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    After four years, my first Bren, Inglis 1942 MkIM

    I've been wanting a Bren like crazy since I first became interested in firearms again about four years ago. I had put off buying a deact Bren for various reasons, financial, thinking it would be nothing but a paperweight etc. I finally took the plunge this week and wound up with a beautiful 1942 Inglis MkIM cock and click.
































    I need a few parts for the carry handle and it will be as good as it will ever be.
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    Very nice. Now for the ancillary equipment...like the butt grip. The mount...sight...
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    If I'm not mistaken, this gun was restored by another forum member a while back. Mr Clark?

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    Brit Plumber, I believe it was one of the ones Mr. Clark did. Very nicely done, and glad to have it here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brit plumber View Post
    If I'm not mistaken, this gun was restored by another forum member a while back. Mr Clark?

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    thats a good eye you have there. I looked over the pictures and it looks like the barrel numbers match
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    Very nice looking Bren. What's that white stuff?

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    The golden era of weapon design that sparked many to follow...The ease of changing mags from prone as opposed to the BAR.

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    Without any doubt, the finest light machine gun ever to be put into the hands of a fighting soldier

    “…we regularly counted many heads”
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    My old friend Warrant Officer 1XXXXXXXX, a Royal Fusilier Korean War veteran, told me of how a pair of Brens, in the hands of steady gun teams firing an odd angry shot, rifle fashion, would lure in probing Chinese or North Korean Infantry snatch squads. These snatch squads hoped to snare and severely punish the ‘frightened and supposedly lost’ Britishicon infantry rifle section. It took a steely determination but when the snatch squads were past the point of no return and ensnared, the tables would be turned and they would eventually succumb to the devastating bursts of automatic machine gun fire from the Brens. “…they never learned and we regularly counted many heads” he said. So successful were these tactics that eventually, every rifle section was issued with two Brens.

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    Makes perfect sense, especially with them being as accurate as they are, it would make it pretty easy to mistake it for rifle fire.

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    The gun is one of the Canadianicon cut-ups rewelded. The lower may be a replacement...the photos don't show the detail back of the pistol grip. You also don't see the typical burn marks on the pistol grip. But you can see where the contours are lost just under the barrel nut. Shame whoever did it did not invest in a couple small grinding wheels to return most of the profile. What is impressive is that the bluing or park went on fairly evenly over the welded up area. Usually, due to the hardening of the welded area, or the different metal used in the weld, the repaired area reacts differently to the chemicals.

    As mentioned already, you need the butt strap, and for originality could replace the front bipod with the extendable leg type.

    Hopefully you have better self control than I did. Brens seem to be almost as addictive as Enfields.....you usually can't stop at just one.

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