{"id":24367,"date":"2024-03-04T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/snipers-before-infantry-the-danish-m-66-sniper\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T06:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T12:00:33","slug":"snipers-before-infantry-the-danish-m-66-sniper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/snipers-before-infantry-the-danish-m-66-sniper\/","title":{"rendered":"Snipers Before Infantry: the Danish m\/66 Sniper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T_KdJyK3q-w?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:<br \/>weaponsandwar.tv<\/p>\n<p>The Danes adopted the M1 Garand after World War Two, and continued using it as their standard service rifle all the way until 1975 &#8211; and alongside it they used the M1D as a sniper or DMR rifle. The Danish Home Guard decided to upgrade those M1D rifles in the 1960s, however, and looked to H&#038;K for an answer. In 1966 they adopted a model of the G3 with a 4x Hensoldt optic under the designation m\/66. Today I&#8217;m at Bear Arms looking at a clone of the m\/66 built by Kilo Guns on an original Danish parts kit and original surplus scope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the best firearms history channels streaming to all major devices:weaponsandwar.tv The Danes adopted the M1 Garand after World War Two, and continued using it as their standard service rifle all the way until 1975 &#8211; and alongside it they used the M1D as a sniper or DMR rifle. The Danish Home Guard decided to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/04\/snipers-before-infantry-the-danish-m-66-sniper\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snipers Before Infantry: the Danish m\/66 Sniper<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24368,"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-24367","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\/24367","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=24367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}