{"id":30831,"date":"2026-11-01T11:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/secret-weapon-of-1526-the-ballistics-of-the-pebble-core-bullet-from-the-mohacs-1526-battlefield\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:00:33","slug":"secret-weapon-of-1526-the-ballistics-of-the-pebble-core-bullet-from-the-mohacs-1526-battlefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/secret-weapon-of-1526-the-ballistics-of-the-pebble-core-bullet-from-the-mohacs-1526-battlefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret weapon of 1526? &#8211; The ballistics of the pebble core bullet from the Moh\u00e1cs 1526 battlefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mejs-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TlhQvsOh05E?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Half an hour of combat archaeology and experimental archaeology nerdery with the early 16th century tinder lock arquebus of the battle of Moh\u00e1cs 1526. Another chapter about the ballistics of the 12 mm smooth bore, now concentrating on an interesting bullet type recovered from the location of the Christian army&#8217;s camp location. External and terminal ballistics of the pebble core bullet.<br \/>If you wish to support my work and reach exclusive contents and everything I do ad-free: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/capandball\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/c\/capandball<\/a><br \/>Chapters:<br \/>0:00 Intro<br \/>3:31 The story of the pebble core bullet from the battlefield and casting it<br \/>5:03 Why you put a pebble core in a bullet?<br \/>8:33 The muzzle velocity and external ballistics<br \/>15:20 Firing the bullet into the armour reconstruction<br \/>19:30 Firing the bullet into unarmored target<br \/>21:08 Firing the bullet into a target protected by chain mail<br \/>23:29 Repeating the last shot with a pure lead roundball<br \/>25:24 The group of the pebble core bullet at 50 meters<br \/>27:42 Summary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Half an hour of combat archaeology and experimental archaeology nerdery with the early 16th century tinder lock arquebus of the battle of Moh\u00e1cs 1526. Another chapter about the ballistics of the 12 mm smooth bore, now concentrating on an interesting bullet type recovered from the location of the Christian army&#8217;s camp location. External and terminal&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/01\/secret-weapon-of-1526-the-ballistics-of-the-pebble-core-bullet-from-the-mohacs-1526-battlefield\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Secret weapon of 1526? &#8211; The ballistics of the pebble core bullet from the Moh\u00e1cs 1526 battlefield<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":30832,"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-30831","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\/30831","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=30831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}