{"id":2585,"date":"2017-04-07T04:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T04:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/why-lee-enfield-rimjams-are-not-a-big-deal\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:20:50","slug":"why-lee-enfield-rimjams-are-not-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/why-lee-enfield-rimjams-are-not-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lee-Enfield rimjams are not a big deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOYTdoQkFrM?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So, like, rimmed ammo is a massive systematic problem, and weren&#8217;t the British so stupid for keeping it around for so long, eh? I mean, it&#8217;s bound to inevitably cause rimjams like every time you reload cos a rim will catch behind another rim, how massively stupid is that? Cos Mosin-Nagants with iffy interruptors do that, and they&#8217;re with rimmed ammo, so that must be the same with Lee-Enfields too, right? Oh, and apparently Americans call it &#8220;rimlock&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What, you mean that actually that&#8217;s not an issue in any serious manner? That they dealt with it with engineering? Who knew?<\/p>\n<p>Explains rather why the British army never bothered to get rid of .303 post-ww1 and waited for the adoption of a self-loader post WW2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, like, rimmed ammo is a massive systematic problem, and weren&#8217;t the British so stupid for keeping it around for so long, eh? I mean, it&#8217;s bound to inevitably cause rimjams like every time you reload cos a rim will catch behind another rim, how massively stupid is that? Cos Mosin-Nagants with iffy interruptors do&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/why-lee-enfield-rimjams-are-not-a-big-deal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Lee-Enfield rimjams are not a big deal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2586,"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-2585","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\/2585","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=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}