{"id":51947,"date":"2020-01-09T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51947"},"modified":"2020-03-30T18:58:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:58:31","slug":"martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/martini-henry-i-c-1-carbine\/","title":{"rendered":"Martini-Henry I.C.1 Carbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zkGrr8N3X1c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Forgotten Weapons<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Dec 2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Formally adopted in 1877, the I.C.1 Martini-Henry was formally designated the &#8220;Arms Interchangeable, Carbine Breech loading Rifled, with clearing rod Martini-Henry Mk1&#8221;. The word &#8220;interchangeable&#8221; refers to its use for both the artillery and cavalry services, instead of needing a separate design for each, as was typical of military forces at the time. It was chambered for the massive .577\/450 cartridge, with a 21.3 inch barrel and an overall weight of 7.5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I am shooting it today with 1950s Kynoch ammunition, a batch of which came into the US several years ago and can still be found without much trouble. However, it gave me significant hangfires and split cases, and I would not recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music by Dylan Benson &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dbproductioncompany.webs.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-54081\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine-853x480.png 853w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_2020-01-09-Martini-Henry-I-C-1-Carbine.png 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgotten Weapons Published 28 Dec 2014 http:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com Formally adopted in 1877, the I.C.1 Martini-Henry was formally designated the &#8220;Arms Interchangeable, Carbine Breech loading Rifled, with clearing rod Martini-Henry Mk1&#8221;. The word &#8220;interchangeable&#8221; refers to its use for both the artillery and cavalry services, instead of needing a separate design for each, as was typical of [&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":[4,7,5,663],"tags":[1366,49,1183],"class_list":["post-51947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","tag-forgottenweapons","tag-guns","tag-zulus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dvR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947","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=51947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54082,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947\/revisions\/54082"}],"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=51947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}