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Na, it was the Owen Gun in New Guinea and the Pacific. Developed and manufactured by Australians. Could be dropped in a bucket of mud and still would not jam. It was still being used in Vietnam until the 'points' began using the AR15. (Not that I am biased, my grandfather did all the metallurgical development before it went into full production). 👍🇦🇺

Or almost infinite ammo magazines.

I wish I could remember where I saw this. I think it was most likely Mythbusters. People were attempting to make an armored car with common everyday items. Surprisingly, paper worked really well. The team removed the inner door panels and stuffed phone books in every place they possibly could.

@@zaphodbeeblebrox1880 I remember hearing of a case a few years ago of some youtuber trying this with his girlfriend shooting him while he held a phone book. He died and she went to prison.

@@zaphodbeeblebrox1880 Mythbusters did that alongside some other "hollywood car" strength tests in one episode, think they did the chassis pull in a later episode too

Which is where he crouches for cover , and you are absolutely right he fires right through the panels with full confidence of hitting what's behind.

That reminds me of something in the military. We did urban combat training. One playing Opfor had a good ambush positon behind a brick wall. So we "shot" (not really) with our APC's 50 Cal. at the window. It's always a matter of perspective and firepower 😅

The wheels can be decent cover but they're small and offer poor concealment against a moving attacker 🤷🏻‍♂️

Engine and wheels. But yeah.

Engine block? Most cars don't even have steel engines anymore. The wheels is the best place.

Well, this kind of situation is not new to Ray Shoemaker. He was in the Australian Army, after all.

What's amazing is you understand that while being calm he is absolutely stressed out to the max. He moves like he was taught, like he learned to, takes deep breaths to calm down, but he doesn't like the situation.

And that he used basic hearing protection.

you dirty anymal

And a happy new year! 😂

Bloody good pressie that

Get out

@@saureco One could say he goes “full auto” on his problems…😀

Noice.

He did. The ending was great... "Run"

Neat.

It'll buff right out.

I see what you did there 😂😂😂

Isn’t that a Subaru liberty/legacy?

You see that's the difference between bullets and lasers. Lasers give extra damage bonus but a huge debuff to accuracy.

Plot armor

Stormtroopers weren't unionized so they didn't have vision benefits.

Yes. He references his military past in one or two episodes.

In group therapy for example. "Violence is never the answer" "Yes it is, in the army they give you a medal for it"

@@TWW-zk9gw Yes, I loved the group therapy scenes. 'Do you know why there are so many bullies in the world?' 'No'. 'Because people let them get away with it'.

@@lukewise1227 in "The Magician" Ray is way more headstrong and unpredictable. Probably he got in some bother and joined the army to escape. With his talents he could have undertaken special forces training and operations. Then when we meet him again in "Mr Inbetween" he has calmed down a lot and brings a new level of professionalism to the job. Maybe he also knows Gary from his service days.

Cyberpunk players

Well of course not. He's got a Patchett. Better than a Sterling. Better than the Sten.

just low level enemies, didn't even drop him a better weapon...

Tempting but not worth the risk leaving finger prints or any forensic evidence behind on a triple homicide with an illegal machine gun.

​@b.elzebub9252 Already has a legendary drop. Why bother with lvl 3 garbage?

magazine.

Smells like sterling

lol no, he would be deaf for a bit, but I suppose he could watch the lights

@@Thebloodylies gotta remember how open it is around him tho. It'd be a little harder to hear but he had a decent amount of time for his hearing to recover a bit + yeah the lights aswell

@@mozzy5030 hah yeah I definitely think I exaggerated a bit, it's not like it's a .308.

Smell ice can you?

He’s got ear plugs in I’m pretty sure

Meanwhile they literally have an entire scene dedicated to whether this is a Sterling or a Patchett. And it's a Patchett. But you know how the internet is.

I am decendant of Colt and I can definitely say Ray is using a gun in this scene

@@tekimpo God damn!

