{"id":27812,"date":"2025-09-22T07:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/john-buhmillers-legendary-safari-rifle\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:31:58","slug":"john-buhmillers-legendary-safari-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/john-buhmillers-legendary-safari-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"John Buhmiller&#8217;s Legendary Safari Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8do35vqE2nE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>At an age when most are contemplating retirement, John Buhmiller was just beginning his greatest adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Buhmiller began as a competitive shooter, delved into barrel-marking and quickly made a name for himself for his precision barrels. <\/p>\n<p>In 1955, he received a letter that changed his life. In the next nine years, Buhmiller took 8 trips to Africa to test his barrels and rifles against the biggest and most dangerous game on the planet. <\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>Email: <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eepurl.com\/cg4yPb<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><br \/>X: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/x.com\/RIAuction<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an age when most are contemplating retirement, John Buhmiller was just beginning his greatest adventures. Buhmiller began as a competitive shooter, delved into barrel-marking and quickly made a name for himself for his precision barrels. In 1955, he received a letter that changed his life. In the next nine years, Buhmiller took 8 trips&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/john-buhmillers-legendary-safari-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Buhmiller&#8217;s Legendary Safari Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":27813,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}