{"id":16752,"date":"2020-09-25T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/sa80-l85-why-didnt-enfield-just-scale-down-the-em-2-instead-of-bullpupping-the-ar-18\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:26:36","slug":"sa80-l85-why-didnt-enfield-just-scale-down-the-em-2-instead-of-bullpupping-the-ar-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/sa80-l85-why-didnt-enfield-just-scale-down-the-em-2-instead-of-bullpupping-the-ar-18\/","title":{"rendered":"SA80\/L85: Why Didn&#8217;t Enfield Just Scale Down The EM-2 Instead Of Bullpupping The AR-18?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWj83w81538?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bloke takes a look at why Enfield nicked the Armalite AR-18 design and bullpupped it to make the L85 series of rifles, rather than &#8220;just&#8221; scaling down the .280 \/ 7mm EM-2 rifle from the late-40&#8217;s\/early-50&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it&#8217;s not as trivial as all that&#8230;<\/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<p>AR18 L85A1 L85A2 L85A3 EM2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloke takes a look at why Enfield nicked the Armalite AR-18 design and bullpupped it to make the L85 series of rifles, rather than &#8220;just&#8221; scaling down the .280 \/ 7mm EM-2 rifle from the late-40&#8217;s\/early-50&#8217;s. Turns out it&#8217;s not as trivial as all that&#8230; Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange Teespring: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/ AR18 L85A1 L85A2 L85A3&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/sa80-l85-why-didnt-enfield-just-scale-down-the-em-2-instead-of-bullpupping-the-ar-18\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SA80\/L85: Why Didn&#8217;t Enfield Just Scale Down The EM-2 Instead Of Bullpupping The AR-18?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":16753,"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-16752","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\/16752","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=16752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}