Does anyone make accurate reproduction MkV Sten foregrips?

[Peter Laidler]

Be interested to know/learn what the stamped-in markings are on the rear right side of the butt are. We used to mark Sten butts there with our WRC (the workshop repair code).

Incidentally, once we'd zeroed Mk5 Stens we used to stamp the gun number on the foresight protectors so that in future the same barrel would go back on the same gun. It was a bit of a hit-and-miss method of keeping the same barrel with the same gun. Mind you, zeroing a Sten was a bit jit and miss!!!!! Better than the Owens we had. Zeroing that was '.......just aim up or down a bit' !We also numbered the butt socket to the Mk5 gun as the butt socket was hand fitted to the gun. I use the words 'hand fitted' pretty loosely in relation to the Sten guns