{"id":19121,"date":"2021-09-23T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/the-vetterli-rifle-story-pt-1\/"},"modified":"2021-09-23T23:10:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T04:10:42","slug":"the-vetterli-rifle-story-pt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/the-vetterli-rifle-story-pt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vetterli Rifle Story Pt.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhvZbT1k-T0?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In 1866 Switzerland takes the bold step to universally adopt a breachloading repeating rifle. Why the sudden transition? What was their first choice? All this is explaining in this very nerdy video which contains NO SHOOTING!<\/p>\n<p>We also take a very very deep dive into the mechanics of the rifle design and discover a very unique primary extraction system.<\/p>\n<p>Part deux will feature the individual rifle patterns, ammunition and some shooting.<\/p>\n<p>For those interested in the predecessors of the Vetterli:<\/p>\n<p>Prelaz-Burnand rifled musket: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dNdqlnM2mXA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/dNdqlnM2mXA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Milbank-Amsler conversions: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOrLi2I4w5A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOrLi2I4w5A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swiss Peabody: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOrLi2I4w5A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/lOrLi2I4w5A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1866 Switzerland takes the bold step to universally adopt a breachloading repeating rifle. Why the sudden transition? What was their first choice? All this is explaining in this very nerdy video which contains NO SHOOTING! We also take a very very deep dive into the mechanics of the rifle design and discover a very&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/23\/the-vetterli-rifle-story-pt-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Vetterli Rifle Story Pt.1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19122,"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-19121","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\/19121","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=19121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}