STEN Magazine Loaders
The Armourer's Bench
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We continue our STEN gun series by looking at the various magazine loading tools developed to help load the STEN's difficult to load magazines. Check out Richard's channel - https://www.youtube.com/VickersMGCollectionResearchAssociation And for more about his work with the Vickers Machine Gun Research Collection & Association check out - http://www.vickersmg.org.uk/ Be sure to check out our accompanying article for this video here - https://armourersbench.com If you enjoy our work please consider supporting us via Patreon, TAB is a viewer supported channel and any help is very much appreciated! We have some great new perks, check out our Patreon page here: https://www.patreon.com/thearmourersbench You can also now support us with one-time donations via https://ko-fi.com/armourersbench Ever wished all the best gun history content creators were gathered in one place? Check out - https://surplused.com - we're on there! Where to find TAB: https://armourersbench.com https://facebook.com/armourersbench https://ko-fi.com/armourersbench https://www.patreon.com/thearmourersbench https://www.instagram.com/armourersbench https://utreon.com/c/Armourers-Bench https://imgur.com/user/ArmourersBench https://discord.gg/DAjRSBc Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Mk1 01:20 - MkII 01:40 - MkIII 02:36 - MkIV 03:05 - MkII Demonstration 06:45 - MkIV Demonstration 08:45 - Loading a Sterling SMG Mag 10:22 - Give Rich a follow! 10:38 - Conclusion
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