{"id":5987,"date":"2019-07-19T06:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:40:52","slug":"huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1\/","title":{"rendered":"Huot: Canada&#8217;s Ross-based Prototype Automatic Rifle from WW1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYJsr74ABXU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>\nTeespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to a shortage of Lewis guns and a glut of withdrawn Ross Mk.III rifles once the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been completely re-equipped with Lee-Enfield SMLE rifles, Monsieur Huot proposed to modify Ross rifles into an automatic rifle \/ light machine gun (LMG) configuration. <\/p>\n<p>5 of these are known to exist, this is number 2, and is in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada museum in Vancouver: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seaforthhighlanders.ca\/home-museum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.seaforthhighlanders.ca\/home-museum<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to them for the opportunity to handle and film this exceptionally rare piece! Please give them a visit!<\/p>\n<p>303 British<br \/>\nworld war 1<br \/>\nworld war I<br \/>\nWWi<br \/>\nWW1<br \/>\nBattlefield 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange Teespring: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/ Due to a shortage of Lewis guns and a glut of withdrawn Ross Mk.III rifles once the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been completely re-equipped with Lee-Enfield SMLE rifles, Monsieur Huot proposed to modify Ross rifles into an automatic rifle \/ light machine gun (LMG) configuration. 5 of these are&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/19\/huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huot: Canada&#8217;s Ross-based Prototype Automatic Rifle from WW1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5988,"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-5987","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\/5987","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13549,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5987\/revisions\/13549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}