British Sten Gun Bronze Bolt Assembly: Original WWII Category_Martini-Henry Rifles over 70 years old

over 70 years old

Over the course of time

a host of different rifling schemes were tried

the BESA was not chambered for the

rear ranging arc with graduations and stops also with securing spikes

British Sten Gun Bronze Bolt Assembly: Original WWII Category_Martini-Henry Rifles over 70 years oldOriginal Item: Excpetionally Rare; Who would have believed it? At the height of WWII the British War Ministry ordered, on an experimental basis, Bronze Gun Metal Bolt Assemblies. Amazing in that, as an alloy, the material cost was many times greater than that of steel. The reason however was machine time, which was a valuable commodity in 1943 (see "The Sten Machine Carbine" by Peter Laidler page 250 51. The Bronze bolts could be cast and then