M Kb 42 magazines

[Leper]

Just sharing some pictures of my current ones. Some are not even close to great, but they work.

[Leper]

Try again

[Leper]

Last ones

[Petroleum 1]

Nice stuff...the mag with the shorter grooves is interesting. I have never seen one like it. Why is it made like that?? Thx

[Leper]

Nice stuff...the mag with the shorter grooves is interesting. I have never seen one like it. Why is it made like that?? Thx

I can only guess what the original intent was, but the haenel magazines quickly had a metal spacer spot welded into that area so they must have had follower tilting or dirt issues and rather than keep welding in plates just extended the groves.

[STG44]

Nice collection, thanks for the pictures.

[pitfighter]

Great collection - really interesting to see that one with the short grooves -
Would love to see some closer pics, I cannot enlarge the image for some reason.

I have two rusted relics (not Mkb42(h) just standard MP43/44) amongst my collection, bought off Ebay in the early days, and they work just fine without a hiccup in the MP44, too - lol.

For a magazine silhouette that has become so familiar, intermediate round hi-capacity, it it interesting to imagine how unique it would have been in 1942.

[STG44]

Close up's.

[Leper]

Close up's.

I don’t have a haenel one... yet. But I now have one of each version of the walther.

[Promo]

Close up's.

Thank you! Can you let me know how the follower and floorplate of this magazine is marked? I've recently seen one of these and couldn't find a source upon how these should be marked. And what value do you put on one of these?

[pitfighter]

Close up's.

Very interesting images - you can almost see the family resemblance to the MG13 magazine, here.

[STG44]

Thank you! Can you let me know how the follower and floorplate of this magazine is marked? I've recently seen one of these and couldn't find a source upon how these should be marked. And what value do you put on one of these?

Follower just has a 37 Waffenamt (Haenel) on the spine & the floor plate is unmarked.
As for value, I'm not sure. I bought this one about 30 something years ago.
I have never seen another one for sale.

[Nigromontanus]

Follower just has a 37 Waffenamt (Haenel) on the spine & the floor plate is unmarked.
As for value, I'm not sure. I bought this one about 30 something years ago.
I have never seen another one for sale.

Is the follower plain or does it have a nose to keep the lock in position after the last cartridge has been fired?

[STG44]

Is the follower plain or does it have a nose to keep the lock in position after the last cartridge has been fired?

Plain.

[Nigromontanus]

Interesting. The follower with nose is even found in some later fxo mags, so I would expect it in a prototype magazine. However, I take this as an early wartime mismatch, happened when the soldiers were sitting together gun cleaning.