{"id":24993,"date":"2024-06-22T07:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/the-gis-darling-m1911a1-at-the-bug-match\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T07:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T12:50:06","slug":"the-gis-darling-m1911a1-at-the-bug-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/the-gis-darling-m1911a1-at-the-bug-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The GI&#8217;s Darling: M1911A1 at the BUG Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ga27WCCyDBk?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Get Entered to WIN this legendary WW2 Remington Rand M1911A1!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweapons<\/a><br \/>DEADLINE to ENTER is 06\/28\/24 @ 11:59pm (PST). <\/p>\n<p>What more classic backup gun is there than the M1911A1, beloved by GIs as a backup to their M1 Carbines, M1 Garands, BARs, and tanks? Today I&#8217;m running an April 1945 production original military M1911A1 at the match. Note that this gun puts me in the &#8220;Big 5&#8221; division, so I have to start each stage with only 5 rounds in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The 1911 is not a beginner&#8217;s pistol, but it can certainly deliver if you can run it!<\/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>Get Entered to WIN this legendary WW2 Remington Rand M1911A1!https:\/\/go.getenteredtowin.com\/forgottenweaponsDEADLINE to ENTER is 06\/28\/24 @ 11:59pm (PST). What more classic backup gun is there than the M1911A1, beloved by GIs as a backup to their M1 Carbines, M1 Garands, BARs, and tanks? Today I&#8217;m running an April 1945 production original military M1911A1 at the match.&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/22\/the-gis-darling-m1911a1-at-the-bug-match\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The GI&#8217;s Darling: M1911A1 at the BUG Match<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24994,"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-24993","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\/24993","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=24993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}