Welcome to a question and answer episode of the old front line podcast with me, military historian Paul Reed.

In these bonus episodes, we'll answer questions that you, the podcast listener, have sent in,

and each episode will take us down new avenues and hopefully fascinating ones to talk

about some of the smaller subjects of the Great War that we can't always cover in the main

episodes so let's hear this week's questions welcome to the ninth episode of questions and answers.

This is a bonus episodes that we release between the main podcasts where you, the listeners,

can submit questions on any aspect of the Great War and I do my best to answer them.

We're on a biweekly cycle for main episodes at the moment and they'll continue on into the

summer with these Q&A episodes in between and with the regular amount of questions are coming in

and the positive feedback that I'm getting on these Q&A episodes,

they're proving quite clearly very, very popular.

And there's lots and lots of really good questions still coming in.

So keep those coming.

And you can submit, as usual, your questions via two main methods,

and there's details of this in the show notes.

That's either via our Discord server, where you can go on there and post the question,

or you can click and email me a question direct and it's taking a few weeks between submitting

a question and getting it answered here simply because there's so many of them but they're

great questions so keep them coming and we've got a really good selection in this week's episode so let's begin question one

this week comes from matt row on email matt asks this may be a bit too niche but it's something

i wonder about as a collector and shooter of vintage military rifles.

Have you come across anything to suggest the average soldier may have been picky or selective about the rifle they carried?

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