{"id":3488,"date":"2016-11-20T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/mythbusting-swiss-7-5x53-5-gp90-was-always-smokeless-never-semismokeless\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:25:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:25:11","slug":"mythbusting-swiss-7-5x53-5-gp90-was-always-smokeless-never-semismokeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/mythbusting-swiss-7-5x53-5-gp90-was-always-smokeless-never-semismokeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Mythbusting: Swiss 7.5&#215;53.5 GP90 was always smokeless, never semismokeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R3uxz2hfrB4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After some minor grumbling in the comments of our earlier video that we&#8217;d fired a round of GP90\/03 rather than original GP90, we&#8217;re back on this topic again. Here&#8217;s the earlier video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l5VCbIfsmAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l5VCbIfsmAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, there&#8217;s no documentary evidence of any change to powder from GP90 to GP90\/03: it&#8217;s stated in the literature as PC88 for both. The only substantial change was to the primer, which was changed to a less corrosive one, but the powder was never changed. And, is even described in the Botschaft des Bundesrates of 19 June 1889 as being &#8220;rauchlos&#8221;, which is an absolutely unambiguous term (as is, to be fair &#8220;rauchschwach&#8221;, but hey ho).<\/p>\n<p>So this time we&#8217;re working with an 1893-dated GP90 cartridge, so a very early one, from one of the earliest years when the 1889 rifles were in the hands of the troops.<\/p>\n<p>All didn&#8217;t go quite according to plan, and it required a rather long detour via the Chap&#8217;s workshop&#8230; But that&#8217;s what you get with 123 year old ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>But, in the end, did we bust the semismokeless myth?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and btw, this video spans the &#8220;old camera&#8221; and &#8220;new camera&#8221; eras&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Like our FB page! <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>After some minor grumbling in the comments of our earlier video that we&#8217;d fired a round of GP90\/03 rather than original GP90, we&#8217;re back on this topic again. Here&#8217;s the earlier video: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l5VCbIfsmAQ Now, there&#8217;s no documentary evidence of any change to powder from GP90 to GP90\/03: it&#8217;s stated in the literature as PC88 for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/20\/mythbusting-swiss-7-5x53-5-gp90-was-always-smokeless-never-semismokeless\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mythbusting: Swiss 7.5&#215;53.5 GP90 was always smokeless, never semismokeless<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3489,"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-3488","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\/3488","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=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/15094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}