Originally Posted by ellenbr
„Maschinengewehr Stahl“ indeed would be Machinegun Steel for the barrel steel.

No. Not. I mean, it sounds very convincing and plausible, especially for a German native speaker, but still...
Here is the thread that gave me a reason to doubt:

https://forum.wildundhund.de/threads/alte-geco-flinte.39268/

Shot-out machinegun barrels would not be thrown away in wartimes, but collected (in Great Britain, they were relined with the Salerno method). So, it is not impossible that steel might have been made out of it, and I am altering my strong statement accordingly.
But such advertisement terms were untypical for Germany and especially hunters did NOT much want to be reminded of the Great War by their own hunting shotgun.

Carcano

Last edited by Carcano; 08/24/26 06:34 AM. Reason: Tempering my erstwhile statement a bit. :-)