At a time when the uk needed a light sub machine gun there was not much available the USA were producing Thompson but expensive and hard to get so the STEN was produced far from the best but simple cheap produced in great numbers dropped all over Europe for various resistance and partisans groups it was not a bad gun. It stayed in service well after WW2.
My dad was in the airborne and carried the MK5 sten which had a wooden stock and pistol grip under the front barrel. He loved it and never had any issues with its performance. I think he did say that they never filled the magazines up to the maximum as this did cause occasional jammings. He used it from Normandy to Palestine and I think it was still being used by the British army well into the 1950's.
Huge production during WWII, see other video on here, young girls making them in a factory.... the simplified Tube-Type cost just seven shillings and sixpence back then... I used one regularly during my National Service in Germany ..... the sten was prone to jamming.
Krásný video a pocta zbrani která pomohla vybojovat svobodu Evropy. Každý je zde samozřejmě odborník na zbraně..ať si melu co chcu hoveda. Sleduji vás léta chlapi.. Pokračujte a pritvrdte. V republice jste jedničky. 1! like a odběr
He was talking bollocks then. Small workshops only made basic non pressure bearing parts , they would not have any machine tools to mill, bore, rifle and heat treat the major components.
I fired the Sten Mk-II twice at a full-auto rental range. The first time they gave you an empty magazine and a box of ammo, but no loading tool. With the straight magazine design and stiff spring, I could only manually load about 18 rounds before my thumb started hurting to the point where I couldn’t seat anymore rounds. Even in short full-auto 3-round bursts, the under-loaded mag went way too quickly and was literally a pain to reload. The second time renting (after renting/firing the MP5A2 & Uzi SMG’s), three loaded magazines were provided, but the front sight post was missing so I had to improvise a sight picture by showing the forward tip of the heat shield at the bottom of the rear sight aperture hole and hold low on the target. I much preferred renting the Swedish Type-K after the Sten, which had a front sight and 3 each loaded 36-round magazines. Later in Las Vegas, I would rent the suppressed S&W M76 copy of the Swedish Type-K.
This is a myth. There are lots of Sten guns that you have to hold them by the mag to make them function more reliably sincr Sten guns are low-cost junk guns with poor manufacturing quality.
I like the simplicity of this gun and it's historical significance but I just can't get past the sideways magazine design. It seems that it would make the weapon cumbersome and the weight balance would be way off with a fully loaded magazine of 9mm on the left side of the gun.
Hold the frame, with your left hand, not the magazine. If you were meant to hold the magazine, they would have made the frame 2" longer, to relocate the clip to the bottom...
what barrel is that i haven't seen a mk2 barrel with the reduced diameter on the end, does that make it fit the mkv front sight and or bayonet, where did you get it?
He kept on firing single rounds by flicking the trigger. Why didn't he loose off long bursts of automatic fire by keeping the trigger down ? Was the gunner afraid the gun would jam?
I inherited one by default cause of the paper work to make it legal to have its been a night mare for a cool historical little weapon so to play it safe it has a special hideing place
Dont forget that the 1. version of the Sten is "not much worse" that "standard mp`s" in that time. It seems maybe people forget that the Sten on the video, and all its brother`s, is a Very simplified and skeletonazied version of the original. And they made a small fingernail-sized shield on later versions, this made it "difficult" to put fingers on the ejection-port, and could also deflected spent cartridges. It looks very easy to make or something similar. GolemasterCZ, if its interesting... About reliability to empy a mag, what I hear is mostly blamed on the Sten-magazines But the British Sterling is just a joy and with the Beretta M12. My Preciousesses........ Please dont comment on MP that`s maybe better and so. Those two are going with me till I die.
jaj ta zpomalená střelba a . . . . . . . vidím selektor střelby přepnutý na automat a jak zbraň opakuje cyklus bez potřeby pustit a stisknout spoušť teda si celkem zahráváte, ale všimnul jsem si toho asi jen já takže v poho jo jinak, máte v plánu zase nějaký speciál střelnice? celkem mě tato serie dost chybý
@@davidflorek2165Not true, assuming you're speaking of the US. They require registration and "tax stamps". Expect at least a year delay before you get approval.
