Sterling SMG (MarkIV Police Carbine)

SparkyWonderDawg said:
Holy Crap, Just had a flash back to when I was a very young lad.
My daddy was a police officer and so was my granddaddy.
I rember going down to 52 Division in Toronto and playing with all of the ETF's firearms.
That was back in the good old days whne it was ok for an officer to bring thier children down to the police range and teach them to shoot. Anyways my dad was a member of ETF back the and used either a sterling or short barell 12guage as his weapon of choice.
I remember blasting off mag after mag of that old smg.
Good times.
Didn't realize those SMG's were kicking around.

Now it's my turn, and I take my lad shooting the C-8's and mini-14's.
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These are the kinds of family traditions the Liberals want to end. :mad:
 
Strangeday said:
Has anyone seen parts for these kicking around.
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Seems like a guy has to buy them when he can find them. Normally it is SMG C1 parts that come my way, but fortunately they pretty much all fit the sterling PC. I prefer the Canadian bolt, it's much simpler to install.

IMA in the US has the origional sterling bolts for $49.99 each, but doesn't deal with the export permits so won't ship to Canada.

For trigger mechs, OGT has Canadian ones modified to semi-auto. They are the cheaper stamped type compared to the SS sterling trigger mech that comes with these guns.
 
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There is a police carbine that is restricted. We had a discussion about it a few months back, and a gentleman pointed out that the police carbine was restricted. I looked it uo on my FRT files and dam he was correct.

I had a new one from OTG years ago, and it was way ahead of the Canadian one. It had a hollow bolt with a buffer inside that made it feel like a 22 when you shot it. I was nagged by a guy that wanted it, and he made me a cash deal that I couldn't resist. Then he showed it to his buddies and one of them broke into his house and took all of his hand guns and the Sterling. I always regretted selling it.
I would love to get another one, someday I will.
 
I had a new one from OTG years ago. I always regretted selling it.
I would love to get another one, someday I will.
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At $725 NIB, yes, it was a steal & definitely a mistake to sell.

And I doubt we'll ever see another one up for sale without breaking the bank.
 
I have one complete with the bayonet and it is by far my favorite "SMG" over anything else I have. I know of one other that may be for sale but you should expect to pay around $3500 for it.
 
Mine was 3k.. unfired with bayo and one real solid mag, built like a tank.

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I traded a dozen dewat mk2 stens for mine. It's actually the second one I have owned; the first one I sold to the shooting edge years ago. Serial numbers between the two were just 3 apart, so I guess they came from the same import batch.
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Heres mine with the bayonet, and the 10 and 32 round Cdn magazines.
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This photo is from last December's battle of the bulge held here in Shilo. Don't worry about the glove over the ejection port, it was cold enough that the fingers were curled up inside the glove. The gun is very accurate when used for what it was meant for....close range targets. It's not so dependable at over 200 yards.
Nice thing about the sterling is it will use the cheap sten mags. I cut the sten mags down to 5 rounds, so I can carry lots into these competitions without having to carry the un-used 25 round portion of the magazine.

Last (restricted only) police carbine sterlings I saw for sale were both around/over the $3000 mark. One was on Gunscanada auction about a year or so ago, and did not sell during it's run on the site.

It's fun guns like these that inspire a guy to do what he can to keep them. A semi-auto ban would likely turn it into a paperweight. And even if they did grandfather the semi-autos, whats to say they won't eventually bone us like they did to the F/A and C/A guys. The sterling was made to shoot. :)
 
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I picked that Guns Canada gun up... I havn't fired it yet. I bought 5 of the Canadian mags but the factory mag that came with it is unreal, heavy and so solid, with rollers. I don't have any of the "10"(5) rounders though but I remember them from my very first days in the army.
 
Pistol Pete said:
I picked that Guns Canada gun up... I havn't fired it yet. I bought 5 of the Canadian mags but the factory mag that came with it is unreal, heavy and so solid, with rollers. I don't have any of the "10"(5) rounders though but I remember them from my very first days in the army.
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Good for you. I wondered why it didn't get bids during the week that it was listed. They are such kool guns, and just the fact that they aren't prohibited while all the other sterling/patchett series right up to the mk9 are prohibited just goes to show how the firearms classification system really is piecemeal and makes little sense.
 
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