{"id":5376,"date":"2019-04-20T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/20\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:47:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:47:17","slug":"the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/20\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotchkiss Heavy: Shooting the Great War&#8217;s Modele 1914"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e3hJvmxV_iw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This Hotchkiss machine gun and its tripod are lot #2027 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hotchkiss was the primary heavy machine gun for the French and American forces in World War One, and this 1918-production example was just begging to be given a workout. So we took it out to the range to run a few strips of ammunition through it. Compared to my previous shooting experience with Vickers and Maxim guns, it was rather nice to not have water or seals to deal with&#8230;and the tripod made for almost boringly easy shooting. These guns were absolute workhorses, and while they don&#8217;t get the recognition or respect of the Maxim and its derivatives today, they are fantastic pieces of engineering.<\/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>This Hotchkiss machine gun and its tripod are lot #2027 in the upcoming April 2019 Morphy auction: https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914 The Hotchkiss was the primary heavy machine gun for the French and American forces in World War One, and this 1918-production example was just begging to be given a workout. So we took it out to the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/20\/the-hotchkiss-heavy-shooting-the-great-wars-modele-1914\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hotchkiss Heavy: Shooting the Great War&#8217;s Modele 1914<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5377,"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-5376","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\/5376","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=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}