Bren with 100rd drum

One of the few magazines we're allowed to have unpinned and full capacity. Good luck finding one.
 
Neat for sure but absolutely outclassed by the German MG34/42.

Never understood the mag on the top thing, offset sights, blocked sight picture??

But the Bren I handled was built like a tank and heavy as hell certainly built for the long run just not a gunners dream.

Randy
 
Ganderite said:
Bren is very little recoil and remarkably accurate in full auto. A burst will all hit the target. The mag on top allows you to get very low. A nice feature on a two-way range.
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Yeah the Bren I observed firing was very controllable, but I cannot imagine going up against a belt fed MG34/42 1100 to 1300 rpm 8mm machine gun....

My family fought on both sides so I was fortunate to hear both sides but most are gone now still have shrapnel from my Mum's house in England that was hit and identity papers from Germany for my Dad and Oma what a dark time in history...
 
once saw a guy/collector do a 6 inch group with 6 round burst from a bren out at sarcee range in calgary.about 1991. he was a WO at the time, he may well be retired now. might have the guns mixed up, but if not, i think he was given that same bren cut in half, bolt welded and barrel cut a year before by calgary city police. he had very good relationship with them.
 
I used to have a MkII Inglis Bren back when we could use them for fun. Thing was a hoot to shoot even with the 30rd mags, just set the gas regulator to the lowerest setting and let it rip ;)
 
AK said:
One of the few magazines we're allowed to have unpinned and full capacity. Good luck finding one.
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I have one, but haven't used it. What would be nice to have is all four magazines, but aside from the one drum, all I have is the transit case, the adapter, and the windng lever.
One must keep in mind that the drum was primarily for anti aircraft use
 
John Sukey said:
I have one, but haven't used it. What would be nice to have is all four magazines, but aside from the one drum, all I have is the transit case, the adapter, and the windng lever.
One must keep in mind that the drum was primarily for anti aircraft use
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i understand the adaptor is the rare and expensive bit of the whole affair, do you have the raised sights as well?
 
randyhub said:
Neat for sure but absolutely outclassed by the German MG34/42.

Never understood the mag on the top thing, offset sights, blocked sight picture??

But the Bren I handled was built like a tank and heavy as hell certainly built for the long run just not a gunners dream.

Randy
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I was a Bren Gunner and loved carrying and using it while serving, I preferred it the the other LMG's and GPMG's I used. It weighed about the same as most GPMG's.
 
AK said:
One of the few magazines we're allowed to have unpinned and full capacity. Good luck finding one.
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Collectors source has them available right now...unpinned and at only $1200 or so.

I, like John Sukey, have one drum, the chest, and the accessories. You need an adapter on the gun to help support the drum as well.

I was supposed to try the drum out a couple years back, but just didn't find the time to get out to the museum that was going to let me try it out.
 
stencollector said:
Collectors source has them available right now...unpinned and at only $1200 or so.

I, like John Sukey, have one drum, the chest, and the accessories. You need an adapter on the gun to help support the drum as well.

I was supposed to try the drum out a couple years back, but just didn't find the time to get out to the museum that was going to let me try it out.
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Just went through the Collectors source website. Wow! those prices are something else.
 
having run plenty of ammo throught a Bren, 34, and 42, I can tell you the bren in my opinion is the most accurate. it is also the best of the 3 for a field gun. just ask anyone who has tried to make wet and or muddy ammo in belts go through a MG
 
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