@@mnspstudioful It IS a sterling but it's a perfectly fine stand-in for the patchett, which I imagine would be pretty much impossible for the film crew to source.

A Sterling is a rebranded Patchett, IIRC.

Forerunner of the Sterling s.m.g.

yes...its a little joke with the guy who gave him it said it was a patchett because he thought he was being clever... patchetts were only ever prototypes, when they started mass producing them, they became sterlings after the arms company that patchett worked for... patchetts used straight sten mags(cannot use the later, curved, roller assisted sterling mags as the mag well is different), are a grey colour with aluminium grey grip.., only about 100 hundred were made, and are all in collector/museum hands albeit the 3 or 4 that were sent out for troop trials when the para's dropped in at Arnhem...

@@iainansell5930Perfect answer.

@@iainansell5930 A 100 hundred is 10 thousand.

Fairly sure that is a legit aiming technique. If I recall correctly, the idea is holding the gun tight against your body then trying to adjust based on where you see you're hitting, its supposed to be easier to maintain awareness of your surroundings while still being reasonably accurate at short range. But lets be real, this is a series, it was filmed like this cause it made him look cool.

Hip firing Sterlings / Pratchetts was the doctrine when those SMG's were introduced.

Practice enough, and it works. This seems a general rule with firearms in general.

@@yellowprime8491 and also, thats how he would have been trained to use it in the army...

​@@Sabrowsky Something about using the direction of your thumb that's on the stock of the weapon pointing toward the target.

Think of it this way: you rack it back to move the bolt out of the way, the magazine gets loaded, and the first trigger pull lets the bolt free from tension, where it slams into battery and instantly fires.

Yup .....open bolt .

Yeah open bolts fire when the slide closes, they cant close with a round in the chamber without it firing.

How is that weird? You can do it on most any sort of box-fed firearm. AR-15s, MP5s, Glock 18s

@@DollyRanch well not really, you still need to close the bolt before firing on those examples you give, to chamber the round. The weapon then fires with the bolt locked when the trigger is pulled. In this clip the sterling SMG needs the bolt to the rear to fire.

That’s what I said

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Patchett 9 mm Mk I experimental sub machine gun, 1944 (c) Although developed and made by the Sterling Engineering Co Ltd as early as 1944, the Patchett was not accepted into the British Army until after World War Two (1939-1945) once it had undergone extensive competitive trials against other sub machine guns. It was also trialled in Malaya, Kenya, Libya and Korea to cover as wide a range of climatic conditions as possible. Finally accepted in September 1953, it was a massive improvement on the Sten. It then evolved into the Sterling sub-machine gun introduced into the Army in 1955 as the L2A3. Some were used at Suez in 1956, but in that action the Egyptian Army probably had more.

It's a patchett, they literally had a whole discussion before this if it was a sterling or patchett Ray like you thought it was a sterling but in reality his friend informed him it was a patchett

@@Arzoden sigh, forgotten weapons youtube pretty much explains what the patchet was, and its history, this is not a patchett... patchetts are grey, and use straight sten mags, cannot use the curved mag... and only about 100 were ever produced as trial/prototype weapons... the patchet was never put into service, it got turned down in 1946.. it went through a few more developments, became the sterling and got accepted iin the early 50's.. the thing was his friend was one of those guys thats a bit of a know-it-all, but often got things a little wrong.. Ray himself was in the army and was likely trained on one, his mate was somewhat of an armchair general...

good for you but its a Patchett Mk I experimental sub machine gun

@@ryanshnoztwazzle8605 nope sterling mk4 The patchett Has the magazine on the other side of the gun and also has a Attachment at the bottom thats part of the gun so unremovable Edit This is a Patchett Mk 1 I watched again and it has the attachment and the Magazine is on the correct side

​@@Sindri44you also could have watched the episode where he was got it as a Christmas present and was corrected when he called it a Sten.

