{"id":17731,"date":"2021-02-17T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/prototype-jungle-carbine-a-no1-mkv-becomes-a-no5-mki\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T12:00:29","slug":"prototype-jungle-carbine-a-no1-mkv-becomes-a-no5-mki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/prototype-jungle-carbine-a-no1-mkv-becomes-a-no5-mki\/","title":{"rendered":"Prototype Jungle Carbine: A No1 MkV Becomes a No5 MkI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kRzmJa50Byc?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the British began developing a shortened version of the No4 Lee Enfield in 1943 (which would become the No5 MkI &#8220;Jungle Carbine&#8221;), the development process included work with some rather older rifles. What we have here is a 1922 production No1 MkV rifle cut down as a trials prototype for the carbine development program. The No1 MkV was a trials gun itself from the early 1920s which basically gave a rear aperture sight to the classic MkIII SMLE. Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have any specific details on the testing or use of this particular example, but I think it is a fascinating example!<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons When the British began developing a shortened version of the No4 Lee Enfield in 1943 (which would become the No5 MkI &#8220;Jungle Carbine&#8221;), the development process included work with some rather older rifles. What we have here is a 1922 production No1 MkV rifle cut down as a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/prototype-jungle-carbine-a-no1-mkv-becomes-a-no5-mki\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prototype Jungle Carbine: A No1 MkV Becomes a No5 MkI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17732,"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-17731","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\/17731","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=17731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}