NORTHEAST Airsoft Sten Mk V Review

[@RiflemanMoore]

NORTHEAST Airsoft - www.northeastairsoft.com/ Airsoft World - www.airsoftworld.net/

[@marksimner8734]

I have an original deactivated MK V Sten and to my eyes it looks like a very accurate replica. The fact it strips down like an original is an added bonus.

[@e-remes7029]

I had a MkV deac. It was Euro styled i.e.useless to demo. Sold it, bought on of these. It's very good, and fun to shoot😁

[@Gepedrglass]

You should definitely go airsofting in some kit. Good fun.

[@gunnerjames1056]

Very close attention to detail. Incredible how similar the takedown is to the real thing. It was advisable to turn down the magazine well when unscrewing the barrel shroud. That might be the difficulty. Can you believe Canada's government is trying to ban all airsoft guns? They are in the process of banning anything that replicates a real firearm. It is causing quite a storm over here. I want to get an airsoft version of the Sterling SMG and an FN SLR (Similar to the Canadian C1A1) for the two mounts in the M38A1. Great presentation on a great Sten Mk.V airsoft version.

[@renes9966]

This looks great. Clever move sending one to you for review - I’ll definitely have Northeast on my radar now 👍🏼

[@TheArmourersBench]

Looks remarkably decent build quality.

[@AnvilAirsoftTV]

Almost certainly better welded than the real ones.

[@TheArmourersBench]

@@AnvilAirsoftTV haha some truth to that. Though I don't think MKV cost £500 back then!

[@TarnishUK]

It really is excellent, equal to if not a little better in some places than the real thing. I have a Mk2 "late production".

[@TheArmourersBench]

@@TarnishUK yes was surprised how close they managed to stick to the original action too.

[@AnvilAirsoftTV]

@@TheArmourersBench I’ve had a Mk2 for testing previously. Overall I was impressed. My re-reactor friends also liked it a lot. Some issues with the mags leaking but that’s common with short run gas blow back replicas and nothing a bit of a service can’t sort. This was a while ago so I imagine they’ve got that minor niggle sorted by now.

[@TarnishUK]

The weight of the magazine is simply down to it containing the gas reservoir too. 🙂

[@bixikenway7400]

I'm a reenactor in Belgium and actually use this replica for my kit and even use it in battles since it cycles using the gas, real good alternative if weapon laws are a bit finnecy

[@TarnishUK]

To remove the barrel nut you need to disengage the magazine housing locking plunger, it is dual action and also engages with ratchet teeth on the barrel nut to lock it in place. I received my Mk2 late version a couple of weeks ago, compared to the deactivated Mk2 I used to own I cannot praise Northeast highly enough for the job they have done.

[@RiflemanMoore]

I know, unfortunately for the moment the barrel nut is still solid on this.

[@TarnishUK]

@@RiflemanMoore I would suggest a work type glove with a rubberized palm to give improved grip but avoid damage to the gun. Home Bargains usually have something of that ilk pretty cheap.

[@RiflemanMoore]

I have already tried that to no avail. I shall keep trying, however.

[@TarnishUK]

@@RiflemanMoore The only other thing I can think of is the careful application of some heat, heat gun ideally or boiling water as a desperate measure. :o) Fingers crossed.

[@davidbrennan660]

Welcome to the Spondniki. The high Caps are lovely. Nice looking Gat.

[@deltafoxtrot2]

Excellent review from a reenactors point of view👏, the sten looks very realistic.

[@historicmilitaria1944]

great video, on a deac however the barrel nut on most uk spec deacs will be welded to the gun as part of the deactivation method to make it not removeable in order to deny access to replacing the barrel with a live fire version, however the method you show regarding removing the front sight is the only way to get a foregrip on most uk spec deacs.

