what where the sten guns like to play with..

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Actually my favourites. Easy to put to put together, easy to transport or hide when not assembled, easy to use, easy to clean. Of course the accuracy isn't perfect but it was a robust gun

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wos there range of the bullets any good at all 100.200 hundred yards??

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The British tested a Sten at 300 yards and discovered that the bullet was well able to deliver a lethal wound.

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On my Honey (Stuart turretless) tank we used to use the Thompson Sub Machine Gun (Tommygun) as a weapon for nightime guard duty as this was considered more effective than our Smith & Wesson pistols.

I never ever fired it in anger but was able to get some practice in when I was at the RAC Training Depot in Rieti (Italy).

I only ever used the 30 Browning on one occasion when I nearly killed our driver !

ps
I must now go and find the link to the story !
Found it !
BBC - WW2 People's War - Diary Entries 11th April 1945
I see the same story mentions my Tank Commander using a Tommy Gun

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Not really ............

Turretless, perhaps

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North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Austria, Egypt & Germany.
My units were the: 49th Light Ack Ack Rgt.RA and
The 4th Queen's Own Hussars.

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Hello All,

One 45 caliber weapon called a reising from the early days of the war wasn't too handy, the bolt had to be cocked from under the forearm if I remember, it was no substitute for a Thompson, looked a bit like the lowest bidder won the contract for that one. Latter part of '44 the "grease guns" were showing up in the Philippines, I wasn't very impressed by those either.

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wos the tommy gun better ther the sten or the other way around

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The Thompson was much more solidly built than the Sten, but the downside was that it was much heavier. OK for vehicle crews to have, not so much fun for footsloggers.

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i have a video/ slideshow of some of the weapons of ww2 just search my username shockwavesoldier

Jack I've heard of jamming and a gooing of the grease guns in the Pacific. My father in law though serving on a sub tender had them aboard as they would get on-shore from time to time .....

My friend found a luger bullet casing in the woods in northern virginia were i live, very odd that you could find that there

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Going from poor memory IIRC the M3 was still issued for M1 tank crewman years back.

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Why would that be odd? 9mm Parabellum (aka Luger) is one of the most common pistol rounds in the United States. There are literally tens of thousands of guns that fire that round in use in the US today.

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you should have it dated. if it predates the beretta 92, then it is rare. after ww1, gun buffs brought back lugers and discovered they made excellent trail and hunting sidearms. what could be weirder than a cowboy or a mountain man holding a luger?

My big question is how come you guys don't say any thing about the FG-42 paratrooper rifle used by few German paratroopers

Its mentioned in posts #10 and #11.

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Hello fellas,

One of the comments mentioned a Thompson being heavy, not at all as far as I was concerned. In '42 I carried a BAR over the Owen Stanley mountain range to Buna from Port Morsby, 19 lbs. plus web gear and magazines, when the shooting starts it didn't seem heavy enough.

One thing to note, over in the Islands the bipod was one of the first things to get rid of, as well as that hinged butt plate that was designed to rest on the top of your shoulder when firing from the prone position, both were items that rattled and caught in the brush and vegetation. I wore my magazine belt up side down with one magazine in each of the front pouches so they would drop into my free hand standing, kneeling, or laying down, I could drop and swap one very quickly.

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How much amnunition did you try to carry at any given time?

Did the bipod tend to hang up in foliage or were you getting rid of weight on the end of the barrel? or both?

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I'm sorry Erich I missed your question,

I was only around a few of the grease guns, the one I fired had a very slow rate of fire, it would be better than nothing at all, just not my cup of tea, so to speak. I carried a number of different Thompson's, they carry well, they point and shoot well, and the only one that gave me trouble had the forearm shot off and the projectile went on to split the magazine and jam it in the weapon.

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Hello Jeff,

Both were items that rattled and caught in the brush and vegetation, about a pound or so of weight, making noise was more the problem.

I think there were six or eight pouches which would hold two clips each, but you could not pull them out quickly or quietly, the web belt fully packed was like wearing a deep sea diver's lead belt, much too heavy and clumsy to carry that much. Some freckled face Pvt. behind you was the best way to carry extra ammo.

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