Does anyone make accurate reproduction MkV Sten foregrips?

[Vincent]

Could you post a picture of the one you have, Peter?

[Peter Laidler]

Vince.......... It's me you're talking to! Asking me, a total computer idiot to do anything remotely ambitious with computers is not something I am capable of. If it was bridge stresses or loads or rotating moments about a vertical plane, I'd be your man!

[Vincent]

Ok. What’s rearward rake angle of the one you have?

Is it like this one?

[Peter Laidler]

Yep, point taken. That one just looks raked a little too far rearwards but it MUST be correct. It's the end elevation that is needed to show the cup effect of the grip around the barrel nut, You can see from that and the position of the band, that the bolt is pretty well central in the underside of the grip.

[Vincent]

Could there be two or three different versions of the grip? The one on page 77 doesn’t look the same as the one on page 79 of your Sten book. The one in post 53 also looks different.

The one Brit plumber posted in post 49 could be the same as the one in post 53, just slightly modified. Maybe a crunchie “customized” it?

I see what you are saying about rearward rake. The one on page 79 of your Sten book looks like it has very little rake compared to the others.

[Peter Laidler]

I think that they were all made by Tibbehnams. But whatever the rake angle, none of the monstrosities shown as advertised as 'genuine' are remotely genuine.

[Vincent]

The Gnome-Rhône grip has a lot of rake.



I wonder how it is attached to the magazine housing.

Some good pictures in this thread https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=2403&page=8

[Peter Laidler]

A good example of '....give a butcher a hammer and a hacksaw and he'll come up with something'. That safety mechanism that rotates around the front of the casing is something that defies belief. Surely not.......... The K.I.S.S 'through-bolt' safety mechanism really was a simple and safe as it can possibly be! But as it's often said, where there's a will, there's a difficult way

[Vincent]

I am looking at the safety and wondering why it has the notch that lines up with the cocking slot. Is it to put the gun on safe with it cocked?

[Sentryduty]

It looks like a dual purpose safety, in the photographed position it appears to lock the bolt closed, preventing the handle from being caught on something and pulled rear, causing an AD. But with the weapon cocked, the "sheetmetal" safety would appear to prevent the bolt from travelling far enough to load a round and fire. In the same fashion as a C96 Broomhandle Mauser safety works, the hammer will still fly when the trigger is pressed, but the safety will prevent the hammer from hitting the firing pin by an 1/8" of an inch.

Personally this Sten safety seems a little much, and is probably designed in response to all of the rumors of runaway Stens and whatnot.

A gun can never have too many safeties, unless it's more than one, more than one is too many safeties. LOL