Thanks to the guys at M426 in Wangen an der Aare, here's a Silenced STEN Mk.II(S) that's not quite right. We take a look and show how to tell a fake.

Mike takes his open bolt Sterling Mk.4 in 9mm Para out to 100m and 200m to see what it's capable of at its sighted ranges, which are pretty much "long range" for an open-bolt SMG. The results are interesting though!

Mike takes his 9x19mm STEN Mk.2 (blocked at semi auto) to 100m to see how it does at the far end of its doctrinal range. It's rather optimistic, but how did he get on?

Welcome to Bloke on the Range Strip Club, where we're only interested in one thing: Will It Strip. First up: 7.62 NATO 10 round charger / stripper clip in a Sterling Lee-Enfield No.4 conversion .308 Win. Cartridges are, of course, homemade dummies.

Othias of C&Rsenal certainly inspires Bloke t...

Mike of Bloke on the Range and Ian of Forgotten Weapons have a nice little rapid fire "mad minute" style flexing session with the Sterling Conversion Lee-Enfield No.4 in 308 Win / 7.62 x 51mm NATO, chucking a bit of lead downrange at a good rate in Finland at the end of Finnish Brutality 2021 Win...

A bit of a nerdgasm here on the first three generations of 30 round magazines for the British Army's fabled Enfield 5.56mm SA80 rifle series: Colt, RG (Radway Green), HK (Heckler & Koch, aka Hasst Kunden).

It's well-documented that the light-barrel L8 and Sterling 7.62mm (.308 Win) Lee-Enfield No.4 conversions shot low compared to .303" to the point they couldn't be zeored with the normal front sight set, and a lowered datum line rear sight was the solution. This is due to the difference in "jump" ...

Bloke takes a look at the OG SUIT sight: Sight Unit, Infantry, Trilux. Most commonly seen mounted on an 7.62mm L1A1 SLR, this sight was available to infantry in the British Army from the mid-70's onwards, and is very forward thinking. However, the mount is hot garbage, which is probably why you d...

A commercial endeavour by the Sterling Armaments Company to make a cheap second-line rifle for 7.62mm NATO by converting existing .303 Lee-Enfield No.4's, this particular example is an all-singing-all-dancing conversion with all the bells and whistles.

Link to the Sterling patent: https://worl...

Bloke takes a look at a BMS CAM rifle (specifically a CONCAM), a 5.56x45 / .223 Remington bolt action with an extremely small rotation angle of 22.5° and a very short bolt throw, kinda the ultimate "tactical" bolt action.

Uses NATO / STANAG magazines and... an AR15 bolt head and barrel extension!

With thanks to Guy & Lesley Field of The Yeaveley Estate https://yeaveley-estate.co.uk/ BotR and The Wirksworth Gunroom bring you the definitive, and quite obvious, answer to this strangely contentious conundrum. Simply by shooting the same course of fire in three different manners, with .303 Lee...

Bloke takes a look at why Enfield nicked the Armalite AR-18 design and bullpupped it to make the L85 series of rifles, rather than "just" scaling down the .280 / 7mm EM-2 rifle from the late-40's/early-50's.

Turns out it's not as trivial as all that...