For Sale: Bren Drum magazines and box

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #1 30-04-20, 22:13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lynn Eades

"Fire for effect", Bruce.... When you've got enough lead in the air..............

We called that spray and pray. Early Mk.1 Brens had a dovetail groove on the left side of the receiver that took a telescopic sight and maybe an AA 'spiderweb'. Later Brens must have had a clamp on something. Just another bobble to find, install and adjust as the Stuka was bearing down on you.

rob love · #2 01-05-20, 00:27

Peter Laidler wrote about a guy who ran out of cover to take on a German low flying aircraft with a Bren gun on the mk1 tripod with AA leg. The rest of the guys ran under a tree for cover. The guy was the bravest dead man they ever knew. A 303 is no match for a 20mm cannon.

Bruce Parker (RIP) · #3 01-05-20, 00:56

Quote:

Originally Posted by rob love

Peter Laidler wrote about a guy who ran out of cover to take on a German low flying aircraft with a Bren gun on the mk1 tripod with AA leg. The rest of the guys ran under a tree for cover. The guy was the bravest dead man they ever knew. A 303 is no match for a 20mm cannon.

Worse must have been the Lakeman mount. What a contraption. To mount the gun you can either fight with the two coat hanger hooks (rather like a Chinese puzzle) or remove the barrel, install the hooks and replace the barrel, neither option great with that Stuka.

Here's a Mk.1 Bren on a Humber Mk.II. No sight to be seen and the trooper's aiming eye seems to be looking over the top of the drum. Maybe every second round was a tracer?

David Dunlop · #4 01-05-20, 01:13

Is that drum mag box the same as the Canadian one? For some reason I though the Canadian one was a flat square case with the four drums all side by each.

David

rob love · #5 01-05-20, 01:54

The Canadian chest is virually identical . I have several examples of the Cdn chests in my collection, and one complete with it's drums and accessories.

Robert Bergeron · #6 01-05-20, 02:26

Over 1 million made just in Canada .... why are they so rare now ?

David Dunlop · #7 01-05-20, 04:25

Thanks, Rob.

Someone must have shone some bright lights at me and I got confused.

David

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