@@murphroberts4891 Of course Iam not, Iam talking especially about Czech Republic (were this guy is from) and Slovakia. Asking for "automatic exception" here is pretty much waste of paper and hope.
I thought holding it by magazine would damage the gun? I always wondered why the Brits didn't change to the M3 sub machine gun or grease gun use by the US military? The M3 was cheap to make and a better weapon.
the uk were using the Thompson far to expensive so they create the sten you really have to love the design genius it exactly what a war economy should make another example was the liberty ship same idea cheap mass production i wounder if we could do the same thing today if needed ????/
Always warms the heart to see a German used second world war gun still in action. You can almost hear the screams and begging as it rips off multiple rounds
The magazine must not be held on firing , the correct hold is by the barrel nut ( shroud ) , that's what its there for. Stop making up crap and read the training pamphlets.
The maker's gave the British government an ultimatum, it can be cheap, it can be plentiful, or it can be reliable, choose 2 of 3, reliable didn't make it, it was war time
@@stephenle-surf9893 Yes, consider it were war time, Sten Gun was effective decision . I'm from Russia, i'm interesting the guns. I can put it in same line with Russian *ППС-42/43* (PPS 42/43) That someone in Russia could named as "working horse of WW2 in Red Army". Wich was even more often then PPSH-41. And let's back to Sten! It was made almost of a pipe, in early moders so i give a credit to engineers of Great Britain! *Very not bad!*
In fact it is a full auto, just a dude has set it on semi - check it's fire control position, probably saving on ammo - 1 shot = 1 EUR. Plus he holds it like a "noob" by the magazine.
@@LenartZajc So watch more, during shooting he isnt a noob. This shooting with holding magazine is only that to show that you have no control and recoil just move your gun in every direction
thanks for 0:01 now I know it's Very compact.. next to nowhere to put your hands on safely other than the magazine, ejecting brass beside the finger is an hazard..
There is a handguard just forward of the magazine well on the barrel. It is the proper way to shoot a Sten, The magazine above a turned up wrist, palm up on barrel shroud, never use the magazine as a grip. Another way is to grip only the magazine well.
@Alexander Challis Actually there isn't. But your hand is about 2" in front of the ejection port. Back in those days men were men and knew how to properly shoot a Sten. Ejecting brass wasn't a concern, but the enemy killing you was.
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At a time when the uk needed a light sub machine gun there was not much available the USA were producing Thompson but expensive and hard to get so the STEN was produced far from the best but simple cheap produced in great numbers dropped all over Europe for various resistance and partisans groups it was not a bad gun. It stayed in service well after WW2.
My dad was in the airborne and carried the MK5 sten which had a wooden stock and pistol grip under the front barrel. He loved it and never had any issues with its performance. I think he did say that they never filled the magazines up to the maximum as this did cause occasional jammings. He used it from Normandy to Palestine and I think it was still being used by the British army well into the 1950's.
Yeah im pretty sure they replaced it with the stirling which we used fo a good while
Lovely piece of kit for our Canadian soldiers in war 2! Cheap and easy to manufacture and small, light and deadly! I've always loved the STEN!
Sten gun is still in service till date in countries like India etc. It is being used by police and para- militaries. Great gun ever 👍
This is practically ASMR for gun lovers.
Huge production during WWII, see other video on here, young girls making them in a factory.... the simplified Tube-Type cost just seven shillings and sixpence back then... I used one regularly during my National Service in Germany ..... the sten was prone to jamming.
Should not hold the magazine, like any gun if looked after and used correctly it was fine.
It doesn't appear to be worth any more than that now. A piece of junk.
Well done for holding it correctly at the beginning and not by the magazine which almost everyone else does.
That lowkey sad music at the end of the vid explain alot about the gun
Krásný video a pocta zbrani která pomohla vybojovat svobodu Evropy. Každý je zde samozřejmě odborník na zbraně..ať si melu co chcu hoveda. Sleduji vás léta chlapi.. Pokračujte a pritvrdte. V republice jste jedničky. 1! like a odběr
Kromě toho atentátu na Heydricha byla ta zbraň úžasná.
