{"id":3822,"date":"2015-12-09T03:19:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T03:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:32:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:32:35","slug":"small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Arms of WWI Primer 014: Canadian Ross Rifle Mark III"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uGYSQ_-FJU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic.  Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>C&#038;Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary.  Join us every other Tuesday!  <\/p>\n<p>Ross Rifle MkIII<br \/>\nCartridge: .303<br \/>\nCapacity: 5 rnds<br \/>\nLength: 50.6&#8243;<br \/>\nweight: 9.9 lbs<\/p>\n<p>This disastrous straight pull rifle remains an infamous part of WWI.  It brought <\/p>\n<p>down politicians, cost soldiers&#8217; lives, and was generally a complete failure on the <\/p>\n<p>battlefield.  But was the Ross Rifle really unfixable?  Or did the Canadians drop <\/p>\n<p>the gun just when they had it finally working?<\/p>\n<p>Additional reading:<\/p>\n<p>The Ross Rifle Story<br \/>\nRoger F. Phillips<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20\/detail\/0969190603\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20\/detail\/0969190603<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can now find this and other books through our A-store.  When buying through <\/p>\n<p>this link we receive a small commission that goes on to help with production.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Music provided by Melissa Hyman of The Moon and You<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themoonandyou.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.themoonandyou.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Safe range space thanks to Shoot Logic<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shootlogic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.shootlogic.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with The Great War<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheGreatWar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheGreatWar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ammunition data thanks to DrakeGmbH<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DrakeGmbH\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/DrakeGmbH\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archival work by Georgy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/georgy-konstantinovich-zhukov.tumblr.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Visit us at <a href=\"http:\/\/candrsenal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/candrsenal.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or go further and support our channel at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CandRsenal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/CandRsenal<\/a><br \/>\nCurrent funding level: $936.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration. C&#038;Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday! Ross Rifle MkIII Cartridge: .303 Capacity: 5 rnds&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/09\/small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Small Arms of WWI Primer 014: Canadian Ross Rifle Mark III<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3823,"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-3822","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\/3822","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15453,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions\/15453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}