{"id":109064,"date":"2021-01-06T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109064"},"modified":"2021-01-06T09:39:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T14:39:05","slug":"big-guns-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109064","title":{"rendered":"Big Guns Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that material is short right now. I found a nice WWII restored tank video that I will post tomorrow, for the tankers out there in the Land of Cloistered Souls. But for those of you who are Gun Nutz, I have a few videos about Big Gunnz that you&#8217;ll probably like.<\/p>\n<p>The first video is a US Navy training film on how the Big Guns on a battleship are prepped and loaded to fire shells at a target from a distance of up to 20 miles.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OmOQs0ziSU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0OmOQs0ziSU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s this live fire exercise of the Navy getting practice with the MK38 Mod2 25mm gun system. Practice pays off.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/izP3liVmfCE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also this video: a\u00a0History of the M1 Garand rifle:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pL1D-4dFJ8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pL1D-4dFJ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can I assume that you know how to load the Garand properly, or do I have to drop in that instructional video, too?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is an Open Thread where you can natter on about your favorite firearms and how much you&#8217;re packing in the ammo belt, and so on.\u00a0 Just don&#8217;t make the internet crash. Oh, yeah &#8211; if anyone waltzes in here and tries to change the subject, I expect you all to correct such misbehavior without pity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not that material is short right now. I found a nice WWII restored tank video that I will post tomorrow, for the tankers out there in the Land of Cloistered Souls. But for those of you who are Gun Nutz, I have a few videos about Big Gunnz that you&#8217;ll probably like. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-sn6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}