{"id":31006,"date":"2017-02-13T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=31006"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:49:26","slug":"on-midway-usas-gun-stories-sniper-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/on-midway-usas-gun-stories-sniper-rifles\/31006\/","title":{"rendered":"On Midway USA&#8217;s Gun Stories: Sniper Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/osa.outdoorchannel.com\/video_iframe.aspx?video-player-id=48821&#038;vid=42236&#038;hideplaylist=true&#038;autoplay=false\" width=\"478px\" height=\"269px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"yes\" 0=\"Your\" 1=\"browser\" 2=\"does\" 3=\"not\" 4=\"support\" 5=\"iframes.\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>The date was May 9, 1864, and Union General James Sedgwick had just admonished his troops in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House to stop flinching from Confederate fire almost 1000 yards away. \u201cThey couldn\u2019t hit an elephant at this distance,\u201d he shouted. Within seconds, the Confederate sniper\u2019s bullet hit the General just below his left eye, and the Union troops learned the battlefield-controlling power of the sniper.<\/p>\n<p>Midway USA&#8217;s Gun Stories, Season 4 &#8211; Episode 9<\/p>\n<p>First aired on 8-27-14.<\/p>\n<p>Air times on Outdoor Channel: Tue Feb 14: 11:30AM ET | Wed Feb 15: 7:00PM ET | Wed Feb 15: 10:30PM ET | Thu Feb 16: 2:00AM ET | Thu Feb 16: 1:00PM ET.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Outdoor Channel is available to cable and satellite customers across the United States. Additionally, some cable providers offer Outdoor Channel HD.&nbsp;<a href=\"outdoorchannel.com\/channelfinder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to look up where to watch the channel in your area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2bAC3wT\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38253 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MOTVGunStories500wide.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MOTVGunStories500wide.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/MOTVGunStories500wide-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Home Page on Outdoorchannel.com:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/Shows\/GunStories.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gun Stories Facebook Fan Page:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GunStories<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Facebook<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joemantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna on Twitter<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeMantegna<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Joe Mantegna&#8217;s web site<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.joemantegna.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederate sniper\u2019s bullet hit the General just below his left eye, and the Union troops learned the battlefield-controlling power of the sniper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":38653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,1612],"tags":[3617,1672,63,3433],"class_list":["post-31006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-gun-stories","tag-gun-stories","tag-joe-mantegna","tag-outdoor-channel","tag-sniper-rifles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}