{"id":7598,"date":"2019-09-17T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/qa-33-its-all-about-compromises\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:33:13","slug":"qa-33-its-all-about-compromises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/qa-33-its-all-about-compromises\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A 33: It&#8217;s All About Compromises"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ooFU6naiCb8?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>Time for another monthly Q&#038;A!<\/p>\n<p>00:18 &#8211; Guns that exceeded and fell short of my expectations?<br \/>\n03:14 &#8211; Why did the US keep the 1903 instead of the 1917 after WW1?<br \/>\n04:59 &#8211; Bren guns in .30-06<br \/>\n07:07 &#8211; Book on French handguns or bayonets<br \/>\n08:45 &#8211; My jobs before Forgotten Weapons became full-time<br \/>\n11:12 &#8211; Any effort at .30 Carbine handguns in WW2?<br \/>\n12:44 &#8211; 7.65mm French Long brass by Starline<br \/>\n14:15 &#8211; Objectively bad gun that I like anyway<br \/>\n15:20 &#8211; Eye relief and eye box in scopes<br \/>\n18:19 &#8211; Prototypes with neat features dropped from production models<br \/>\n19:38 &#8211; Have I met Oleg Volk?<br \/>\n20:22 &#8211; Why wasn\u2019t the Winchester 1907 SL more popular?<br \/>\n21:08 &#8211; Will I continue to collect French arms now that my book is done?<br \/>\n21:45 &#8211; Sites to visit in Paris related to the Resistance and Occupation?<br \/>\n22:36 &#8211; Why didn\u2019t France adopt the M16?<br \/>\n22:57 &#8211; Glock 17 or Walther P38; which was more influential?<br \/>\n24:44 &#8211; Is push feed worthwhile or important?<br \/>\n27:12 &#8211; Plans to do video on the Ross and Huot?<br \/>\n27:52 &#8211; Finnish Mosins<br \/>\n29:39 &#8211; Why so many blocky looking handguns?<br \/>\n31:03 &#8211; How was the experience using Kickstarter for book launch?<br \/>\n33:23 &#8211; Was the Charlton the only bolt-to-semi conversion used by a military?<br \/>\n34:21 &#8211; Is the Spencer still my preferred Civil War carbine?<br \/>\n35:48 &#8211; Why don\u2019t more guns use the constant recoil concept?<br \/>\n38:00 &#8211; Why isn\u2019t there more use of ASP-style \u201cguttersnipe\u201d sights?<br \/>\n39:02 &#8211; Military rifle trials tests<br \/>\n42:36 &#8211; How did US small arms technology compare to Europe in the Civil War?<br \/>\n45:05 &#8211; Widgets to increase revolver capacity?<br \/>\n46:35 &#8211; First 8mm Lebel rifle, and PPU ammo compatibility<br \/>\n48:52 &#8211; Why don\u2019t more guns use the Farquhar-Hill buffered piston idea?<br \/>\n50:00 &#8211; Why didn\u2019t the US adopt the MG-42?<br \/>\n51:39 &#8211; How did the M14 go from replaced service rifle to EBR?<br \/>\n52:52 &#8211; Chinese small arms?<br \/>\n54:49 &#8211; Channels about bladed arms?<br \/>\n55:29 &#8211; Black powder semi autos?<br \/>\n57:21 &#8211; Why are some Asian guns called \u201cType\u201d instead of \u201cModel\u201d?<br \/>\n58:15 &#8211; Have I run into guns I can\u2019t disassemble without help?<br \/>\n58:38 &#8211; Which are more important: features or simplicity?<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85704<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons Time for another monthly Q&#038;A! 00:18 &#8211; Guns that exceeded and fell short of my expectations? 03:14 &#8211; Why did the US keep the 1903 instead of the 1917 after WW1? 04:59 &#8211; Bren guns in .30-06 07:07 &#8211; Book on French handguns or bayonets 08:45 &#8211; My jobs&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/qa-33-its-all-about-compromises\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&amp;A 33: It&#8217;s All About Compromises<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7599,"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-7598","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\/7598","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=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13424,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions\/13424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}