{"id":4944,"date":"2019-04-11T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:47:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:47:42","slug":"boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys Anti-Tank Rifle: Mk I and Mk I* Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOr4Sc1Gk_w?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>These rifles are lots #1087 and #1088 at Morphy&#8217;s April 2019 auction:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Boys Anti-Tank Rifle was adopted by the British military in 1937, and remained in production until 1943 when it was replaced by the PIAT. During that time more than 114,000 were made, both in the UK and in Canada. Canadian engineers at the John Inglis company devised a number of improvements to the rifle in 1942, which were adopted as the Mk I* pattern that year. Today we are looking at these improvements with examples of each type side by side. They are a new style of muzzle brake, simplified rear sight, and improved bipod design.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These rifles are lots #1087 and #1088 at Morphy&#8217;s April 2019 auction: https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/ The Boys Anti-Tank Rifle was adopted by the British military in 1937, and remained in production until 1943 when it was replaced by the PIAT. During that time more than 114,000 were made, both in the UK and in Canada. Canadian engineers&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/boys-anti-tank-rifle-mk-i-and-mk-i-improvements\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boys Anti-Tank Rifle: Mk I and Mk I* Improvements<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4945,"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-4944","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\/4944","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=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13739,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/13739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}