[@DMAC1966]

Lovely bit of kit!!! I hope your going to do a test fire next time just to see the blowback in action? I would also guess that the wood furniture would be painted if you don't poses a UKARA. I have an ARES SLR and the furniture was supposed to be painted green! But wasn't :-) Bought the wood furniture anyway.

[@andrewjohnston4127]

Looks amazing quality, just wondering if a real magazine will fit? Thinking more about if it's cocked and the top of the mag is visible. One topped off with a few inert 9mm would look really good

[@Samknstuff]

Nice I would love more airsoft vids if u can do them

[@DannyMNL]

The reason the barrel shroud didn't come off was user error. The same lever that you pull to rotate the magwell down is the same lever that locks the barrel shroud in place. When the magwell clicks into position you see that it also engages a ratchet around the barrel nut. Simply pull the lever, rotate the magwell down a few degrees and the barrel nut can turn freely.

[@RiflemanMoore]

No, though I do wish it was as simple as that, when I first attempted to remove the barrel nut I had the magazine well rotated downwards. The barrel nut is still locked solid and won't shift on this particular example. Perhaps someone was a bit over-keen in the factory.

[@arthurshadbolt7781]

Nice gun! I have a Luger based BB gun 420 FPS and my parents are going to get me a webley revolver to go with the rest of my ww2 desert webbing my great grandad had a webley revolver in the desert in the war

[@winteryrex7845]

love your content man im a collector to and you always tell so much information

[@zaynevanday142]

Nice !

[@gundog39]

It looks so much better without the front grip. Also just out of curiosity where did you get the British Malayan kit from. :)

[@warci]

I have an electrical airsoft version of the sten and it's absolute rubbish compared to this. There is a real lack of high quality WW2 replica guns in general. Really great this seems to have changed now

[@danielmalthouse4429]

Brilliant video as always. Thanks.

[@SergeiMosin]

Hmmm... The rivets on the FCG ears are wrong, the endcap is internally wrong as well, but that's not something visible during display so it doesn't really matter much. I've never in my life seen a wartime Sten with a blued bolt, either... but that's about the only immediately apparent problems with it, and they're fairly minor. I doubt the original foregrips used a hex key, since all other British firearms of the time period used flathead screws, but I've also never owned an original foregrip since they seem to mostly have been destroyed or discarded in the field, so it's possible.

[@simonsignolet5632]

Sergei, the Fire Control Group cover (Trigger Mechanism Cover) is actually CORRECT for a MkV. The Mk2 uses a screw on each side but the MkV had a hole with no thread for a weird angular type spring pin which passes all the way through the TMC. On most genuine MkVs, these spring pins are long since lost - frankly, they were junk and near impossible to refit once removed. I'm guilty of having thrown one away after struggling to keep one in place after what was called "illegal stripping" (in the military - illegal for personnel who WEREN'T armourers) (but NOT illegal in Civvie Street gun clubs, back in the day). The earlier NE Stens had steel bolts. The aluminium bolt on my NE MkVI looks near enough correct when compared to a WWII MkV deac. Might this simply be a lighting issue in this video? The return spring housing is actually exactly the same as the real thing but for the plastic buffer insert that extends from it, as you've pointed out. This is necessary for reducing wear/damage of the airsoft blow-back gun as it cycles: the bolt is lighter as it the spring. I agree with you on the foregrip bolt. Because the rear pistol grip uses a slotted roundhead bolt rather than hex panhead one, I'd be surprised if a genuine foregrip would be anything but the same. The only real let-down is the wood on these NE MkVs: the finger grooves are too pronounced and the colour ought to be lighter and more reddish.

[@douglassoal6196]

Did you remove the barrel nut in the end.

[@arthurshadbolt7781]

Nice I have a bb Luger style gonna get a webley revolver my great grandad had one in the desert

[@TarnishUK]

Gas Blowback Lugers are available and there is an airsoft replica of the .455 Webley available.

