{"id":11105,"date":"2020-05-08T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T07:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/bsa-cadet-trials-rifle-competitor-to-the-5-56mm-l98a1-cadet-gp-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T16:00:27","slug":"bsa-cadet-trials-rifle-competitor-to-the-5-56mm-l98a1-cadet-gp-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/bsa-cadet-trials-rifle-competitor-to-the-5-56mm-l98a1-cadet-gp-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"BSA Cadet Trials Rifle: competitor to the 5.56mm L98A1 Cadet GP rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fe4QP0K6pGg?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So, it turns out that Neil of The Wirksworth Gunroom was looking after a very interesting piece that I had no prior knowledge of: BSA&#8217;s competitor to the trials which resulted in the adoption of the 5.56mm L98A1 Cadet GP monstrosity rifle that I suffered as a CCF cadet at school back in the 90&#8217;s. This rifle succeeded the .303 Lee-Enfield No.4 in Cadet use, and was horrible. Not sure this BSA competitor is much better though, honestly!<\/p>\n<p>Finally going over to the semiauto L98A2 was definitely a good idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil&#8217;s channel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsMW_2E0Thy68veG2RQczVg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCsMW_2E0Thy68veG2RQczVg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>\nTeespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out that Neil of The Wirksworth Gunroom was looking after a very interesting piece that I had no prior knowledge of: BSA&#8217;s competitor to the trials which resulted in the adoption of the 5.56mm L98A1 Cadet GP monstrosity rifle that I suffered as a CCF cadet at school back in the 90&#8217;s.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/08\/bsa-cadet-trials-rifle-competitor-to-the-5-56mm-l98a1-cadet-gp-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BSA Cadet Trials Rifle: competitor to the 5.56mm L98A1 Cadet GP rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12971,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11105\/revisions\/12971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}