{"id":7401,"date":"2015-11-16T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/madsen-lmg-disassembly-functioning\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T21:37:29","slug":"madsen-lmg-disassembly-functioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/madsen-lmg-disassembly-functioning\/","title":{"rendered":"Madsen LMG Disassembly &amp; Functioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zpF2hS2avd8?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>Hammer price: $4000 (note: dealer sample)<\/p>\n<p>The Madsen LMG is of particular interest to me because it is both a very mechanically unusual design and also a very early successful design. Madsen light machine guns were first used in combat in the Russo-Japanese War, saw use in both World Wars, and continued to be used by various forces (the Brazilian police being a notable example) until quite recently. Mechanically, the Madsen is a falling block type of action, which allows it to use a very short receiver (since there is no need for space for a bolt to travel forward and backward). Today I figured we would spend time pulling apart a live registered Madsen (a dealer sample, unfortunately) to examine its working parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.Patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Hammer price: $4000 (note: dealer sample) The Madsen LMG is of particular interest to me because it is both a very mechanically unusual design and also a very early successful design. Madsen light machine guns were first used in combat in the Russo-Japanese War, saw use in both World Wars, and continued to be&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/16\/madsen-lmg-disassembly-functioning\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Madsen LMG Disassembly &amp; Functioning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7402,"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-7401","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\/7401","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=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15470,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/15470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}