{"id":169,"date":"2013-05-18T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T11:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/?page_id=169"},"modified":"2013-05-18T11:29:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T11:29:01","slug":"muzzle-loaders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/?page_id=169","title":{"rendered":"Muzzle loaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muzzle loading guns &#8211; be they modern rifles, reproduction muskets or flintlock pistols are great fun to shoot and open up a whole new field of shooting, collecting and skills !<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about handling on old firearm, whether original or a modern made reproduction, which is fascinating. With today&#8217;s heightened sense of history new insights can be gained; how did a soldier fire his Brown Bess musket during the Battle of Waterloo, what is a Mini\u00e9 bullet and why were the Enfield and Springfield rifles so devastatingly effective at Gettysburg, how does the English percussion revolver compare to its American counterpart, or can I bag something for the pot with my muzzle loading shotgun as my ancestor did?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-172\" alt=\"A muzzle loading howdah pistol\" src=\"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah-1024x385.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah-1024x385.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah-500x188.jpg 500w, https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Howdah.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A muzzle loading howdah pistol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muzzle loading guns &#8211; be they modern rifles, reproduction muskets or flintlock pistols are great fun to shoot and open up a whole new field of shooting, collecting and skills ! There&#8217;s something about handling on old firearm, whether original or a modern made reproduction, which is fascinating. With today&#8217;s heightened sense of history new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/?page_id=169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Muzzle loaders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffordshirephoenixrifleandpistolclub.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}