{"id":2905,"date":"2017-01-13T06:34:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/bavarian-m1869-werder-shooting-and-disassembly\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:23:49","slug":"bavarian-m1869-werder-shooting-and-disassembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/bavarian-m1869-werder-shooting-and-disassembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bavarian M1869 Werder shooting and disassembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcCBZmF4vkU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I remember the first rifle ever given to me by my grandfather. It was a Werder&#8217;s Original, and I was four&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Chap takes his Bavarian 1869 Werder in 11x50R out to the range for a shoot, and then takes it back to the workshop to give its insides a good look-over.<\/p>\n<p>The Werder is rather the Rolls-Royce of the single-shot black powder cartridge rifles, and features an automatic ejection system activated by pushing forward on a lever in the front of the trigger guard. At the time, the rate of fire was so impressive that they earned the nickname &#8220;Blitzgewehr&#8221;, &#8220;Lightning-rifle&#8221;. A full charge of 66 grains of black powder sends the bullet downrange with a nice puff of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>This one seems to have come out of an arsenal in France after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, which occurred at the end of the period where the Kingdom of Bavaria acquired its own weapons independently of the other Germans.<\/p>\n<p>Full details on the rifle can be found at The Chap&#8217;s site here: <a href=\"http:\/\/militarygunsofeurope.eu\/listing\/bavarian-werder-1869-infantry-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/militarygunsofeurope.eu\/listing\/bavarian-werder-1869-infantry-rifle\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And our FB page is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I remember the first rifle ever given to me by my grandfather. It was a Werder&#8217;s Original, and I was four&#8221;&#8230; The Chap takes his Bavarian 1869 Werder in 11x50R out to the range for a shoot, and then takes it back to the workshop to give its insides a good look-over. The Werder is&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/13\/bavarian-m1869-werder-shooting-and-disassembly\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bavarian M1869 Werder shooting and disassembly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2906,"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-2905","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\/2905","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=2905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15024,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2905\/revisions\/15024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}