{"id":16609,"date":"2020-09-04T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/guncovered-wheellock-or-matchlock\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T13:02:37","slug":"guncovered-wheellock-or-matchlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/guncovered-wheellock-or-matchlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Guncovered: Wheellock or Matchlock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nHbttazKprA?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Transitions in firearm technology never happen overnight. They take years, even decades, for old established designs to fade away. Case in point are two of the muskets shown here. Are they matchlocks? Are they wheellocks? However you want to classify them, they represent a fascinating transition in firearms ignition systems.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us!<br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/RIauction<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rockislandauction\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transitions in firearm technology never happen overnight. They take years, even decades, for old established designs to fade away. Case in point are two of the muskets shown here. Are they matchlocks? Are they wheellocks? However you want to classify them, they represent a fascinating transition in firearms ignition systems. Follow us! Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RockIslandAuctionCompany Twitter:&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/guncovered-wheellock-or-matchlock\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guncovered: Wheellock or Matchlock?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":16610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}