{"id":8079,"date":"2013-10-20T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/20\/2-gun-action-challenge-match-svt40-vs-m1-garand\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T22:29:26","slug":"2-gun-action-challenge-match-svt40-vs-m1-garand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/20\/2-gun-action-challenge-match-svt40-vs-m1-garand\/","title":{"rendered":"2-Gun Action Challenge Match: SVT40 vs M1 Garand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_jW0q794-cI?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, after the hype about setting the FG-42 up against the M1 at a practical action match, I unfortunately have to let you down. We had a bit of a mishap right before the match started, which rendered the FG unable to be used. It&#8217;s disappointing, but we&#8217;re going to get it fixed up and try again in anther month or two. In the meantime, we switched to an SVT-40 as a backup rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Still definitely a fun matchup, and perhaps a bit more evenly balanced than the scoped FG would have been against the M1.<\/p>\n<p>Also, FYI for you guys out there with FG-42s  &#8211; don&#8217;t use the M14 method of buttstroking the rifle into the ground to clear a stuck case! The FG doesn&#8217;t have a metal buttplate, and the stress may not react well with the stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com So, after the hype about setting the FG-42 up against the M1 at a practical action match, I unfortunately have to let you down. We had a bit of a mishap right before the match started, which rendered the FG unable to be used. It&#8217;s disappointing, but we&#8217;re going to get it fixed up&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2013\/10\/20\/2-gun-action-challenge-match-svt40-vs-m1-garand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2-Gun Action Challenge Match: SVT40 vs M1 Garand<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8080,"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-8079","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\/8079","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=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15832,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions\/15832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}