Royal Marine Reacts To The Sten - It's a Toob, Innit?

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@revenantchild 12 дней назад

It may be primitive, it may just be a toob, but that primitive toob has done alot of work for the British army and it's allies.

@landonhall4875 12 дней назад

Don’t forget the grease toob

@revenantchild 12 дней назад

@@landonhall4875 Ah yes, the M3 Grease Gun forty-five caliber never sounded so good. Cost effective and still very viable.

@DJWeapon8 12 дней назад

@@revenantchildTOOBs make, pound-for-pound, some of the best combat SMGs.

@redmist6630 11 дней назад

me talking about my beautiful pipe bombs that the judge described as "improvised" explosives

@proudofyourroots9575 4 дня назад

Nah, its a Tube, Toob is how the yanks say it. Past Doo. Toob. Twosday. They hate U's lmao

@ExUSSailor 12 дней назад

The Sten's the perfect ecample of "good enough for government work". It NEVER would have been accepted in peacetime, but, in the mud, blood, and, filth of combat, it was cheap, quick to manufacture, and, it went "BANG" when you pulled the trigger.

@Darwinist 12 дней назад

It was also perfect for sending to Resistance outfits on the continent, since it was *so* compact when disassembled, it could be hidden basically anywhere and the ammunition it used was also being used by the Germans.

@mykalpennings5968 6 дней назад

@@Darwinist it wasnt very reliable as the Czech resistance found out in the attempt on Reinhard Heydrich in Prague

@surplus3728 12 дней назад

How Brandon gets his MG's are one of two ways: Option 1.) He buys them outright. Anyone with the funds and an extensive background check can purchase automatic weapons made before the 1986 NFA ban. It essentially limited all autos in the country to those that existed at the time. These guns are called "Transferables." This is by far the more expensive option as "cheap" automatics still run for around $10-15k minimum. Your more desirable weapons will be tens of thousands more. Option 2.) He builds them. Brandon and/or his company has a type of license called an SOT, or Special Occupational Taxpayer. It allows his company to, among other things, build "post-sample" machine guns from widely available (and quite cheap) parts kits, as well as other NFA items like suppressors or making a short barreled rifle/shotgun. Excepting the military or law enforcement, the MG's that an SOT builds can never be sold or transferred to anyone who isn't also an SOT.

@robertkoonce8365 12 дней назад

Not exactly correct. A post sample gun can be sold, but only to another class3 dealer that also has an SOT. This is how the number of post dealer samples doesn't diminish thru attrition. So, if you want to spend the $3k every 3 to 5 years as well as pay the $3k tax stamp price, you too can buy or build just about anything you want to build. Ain't America grand?

@surplus3728 12 дней назад

@@robertkoonce8365I feel like I said that in my last sentence, but perhaps it wasn't clear enough. There's plenty of other nuances, of course. The ATF can't have anything be **too** simple now.

@eclipsegst9419 12 дней назад

@@robertkoonce8365 Freemen don't ask permission :)

@edm240b9 12 дней назад

You’re correct about all of these things. That being said, I’ve seen Sten guns and Reisings go for under $10k. I’ve seen Stens go for $6k-$7k.

@eclipsegst9419 12 дней назад

@@surplus3728 Freemen don't ask permission

@wadephillips3887 12 дней назад

He gets all of these through connections in the firearms business as well as a crippling gun broker addiction

@BilisiFunfun 11 дней назад

Germans: "Superior German engineering." Brits with Sten and Americans with Greasegun: "He He, toob."

@proudofyourroots9575 4 дня назад

Nah, its a Tube, Toob is how the yanks say it. Past Doo. Toob. Twosday. They hate U's lmao

@akkermanrik 12 дней назад

14:00 because the decision was if you lay flat you wont have the magazine sticking into the ground and you can lay flat with it

@timmooney7528 12 дней назад

I think most viewers overlook the prone position probably being the most common shooting position a soldier taking cover would take

@Docktavion 12 дней назад

@@timmooney7528too many movies never explore it.

