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I acquired a fully functional MG81Z several years ago from a fella in Utah. Beautiful gun and I thought I'd post/share a walk around Youtube video here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EfvYo3yIiY&t=57s I plan to get it out to the next Big Sandy MG shoot in March 2022!
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Enjoy Enjoy Enjoy!!!!

What a cool setup.

Stay Safe Everyone.

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I remember seeing that MG81 advertised for sale years ago. A very fine piece of hardware.

Do you have a copy of the original (in German) MG81 manual? I have it if you'd like it. It isn't a common enough gun to make it worth the trouble to translate it, but it still has usable information in it.
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Nice walk around of your MG-81Z!
I like how it was adapted onto that MG3 tripod.
The original aircraft mount and sights are a rare find!
That should run about 3KRPM combined.
With the cost of replacement barrels I would keep the bursts short as you don't have the wind rushing past to cool as you would on a plane in flight.
I have a friend who shoots his MG-81Z and stakes the tripod to the ground with chains to keep it from rising during recoil.
His video's are on YouTube.
My MG-81 is in the ground configuration.
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JBaum wrote: Thu Dec 02, 2021 11:07 am I remember seeing that MG81 advertised for sale years ago. A very fine piece of hardware.

Do you have a copy of the original (in German) MG81 manual? I have it if you'd like it. It isn't a common enough gun to make it worth the trouble to translate it, but it still has usable information in it.
John,

I already have a copy of the MG81 manual -- but thank you for the offer!
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APEXgunparts wrote: Wed Dec 08, 2021 7:54 pm Nice walk around of your MG-81Z!
I like how it was adapted onto that MG3 tripod.
The original aircraft mount and sights are a rare find!
That should run about 3KRPM combined.
With the cost of replacement barrels I would keep the bursts short as you don't have the wind rushing past to cool as you would on a plane in flight.
I have a friend who shoots his MG-81Z and stakes the tripod to the ground with chains to keep it from rising during recoil.
His video's are on YouTube.
My MG-81 is in the ground configuration.

MG81-Left-Side-RCH.jpg

Richard
It sounds like your friend is PJ Heck.
If so... I know him. He let me shot his machineguns at the Fort Harmar MG shoot in Ohio.
He's definitely an all-around good guy with an awesome collection!
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Robert,

And thank you for the tip about the barrels. There's no cool high elevation slip stream available on terra firma.
Luckily, I have 7 spare barrels!

I picked up 2 MG 81 firing pins with springs from Charlie Logan at the SAR in Phoenix recently.

Spare parts are out there but very hard to find.
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