{"id":26871,"date":"2025-04-27T02:48:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/firing-the-first-ever-pistol-of-history-capandball-history-wheelock-firearmshistory\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T02:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T07:48:50","slug":"firing-the-first-ever-pistol-of-history-capandball-history-wheelock-firearmshistory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/firing-the-first-ever-pistol-of-history-capandball-history-wheelock-firearmshistory\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing the first ever pistol of history #capandball #history #wheelock #firearmshistory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M55mnWr0tzE?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This is the very first chapter of a series about the first pistol of firearms history. This is an early wheel lock arquebus that was found in the 19th century in a bog near Kom\u00e1rom, Hungary. Today it is part of the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK. You are the first to see this beauty in action after 500 years of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Please support us on Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Please visit us on History of Weapons and War: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#capandball #firearmshistory #wheelock #militaryhistory #pistolfiring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the very first chapter of a series about the first pistol of firearms history. This is an early wheel lock arquebus that was found in the 19th century in a bog near Kom\u00e1rom, Hungary. Today it is part of the collection of the Royal Armouries in Leeds, UK. You are the first to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/27\/firing-the-first-ever-pistol-of-history-capandball-history-wheelock-firearmshistory\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Firing the first ever pistol of history #capandball #history #wheelock #firearmshistory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26872,"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-26871","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\/26871","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=26871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}