{"id":27046,"date":"2025-05-23T07:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/asac-presentation-bullet-strikes-from-the-first-day-of-the-american-revolution-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:44:38","slug":"asac-presentation-bullet-strikes-from-the-first-day-of-the-american-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/asac-presentation-bullet-strikes-from-the-first-day-of-the-american-revolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ASAC Presentation: Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSYqUPnozuE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Joel Bohy, coauthor of a new book of the same name, published by Mowbray. You can find his book here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gunandswordcollector.com\/product\/bullet-strikes-american-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gunandswordcollector.com\/product\/bullet-strikes-american-revolution\/<\/a><br \/>or<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43PoaF6\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amzn.to\/43PoaF6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joel Bohy and Douglas Scott have written three research reports as part of this project, and they are available for free from the ASAC library here:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americansocietyofarmscollectors.org\/research-reports-by-asac-members\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/americansocietyofarmscollectors.org\/research-reports-by-asac-members\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>00:53 &#8211; How the project started<br \/>02:55 &#8211; Ballistics of Revolutionary War muskets<br \/>07:55 &#8211; Understanding the different arms involved<br \/>18:59 &#8211; The research project grows&#8230;<br \/>20:30 &#8211; The Elisha Jones House<br \/>23:28 &#8211; James Hayward&#8217;s powder horn<br \/>28:40 &#8211; The Market Munroe House<br \/>31:41 &#8211; Buckman Tavern<br \/>33:10 &#8211; Monroe Tavern<br \/>35:30 &#8211; The Jason Russell House<br \/>45:19 &#8211; Relics of Captain William Adams&#8217; House<br \/>48:48 &#8211; Recreating John Robbin&#8217;s terrible wound from Lexington Green<br \/>55:15 &#8211; Question: Petitions for compensation<br \/>56:39 &#8211; Question: Muzzle energy of these muskets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture was presented at the Spring 2025 meeting of the American Society of Arms Collectors. It was given by Joel Bohy, coauthor of a new book of the same name, published by Mowbray. You can find his book here: https:\/\/gunandswordcollector.com\/product\/bullet-strikes-american-revolution\/orhttps:\/\/amzn.to\/43PoaF6 Joel Bohy and Douglas Scott have written three research reports as part of this&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/asac-presentation-bullet-strikes-from-the-first-day-of-the-american-revolution-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ASAC Presentation: Bullet Strikes From the First Day of the American Revolution<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":27047,"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-27046","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\/27046","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}