{"id":35767,"date":"2020-06-23T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=35767"},"modified":"2020-06-23T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:16:08","slug":"know-your-weapons-wartime-evolution-of-the-no4-lee-enfield-rear-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/23\/know-your-weapons-wartime-evolution-of-the-no4-lee-enfield-rear-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: Wartime Evolution of the No4 Lee Enfield Rear Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwctXNtjB_Q?feature=oembed<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Most of the significant wartime simplifications we see on rifles from World War Two are from Germany and Japan, but the rear sight of the No4 Lee Enfield is a good example of a similar action taken by Britain. By 1942, the finely-made milled rear sight assembly of the rifle had become a limiting\u00a0factor\u2026<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forgottenweapons.com\/wartime-evolution-of-the-no4-lee-enfield-rear-sight\/\">Wartime Evolution of the No4 Lee Enfield Rear Sight \u2014 Forgotten Weapons<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the significant wartime simplifications we see on rifles from World War Two are from Germany and Japan, but the rear sight of the No4 Lee Enfield is a good example of a similar action taken by Britain. By 1942, the finely-made milled rear sight assembly of the rifle had become a limiting\u00a0factor\u2026 Wartime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[366,6135,401],"tags":[8406,8407],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}