{"id":26453,"date":"2025-02-22T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/firing-an-early-16th-c-tinder-lock-arquebus-capandball-firearmshistory-medievalhistory\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T01:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T07:00:50","slug":"firing-an-early-16th-c-tinder-lock-arquebus-capandball-firearmshistory-medievalhistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/firing-an-early-16th-c-tinder-lock-arquebus-capandball-firearmshistory-medievalhistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing an early 16th c. tinder lock arquebus #capandball #firearmshistory #medievalhistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZTV_7m3rxWk?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The snapping tinder or match lock mechanism was a phenomenon of the late 15th early 16th century. The hero of the battle of Pavia 1525 and battle of Moh\u00e1cs 1526. One of the first guns actually fired with a spring driven mechanism. Its relatively small 10-16 mm calibre ball was made mainly from lead-tin alloy for better armour penetration.<br \/>#capandball #history #firearmshistory #medievalhistory #pavia #moh\u00e1cs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The snapping tinder or match lock mechanism was a phenomenon of the late 15th early 16th century. The hero of the battle of Pavia 1525 and battle of Moh\u00e1cs 1526. One of the first guns actually fired with a spring driven mechanism. Its relatively small 10-16 mm calibre ball was made mainly from lead-tin alloy&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/22\/firing-an-early-16th-c-tinder-lock-arquebus-capandball-firearmshistory-medievalhistory\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firing an early 16th c. tinder lock arquebus #capandball #firearmshistory #medievalhistory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26454,"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-26453","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\/26453","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=26453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}