@wozzablog 6 дней назад

Came here to say this. Yup. It's a long magazine that would just dig in to the ground

@wittsullivan8130 12 дней назад

Forgotten Weapons has done deep dive videos on the STEN in general and the various versions of them. STEN stands for Shepherd (Major Reginald V.), Turpin (Harold J.), and ENfield (built in the Enfield factory). Shepherd and Turpin were well known and very experienced gun designers. It was basically getting Mozart and Beethoven to jam together and see what they came up with. The Mk 1 was slightly more complicated, the Mk 3 had a better stock, and the Mk 4 had a wooden stock and forearm, the least numerous and most valuable model. The STEN magazine is super reliable, the basis for the Sterling magazine, Uzi magazine, and inspired other magazines, along with the US M1 Grease gun subgun magazine. There were a few blowback subguns before and during WW1, but a lot of them were meticulously machined which made them really expensive. Basically, you could go to a well stocked DIY store like Lowes, Home Depot, or Tractor Supply Company and buy all the tools and parts you need to build one.

@jacobwhitley2895 12 дней назад

I’ve been able to use a British Sten twice, fun gun! I believe the mag was on the side to make it easy to shoot from a trench? You can set the gun right on the edge and keep your head low. If the mag was at the bottom you’d have to peek up higher to here over the trench. Anyway simple is good. Easier to fix, cheap to make, clever.

@eddiel7635 2 дня назад

I think it was firing from prone and cover in general rather than trench.

@md_vandenberg 12 дней назад

You'll find that Brandon's piss-takes are in direct relation to whether the gun he's using is any good. STEN? 3 piss-takes. The SA80? Fuck, we'd be here all day.

@azurehorizon6097 6 дней назад

One thing I find funny is the Germans made a copy of the Sten in 1945 since they needed cheap weaponry, they made the Volkssturmgewehr and the Einstossflammenwerfer but they also made the MP-3008 which is a Sten, but with the magazine facing downwards like it was a normal Sten in storage mode.

@The_Phobose_Show 9 дней назад

If I remember correctly, the US was going to supply the UK with a ton of Thompson SMGs and it was rejected because some ww1 vet General was concerned about the mags hanging off the bottom. Said in trench warfare the mags would get damaged or dirty and could compromise the position of the user (the Thompson was super expensive too)

@wozzablog 6 дней назад

The Tommy gun was also monumentally expensive which was a big factor

@afriendlycadian9857 4 дня назад

i was more so the price was very expensive for thompsons more than that ww1 general it was obvious we would have to pay for them

@TheFaceStabber 3 дня назад

For decades, I have described it as a tail pipe with some gun parts thrown at it. It was a very crude weapon, even compared to the M3 Grease gun.

@Darwinist 12 дней назад

The Sten gun was designed to be as simple as possible not just to bring down costs, but to make it so the entire weapon could be made using the most common machining and stamping tools available at the time, so all kinds of metal fabrication shops could crank it out, not just dedicated gunsmithing outfits. This means you can, at least in theory make your own Sten if you have really any machining skills at all and the most rudimentary equipment. Rifling the barrel would be the only thing that would present even a little bit of a challenge.

@md_vandenberg 12 дней назад

I've heard that there were blokes in bicycle repair shops making pieces. If someone had technical know-how, they were involved. The very epitome of "For King and Country".

@Anino_Makata 12 дней назад

The design and manufacturing of the Sten had only gotten cheaper and simpler to make, too. There were five generations of Sten guns altogether, the Mk. III being the most recognizeable and the one demoed by Brandon here. But the Mk. IV is easily the cheapest, as it was designed and made in-house by a toy company that worked with sheet metal. The Mk. III was cheap because it was made mostly out of scrap cuts from Bren manufacturing, but the Mk. IV was all welded from sheet steel in construction. That model didn't really see action at the front lines, like any of the other Stens. Instead, they were relegated to the Home Guard.

@chrissouthgate4554 7 дней назад

The Mk I was manufactured by the Singer sewing machine factory.

@lukemendel8197 6 дней назад

Isn’t a smooth bore Sten just a Luty with quality control?

@Darwinist 6 дней назад

@@lukemendel8197 Lol. Pretty much.

@brycealthoff8092 7 дней назад

Brandon didn’t talk about it here, but the Brits also made a version of this gun with an integrated suppressor for the super sneaky commando types. Not many of those were made though and I don’t know is any still exist.

@ZerkaiGG 6 дней назад

As Zach Hazard has said, "If it's a WW2 gun, they were ALL OVER the place in the Middle East!" There are a LOT of Sten guns still out there, especially since there were incredibly cheap to make and maintain.

@mrjackpots1326 11 дней назад

The correct way to hold the Sten was to grip the barrel sleeve. Holding the magazine caused stress on the magazine catch leading to misalignment of the magazine resulting in stoppages.

