FG42 PFC - ever seen one?

Those seem to be one of the rarest PFC replicas. Dummy FG42 series is produced every now and then (new series this summer), but PFC doesn't seem to have been re-issued.

Have you ever seen/knew about a PFC FG42? MGCUK had one for sale long time ago, it's the only one I know about. I guess Francky and Shazhib would know about them, right?

As far as I understood from other threads, Shoei didn't manufacture them directly, they just sold conversion kit?

Smootik,

I remember they used to have PFC blowback version, also, conversion kit.
I would assume it is no longer available, don't think Shoei ever try to make those.
Because, usually people do not try to fire long guns that much, especially, the one with high price.
Also, I heard the blowback action from FG42 is not great.

Shaz,

Not PFC but here is some youtube of my mate firing a custom built blank firing one !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnEHQd0cbAo

It fires 7.62 and close up makes one hell of a pop

DOC

shazhib wrote:

I would assume it is no longer available, don't think Shoei ever try to make those.

Shahzib,

Thank you for explaining what were the problems with PFC conversion - now I understand why it might not be that popular.

I have asked Shoei about that and Tomio replied that they do not plan to make PFC version. They still work on dummy replicas (new batch of FG42 should be available this July) and on airsoft blowback (MG42 and MG44 only).

DOC wrote:

Not PFC but here is some youtube of my mate firing a custom built blank firing one !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnEHQd0cbAo

It fires 7.62 and close up makes one hell of a pop

DOC

Is this built from scratch, converted modelgun or??? More info, more pics and details would be very, very interesting!