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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
At least hey don't walk forwards off the bench!Star
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!

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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
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.

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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!!

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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
That's the "Mk1 Ejection Port Cover",  Hoadie.Big smile
I STRONGLY suggest you don't mis-use it!
Sleepy
Bren owners will get this one.
Star


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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
Originally posted by Canuck Canuck wrote:

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.

The no4 in daylight:



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
Originally posted by A square 10 A square 10 wrote:

inglis pistols by chgance ? 
Yeah, my Long Branch posing with my two Inglis Hi Powers.  :)


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
Originally posted by Sapper740 Sapper740 wrote:

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.

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.





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