{"id":8857,"date":"2020-02-28T06:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T06:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/patreon-qa-february-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T11:24:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T16:24:52","slug":"patreon-qa-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/patreon-qa-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Patreon Q&amp;A, February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvT5DXO9dcE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>\nTeespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bloke and Chap answer questions from Patrons. Topics discussed:<\/p>\n<p>0:59 &#8211; Vetterli modifications for smokeless &#038; GP90<br \/>\n2:49 &#8211; What is an interesting skill you&#8217;ve picked up?<br \/>\n4:48 &#8211; The Chap\u2019s French skills, nationalities &#038; Swiss-German<br \/>\n8:35 \u2013 Will a straight-pull L1A1 be allowed in the next BOTR bolt action challenge?<br \/>\n10:34 \u2013 Why are revolver hammers larger than those on semi-autos?<br \/>\n12:18 \u2013 How do you actually use volley sights?<br \/>\n15:00 \u2013 Future firearm myths to be debunked<br \/>\n19:43 \u2013 Commercial ammunition manufacturers and 174gr FB bullets<br \/>\n23:20 \u2013 Bloke and Chap\u2019s experience with Japanese bolt actions<br \/>\n24:50 \u2013 What were the limiting factors of early 20th century marksmen\u2019s\u2019 rifles?<br \/>\n31:50 \u2013 Do Bloke or Chap like gin?<br \/>\n33:08 \u2013 How many guns do each of you own and what are they?<br \/>\n33:45 \u2013 What if the British had adopted a rimless cartridge post-WWI?<br \/>\n39:08 \u2013 Thoughts on dry firing military bolt actions<br \/>\n41:12 \u2013 Good things you remember about UK target rifle?<br \/>\n43:10 \u2013 What are the best guns of the black powder era?<br \/>\n47:00 \u2013 What is a good GP11 approximation for reloading?<br \/>\n49:48 \u2013 Quality or matching serial numbers as a better indication of a rifle for target shooting<br \/>\n51:01 \u2013 What happened to Sch\u00fctzen in Switzerland?<br \/>\n53:41 \u2013 Reproduction bolt knobs for Swiss straight pulls &#038; Sig 550 content<br \/>\n55:39 \u2013 Is there shotgun shooting in Switzerland?<br \/>\n57:30 \u2013 How do you reload for the Vetterli?<br \/>\n1:01:29 \u2013 What is your favorite type of competitive shooting and what do you find most challenging?<br \/>\n1:04:30 \u2013 Will you cover the South African take-down SMLE?<br \/>\n1:06:23 \u2013 What is considered the best Swiss chocolate?<\/p>\n<p>Textbook of Small Arms 1904: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1aF2QVPLsAm1z_HjYORaTSEwdB1EF2rlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1aF2QVPLsAm1z_HjYORaTSEwdB1EF2rlw<\/a><br \/>\nHatcher&#8217;s Notebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1HIBCDSILXy6X6RUhmjSMg8qCHxoIKWDt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1HIBCDSILXy6X6RUhmjSMg8qCHxoIKWDt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange Teespring: https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/ Bloke and Chap answer questions from Patrons. Topics discussed: 0:59 &#8211; Vetterli modifications for smokeless &#038; GP90 2:49 &#8211; What is an interesting skill you&#8217;ve picked up? 4:48 &#8211; The Chap\u2019s French skills, nationalities &#038; Swiss-German 8:35 \u2013 Will a straight-pull L1A1 be allowed in the next BOTR bolt&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/28\/patreon-qa-february-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patreon Q&amp;A, February 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":8858,"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-8857","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\/8857","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13116,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8857\/revisions\/13116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}