@DivusMagus 12 дней назад

I absolutely love the simplicity of the Sten and the Grease Gun. They are very similar and clearly a product of necessity but there is something strangely beautiful about their steam punk vibe.

@OriginalLictre 5 дней назад

I'd say it was 4 times he got a zap in on the British. The fourth was the comment that the British had been taking lessons from the French in dropping their weapon and running away.

@TaZ101SAGA 12 дней назад

14:15 It was done this way so the shooter could maintain a lower profile when prone.

@tenofprime 11 дней назад

That it what it so often not thought of, having an extended magazine can make positioning in combat hard.

@mykalpennings5968 6 дней назад

The direct blowback submachine gun is so simple that UK citizen Philip Luty made several homemade examples in his garage using only parts from a local hardware store and published his designs in a book and online. The home office did NOT like this one bit.

@kurokaiman6198 11 дней назад

quick fun fact, if you click on a blank space on any video that does write anything when you type, then type the word "awesome", the loading bar will begin to flash

@GallifreyanGunner 7 дней назад

A few points: The proper way to hold the sten for aimed shots is like a regular rifle - front hand holding the barrel shroud. Holding the magwell/mag increased the likelihood of a jam. The magazine was on the side to help with ejection as the mag spring wasn't fighting gravity AND, when prone, the long magazine didn't stick into the ground.

@ashleystyles6888 12 дней назад

Still being used in 1957. My father was a RAF armourer. I have a photo of him, in Singapore, having a beer with his Enfield No4 propped up against a tree.

@markaxworthy2508 3 дня назад

I had one in Rhodesia in 1978-79. I once dropped it while unlocking the gate of the farm security fence and it ran away for several shots. I was told this was because it didn't have the right 9mm rounds to throw the working parts far enough back to catch.

@CloudFever 12 дней назад

My favourite call of duty 2 gun,for no reason

@hadrianbuiltawall9531 2 дня назад

The main reason the Sten jammed was people holding the magazine. The correct way was to hold it around the shroud just in front of the ejection port. This is why one of the variants had a grip fitted under the barrel in the hope that people would stop holding the magazine.

@Bottle-OBill 5 дней назад

The Sten was side-feed for the same reason the Bren and Owen runs were top-feed. The prone position!

@geordiegeorge9041 5 дней назад

One of my personal weapons during my time serving was the Stirling smg , a modern Sten.

@royboy69rt 12 дней назад

He does get some from Rock Island armory auctions. Check em out. They have almost anything to choose from. Depends on what is in the auctions. They also have an extensive collection.

@bonaggy 7 дней назад

You have to remember that the STEN was designed and delivered on a very specific, very urgent, need. We required an SMG that was cheap and simple as could be. It would rearm not just the British Army, but be dropped into occupied territories to supply allied resistance movements to help them fight off their occupiers. Hence, it was designed to use the 9mm, so the resistance groups could raid German ammo stores. It isn’t the best, granted, but we did continue to develop it. We’ve certainly seen more reliable designs, true: the Australian Owen Gun, the Polish Błyskawica, and Russia’s PPS-43. The main factors were simplicity, speed, and volume. A gunsmith once told me; you can have great, but it will be slow and expensive. You can have cheap and quick, but it won’t be great. There is no process to have quick, cheap, and great. The design committee for the STEN were going to be against any design that required lengthy processing, or complicated cuts. The Germans were not going to give us time to retool. So they, as I’m sure other commenters have said, settled for “it’s good enough.” In the spirit of Patton; “a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” That kind of mentality. To be honest, my favourite weapon design of WW2 is another example of British engineering, the DeLisle Carbine. I recommend you check it out. Great reaction. Keep up the great work.

@Stevarooni 12 дней назад

Simplicity is great for a machine gun. Cheaper parts, easier to make, and it has fewer places it can go wrong.

@Seafish84 12 дней назад

You should watch a video on the MP18 as it is widely considered to be the first submachine gun and predates this one by 20 years. They are very close to each other in operation and construction its kind of wild. It is honestly, one of those weapons of WW1 that if it had been created a year earlier could have changed so much. Both Forgotten Weapons and C&Rsenal have amazing videos on depending on how in depth you want. C&Rsenal has one they shoot by the way.

@treywall9078 7 дней назад

“Where does he get these guns?” America baby! We’ve got them in every era

@jrfailma 11 часов назад

the reason for the magazine on the side was for the user to go really low when firing in the prone position.