[@arthurshadbolt7781]

@@TarnishUK yes they are both very cool I have found a webley and when it comes back in stock I’m getting it, Luger is nice to seen it beforw I will get that when I have finished the uniform set I am on now

[@zaynevanday142]

Has anyone ever done a Bren Gun ?

[@AnvilAirsoftTV]

No. Not as a production item.

[@TarnishUK]

Not a proper factory produced one no. There was an electric ZB26 a few years ago but the only other Bren option was custom build.

[@NanatsukiBenio]

Cheers from Japan! I have a question, why the front grip or so called fore grip was often being removed? any particular reason for that? Thanks in advance

[@SergeiMosin]

According to period reports, they were prone to cracking under stress and came loose quite often. Plus they added extra weight, and didn't really provide enough of a benefit to the soldiers in the field for them to keep them.

[@NanatsukiBenio]

@@SergeiMosin I've heard that the ring that held the grip was fixed to the barrel nut and could cause loosing it plus yes the things you said as well ... so yeah useless foregrip

[@TarnishUK]

Any joy getting the barrel off yet?

[@gerrypowell2748]

Impressive

[@Laylow_Lopez13]

I got mine with a spare mag and both mags had major gas leaks I can probably get 5 shots out before the all the grass sprays out

[@SergeiMosin]

Sounds like bad seals. A decent airsmith should be able to fix those fairly cheaply

[@Thomachi]

Have been looking at getting their Sten mk.II for a while, they look very good and getting an original Sten is obviously not that easy.

[@TarnishUK]

Go for it, I got a late pattern one and it's spot on.

[@thegael1996]

Is there a reason why the fore grips got removed post war?

[@RiflemanMoore]

A good question and not one I have an answer for, something I need to look into.

[@standown7738]

does it accept original sten magazines?

[@RiflemanMoore]

No, it does not, at least not without modification.

[@simonsignolet5632]

If you try to fit a genuine Sten mag, you will smash the internals of the NE Sten.

[@Deus1236]

A shame about the filling valve location. I have several gas airsoft replicas and most of them have their fill valves right below the knocker valve as to not make it visible when the magazine is loaded in the gun (as well as keeping it free from debris and dirt). Kind of lazy tbh. and a strange decision considering the rest of the replica is of such high quality. There might be third party magazines available at some point that fixes this.

[@baroque4daysanti-gasequipm225]

You could probably pop a grey sticker over it for the sake of re-enactment. If not, any chance the real steel fits?

[@simonsignolet5632]

An easy fix is simply to slide off the mag bottom plate, put in a piece of grey card, plastic or sheet metal then replace the bottom plate. The real magazines have the same hole in the bottom plate with the bottom plate retainer at the base of the magazine spring marrying up to it.

[@thafishguy4973]

I need to save up lol

[@brianjones1151]

I wonder if they are available in the US.. ? The way things are going over here, well be reenacting with the same weapons you chaps have to use !! ( Blank only and Airsoft. )

[@geodkyt]

I wouldn't be shocked if the tube dimensions of the receiver aren't close enough to a live gun that (under US law, as interpreted by ATF) they would be considered "machineguns" because the reciver is the right dimensions (or "close enough", in ATF's opinion) and the National Firearms Act includes "receiver of a machinegun" as being a "machinegun" in its own right, along with anything that could be "readily restored" to a machinegun (which ATF has interrepted to mean, "If our experts can *convert* it to function as a live machinegun in under a day"). Which is a shame - it really looks like it might be worth buying, just for the wood furniture (literally every other part to build a legal dummy gun or legal semiautomatic version is being reproduced in high quality in the US). Imean, I even have a full set of semiauto parts for everything *but the wood* (even a newly.produced barrel), and it would only cost $200 to register it as a legal "Short Barrelled Rifle" rather than build it as a pistol that can't accept an unmodified stock tang or with a silly looking 16" barrel.

