Wimmersperg Spz-kr Bullpup Carbine

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Has this thing ever been produced or used? It's obviously one of the "Last Ditch" weapons of the third reich.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4309/wimmerspergspzkrbullpupgd4.jpg

Original Source: http://greyfalcon.us/Weapons.htm

[Kaydon]

That's got to be one of the most uncomfortable designs ever.

It doesn't seem as if it has been, I doubt you'd ever find one anywhere. Metal stock? For a 7.92? That would be brutal.

No official documents dealing with the von Wimmersperg assault rifle exist, other than the drawings he made and signed himself It is quite possible that he made up these drawings for use by an armsmaking firm, as before the war he had been in negotiation with firms such as Mauser, Simson & Co, Fokker, etc, concerning the actual construction of his early self-loading rifle and machine gun prototypes.

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=102530

And I wish people would stop calling magazines "clips"

Interesting find.

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Even more intriguing that it uses the reciever and parts from a STEN submachine gun:cool:, The barrel is also removeable.

And regarding the 7.92mm calibre, The Spz-kr uses the 7.92x33 "Kurz" Intermediate cartridge rather than the full size 7.92x57mm so the recoil shouldnt be so bad.

Damn, I wanna see real images of this thing:D

[festergrump]

The Sten receiver is tubular. This drawing doesn't exactly jive, even in bullpup form.

Where did you find this new information? I've search for longer than I cared to and came up short on anything more than you originally provided.

It's a neat idea, but...