{"id":49892,"date":"2019-09-20T02:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T06:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=49892"},"modified":"2019-09-19T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:22:26","slug":"huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/09\/20\/huot-canadas-ross-based-prototype-automatic-rifle-from-ww1\/","title":{"rendered":"Huot: Canada&#8217;s Ross-based Prototype Automatic Rifle from WW1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYJsr74ABXU\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Bloke on the Range<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 18 Jul 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to a shortage of Lewis guns and a glut of withdrawn Ross Mk.III rifles once the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been completely re-equipped with Lee-Enfield SMLE rifles, Monsieur Huot proposed to modify Ross rifles into an automatic rifle \/ light machine gun (LMG) configuration. <\/p>\n<p>5 of these are known to exist, this is number 2, and is in the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada museum in Vancouver: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=z-w2UoTAX8nqsWzYKQG3KIZA7HB8MTU2NDI2NDMwOUAxNTY0MTc3OTA5&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seaforthhighlanders.ca%2Fhome-museum&#038;v=ZYJsr74ABXU&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.seaforthhighlanders.ca\/ho&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to them for the opportunity to handle and film this exceptionally rare piece! Please give them a visit!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-51167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screenshot_2019-09-20-Huot-Canada\u2019s-Ross-based-Prototype-Automatic-Rifle-from-WW1.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloke on the Range Published on 18 Jul 2019 Patreon: https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange Due to a shortage of Lewis guns and a glut of withdrawn Ross Mk.III rifles once the Canadian Expeditionary Force had been completely re-equipped with Lee-Enfield SMLE rifles, Monsieur Huot proposed to modify Ross rifles into an automatic rifle \/ light machine gun (LMG) [&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":[6,7,5,663,246],"tags":[955,140,49,1265,1146],"class_list":["post-49892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww1","tag-canadiancorps","tag-design","tag-guns","tag-machineguns","tag-rossrifle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cYI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892","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=49892"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51168,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49892\/revisions\/51168"}],"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=49892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}