{"id":30715,"date":"2026-10-21T10:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/an-austrian-flintlock-wallgun-with-a-twist-50-bmg-of-old-times-firearmshistory-firearmseducation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:30:12","slug":"an-austrian-flintlock-wallgun-with-a-twist-50-bmg-of-old-times-firearmshistory-firearmseducation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/an-austrian-flintlock-wallgun-with-a-twist-50-bmg-of-old-times-firearmshistory-firearmseducation\/","title":{"rendered":"An Austrian flintlock wallgun with a twist &#8211; 50 BMG of old times #firearmshistory #firearmseducation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MD_iWspVPCU?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>These wallguns were made to be integrated in the defense system of forts. They could reach further than any musket while they were also effective agains lighter field fortifications. These were de .50 BMGs of the age. They were called Doppelhacken in Austrian terms. This one served the Fort of Kom\u00e1rom\/Kom\u00e1rno, Hungary, today is in the collection of the Danubve Museum of Kom\u00e1rno, Slovakia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These wallguns were made to be integrated in the defense system of forts. They could reach further than any musket while they were also effective agains lighter field fortifications. These were de .50 BMGs of the age. They were called Doppelhacken in Austrian terms. This one served the Fort of Kom\u00e1rom\/Kom\u00e1rno, Hungary, today is in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/an-austrian-flintlock-wallgun-with-a-twist-50-bmg-of-old-times-firearmshistory-firearmseducation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Austrian flintlock wallgun with a twist &#8211; 50 BMG of old times #firearmshistory #firearmseducation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30716,"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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30715","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\/30715","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=30715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}