{"id":17244,"date":"2016-01-07T15:09:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/why-would-i-take-an-ar-rather-than-an-ak-into-wwi\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T21:09:41","slug":"why-would-i-take-an-ar-rather-than-an-ak-into-wwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/why-would-i-take-an-ar-rather-than-an-ak-into-wwi\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Would I Take an AR Rather than an AK into WWI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jn17MwQT8DI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>AR Mud Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU<\/a><br \/>\nAK Mud Test: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a Q&#038;A video a month or two back, I was asked what modern rifle I thought would be best for a soldier in WWI trench warfare. My answer was an AR-15, and I got a lot of people asking why. Well, because the AR is a more reliable rifle in really bad mud than the AK. <\/p>\n<p>What I couldn&#8217;t show at the time, but can now, is some video of both the AR and AK being subjected to a stupid amount of mud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AR Mud Test: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YAneTFiz5WU AK Mud Test: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DX73uXs3xGU In a Q&#038;A video a month or two back, I was asked what modern rifle I thought would be best for a soldier in WWI trench warfare. My answer was an AR-15, and I got a lot of people asking why. Well, because the AR is a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/07\/why-would-i-take-an-ar-rather-than-an-ak-into-wwi\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Would I Take an AR Rather than an AK into WWI?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17245,"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-17244","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\/17244","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}