It's a patchett, they literally had a whole discussion before this if it was a sterling or patchett Ray like you thought it was a sterling but in reality his friend informed him it was a patchett

@@ryanshnoztwazzle8605 ummm jesus, patchetts cannot use the curved stirling mags.... only the straight sten/lanchester mags... its unlikely his mate would have ever got hold of what is effectively a museum/collectors piece.. they only made about 100 of them..

It's a patchett, they literally had a whole discussion before this if it was a sterling or patchett Ray like you thought it was a sterling but in reality his friend informed him it was a patchett

@@Arzoden keep spammiing this, but a simple quick goole searcch and you wiill see this is quite diffent from a patchett..

@@iainansell5930 guess we disagree 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@Arzoden i dont think its technically disagreeing when you are wrong. BTW its a sterling ffs. Even a disabled silver back gorilla with only a wireless keyboard with flat batteries could google it and find that out...

A witness you say?

Full auto no stock old SMG. If you try to shoot that normally it's going to dance everywhere. Hip fire adds stability.

It's got an under folding stock, he's just not using it

He's trying to avoid 'flashing' himself...firing using the sights at night is a losing technique.

This not a video game bro, u don't need to aim down sights to aim.

was doctrine in the army when this weapon was introduced... wasn't really there to provide accurate fire, more likely to suppress an area or for close quarters stuff.. Ray would have trained in the army on how to use it like this..

Prototype Sterling was called that

He was the driver.

He got shot up in his vehicle, he couldn’t run and I’d assume in that situation instincts focus you on trying to take out the threat before you drop from blood loss. Or maybe getting shot up fogs your judgement a bit who knows?

Alot of SMGs fire from an open-bolt design, meaning you have to cock it open and bolt flies forward with every shot instead of backwards. It affects the balance of the weapon and you have to be careful not to get dirt and shit in it.

@reuben6470 yes, but I thought you have to have a magazing in or it will shut without doing anything. I suppose it's been a while since I used an smg. I have a pistol, sg, and bolt action rifle.

@@OneFingerYTsome do but the sterling/patchett lock open. you can see this demonstrated by searching "sterling SMG forgotten weapons" and there is a video of it being fired. in the video the weapon's bolt is already open, so he just inserts the mag and starts firing. i was a little curious about this too.

@@SpiraSpiraSpira based Ian appreciator

Open bolt operating system.

It’s a patchett, Australian version of the sterling. Maybe do some googling first

@@CMillz884George Patchett designed the Sterling SMG. As far as I can tell, it was never called the Patchett SMG once it was adopted as the Sterling. Nor can I find any reference to the Australian F1 (the Australian version of the Sterling) being called a Patchett SMG.

@@CMillz884 you obviously didn't

@@sbreheny patchett smg was a 100 gun run for trials in 1946...obvious difference between patchett and sterling is the patchet can only take sten/lanchester mags, other than that, patchett was a light grey colour and had an aluminium grip rather than the sterlings black plastic grip.. forgotten weapons on youtube does a whole history lesson on patchetts and sterlings and various marks

Easier to control on full-auto when you don't have either a stock or a sling.

That's how they were taught the autofire the Stirling when it was in service

army doctrine from when this was inn service, it was an area clearence/suppression weapon

Manual of arms when this sub gun was produced when stockless as here. Ray had already range day tested it at this distance with this doctrine when gifted it by his mate. So it actually would be very wrong to fire it how he hadn’t done so already when getting his eye in on the thing in the first place.

you can fire from the hip at close ranges with a sub machine gun.

@@simonharvey2358 you can but it’s not as effective and this wasn’t really close range this was at least 30 meters

the best SMG is the one you have. This was the one he had, it's not like he had the chance to rummage through his extensive collection of illegal SMGs and pick out the ideal one.

@@nzgunnie this is very true.

Huh? This is an Australian show

its a sterling..

not bad for a 70 year old smg...

@@lh7325He's american. Don't go hard on him...

@@lh7325it's alright mate he's a seppo, I wouldn't worry