If i remember right my late father told me they cost seven shillings to make and at a push a well equipped garage could knock them out.
He was talking bollocks then. Small workshops only made basic non pressure bearing parts , they would not have any machine tools to mill, bore, rifle and heat treat the major components.
@@snowflakemelter1172 most workshops do certainly have the right tools for heat treating and grinding
The standard load was 5x32=160 rounds + spares.
Put it full auto!
well if you read something abou Czech shooting ranger, you realise you can’t go full auto on most of them
I fired one a few years ago that had the happy switch and it was fun until i looked at how much i spent on ammo.
I fired the Sten Mk-II twice at a full-auto rental range. The first time they gave you an empty magazine and a box of ammo, but no loading tool. With the straight magazine design and stiff spring, I could only manually load about 18 rounds before my thumb started hurting to the point where I couldn’t seat anymore rounds. Even in short full-auto 3-round bursts, the under-loaded mag went way too quickly and was literally a pain to reload. The second time renting (after renting/firing the MP5A2 & Uzi SMG’s), three loaded magazines were provided, but the front sight post was missing so I had to improvise a sight picture by showing the forward tip of the heat shield at the bottom of the rear sight aperture hole and hold low on the target. I much preferred renting the Swedish Type-K after the Sten, which had a front sight and 3 each loaded 36-round magazines. Later in Las Vegas, I would rent the suppressed S&W M76 copy of the Swedish Type-K.
Awesome gun!
Dude, don't hold it from the magazine. It will jam.
This is a myth. There are lots of Sten guns that you have to hold them by the mag to make them function more reliably sincr Sten guns are low-cost junk guns with poor manufacturing quality.
With this music I can tell someone is feeling like a kid in the candy store lol.. I know I would feel the same
Just seeing that assembly clip makes me desperately want one of these
Wanderful gun
I like the simplicity of this gun and it's historical significance but I just can't get past the sideways magazine design. It seems that it would make the weapon cumbersome and the weight balance would be way off with a fully loaded magazine of 9mm on the left side of the gun.
mp 18 more have that proplem
But great for shooting prone.
the welds look good on that sten. I've seen crappy welds on some.
Very good Gun
The guns were used in the operation of day break in WWII in Czechoslovakia where the general Heydric Reinhard was assassinated.
Cool.
And they jammed when they tried to assassinate Heidrich in his car.
@@pimpompoom93726 well a modified anti-tank grenade did the job
Soweit ich weiß soll die sten eines der besten Waffen im 2ten Weltkrieg gewesen sein und auch danach
Hold the frame, with your left hand, not the magazine. If you were meant to hold the magazine, they would have made the frame 2" longer, to relocate the clip to the bottom...
Proper hold is by the barrel nut, not the magazine.
For a gun that was supposed to be very unreliable it seemed to work pretty well? As usual the unreliable reputation is probably exaggerated.
Ask the opinion of the WWII partisans who tried to assassinate SS General Heydrich with it.
It doesn't take many occasions of unreliability to ruin a person's day.
That said, many made the same accusation about the 1911, right?
Prachtig !
So, what is the mk II, and how does it differ from a mk V?
Very good good nice job
what barrel is that i haven't seen a mk2 barrel with the reduced diameter on the end, does that make it fit the mkv front sight and or bayonet, where did you get it?
He kept on firing single rounds by flicking the trigger. Why didn't he loose off long bursts of automatic fire by keeping the trigger down ? Was the gunner afraid the gun would jam?
I inherited one by default cause of the paper work to make it legal to have its been a night mare for a cool historical little weapon so to play it safe it has a special hideing place
Very nice example.
What’s the difference between mk2 n v x second does this jam alot
Dont forget that the 1. version of the Sten is "not much worse" that "standard mp`s" in that time. It seems maybe people forget that the Sten on the video, and all its brother`s, is a Very simplified and skeletonazied version of the original.
And they made a small fingernail-sized shield on later versions, this made it "difficult" to put fingers on the ejection-port, and could also deflected spent cartridges.