@Broadsword999 11 дней назад

Ian at Forgotten Weapons just did a set of video's on the whole Sten family and all the British issue sub guns.

@user-zu4io9qi5e 11 дней назад

As for your question about the STENs lasting ability, well, they are still used around the world 80 plus years later. He has one in really decent condition.

@checkityhold 10 дней назад

I think you are right about the reason for the sideways magazine design, to assist with reliability. I think the Sten is reliable. Any automatic firearm can jam. Clearing a malfunction is just par for the course.

@robertwalker7454 7 дней назад

The germans at the end of world war two did create a version of the stin that looked like it was in storage, And I would say it worked pretty good

@mikethompson2650 3 дня назад

My local Texas gun store/range has one for rent. On my birthday I wanted to shoot it, was born in England so hell why not. But the Sten had magazine feed problems, major sadness.

@Robertlynschultz 8 дней назад

Brandon is a legitimate arms manufacturer and holds all the licenses…

@m2hmghb 12 дней назад

The nice thing about the sten was how easy it was to decentralize manufacture. You could have little shops all over a city making different parts taking them to other small shops where they assembled them without having the risk of a massive factory being a "shoot me" sign. The sten was not the most reliable or accurate - it was just "good enough". The Mk 5 was when they started trying to improve the reliability but that wasn't until 44. I'd rather have an M3 "grease gun" over it, and an MP 40 over either. (no thank you to the thompson - that is a heavy mother trucker).

@wittsullivan8130 12 дней назад

Shooters and collectors bought and brought pallets of them to the US after WW2. A lot of them came over as "parts kits" where they were cut with a torch and sold as scrap (but the barrels were full of gun "scrap". Then they could be shipped to the US, since it was scrap metal at that point. Before 1986, anyone who was 21 years old with no felonies could dig through a pile of parts and put the parts that fit best together like a puzzle, fill out the paperwork for the background check, pay the tax, and get to weldin' and they had a "brand new" STEN gun. After 1986, you can still buy a parts kit and figure out how to make it closed bolt semi-auto only and have a pistol (without a stock or with a brace) or a short barreled rifle unless you had a pipe welded to the barrel to make legally a 16" barrel. After 1986, only licensed machine gun dealers or manufacturers can build a fully functional STEN out of a parts kit or bits and bobs, just like they did when they developed it. :) Even though the supply is constantly dwindling from collectors snatching them up and the guns wearing out beyond repair, STEN guns are still one of the least expensive options to get into the machine gun collecting and shooting sphere, under $10,000 depending on the model and other details. MAC-10's and its derivatives are still sort of affordable, about $12,000 more or less, again, depending on the details. The only reason STEN's aren't worth as much is people have figured out how to make the M-16 "we have at home" using attachments for MAC submachineguns where they can add an upper receiver that takes AR-15 and M-16 upper receivers onto it. It's clunky, but a LOT cheaper than paying over $20,000 for an actual M-16 or legally converted AR-15 from the mid-80's or older. Any new machinegun you see on TV or movies (made after May, 1986), an average person cannot have. Age is NOT just a number. :(

@edwardsummey8843 12 дней назад

From what I heard, the magazine was put to the side to allow troops to fire prone while remaining lower to the ground.

@billlovell5185 10 дней назад

From what I have read, the magazine was placed horizontally to allow for it to be more readily rested or braced on something like a vehicle or sandbags. Also to make it easier to fire prone. In practice, this turned out to be rare.

@SuperTyrannical1 12 дней назад

I think the side loading is for the same reason as the bren gun. The idea being that the optimal firing position was prone, and so this in theory meant reloading would be easier.

@Darth.Fluffy 11 дней назад

The Sten was good enough. It worked

@Beuwen_The_Dragon 12 дней назад

Toob is simple. Toob needs to make a comeback in British life.

