I think one of the reasons the G3 was in service (is as DMR) is because it still works! Also it's simple and cheap (compared to M14 or FAL)
And it has it's faults:
crummy safety lever (leave the safety off, like with AK)
no last round bolt hold open (get used to it)
potent Recoil (toughen up)
It certainly beats a lot of other firearms. I haven't seen an original H&K made gun ever malfunction (only poorly made US clones)
So it's sort of like the AK it's not a Gucci rifle like making today more like a shovel or a Hammer and I kind of like that.
and its got a few weird kinks of assembly dis assembly:
one trick that I learned from an old hand, is when you take the bolt carrier group out of the receiver and you somehow managed to push the bolt head back camming out the rollers so you can't get the bolt carrier back in....All you have to do to reset the bolt head is flip the carrier around backwards and sticking it in the receiver! And voila it will reset the bolt head and you can slide the carrier right back in the receiver.
Brother in Arms
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