It looks very easy to make or something similar. GolemasterCZ, if its interesting...
About reliability to empy a mag, what I hear is mostly blamed on the Sten-magazines
But the British Sterling is just a joy and with the Beretta M12. My Preciousesses........
Please dont comment on MP that`s maybe better and so. Those two are going with me till I die.
You have never fired any of the weapons you claim to know about.
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The Sten is the most cool submachinegun ever.
Brother, I am asking from Bangladesh how much money it is
Manon, you came. There isn't much time, follow me and watch your back. Militia's are everywhere.
Verry good simple gunn
This gun isn't a plumber's nightmare, it's a good weapon.
But unreliable magazine let it down. No way to treat a magazine dropping on the ground like that.
@@sandemike The one I owned once never jammed or failed to fire. The mags worked just fine.
It is a lot better than people give it credit for.
@@johnkelinske1449 Yes but I am sure you looked after your magazines.
@@sandemike Always, as did most who trusted their lives to it.
WW2 version of a high point. Ugly and cheap but effective
Amazing for this gun still alive
Wtf??!! Open bolt and no full auto?? Really??
What is the "range "of this wapon .? .using pidtol bullets .. 25 -30 metres ..?
Why does he pull the lever up then sometımes down?
Not once u held it correctly
Is het ontbijt echt dat wapen
I watch a lot of movies and TV plays MKII in the mainland
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vidím selektor střelby přepnutý na automat a jak zbraň opakuje cyklus bez potřeby pustit a stisknout spoušť
teda si celkem zahráváte, ale všimnul jsem si toho asi jen já takže v poho
jo jinak, máte v plánu zase nějaký speciál střelnice? celkem mě tato serie dost chybý
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:D :D :D Taky jsem si říkal, že mi to je nějaký divný... Ale ať si pořádně zastřílí... 😉
Mine is select fire, it fires either semi-auto or full-auto using the button style selector. It fires appx. 450 rpm on full-auto.
Restriction by the the goverment. We cant have full-automatic guns.
@ckim6400- But, how many before it jams?
@@davidflorek2165Not true, assuming you're speaking of the US. They require registration and "tax stamps". Expect at least a year delay before you get approval.
@@murphroberts4891 Of course Iam not, Iam talking especially about Czech Republic (were this guy is from) and Slovakia. Asking for "automatic exception" here is pretty much waste of paper and hope.
Just out of curiosity... Isn't those bullets costly?
Cost? Purchased in bulk, maybe $.25 each.
Handloaded, less expensive still.
Replica british?
This Gun Reminds me of Operation Daybreak
I can’t get those two minutes back
What is receiver size in inches
8 dollar gun whats the street price
I thought holding it by magazine would damage the gun? I always wondered why the Brits didn't change to the M3 sub machine gun or grease gun use by the US military? The M3 was cheap to make and a better weapon.
Meant to be cradled.
They already had the tooling for the Sten. The M3 was developed after this when the production of the Thompson was too slow and expensive.
Good mornin
Szuper!! Magyar nepnek nincs joga fegyvert tartani. Ha ellenseg tor rank aztse tudjak hogy kell megfogni a puskat. Igen!!!!
the uk were using the Thompson far to expensive so they create the sten you really have to love the design genius it exactly what a war economy should make another example was the liberty ship same idea cheap mass production i wounder if we could do the same thing today if needed ????/
AR18 was designed specifically for the reasons of cost and simplicity of manufacture.
Towards the end of the war the Nazi's produced their own version apparently
Dave the environmental study and safety regulations study wouldn’t be a quarter of the way done when the enemy would be marching down main street.
Kurde, kde jste to sehnali ?
Are these dor sale?
Always warms the heart to see a German used second world war gun still in action. You can almost hear the screams and begging as it rips off multiple rounds
The MkII STEN is a british made and used WWII sub machine gun n_n’ not German
Who built this? Like I am wondering how you have open-bolt semi-auto.
It is a select fire weapon but it's rate of fire is slow enough that a fast finger can make it seem semi auto.
p.s. watch the slo mo at the end.
