This is what a real man's 9mm handgun looks like. It weighs almost 7lb with out the mag and silencer. Fires ludicrous hot 9mm that's somewhere in between 9mm and 357mag power level and limited testing shows about 3 inch groups at 50 yards.
The sten makes the 9mm not suck. My hot 124gr load goes over the chronograph at 1,577fps. It's pretty much a full power 357mag revolver with a 6 inch barrel.
I'm still not getting the solid primer hits I want on rifle primers. So I measured the max firing pin stick out. It's only sticking out about 20 thousands. So I ordered a +0.015 longer AR firing pin. I want this gun to set off No.41, extra hard primers. The striker is piledriving that firing pin and I was thinking that dent should be deeper. Yah just a bit.
Is it possible to simply file off .010 to .015 from the stopping edge of a regular firing pin to achieve the depth of the strike you're looking for?
The firing pin stops on the rim. I don't really want to make the rim any thinner. I was able to get a titanium +0.15 firing pin for like $25. The new one is about 17 or 18 thousands longer than th original. So I wonder if my original is at the bottom of the spec for length.
I took it to the range shot a little of every through it. From 115gr factory ammo, my clandestine 124gr @1,000fps special silencer load, standard 147gr bullets over 4gr of unique to my insane supersonic out of a 5 inch barrel 147gr load with HS-6 all had the same point of impact at 15 yards. I think the best one was the 147gr over 4gr of unique. Groups were about 2 inches at 15 yards. Close 2nd best group was 115gr GFL factory ammo. Now that the optic is zeroed I'll bump it out to 25yd.
Sten ammo 158gr hollow point at probably around 1,200fps, 46,000psi. Don't worry it won't fit in you or your boyfriends glucks. Won't fit in the mag, won't feed and doesn't chamber in most 9mm handguns.
The sten with 9 inch barrel should be able to match a 6 or 8 inch 357mag revolver by barely dipping it's toe in +P, well maybe just the tip. An 8 inch revolver barrel plus the chamber length makes them about 9 and 5/8. I thought Glucks fed everything? Not if it's 1.16'' long I guess. The most perfectest handgun that will ever exist couldn't envision ammo that's less than 1mm longer than standard? Funny how they thought of that in WW2... Think what it must be like to miss true perfection by about 1mm.
Brass for hot sten ammo Glad I waited. My special not for glucks, very super Sonic, probably well over40,000psi 158gr load. Add a dot of purple lacquer to the primer and voila.
Just noticed something similar from Dillon...not +P, but a great deal since primers in my AO are 110 FRNs/1000.