@TheJimprez 12 дней назад

We had Sterlings when I was in the CAF (1980s-1090s). Basically, an upgraded Sten, with better everything. BUT it was still just a tube, with a spring pushing a breech block with a permanent firing pin that didn't retract into a recess. That became a real issue one fine day at the range when a corporal whose name I'll keep quiet, forgot all of his stopage drills. He used a screwdriver to get the stuck 9mm out, but somehow let go of the cocking lever, so the pin hit the primer, and a guy about 20 feet away (YES! He was actually aiming the barrel at us ...) and hit him with one of the luckiest shots I've ever seen. He hit the kid in the hand, and grazed one third of the inside and outside of three fingers. He was reloading mags, and had a weird hold on it that probably saved all three of those fingers. It's hard to explain without a drawing. NOTHING happened to that dumb and incompetent corporal, and the driver got lost trying to get out of the range in CFB Petawawa, so it took hours to get to the base clinic and get transferred to NDMC in Ottawa. A REAL shiatshow... The Sten AND the Sterling were BOTH unsafe weapons...

@hukaman88 12 дней назад

When in doubt return to toob

@ianjardine7324 12 дней назад

The sten is probably one of the most affordable and accessible guns ever produced we Brit's build millions during the war as did many others including hidden workshop's in german occupied territories with some small scale production in remote areas still being done today. I think the universal love for the sten comes from the fact it never pretended to be anything other than what it was a cheap way to throw lead in your enemies general direction but good enough to get the job done at close range.we were dropping them all over France Belgium Poland ect. While the yanks were dropping the "liberator" pistol and if you want to see just how bad a gun can be check out that abomination not only was it more dangerous to the user than any enemy but it used 45ACP a calibre not available much outside of the US because 'murica I guess.

@lauriea2971 12 дней назад

I love using the sten

@thewinterprince1731 7 дней назад

"Where does he get these weapons from?" I can answer that. You may not know this (somehow), but the US has very lax gun laws that have only recently been under heavy controversy. There are many ways to legally import or build firearms in the US, as well as many gun stores, auctions, etc. Even Walmart has a gun section as part of its hunting/camping/outdoorsman section. Frankly, I'm all for it, though I do believe gun laws need just a slight revision to require licenses to own or weild guns, with potential for a pardon if it was some sort of self defense emergency. The license should be fairly easy to get, cheap and only requiring one to take a short one-time class on gun safety and gun use.

@nightraptor22 6 дней назад

“I support the 2nd Amendment, but…” renders your opinion null and void. You either support the right to keep and bear arms, or you do not, there is no in-between. Your proposal of a license, no matter how ‘easy’ to obtain, is the sort of thing that already exists in certain areas, and leads to outright denials. Let’s use a different right… You enjoy using the internet, and are free to espouse your opinion online, and barring certain things, are free to say whatever you want. Now imagine, the government has said that you can still do so, but you have to take a small test and once passed, are free to use whatever language you want, at your discretion. Sounds good, right? Well, what happens when you can’t take the class because the system is down, or when the test is graded by someone who doesn’t believe you should be able to say bad words or things that they don’t agree with? Now they can just change the rules to keep you from using the internet. A real world example is New York City. You can technically get a permit there, but the process is so draconian, and the laws so unjust, that it’s illegal for you to even touch a handgun at a gun store in the city if you don’t have the permit. Imagine if you weren’t even allowed to use the keyboard on your computer on the internet without the permit. The founding fathers knew what would happen if they didn’t protect the right of the people to keep and bear arms. As a country, we literally fought the best, most well trained army on the planet, who were so good at fighting they wore high visibility redcoats and would win, and we beat them. While I may disagree with your opinion, I believe you have the right to say it, and will gladly defend your right to do so, no matter how much I disagree with it. I’m a constitutional absolutist, and if anyone wants to make changes, there is a process for it. I would challenge you or anyone else who may think similarly to look at what happens when you grant even a modicum of power to authority. I hope maybe you will dive into the nuances around such things and maybe change your opinion. ☮️

@CharlieFoxtrot128 12 дней назад

Holding it by Grabbing around the shroud was the proper way to hold the sten as per the British military.

@user-zw4fm1hy3n 12 дней назад

I heard that one of the specs was that they could be produced by the Underground.

@edm240b9 12 дней назад

Check out Ian on ForgottenWeapons, he did a series of videos on all the Sten variants, from the MKI to the MKV. He’s even shot a genuine Sten MKII(S). Don’t get me wrong, I like Brandon, but Ian is much better when it comes to learning about the nitty gritty about the history and mechanics of it.

@edm240b9 12 дней назад

14:14 the reason the Sten magazine is out of the side is due to it being based off of the Lanchester submachine gun, which was an earlier subgun used by the Royal Navy, but not the Army. The Sten itself is really just a Lanchester subgun with as much stuff stripped off of it to ease manufacture. The Lanchester itself is basically a reversed engineered MP28/II. All three of these weapons have the magazine feeding from the side. The reason the MKII Sten magwell rotates was for better storage and to also create a gun for paratroopers. Before the MKII was the MKI, which had a lot more features on it including a folding foregrip.

