MP40 is it real?

[Allan P.]

Sorry if I sound abit stupid chaps when I say "forgotten about" and "somewhere".

I should explain that I have been collecting for over 30 years, you know, you buy something, look at it, the wife says " sick to death of that lying around, get it out of my sight".

So I wrap it up, store it away, never have kept a catelouge of what I have, well until now that is!!!

Allan

[Bergflak]

Allan, very nice MP!! Even if it is not matched, it is nice for display. I saw one at the MAX a few years ago. It was deactivated and mismatched for $1200. There was a guy looking at it and he was having trouble pulling the clip out of the housing. It was so hard that he had to pull as hard as he could to get it out. Then afterwards I read somewhere on the forum that someone said that they were also having trouble with the clips sticking in the guns. That was possibly different clip manufacturers. DEL

The clips go around without trouble, with one exception: Some MP38s have a very narrow mag housing, making some magazines "sticking". The magazines are seldom the trouble, the problem most often being the mag well on the MP40.

Another point for this discussion: The early MP40 also came with the "MP38" bolt handle (although the pictured MP40 has the mid production ribbed mag-well and a cut out for the handle safety).