armoredman
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That's my 22 year old pain in the behind, with his GSG STG44 clone.
Short story needed.
I bought this for him back in 2016 when I got a windfall, and I was determined to buy him something while I could, before the money went elsewhere. I gave him the choice between the CZ Tacticool 22 and this one, as they were both about the same price range at the time, and my little WWII nut grabbed this one in a heartbeat, faster, really. So, one rifle, two magazines later and we were off to the range.
It wouldn't shoot straight to save a life. I couldn't get those sights dialed in, no way no how, and we gave up in disgust, thinking that we got the one lone bad STG44. Soon after things got better financially, he got other rifles to play with, and the STG44 sat in the closet, unused, neglected.
UNTIL...today, when I casually mentioned about the rifle, having seen an original in a show. He suddenly lit up and went to pull it out. Stil looked good, everything operated just fine...well, wanna go shooting?
Gee, twist MY arm, willya!
I had a feeling that it was going to repeat itself, especially when he asked for the steel to be moved out to 80, rather than the 50 yards I was going to try to "re sight in". Sure as dogsnot stinks, the first rounds went into the dirt, and I sighed...then, I heard it.
"PING!" "PING!" "PING!"
He kentucky windaged that thing, held his mouth right and was off to the races! He had about 1000 rounds of old junk ammo to get rid of, but the rifle worked pretty darn good, with two failures to feed, (failed to strip off the magazine) with 40gr Aguila bargain box ammo. Everything else worked just fine. Incidentally, this hadn't been cleaned or lubed since 2016.
Usually I don't see him smile this big unless he's shooting his black powder 54 caliber Kit Carson!.
So, no real point to this, just showing off my boy and his rifle.
