{"id":93535,"date":"2025-05-25T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=93535"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:38:23","slug":"bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/05\/25\/bd-44-the-new-semiauto-sturmgewehr-from-d-k-productions\/","title":{"rendered":"BD-44: The New Semiauto <em>Sturmgewehr<\/em> from D-K Productions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0ctRKeDTZY?si=m1pjoBj2ocUzsD8P\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Jan 2025<\/p>\n<p>D-K Productions is a collaboration between the German company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years &mdash; including <em>Sturmgewehrs<\/em>. Their guns are really good recreations of the 1940s originals, but there have long been issues importing them into the US. This was solved at last by forming a US company and doing the receiver manufacturing here in the States. While the company has plans to offer a whole bunch of different models, the one currently available is the BD-44, a copy of the standard production model of MP-44\/StG-44. <\/p>\n<p>I was really impressed by the use of not-finish-machined forgings for parts like the stacking rod and gas block, correctly duplicating the original German production. The stampings look good, and the handling matches the original guns (don&#8217;t expect it to be AR-level ergonomic!). The gut &#8220;feel&#8221; of the gun is an excellent match for an original MP-44. The 8&#215;33 chambering and use of original magazines (alongside new-production magazines made by D-K) is the correct choice, of course.<\/p>\n<p>I did not like the mismatch between the magazine well and magazine stops, and I did have a couple malfunctions in the two magazines I ran through it so far. Note that the gun I have at the range is my second one; the first one (which is what you see on the table) had consistent feed problems and D-K replaced it when I sent it back to them.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the gun is worth the steep asking price is a personal decision, naturally. Hopefully this video gives you the information necessary to make your decision if you were considering getting one!<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tour of the SSD facility in Germany: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XN10HDr3Z_Y\" target=\"_blank\">Tour of Sport Systems Dittrich: Repro&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nMy video on the BD-38: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bh6dpfbQqHE\" target=\"_blank\">Introducing the BD-38: A New Producti&#8230;<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>\nweaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqa0JpallFTG1jS01ZbDFHalJaQmZlNVdoWmxKQXxBQ3Jtc0tta1NTOWd6cWF6OWlzNEhTN1FQYkV0YjlycmhLMjF6c3hkSEt2YW9KM0J2c2dTSWtKdmhnckVMQlh3NzZtcVN2UERueGZEOGVLbzF6Y0FvM1J6ck4xSUszbjlmdHBnNktnTGY2OUN3V1RuMTZqcVhqOA&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.floatplane.com%2Fchannel%2FForgottenWeapons&#038;v=Z0ctRKeDTZY\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/For&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 13 Jan 2025 D-K Productions is a collaboration between the German company Sport System Dittrich (SSD) and an American partner. SSD has been making reproductions of German World War Two small arms for something like 20 years &mdash; including Sturmgewehrs. Their guns are really good recreations of the 1940s originals, but there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1118,7,5,13,663,230],"tags":[140,1366,49,859],"class_list":["post-93535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-design","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-manufacturing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-okD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93536,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93535\/revisions\/93536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}