Fun with Bren Guns...
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Topic: Fun with Bren Guns...
Posted By: mrbieler
Subject: Fun with Bren Guns...
Date Posted: December 03 2025 at 5:00pm
Any day behind a Bren Gun is a good day. Shooting out to 225 yards. Semi-auto but still a blast. Open bolt guns have a completely different feel to them and takes a little adjustment. The smell of cordite is always a winner.  Love the distinctive firing pin marks from the Bren.  |
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Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 03 2025 at 8:03pm
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At least hey don't walk forwards off the bench! Yeah I know there's no such thing as forward recoil. I have seen a lightly built squaddie dragged over a berm though! We henceforth put 2 sandbags on his butt to nail him down!
 ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 3:22am
| Is CCCP-alifornia's ban on LCMs in effect yet? I had heard there were some court challenges that may have delayed implementation. |
Posted By: mrbieler
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 7:35am
| Ban of new purchase or import is in effect but possession of grandfathered mags is not. |
Posted By: Canuck
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 7:46am
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That looks like fun!! Your No.4 on the bench, that is the color of the rifle I am restoring the butt stock on. Dark almost black, like an ebony color. I wish we could own Bren's up here north of the 49th but alas....stupid goverfnment rules. ------------- Castles made of sand slip into the sea.....eventually |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 8:24am
| I wish I could own one too. |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 9:04am
If you had a functional Bren, you wouldn't need a wife!!  ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: paddyofurniture
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 10:10am
| The wife said, " as long as I can take it pig hunting it is ok with me". |
Posted By: Shamu
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 12:32pm
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That's the "Mk1 Ejection Port Cover", Hoadie.  I STRONGLY suggest you don't mis-use it!  Bren owners will get this one. ------------- Don't shoot till you see the whites of their thighs. (Unofficial motto of the Royal Air Force) |
Posted By: mrbieler
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 1:19pm
The no4 in daylight:  |
Canuck wrote:Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 4:31pm
| inglis pistols by chgance ? |
Posted By: mrbieler
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 4:59pm
Yeah, my Long Branch posing with my two Inglis Hi Powers. :)
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Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: December 04 2025 at 6:41pm
| love those , i have a pair - one of each , the first with the holster/stock and tangent sights made for the chinese contract the second the one we all know as commonwealth WWII and later , |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: December 05 2025 at 5:05am
| Canadian Senior NCOs were still being issued WWII Inglis BHPs as late as 2001 when I got out. |
Posted By: Sapper740
Date Posted: December 05 2025 at 5:11am
| I've only ever fired two open bolt weapons: a Model 1928 Thompson and a M1918 BAR. I likened firing them to shooting a Flintlock rifle: Get your sight picture, squeeze the trigger, keep your sigh picture, wait for something to happen. |
Posted By: mrbieler
Date Posted: December 05 2025 at 7:22am
Have been fortunate enough to fire the Bren, Sten, 1928, and BAR pretty regularly. Yeah, it takes a little getting used to. I had a nice semi auto 1919A6 for a number of years in 308 before I sold it. It was a heavy SOB to lug around but it was fun to shoot. |