{"id":14489,"date":"2017-10-29T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T18:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/?p=14489"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:00:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:00:15","slug":"guess-and-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/guess-and-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess and Win !"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NULAHere are my four New Ultra Light Arms<\/a> rifles. I sold my fifth – a 35 Whelen – to my best friend in Alaska because he needed it more than me.<\/em> The point of this post\/photo is not to brag, it’s to announce a contest. Whomever guess\u00a0the correct weight of all four of these rifles – as shown and to the nearest ounce – will win autographed copies of my books, Under Orion<\/a> and Shooters Guide to the AR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To help with your guessing calculations, the rifle on top is a 243 Winchester, the second from the top a 30 Remington AR, the third from the top a 308 Winchester, and the bottom rifle is a 22 LR. You can post your speculations on Facebook but to officially enter you will have to submit the form below.<\/p>\n

The contest ends on 3 November, 2017, and if someone – the first to do so – guesses the weight\u00a0exactly<\/em><\/strong>, they will win this Spyderco knife.<\/p>\n

11\/3\/17: WE HAVE A WINNER: The correct total weight for all four rifles is: 24 pounds, 6.5 ounces.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"NULA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are my four New Ultra Light Arms rifles. I sold my fifth – a 35 Whelen – to my best friend in Alaska because he needed it more than me. The point of this post\/photo is not to brag, it’s to announce a contest. Whomever guess\u00a0the correct weight of all four of these rifles – as shown and to the nearest …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2522,1],"tags":[2766,2756,136,2545],"class_list":["post-14489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hunt","category-uncategorized","tag-contest","tag-lightweight-rifles","tag-new-ultra-light-arms","tag-under-orion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5hujZ-3LH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16371,"url":"https:\/\/empty-cases.com\/blog\/daily-blog-12-6-20\/","url_meta":{"origin":14489,"position":0},"title":"Daily Blog: 12\/6\/20 (Melvin Forbes)","author":"gunwriter","date":"December 6, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I'm working on an article for Gun Digest about my friend Melvin Forbes from New Ultra Light Arms. 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