SUNDAY GUNDAY! Snake, you've got a PSG-1. You can updoot that to save Meryl!
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Hi. I'm a shill/libtard. I want those taken away from you conservatives. But when shit goes down I'll be running to u for protection. Will you accept to protect me? I'd like to hear what y'all think in the replies
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My goal is to have my first stickied post! Help me frens! With all the Metal Gear references that frequently appear on TDW, I know we can do it! :p
Fancy and pricey.... I just have it’s little brother a 70’s HK91
Yeah, I remember wanting one back when I played Metal Gear Solid.
Its real. Took me eight years to acquire all the parts. As a huge MGS fan, Ive wanted one of these forever. I couldn't justify the cost of a real factory HK made one ($14,000 for a well used one, $25,000 for collector grade). So, I decided while in college id slowly acquire the parts and build an authentic clone on a PTR receiver. This had the benefit of being significantly cheaper. Also, as I'm a long range competitive shooter, building one allowed me to have a picatinny rail welded to the receiver. Factory PSG-1s can only use the proprietary hensoldt scope which is very crude by modern standards. I originally mounted a Nightforce NXS scope, but it interfered with the cocking handle location. The Nikon is a placeholder till I get around to buying a much shorter nightforce SHV optic. All said and done, it cost me roughly $9,000 to build.
American ingenuity at its best!
Thank you :) I was pretty financially limited in college when I originally embarked on this project. I put away a little each month saving for parts. By the time I left college, I only had the trigger pack ($1250) and a lothar walther polygonal rifled barrel ($1200). A couple years passed, and I was able to get the stock for $1000, the receiver rails ($150), and forward assist ($500). The cocking tube was a miracle find, as I found a guy to custom fabricate one for me. I don't remember the cost, but it wasn't to awful ($350 maybe?). The cocking tube caught me by surprise because I thought PSG-1s used a regular G3 tube. The PSG-1 tube is much longer with a custom fitting for the handguard. The trunnion was a lucky find. Most people building clones weld an extension to a G3 trunnion to fit the handguard. I was able to find an actual clone of the real PSG-1 trunnion ($500). Around 2015, I had to make a critical decision....use a real psg-1 bolt carrier or a PTR G3 carrier? The psg1 has a bolt and cocking piece unique to that gun. The carrier is from a G3, but has notches for the forward assist. A psg-1 complete bcg would have run me $1500-$2200. Further, I would have to spend another $500 having a notch cut into the barrel to accomodate the protruding psg1 extractor. I realized, at $350, a ptr bolt group would save me roughly $3000. Also, in case anything broke (like a locking piece or extractor), I could replace it easily and economically with surplus or ptr parts. I saved another $2000 (kinda) by welding a picatinny rail instead of buying receiver tabs and a surplus hensoldt psg-1 scope. I say "kinda" because my final intent for the scope is to use a Nightforce ($1500).
The biggest challenges for the build was finding the money when the parts were available, or finding the parts once I had the money. After all, I was building this while also starting a career (plus other projects too). Every single part was rare, except for the handful of parts shared with the G3 (pretty sure the few G3 small parts i needed were like $30). The magazines were a bit of a joke after spending so much on parts as they were $2/ea.
Around 2016 I got to the point where I was ready to build it. Beld Fed Precision did the final assembly for me (not gonna lie, it wasnt a cheap build fee. ~$1000). In the end, Ive been blessed by God with an amazing job that has allowed to to pursue projects of passion such as this. Praise the king :)
Just the stock was $1000!
Rare stuff I guess. If I remember right they were mainly used by Euro SWAT-like police units.
Is the action as slow as is often depicted? (A second or more) Or is it the same as a G3? Video games seem pretty consistent about depicting it with a slow cyclic rate of fire, though they could of just influenced each other. I have no idea why the PSG1 would have a slower cyclic rate than a normal G3 though, and anything that slow would almost be a mechanical challenge to devise.
I don't know why anyone would claim the action is slow. Video games are often depicted by people with minimal or no firearm experience or knowledge. It locks up and cycles very fast in my experience. Due to it's near 30lb weight, it has about the recoil of a soft 223. This is a roller delayed blowback firearm, with a longer barrel (26") than the G3 (G3 has a 20" bbl). If anything, I would expect that the added barrel pressure from the extra 6" longer barrel would cause even faster cycling. How do I know? This thing throws brass 40 feet from you with so much force that reloading is out of the question for any brass I fire through it. I tend to "retire" older batches of brass on their fourth firing by using them in this gun. So yes, it cycles fast.