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NOTE to YouTube: This rifle was introduced in 1908, and used a 19-round magazine that happened to be in a drum configuration – but it did not have any larger magazines at any time.
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NOTE: This video was originally published on December 13, 2011. YouTube deleted it on April 7, 2025 because it referenced a verboten sponsor. I am re-uploading it with that bit censored out because I believe this remains the only online footage of a Farquhar-Hill rifle being fired.
If you can handle the horror of witnessing fully automatic fire, you can see an original 1934 clip of Colonel Farquhar demonstrating his machine guns here from British Pathé: https://youtu.be/wfgfXkBsGZQ
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Today we have some video of a British 1918 Farquhar-Hill rifle at the range. This rifle was an early semiauto design that was accepted by the British army too late to see service in World War I, but was used as an observer’s weapon in two-seater British aircraft. It is chambered for .303 British caliber, and feeds from a 19-round drum magazine.
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