{"id":7429,"date":"2013-03-18T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T00:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/m1886-lebel-rifle-at-the-range\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:31:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:31:06","slug":"m1886-lebel-rifle-at-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/m1886-lebel-rifle-at-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"M1886 Lebel Rifle at the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WwYl6ANNlw?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The French M1886 Lebel was the first smallbore smokeless powder rifle adopted by a major military, and was a game changer in the European arms race in the 1880s. It wasn&#8217;t an outstanding design in many ways (like the slow-loading tube magazine and requirement to use a screwdriver to remove the bolt), but its 8mm smokeless cartridge jumped France to the front of the technological race regardless. Today, we&#8217;re taking one out to the range to see how it shoots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/m1886-lebel-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/m1886-lebel-video\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French M1886 Lebel was the first smallbore smokeless powder rifle adopted by a major military, and was a game changer in the European arms race in the 1880s. It wasn&#8217;t an outstanding design in many ways (like the slow-loading tube magazine and requirement to use a screwdriver to remove the bolt), but its 8mm&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/18\/m1886-lebel-rifle-at-the-range\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">M1886 Lebel Rifle at the Range<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7430,"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-7429","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\/7429","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=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15891,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions\/15891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}