{"id":27524,"date":"2025-08-04T08:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/how-far-a-17th-century-musket-ball-can-kill\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:23:50","slug":"how-far-a-17th-century-musket-ball-can-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/how-far-a-17th-century-musket-ball-can-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"How far a 17th century musket ball can kill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EOVJ1RCDQ4M?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever wonder what is the outer distance where a musket ball fired from a 17th century matchlock musket can cause a life threatening injury? Here is one answer to that question based on the experimental archaeology project covbering the 1664 siege of Novi Zrin in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>More about the muskets of Novi Zrin: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_6ckOrgdQ8Q?si=RfhKlWrFpxBIdkxU<br\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/_6ckOrgdQ8Q?si=RfhKlWrFpxBIdkxU<br<\/a> \/>Please support us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/capandball<\/a> <br \/>Hostory of Weapons and War platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.weaponsandwar.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#musket #matchlock #firearmshistory #ballistics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wonder what is the outer distance where a musket ball fired from a 17th century matchlock musket can cause a life threatening injury? Here is one answer to that question based on the experimental archaeology project covbering the 1664 siege of Novi Zrin in Hungary. More about the muskets of Novi Zrin:&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/how-far-a-17th-century-musket-ball-can-kill\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How far a 17th century musket ball can kill?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27525,"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-27524","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\/27524","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=27524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}