[@brianjones1151]

@@geodkyt I was kind of joking mate !! We already have 'befong' (Blank only Stens and Thompsons for guys who have plenty of money for Blanks !😊

[@geodkyt]

@@brianjones1151 Yeah, I not only was involved in trying to develop one (unsuccessfully, about 20 years ago), but I have 2 BFONG Stens I bought from a manufacturer. They took an approach I had suggested in the earlier group and had rejected by the project lead (not that I have any reason to believe the guys who succeeded had any inkling of our work - I think they independently just came to the same logical conclusion I did and were willing to run it past ATF.) They also took some approaches we didn't think of that were quite brilliant and simple (albeit I'm sure a production nightmare) and that I believe had a significant impact on ATF determining in their favor.

[@neil_castell]

just needs some scratches and wear n' tear to add realism,

[@anssi5853]

So you only need lathe, rifling button, magasine and simple metal work and you haw very well made submachine gun 😮. Little worried that I'm not only one how understand this..

[@madmeerkat1158]

Does it come with battery, charger and BBs?

[@RiflemanMoore]

It's gas operated. It did not include any BBs.

[@DMAC1966]

Check the links! It's gas blow back. No battery as the gas chamber is housed in the magazine. You'll have to but your own BB'S...sometimes you get a small bag of them which you tend to dispose of!!

[@e-remes7029]

*cough Bought *cough

[@SafetyProMalta]

Shame the UK got denutted on owning firearms.

[@TarnishUK]

Really? I prefer that to seeing news of murdered infants again.

[@aholycrusader2681]

@@TarnishUK nah instead of them being shot now they are gonna be brutally stabbed or beaten You don’t need guns to cause violence

[@TarnishUK]

@@aholycrusader2681 You should educate yourself a little more. While it is true that some major cities in the UK have a problem with knife crime the incident in question with the murder of primary school children happened in Dunblane in Scotland, a small town very much not on the radar when it came to violent crime. Also true a gun is not required to cause violence. However is certainly helps the offender, I'm quite certain that there aren't many semi automatic or full automatic knives out there with a 300 metre effective range. The refrain of "Guns don't kill people, people do" is one of the most brain dead statements ever dreamt up.

[@gunnerjames1056]

@@TarnishUK Guns don't kill people. people kill people. FACT! Do you blame the vehicle or the drunk driver? Ban vehicles. Ban alcohol. Do you blame the fork for making people fat? Ban forks. Knives, rope, candlestick, wrench, lead pipe? More people are murdered by the use of hands and feet than by any other weapon. There is no reason to ban firearms from Government and police vetted licensed firearms owners. It is against the law to attempt to murder, or murder someone. Period. If you want, I can give real numbers and stats. In Canada for example, we have about 38 million people. As of the most recent statistics available on homicides in Canada. 2015 is the latest release. Out of all the 135 people who died from a firearm related homicide. Less than half a percent were caused by a licensed firearms owner. All the others were due to crime. Criminals and gangs Make all the laws you want, criminals don't care. The last 50 years in North America has seen a steady downward number of homicides by firearms. You are basing your argument on feelings and perceptions, not on reality, statistics and facts. You need to get educated! I guarantee you do not own a firearm, nor have you been instructed in the safe use of a firearm, and have probably never even held or shot a real firearm. BTW, who has a fully automatic firearm? Mathew de Grood stabbed and killed five young people at a house party in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 2014. Five dead from a knife. Maximum rounds permitted in a semi automatic firearm in Canada is five. Did the knife kill those five. Yes knives kill people, people don't kill people. 2018 in Toronto, a man kills 10 people and seriously injures 16 others with a speeding van driving on the sidewalk. Ban Vans! People don't kill people. Right.

[@simonsignolet5632]

It's just firearms pistols that we can't legally own. And live grenades. And depleted uranium ammunition. Etcetera... Gun crime has actually INCREASED in the UK since the post-Dunblane firearms restrictions. Food for thought, both pro and anti.

[@greatwarantics9647]

Nice!