Lots of high dollar sales, but it looks like there were a few well-bought guns in today's Morphy's auction. Was surprised to see so many MGs.
https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/Catalog.aspx?auctionid=527&page=1&sortby=7&displayby=2&lotsperpage=25&category=1
Don't forget about the 70's dated Yugo ammo. Good stuff if you can find it.
In the past, I had good luck with this 7.92 in a transferable MG34:
- Egyptian
- Greek '40 dated
- Romanian 70's dated
- Yugo 70's dated
- both steel cased and brass cased WWII and pre-WWI German ammo
Most all of that stuff was shot back in the mid-2000s. Nowadays, Romanian is the way to go if you can find it.
Good luck!
Cincylance
After watching a buddy struggle to get his semi M60 to run, I've learned from him that there weren't any semi M60s produced in any quantity that were known to work reliably. My buddy has build many different guns into semis including Browning 30s and 50s, Brens, MG34s, MG42s, etc and he can't quite figure out how to make his M60 run reliably. Good luck, you will need it.
Mike,
If you have that many bolts, one or two are sure to work. An ejector that is too long will not allow the bolt to slide past the ejector plate when the bolt is inserted from the rear and the ejector is fully forward. From my experience, you want the longest bolt that will still slide past the ejector plate when inserting bolt into receiver. It should slide past without tension, but cannot leave a gap between the two parts.. Since you have an abundance of bolts, try inserting them and look for the ones with a more snug fit and take those to the range with you the next time you go. It's easy to swap out bolts to look for one that'll work.
I've got about 12k rounds of experience shooting the MG34. Maybe not an expert, but my guns ran good.