Intro

Glad you could make it make yourself at home. I remember you like the air guns, looking forward to your posts here.

Dan

Welcome.

Can you please explain a 2 stage loader?

Welcome :thumbsup2: That's a nice looking Sten in your avatar pic. If your ever going to sell it, send me a PM. You just can't find these thing's anymore

I wouldn't mind seeing some close up pics of that gun.

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I wouldn't mind seeing some close up pics of that gun.

It's not the one in his avatar but it's a sten from around the same time his was made.

Only difference in this one is that the neon colored piece on the trigger is adjustable.

Is that a floater on the front near the muzzle?

Might of been...? It was a piece of rubber that had a slit in the middle so it could go around the barrel. It's laying somewhere in the house, I've never known what's the purpose of that thing.

If it's foam then that's exactly what I'm looking for. It helps float the muzzle because the guns are muzzle heavy. How long is this gun that it necessitates the loading assistance bar?

It feels more like rubber than foam I'll look for it and try and post a pic for you. I'm not 100% sure but it might of been thrown away, I haven't seen it since I bought the gun (april 07)

Those pics are from the auction listing on ebay when I bought the gun. The lady that sold me the gun is from Port Saint Lucie and had bought the gun new for her father but he was too old and didn't spear any more so she decided to sell it. I guess her father must of been short or she just bought the gun that way..?

It's a 120cm sten and i rigged it with a 54" spear, I'm 5'11" and I don't need a knee loader to load the gun so I took it off.

Why don't you use it? Do you like the band guns better? I like the 70cm pneumatic for short range and because its fun to shoot and rig but I rarely get to use it.

I do use it, it's my all around gun. 120cm pneumatic is the biggest pneumatic I can load with out using a knee loader. I also have a 150cm (modern) Sten w/knee loader, pneumatics are my favorite guns for all around use. The only band gun I have is a 150cm rob allen, which I never use.

I misunderstood, when you said you haven't seen it since 2007 I thought you meant the gun, I reread your post and now I see you meant just the floater.

Please explain.

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:shark1:I would like to thank everyone for the warm welcome, the Mares Sten on the avatar is long gone,,,,,,,I could not get replacement parts for it, I now use a seac sub 135cm for my hunting. Ref to loading, last year at the dema convention,Tata Lanza showed me how to easily load these big guns without a knee loader, ever since I have been using his system , it works great, you can also reload very quickly,if anyone needs the info on how to do it, just let me know and I will be happy to explain,,, again thks for the warm reception, and I really look forward to this forum,,,,,thks Felix::thumbsup2::thumbsup2::thumbsup2:

Felix, does it involve a loader with a cord attached?

It wouldn't happen to look like this, would it?

I've never used a knee loader but I understand the concept and question why it would be called that. The guns are designed to load with the handle on the top of the foot and one arm reaching out. Thus the max length of gun and shaft combined that a diver can comfortably load is equal to the distance between the extremities. It looks to me like the "knee loader" would be used to place on the foot, not on the knee, to increase that distance. So why is it called a knee loader?

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I've never used a knee loader but I understand the concept and question why it would be called that. The guns are designed to load with the handle on the top of the foot and one arm reaching out. Thus the max length of gun and shaft combined that a diver can comfortably load is equal to the distance between the extremities. It looks to me like the "knee loader" would be used to place on the foot, not on the knee, to increase that distance. So why is it called a knee loader?

Don't know but that's what I've always heard it reffered to. It's never made any sense to me either and everytime I show someone the gun and they try and place it on there knee i just :laughing3:
I've bought both a 120 and 150 and they both came with "knee loaders"