{"id":34234,"date":"2016-02-08T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34234"},"modified":"2017-07-24T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:24:16","slug":"small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/small-arms-of-wwi-primer-014-canadian-ross-rifle-mark-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Arms of WWI Primer 014: Canadian Ross Rifle Mark III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2uGYSQ_-FJU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 8 Dec 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>C&#038;Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday!<\/p>\n<p>Ross Rifle MkIII<br \/>\nCartridge: .303<br \/>\nCapacity: 5 rnds<br \/>\nLength: 50.6&#8243;<br \/>\nweight: 9.9 lbs<\/p>\n<p>This disastrous straight pull rifle remains an infamous part of WWI. It brought down politicians, cost soldiers&#8217; lives, and was generally a complete failure on the battlefield. But was the Ross Rifle really unfixable? Or did the Canadians drop the gun just when they had it finally working?<\/p>\n<p>Additional reading:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Ross Rifle Story<\/em><br \/>\nRoger F. Phillips<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/candrprimer-20<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 8 Dec 2015 Othais and Mae delve into the story of this WWI classic. Complete with history, function, and live fire demonstration. C&#038;Rsenal presents its WWI Primer series; covering the firearms of this historic conflict one at a time in honor of the centennial anniversary. Join us every other Tuesday! Ross Rifle MkIII [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,5,53,246],"tags":[955,49,1146],"class_list":["post-34234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-politics","category-ww1","tag-canadiancorps","tag-guns","tag-rossrifle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Ua","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34235,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34234\/revisions\/34235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}