{"id":25816,"date":"2024-11-09T05:24:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/ist-that-the-first-european-handgun-the-14th-century-tannenberg-gun\/"},"modified":"2024-11-09T05:24:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T11:24:35","slug":"ist-that-the-first-european-handgun-the-14th-century-tannenberg-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/ist-that-the-first-european-handgun-the-14th-century-tannenberg-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ist that the first European handgun? &#8211; The 14th century Tannenberg gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ozuhzu9UMIM?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I am happy to show you the new film about the Tannenberg handgonne, the only properly dated 14th century European handgun we know about today. It covers its history, importance, but also a lot more. Gives insight to the accessories used in the 14th-15th century, and investigates how it was loaded for maximum effectiveness. In this chapter I am testing a charging method described in the Feuerwerkbuch dated 1432 (Freiburger Manuskriptes MS 362).  This loading method requires leaving an airgap between bullet and powder charge, that seems strange while absolutaley not safe in today&#8217;s standard. But Capandball will test it for you.<br \/>Please support us on: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Please visit us at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><br \/>More about handgonnes:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RoYunM-z19A?si=Zo1faafgOG2Kv6KP<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/RoYunM-z19A?si=Zo1faafgOG2Kv6KP<br<\/a> \/><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xRm2LZty-oU?si=2LYpC8aus-UelbEh<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/xRm2LZty-oU?si=2LYpC8aus-UelbEh<br<\/a> \/>Magyar sz\u00f6veg: <a href=\"https:\/\/kapszli.hu\/a-14-szazadi-tannenberg-puska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kapszli.hu\/a-14-szazadi-tannenberg-puska\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#capandball #medieval #handgonne #firearms #militaryhistory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy to show you the new film about the Tannenberg handgonne, the only properly dated 14th century European handgun we know about today. It covers its history, importance, but also a lot more. Gives insight to the accessories used in the 14th-15th century, and investigates how it was loaded for maximum effectiveness. In&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/09\/ist-that-the-first-european-handgun-the-14th-century-tannenberg-gun\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ist that the first European handgun? &#8211; The 14th century Tannenberg gun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-25816","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\/25816","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}