{"id":66190,"date":"2023-06-03T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=66190"},"modified":"2023-06-03T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T18:21:35","slug":"know-your-weapons-remington-model-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/03\/know-your-weapons-remington-model-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Weapons: Remington Model 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66193\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/remington-model-30.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"145\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gunsmagazine.com\/discover\/remington-model-30\/\">Remington Model 30<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Our story begins back in the Boer War of 1899. In their skirmishes with the South African republics, and despite the sizable numeric differences in their fighting forces, the British found the various guerillas and irregulars were shooting their men to pieces. A good part of the cause came down to a difference in armament \u2014 the 7mm Mauser rifles used by the Boers outranged and outshot the various Lee-Enfields and Lee-Metfords chambered in .303 British.<\/h2>\n<h2>Though the British proved the victors of the conflict, the Boers left the Empire licking its wounds and with the desire to field a gee-whiz rifle and cartridge combination of its own. By 1913, those efforts coalesced into the .276 Enfield round, which pushed a 165-grain bullet at about 2,800 feet per second, along with a shiny new launching platform built to accommodate the round\u2019s greater length and pressure: the P13 (\u201cPattern 13\u201d) rifle.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/gunsmagazine.com\/discover\/remington-model-30\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6112\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6112\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/boers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a0 \u00a0Boer Guerillas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remington Model 30 &nbsp; Our story begins back in the Boer War of 1899. In their skirmishes with the South African republics, and despite the sizable numeric differences in their fighting forces, the British found the various guerillas and irregulars were shooting their men to pieces. A good part of the cause came down to&#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":[5445,6199,475,5064,478,6135,401,24],"tags":[8579,15999],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66190"}],"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=66190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}