{"id":5714,"date":"2019-02-16T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/16\/l96a1-the-green-meanie-the-first-modern-sniper-rifle\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:51:07","slug":"l96a1-the-green-meanie-the-first-modern-sniper-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/16\/l96a1-the-green-meanie-the-first-modern-sniper-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"L96A1: The Green Meanie &#8211; the First Modern Sniper Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e0IvoKwvEbs?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\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>The Accuracy International Precision Marksman rifle was the winner of the British MoD&#8217;s competition to replace the L42A1 as the standard British sniper rifle, and was accordingly adopted as the L96A1. It was the vanguard of the modern sniper rifle, with a highly modular chassis design, and it revolutionized British sniping performance. Thanks to Steve Houghton, was have access today to one of a tiny number of original L96A1 rifles in private hands. If you are interested in learning more, I highly recommend checking out Steve&#8217;s newly released book, &#8220;The British Sniper: A Century of Evolution&#8221;. It can be found at: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiftandboldpublishing.co.uk\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.swiftandboldpublishing.co.uk\/the-book\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The Accuracy International Precision Marksman rifle was the winner of the British MoD&#8217;s competition to replace the L42A1 as the standard British sniper rifle, and was accordingly adopted as the L96A1. It was the vanguard of the modern sniper rifle, with a highly modular chassis design, and it revolutionized&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/16\/l96a1-the-green-meanie-the-first-modern-sniper-rifle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L96A1: The Green Meanie &#8211; the First Modern Sniper Rifle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5715,"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-5714","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\/5714","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=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13845,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/13845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}