I just can't imagine anybody hitting even a stationary target five times with a "Stench Gun". Stamped out of sheet metal, fires from an open bolt . .. there's a reason they called it the Woolworth Gun. Maybe five grazing shots, nothing center of mass . .. ?
I know what you mean - I haven't ever fired a Sten but I did carry an M3A1 Greasegun for a short while because, well, it looked cool when Steve McQueen carried one. I found out that:
1. It's heavy: fully loaded with 30 rounds, it weighs the same as the M14 that I should have been carrying.
2. The heavy bolt slammed the thing back and forth and hitting anything on purpose was unlikely.
3.It's a pistol caliber, so hitting anything at all past 50 meters (or really 25 meters) would be like getting the enemy to be struck by lightning.
4.The enemy always either showed up and 10 meters or 200m - the 10 meters required the lucky happenstance of being pointed in the right direction when we spotted each other and there was enough time for that slow bolt hit the cartridge before he hit you.
5. Lastly, loading the dang magazines took a thumb of steel - or having a rare loading tool - and reloading a magazine in the middle of a firefight was impossible. However many magazines you had loaded on you was all that you had for a fight.
Needless to say, I ditched the Greasegun for my M14 toute suite!
If it wasn't a Sten, what got Scotty? I can't imagine any weapon that would hit someone six times without the victim dropping immediately after the first round hit.