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Old July 24th, 2003, 05:31 AM
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That's good enough, Juha !

In part due to the MG42's fantastic rate of fire, the extractor left every casing with a very distinctive dent on ejection.

Looking down on it, the cartridge mouth looks like a 'D' with the straight side bent in. Actually surviving examples are quite scarce as the weapon almost always fired steel-cased ammo so all you usually find is a small pile of rust.

Anyhow, over to Finland for the next question....
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