{"id":29966,"date":"2026-07-20T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/the-legendary-american-flintlock-longrifle-firearmshistory-history-flintlock\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:00:14","slug":"the-legendary-american-flintlock-longrifle-firearmshistory-history-flintlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/the-legendary-american-flintlock-longrifle-firearmshistory-history-flintlock\/","title":{"rendered":"The legendary American flintlock longrifle #firearmshistory #history #flintlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B0yC9uztvdU?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Does your heart start beating faster and louder when you open your gun case in the field on a misty morning and you slide out your trusty long rifle? Do you hear the beat of the drums of the redcoats marching along the valley is elegant order? Do you sense the eyes watching you from the bushes nearby waiting to unleash the pure anger towards the intruders? Do you hear the breath-taking notes of Trevor Jones\u2019 and Randy Edelman\u2019s music from the movie The last of the Mohicans? If your answer was at least 2 yes, I share your symptoms: we are both addicted to American flintlock long rifles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your heart start beating faster and louder when you open your gun case in the field on a misty morning and you slide out your trusty long rifle? Do you hear the beat of the drums of the redcoats marching along the valley is elegant order? Do you sense the eyes watching you from&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/the-legendary-american-flintlock-longrifle-firearmshistory-history-flintlock\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The legendary American flintlock longrifle #firearmshistory #history #flintlock<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"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-29966","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\/29966","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=29966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}