@Ol-T1864 3 дня назад

“Where did he get this from?” That’s what happens when you’re free of monarch bro lol God bless America

@TheMajorActual 12 дней назад

Like the Grease Gun, the Sten's only real problem was its magazines, which were frequently dodgy-AF. Simplicity works, which is why you still find WW2 Sten's fighting in odd places all over the world.

@Oddball_E8 5 дней назад

The actual doctrin way of gripping the Sten was actually around the barrel shroud, believe it or not. This is what was being taught at training.

@MeanLaQueefa 12 дней назад

🇬🇧 has the Sten 🇺🇸 has the grease gun

@ScarriorIII 12 дней назад

Administrative Results has 2 vids where he modernizes the sten and the sterling with mixed results. Also, he really screws with the Brits, so there's that.

@davidcanoy8579 12 дней назад

Brandon is a licensed gun dealer. He has a very expensive federal 🔥 arms license, as such he can buy things that are not normally available for purchase. But they love story time, and filming reactions... they have lots of toys any you really should go hang out with them, i would love to watch that stuff.

@babybel7924 12 дней назад

Forgotten Weapons has a realy good series of videos of all the sten variants

@edwardsummey8843 12 дней назад

You want to see him take the piss? Try the AR-180 video. He leans into The Troubles.

@locoloboxiii 12 дней назад

You sounded like The Joker, when he asked "Where does he get these wonderful toys?"

@BoricuaDBO 12 дней назад

I'm willing to bet that this weapon was the inspiration for the sub2000. It's functionally the same but with a pistol grip and different magazine location

@CharlieFoxtrot128 12 дней назад

Probably not specifically. Most sub guns operate from direct blowback, the sten operating mechanism is not unique in anyway

@muppeteer 7 дней назад

its offspring the sterling SMG was my personal weapon in the army...come in ya pants when emptying a mag on auto...coolest thing I ever fired. Handle it with care or it was likely to kill the user first, it had a habit of firing if you banged it on anything, unfortunate due to it mostly being issued to troops in armoured vehicles or support units, lots of banging around in a AFV

@Mountain8ear 11 дней назад

$11 for a Sten in 1940 would translate to about $240 today.

@michaelbracho3956 6 дней назад

Still relatively cheap, but I would rather have something more reliable

@robpayne1956 12 дней назад

What I can tell you is that those tee shirts are made by bunker branding Matt and Mere's business that they have built from literally nothing. The shirt designs are by no means cheap and they last a long time with the prints intact I have had one for 2 years now and it's still bright and colorful as it ever was. The best part is there is no tag in the back to drive you nuts. Get in touch with any of them they will respond to you. The nice thing is all the US guntubers support one another and have for years. It's one of the major ways that they have all become so popular. That and the fact that they are all genuine nice people.

@edm240b9 12 дней назад

Also at 11:40, that was just a glitch in the trailer. The Battlefield 1 announcement trailer had a similar glitch with the pump Winchester M1897 Trench Gun clipping into the reciever. It’s not as noticeable, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

@Max-ep5ir 11 дней назад

It's a fohken chewb, innit?

@MythicFool 12 дней назад

5:43 I spy a sneaky 'Joe Medicine Crow' video tab up there. One of the more amazing stories from The War, in my opinion.

@ianjardine7324 12 дней назад

The Sten's reliability was highly dependent on having consistent ammunition and magazines as well as skilled armourers in theatre to prep them. The armourers would test each gun then adjust the recoil spring by cutting off enough that he gun would cycle reliably with the issued ammo in the prevalent conditions. If the issued ammo was under powered or they hadn't cut enough of the spring the gun could fail to feed but if the spring was too short or the ammo was over filled the breech would open to early causing split casings and all sorts of ejection problems. The early production magazine's often suffered with weak springs due to rushed production and supply issues but mounting the mag sideways made the magazine springs less prone to cause firing issues. The tolerance on the mainspring ajustment was fairly wide but bad ammo combined with extremely cold or hot weather would cause issues.

@ExUSSailor 12 дней назад

If it won't for the brave, stalwart actions of the French rear guard units holding the beaches at Dunkerque, the entire BEF would have been wiped out before they could have been evacuated.

