{"id":8649,"date":"2020-01-23T13:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/why-antitank-rifles-were-not-sniper-rifles\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:24:05","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:24:05","slug":"why-antitank-rifles-were-not-sniper-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/why-antitank-rifles-were-not-sniper-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Antitank Rifles Were Not Sniper Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mf7MezhQ6pw?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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home<\/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>When talking about antitank rifles, I often hear people ask why such things were not fitted with telescopic sights and used as snipers&#8217; rifles. So today, I figured I&#8217;d take a few minutes to explain the various reasons why&#8230;starting with why Carlos Hathcock&#8217;s scoped M2 Browning was not the same thing and does not apply to this question.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\n6281 N. Oracle #36270<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons https:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\/home Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons When talking about antitank rifles, I often hear people ask why such things were not fitted with telescopic sights and used as snipers&#8217; rifles. So today, I figured I&#8217;d take a few minutes to explain the various reasons why&#8230;starting with why Carlos Hathcock&#8217;s scoped M2 Browning was not&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/why-antitank-rifles-were-not-sniper-rifles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Antitank Rifles Were Not Sniper Rifles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8650,"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-8649","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\/8649","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=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13172,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/13172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}