Madsen Display Light Machine Gun with Tripod Mount

Original Item: The Display Gun: And it Clunk Clicks! Fully BATF approved non-firing Madsen Display LMG assembled onto re-welded non operational receiver. All ORIGINAL PARTS, manufactured in Denmark and extensively used by Germany during WW2 after the invasion of Scandinavia. Complete with bipod, wood butt stock and detachable magazine our display gun still has an operational hammer and trigger assembly so weapon can be cocked using the charging lever and dry fired. In 8mm (German) this became a very reliable weapon for the Third Reich in WW2.

The Mount: Very few of these remain in stock. This WWII issue tripod Madsen Mount comes complete with the hard to find trigger mechanism that enabled the gunner to fire the weapon from an arms reach. Some mounts show markings and all are in good condition. The one pictured is considered to be in Very Good/Excellent condition. These Madsen tripods have a particularly important place in the history of machine guns; the Madsen tripod was the FIRST machine gun tripod to incorporate SOFT RECOIL. This feature greatly reduced or eliminated the effect of the gun's recoil on accuracy. The soft recoil feature allowed the gun to recoil straight back against a spring, which then returned the gun to its original position. THIS FEATURE WAS COPIED BY THE GERMANS IN WORLD WARII IN THEIR MG 34 AND MG 42 "LAFETTE" TRIPODS. The Madsen tripod was the FIRST to incorporate this feature, and thus has a very important place in the history of German tripod development.

Magazine included where permissible.