Muito bom meu amigo super abraço 👍👍👍👍👍👍🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
I want one so bad !
Can some body teach us how to make one.
Он очередью не стреляет?
Don't hold the magazine, hold the housing.
its not full auto?
Nice music lol.
i have a love/hate relationship with the sten
Kinda Annoyed he didn’t just rip it full auto until the end with the slow mos
Slight missed opportunity there
The Eagle has landed star.
hold mag when shooting, can smash\loose finger in ejection port.
There is really nowhere else you can put your hand
@@karvast5726 on the mag
@@karvast5726 the British are bullies, hooligan.
The magazine must not be held on firing , the correct hold is by the barrel nut ( shroud ) , that's what its there for. Stop making up crap and read the training pamphlets.
@@kingjeremysircornwell7847 get a job loser
You could take a country with thousands of these...
Why are you only Showing FULLAUTO in Slowmo at the end? XD
Bcs full auto weapons are mostly banned in our country. :))
@@David96cz but he has one xD
@@Beda1984 Well he can have it with special exception, but not shoot it on regular shooting range.
How this work
Best use in 1971..
The Libaretion war of East pakistan
The Mukti Jodha use this very nicely...
this weapon looks like if where made of cans, lol, now I see why it was a cheap weapon for WWII
The maker's gave the British government an ultimatum, it can be cheap, it can be plentiful, or it can be reliable, choose 2 of 3, reliable didn't make it, it was war time
@@stephenle-surf9893 Nickname: the stench gun.
@@stephenle-surf9893 Yes, consider it were war time, Sten Gun was effective decision . I'm from Russia, i'm interesting the guns. I can put it in same line with Russian *ППС-42/43* (PPS 42/43) That someone in Russia could named as "working horse of WW2 in Red Army". Wich was even more often then PPSH-41. And let's back to Sten! It was made almost of a pipe, in early moders so i give a credit to engineers of Great Britain! *Very not bad!*
I thought it was a caulking gun at first.
Which IKEA product was this again?!
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Practical but it falled in Operation Anthropoid
L' arma più apprezzata ed usata dai partigiani in Europa, come in Italia
Why not just join the infantry?
A sten without full auto? What!??
Sometimes in the Europe countries full auto is not allowed by law.
@@casadelshed9128 Anywhere in Europe, bro. But there are still some countries in EU whre You can legally have at least semi-auto. CZ, PL, HU etc.
In fact it is a full auto, just a dude has set it on semi - check it's fire control position, probably saving on ammo - 1 shot = 1 EUR. Plus he holds it like a "noob" by the magazine.
@@LenartZajc So watch more, during shooting he isnt a noob. This shooting with holding magazine is only that to show that you have no control and recoil just move your gun in every direction
semiauto model?
DURING WW2 it cost $5.00 to make one, they needed something cheap that they could mass produce.
But in semi-auto it's completely not exciting
No full auto?(((
welcome to europe
thanks for 0:01 now I know it's Very compact.. next to nowhere to put your hands on safely other than the magazine, ejecting brass beside the finger is an hazard..
Well they could have made a handguard or a grip
There is a handguard just forward of the magazine well on the barrel. It is the proper way to shoot a Sten, The magazine above a turned up wrist, palm up on barrel shroud, never use the magazine as a grip. Another way is to grip only the magazine well.
@Alexander Challis Actually there isn't. But your hand is about 2" in front of the ejection port. Back in those days men were men and knew how to properly shoot a Sten. Ejecting brass wasn't a concern, but the enemy killing you was.
@@karvast5726 like the ventilated barrel shroud that is obviously the fore grip ?
It's a pistolcarbine, isn't it?
Sure Takaaki Okumura
very strong. 22/4/2023 .
Como eu queria ter uma dessa
Very odd music selection
Pěknej krám!! V tom nejdůležitějším okamžiku atentát na Heydricha se zasekl. Bůh zachoval prozřetelnost když dal angličany na ostrov.
Wielka kupa!
About as good as the Luty submachine gun I reckon
melhor comprar um revovler se for pra atirar assim.;
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