{"id":22242,"date":"2015-02-06T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/roper-repeating-shotgun\/"},"modified":"2015-02-06T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:00:01","slug":"roper-repeating-shotgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/roper-repeating-shotgun\/","title":{"rendered":"Roper Repeating Shotgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98PbyhFRhoU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Sylvester Roper was a great example of the classic American inventor &#8211; he had a wide range of interests, and affected technological development in more than one industry. This shotgun is a design he patented in 1866, which uses a 4-round magazine of the 12ga shells. It has an unusual mechanism which fires from an open bolt. This particular example is missing its magazine internals and has a broken bolt, but is the first actual Roper I have come across.<\/p>\n<p>Roper went on to work with Christopher Spencer developing the pump-action shotgun, although he is best known for his work on motorcycles (which he was actually the first inventor of, according to some).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sylvester Roper was a great example of the classic American inventor &#8211; he had a wide range of interests, and affected technological development in more than one industry. This shotgun is a design he patented in 1866, which uses a 4-round magazine of the 12ga shells. It has an unusual mechanism which fires from an&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/06\/roper-repeating-shotgun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roper Repeating Shotgun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":22243,"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-22242","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\/22242","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=22242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}