@arthurhucksake2665 12 дней назад

You are correct, of course. The sheer tenacity and bravery of the French military in the face of overwhelming odds in that action is so overlooked that it is criminal- and that's coming from a British guy.

@gunnargundersen3787 8 дней назад

A brand new Thompson SMG in 1940 cost $250. A sten cost £2 which was $8. Thereby you could have 31 Sten's or 1 Thompson. Not exactly a tough choice. Interestingly enough, the MK 4 which was coming in late 43 used Lee Enfield stocks and bayonet mounts so it got a lot more comfortable. Less dangerous to the user as they solved the slamfire issue of the mk 2. And you got a pig sticker bayonet so in the end it wasn't bad.

@jacobs.9230 12 дней назад

Those shirts are availible still, Bunker Branding is the one that his merch is thru, "the AK guy" along with a bunch of other creators have their merch thru them

@alistairevans1428 12 дней назад

If he doesn't like the sideways magazine, then don't show him the Aussie Owen Gun 👀

@eddiel7635 2 дня назад

You can’t fire from prone with the magazine at horizontal, it’s for special forces.

@jenksie2094 6 часов назад

Brandon has a crippling gun broaker addiction.

@m2hmghb 12 дней назад

To be fair you only needed the US to save you twice thus far.

@stonegiant4 12 дней назад

I had a veteran friend of mine tell me a story where his unit found a stash of weapons in Iraq including one sten with a homebrewd suppressor and a red dot mounted on the suppressor. Lol

@robertwalker7454 7 дней назад

Fun fact this was cheaper to make then the M3 grease gun. M3A1: $15~ Sten Gun: $10-$12, during their times

@Snowtail07 12 дней назад

You need to check out Brandon's video about the 9mm lutty another iconic British gun

@dannynaylor5485 12 дней назад

Great video's dude. I'm not sure if it's the sten or another toob gun, but one of them, you can put a DD battery in the back of it to up the cyclic rate. Brandon or Garand maybe even both have a video of it.

@CharlieFoxtrot128 12 дней назад

The Swedish K. Garand thumb and admin have a video on it. Not Brandon

@dannynaylor5485 12 дней назад

@@CharlieFoxtrot128 I knew someone would know lol

@mymartianhome 3 дня назад

He would get a lot fewer stoppages if he held the gun properly. Holding it by the magazine misalignd the receiver so you get the jams.

@hordegaming4771 10 дней назад

If you think the Stens recoil spring is large, check out the MP40s lol. It's, hard to explain like a very long segmented captive needle that goes through almost the entire receiver and through the bolt. It's weird but it's design does mean you feel, practically no recoil when firing it. Seriously if you struggle to fire an MP40 even one handed I'd laugh at you 😂😂

@manualuser 12 дней назад

Just now realizing the lack of grip.

@tadeuszprzyszlak 12 дней назад

he buys them like everyone else.

@Some_who_call_me_Tiim День назад

Battle of Britain was RAF and you know it.

@checkityhold 10 дней назад

Simple but extremely effective, light weight. What more could you ask for?

@Nomad59696 8 дней назад

We need a Bobby-basic counter

@Whiteknight-xg2pq 12 дней назад

Toob. I love the Sten/Stearling and A1/A3 Grease guns but I'll do you one better OH, you want British pride watch his Luty video. The one made by a crazy diamond who in short said, "fuck parliament for taking our guns watch this shit."

@tarmaque 12 дней назад

Personally I'd rather have a Sterling than a Sten, but you can't deny how cheap the Sten was to manufacture in volume. Then again, of all the "cheap, stamped" sub guns I think the M2 Grease Gun is my favorite. Simple and cheap to make, simple to operate, relatively rugged, and they literally used them all the way to Desert Storm for tank crews. (Edit: Go watch the _Forgotten Weapons_ video on the M2 and M2A1)

@CharlieFoxtrot128 12 дней назад

M3 grease gun, not M2. And the Sterling was the post war replacement for the sten. So yeah everyone would probably take it over the sten.

@tarmaque 12 дней назад

@@CharlieFoxtrot128 My mistake. M3. I like the Sterling but you'r right. It's not the same era.

@tonyv2023 12 дней назад

Around four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41.

@wilomica 7 дней назад

So the Brits put the magazine on the side so you could fire it from the prone position easily. I know a few Canadian vets and I'm old enough to have asked questions like that.