Sten mk ii outfit
Well i said Hudson had made 2 versions, the first sten had a barrel by-pass so smoke would vent through the barrel, the new model's barrel is blocked.
Sten mk ii outfit plus#
A lot of modelguns will fire fine when you keep the trigger depressed but dont work well on burst and tend to jam, not the sten burst fire is greatand very controllable, 2 shots 5, whatever you want and no jams and that makes for some great fun when firing.īut thats not all its loud not just in the cap noise but in the sound the bolt makes, thia is obviously due to the fact that it is a metal bolt hitting a metal chamber so you get that real gun sound, but it is also due to the bolt being large which gives a greater area to hit the chamber (the thompson has a very small area that hits the chamber) that makes the sound more impressive, also the size of the bolt gives it another plus, RECOIL! oh yes, you can feel the gun moving in your hands and this adds a big plus to the overall effect. What is more impressive though is its burst fire capability. After about 3 mags you may get a jam but i reckon you could get a good amount through this model before it would get to dirty and fail to fire.
Sten mk ii outfit full#
This gun may be ugly but man does it fire well, single shot works no problem but full auto is where the fun is, squeeze the trigger and the sten will fire until the maf is empty no problem. So what happens when you pul the trigger, fun thats what. This is a single and full auto gun and the selector is a push button above and to the front of the trigger.
The rounds are cp style and take a 7mm cap, so fill the mag with 32 rounds although i rarely put in more than 25, put the mag on and this loads from the left side, pull the bolt back and there you go. The barrel is blocked on this model so no smoke out of it i am afraid.
Well this is an all metal model so you can lube it with gun oil, you only need to oil the bolt and spray a bit in the bolt and recoil spring housing and thats that. Hudson, over the years, has made 2 stens, an old and a new one and there are a few slight differences which i will talk about later. In the flesh it is still ugly, it definatly is of a crude and simplistic design but then it was made in a hurry and very cheaply, however the looks grow on you. Lets be honest the sten is an ugly gun and it is one i had no intention of buying but the more i looked at pics of it saw some vid of it firing and the fact that it is full metal, i decided i had to get one. The advantage of all this is not just protection for the gun but means the sten can be broken down and hidden in small places, a good thing for some during the war.
The chamber/detonator housing also has to be fitted again easy to do as it is simply place in the barrel and the pin that locks the mag housing also locks this into place. The stock which is also separate is then clipped into place, again easy to do. this is simple to do and the housing locks into position by means of a spring loaded pin. The gun came boxed and as on the real sten the magazine housing can be moved so it covers and protects the chamber, so when you take the gun out of the box you first have to move the housing into position. Mine was supplied by the one and only Francky and as with all his models, was in A1 condition. The Hudson model of the sten is an all metal version and from what i can make out a pretty accurate model. There were in total 5 varients of the sten and for all its problems stayed in service until the 1960's when the sterling took over. It was of crude design and notorious for accidental discharge. It was developed in mid 1941 and was a blowback operated weapon that fired from an open bolt. Ten sten came to existance due to the British not having an adequate machine gun in the second world war. Turpin) so the S and the T, then the EN from Enfield the location of the Royal small arms factory at Enfield lock in London. The lafette tripod costs an additional $160.The sten gun derives its name from the designers (R.V. Thus the cost of some nation’s arms is lower than it cost say England or the United States to build. Please note that slave labor was HEAVILY utilized by nations during WW2. So here is our compiled list of normalized prices, In US dollars, as converted by available GDP cost metrics. Out of all the weapons used in war, small arms are one of the types that many civilians are able to enjoy in their spare time. Maybe he carried a K98 or Carcano but you don’t like to tell anyone. Infantry weapons are likely the first things that people think of when they think of WW2 weapons.