When the Bundeswehr chose its small arms after World War Two, it saw non reason to move away from the iconic MG-42...but the new weapons needed to be in NATO standard calibers. And so the MG-3 was born: an MG-42 improved in several small ways and rechambered for the 7.62x51mm NATO round. Today we are taking this transferrable example out to the range to try out. It's worth noting that while Rheinmetall offered configurations with rates of fire from 700 up to 1300 rpm, the Bundeswehr chose to stick with a pattern nearly as fast as the classic MG-42. Does that make it hard to control? Nope!