Hickok45 having way too much fun with a Sten gun

The harbour master in my area was a vet during WW 2 and post war my father used to go down to his house at the pier and shoot Stens,Lugers and grease guns into Lake Ontario even including my Grandfathers WW 1 S&W .455 Service Revolver that he carried in France.Those were the days even the local townhalls janitors son would bring his Dads Thompson while he worked.lol
 
No more stupid than having to drive to an "approved range" to shoot a handgun when you might own a large tract of rural property. I've got an "unapproved range" on my property where I shoot my CAS long guns and BPCRs occasionally. But, if I want to shoot a CAS handgun, I'm obliged to put on trigger locks, pack them in a lockable case, have a sheaf of papers, drive to the range, open the locked gate, sign in, put up the red flag, etc.

You know - just like the gang bangers and gangstas do in Trawna and Hongcouver.


mr.e moose said:
The Government was very deceitful in the months leading up to the implementation of C-68. There was talk of prohibition and confiscation on their part, but little info was supplied to firearms owners that a grandfathering option would be provided.
The Internet was not a common thing at the time and a million hunters said "Meh" it does not affect me.
The end result was that we ,as law abiding firearm owners lost some of our rights and a whole wack of guns. The end result was.
A veteran cannot take something that he used to protect this country to the range?
Colt SAA in .32/20 are prohibited because that is the gangbangers weapon of choice?
Stupid inane gun laws, that is what it is.
The Ruger 10/22 has joined the ranks of the evil converted full auto because of it's 25 round magazine.
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farmer47 said:
my brother in laws father talked of carrying one overseas during house clearing operations . they would throw this gun in a window and it would fire until the mag was empty . i do not know if they rigged it up or whether it fired on its own when it hit the floor but he said it was effective . he was not a man to exaggerate .
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Good lord, that myth is like a zombie and just refuses to die.
 
farmer47 said:
my brother in laws father talked of carrying one overseas during house clearing operations . they would throw this gun in a window and it would fire until the mag was empty . i do not know if they rigged it up or whether it fired on its own when it hit the floor but he said it was effective . he was not a man to exaggerate .
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Respectfully, he was exaggerating. It's not physically possible - it's been tried over and over and it can't be replicated. It started as a joke in WW2, kind of like carrots making you see better. All of it is BS though.

You can get a sten to fire ONE round that way. But only one.
 
Claven2 said:
Respectfully, he was exaggerating. It's not physically possible - it's been tried over and over and it can't be replicated. It started as a joke in WW2, kind of like carrots making you see better. All of it is BS though.

You can get a sten to fire ONE round that way. But only one.
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Well, you could remove the trigger system entirely, whole thing is held in by a bent piece of wire. :) Semi auto in an smg like this is basically an interruption of the auto cycle, they'll shoot till they run out of ammo. Still, hard to believe and would be hazardous to the health of the guy throwing.

Grizz
 
You could remove the sear on the Sten (splutter gun), and rig a mousetrap-style stick to hold the bolt back. Test, insert mag, and throw through the door. It would, however, be far more dangerous to the thrower than to the enemy. And hand grenades were available.

Fritz Leiber had a story called "The Automatic Pistol" about a 1911 whose owner filed the sear. The pistol went full auto and killed the guy who murdered the owner. Fiction of course, but worth the read.
Inky Kozacs never let anyone but himself handle his automatic pistol, or even touch it. It was blue-black and hefty and when you just pressed the trigger once, eight .45 caliber slugs came out of it almost on top of each other.
Inky was something of a mechanic, as far as his automatic went. He would break it down and put it together again, and every once in a while carefully rub a file across the inside trigger catch.
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For, with smoke and flame squirting through the little round holes, and the whole suitcase jerking and shaking with the recoils, eight slugs drummed out and almost cut Anton Larsen in two.
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Grizzly Adams said:
Well, you could remove the trigger system entirely, whole thing is held in by a bent piece of wire. :) Semi auto in an smg like this is basically an interruption of the auto cycle, they'll shoot till they run out of ammo. Still, hard to believe and would be hazardous to the health of the guy throwing.

Grizz
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That same is true of ANY open bolt gun. But then how do you get the mag into the gun and throw it without the mag dumping before it leaves your hand?

You could take all the trigger mechanism guts out put it on SAFE using the notch, load, throw it, and HOPE it hits butt-first with enough momentum for the cocking handle to jump out of the notch.

9 times out of 10, such a gun wold NOT go off, and you'll just alert the bad guys to your presence so they can come out and shoot your now-unarmed @ss. Not smart.
 
Claven2 said:
That same is true of ANY open bolt gun. But then how do you get the mag into the gun and throw it without the mag dumping before it leaves your hand?
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A modified snare mechanism of some sort, maybe a trigger snare. It just about holds the cocking lever back, but is not drop safe. Only an idiot would do this, agreed.
Speaking of which, my mate got out of his car with a loaded Sterling, change lever on auto, bolt forward (1971, Ulster Defense Regiment). The cocking lever caught on his seat belt and put one round into his car. He was fined soon, after, but everybody agreed it was funny.
 
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A modified snare mechanism of some sort, maybe a trigger snare. It just about holds the cocking lever back, but is not drop safe. Only an idiot would do this, agreed.
Speaking of which, my mate got out of his car with a loaded Sterling, change lever on auto, bolt forward (1971, Ulster Defense Regiment). The cocking lever caught on his seat belt and put one round into his car. He was fined soon, after, but everybody agreed it was funny.
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And that would not be a shortcoming in the design or manufacture of the SMG causing a negligent discharge but be held up as operator error and poor handling drills during the follow up investigation.
 
I have a CA Mk2 sten that hasn't seen the light of day since 2005 (at a range that is thankyou lieberal govt)
 
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