{"id":30705,"date":"2018-10-04T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/04\/qa-22-travel-and-more\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:11:09","slug":"qa-22-travel-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/04\/qa-22-travel-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A 22: Travel and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jqe4Pu522B8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whew &#8211; this was a long one! As usual, I had far more questions submitted by you awesome Patrons than I could answer, so if yours didn&#8217;t get in this time please submit it again next time.<\/p>\n<p>0:00:52 &#8211; What have been my favorite or most enlightening trips abroad?<br \/>0:02:55 &#8211; Systems like Blish that work despite being based on faulty physics<br \/>0:05:30 &#8211; Gun stands and display blocks<br \/>0:08:18 &#8211; Window or aisle? Airline preferences?<br \/>0:11:54 &#8211; Specific future improvements in guns and ammunition<br \/>0:14:10 &#8211; 6mm Unified and the lack of modern SCHV military cartridges<br \/>0:16:06 &#8211; What is a &#8220;parts kit&#8221;, anyway?<br \/>0:20:52 &#8211; Plans to cover the Savage 99?<br \/>0:21:42 &#8211; Plans to re-film any of the older videos?<br \/>0:23:25 &#8211; 1930s French plans for a 9&#215;66 machine gun<\/p>\n<p>Huon &#038; Barreliers&#8217; book on French machine guns can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crepin-leblond.fr\/accueil\/768-les-mitrailleuses-francaises-9782703003922.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.crepin-leblond.fr\/accueil\/768-les-mitrailleuses-francaises-9782703003922.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>0:25:12 &#8211; Which are the most interesting combloc surplus pistols?<br \/>0:27:36 &#8211; Modernized SKS, yea or nay?<br \/>0:29:17 &#8211; War or battle where difference in small arms was decisive?<br \/>0:30:24 &#8211; Makeup of my gun collection<br \/>0:32:06 &#8211; Best TSA\/Customs story from my traveling<br \/>0:34:35 &#8211; Ideas for a pre-1898 collection?<br \/>0:37:48 &#8211; Why have European nations abandoned small arms manufacture?<br \/>0:40:38 &#8211; Why metallic feed strips instead of belts?<br \/>0:43:21 &#8211; Thoughts on writing firearms reference books today<br \/>0:48:41 &#8211; What can the American firearms community learn from our international colleagues?<br \/>0:50:15 &#8211; Market for modernized historical firearms?<br \/>0:52:48 &#8211; Thoughts on the Ohio Ordnance HCAR<br \/>0:54:47 &#8211; Quad-stack or drum?<br \/>0:56:45 &#8211; What modern military rifle feature is unnecessary but still used?<br \/>0:58:19 &#8211; Should the US have retained the 1903 Springfield or switched to the 1917 Enfield?<br \/>0:59:42 &#8211; How often do I have trips get cancelled?<br \/>1:00:52 &#8211; Why 9&#215;19 in all the Rhodesian guns?<br \/>1:02:21 &#8211; Why is the Browning High Power not modernized like the 1911?<br \/>1:04:18 &#8211; Did the British consider the m\/31 Suomi?<br \/>1:05:42 &#8211; Guns I am content to not own?<br \/>1:07:28 &#8211; Mauser 1945 Volkspistole and HK VP70 similarities<br \/>1:08:56 &#8211; Channel demographics (age, gender, geography)<br \/>1:11:19 &#8211; Favorite and least favorite belt-fed semiautos?<br \/>1:14:30 &#8211; Folding guns for CCW<br \/>1:14:50 &#8211; Why semi-rimmed pistol cartridges?<\/p>\n<p>I recommend this video on the subject: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oQq4qI8oMcc\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/oQq4qI8oMcc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1:15:18 &#8211; Gaseous propellents in place of gunpowder<br \/>1:15:52 &#8211; Collection military uniforms?<br \/>1:16:48 &#8211; Why the trend away from bullpup rifles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Whew &#8211; this was a long one! As usual, I had far more questions submitted by you awesome Patrons than I could answer, so if yours didn&#8217;t get in this time please submit it again next time. 0:00:52 &#8211; What have been my favorite or most enlightening trips abroad?0:02:55 &#8211; Systems like Blish that&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/04\/qa-22-travel-and-more\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A 22: Travel and More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":30706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30705","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\/30705","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=30705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}