{"id":5420,"date":"2014-12-28T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/28\/martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:20:06","slug":"martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/28\/martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine\/","title":{"rendered":"Martini-Henry I.C.1 Carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkGrr8N3X1c?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Formally adopted in 1877, the I.C.1 Martini Henry was formally designated the &#8220;Arms Interchangeable, Carbine Breech loading Rifled, with clearing rod Martini Henry Mk1&#8221;. The word &#8220;interchangeable&#8221; refers to its use for both the artillery and cavalry services, instead of needing a separate design for each, as was typical of military forces at the time. It was chambered for the massive .577\/450 cartridge, with a 21.3 inch barrel and an overall weight of 7.5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I am shooting it today with 1950s Kynoch ammunition, a batch of which came into the US several years ago and can still be found without much trouble. However, it gave me significant hangfires and split cases, and I would not recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com Formally adopted in 1877, the I.C.1 Martini Henry was formally designated the &#8220;Arms Interchangeable, Carbine Breech loading Rifled, with clearing rod Martini Henry Mk1&#8221;. The word &#8220;interchangeable&#8221; refers to its use for both the artillery and cavalry services, instead of needing a separate design for each, as was typical of military forces at the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/28\/martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Martini-Henry I.C.1 Carbine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5421,"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-5420","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\/5420","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=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15661,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/15661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}