? or is it more recoil etc in the one in the movie?

By the way, damn you for getting me hooked on these guns again hehehe I just ordered myself a Thompson for 400£ 30 min ago hahaha

[reidmuller]

Well, issnt these blank fireing in the first place? I mean, they look and act that way anyway dont they? or is it more recoil etc in the one in the movie?

By the way, damn you for getting me hooked on these guns again hehehe I just ordered myself a Thompson for 400£ 30 min ago hahaha

nope there is i beleve a plug cap fireing one but they are crap and have never seen one for sale this was a model that can chamber and eject rounds works just like an origional but no fireing pin and the barrel blocked and weak metal so it can fire live rounds

[C7riS]

hmmmm.. the plug caps are bad? How bad? :P hehehe and by the way, issnt it possible to rebuild many of the "cap fireing" ones to blank fireing bullets?

This is the one I got http://www.modelguns.co.uk/wwiithompson.htm any pros or con's?

[rdp91356]

Shoei cost

I ordered mine directly from Shoei in Japan for $879 USD.
http://www.shoeiseisakusho.co.jp/
I've seen them selling for $500 more elsewhere. I got the "model" version for the most realism internally. The barrel is mostly solid and there is no firing pin. It wil cycle and eject rounds when cocked. They make gas blowback versions for firing BBs, but they have a hose that comes out of the bottom of the grip. The metal is quality is nowhere near strong enough to fire live rounds, or blanks for that matter IMO.