Posts: 144 Location: Denton TX
Sun 18 Jun, 2006 9:10 pm
Re: ?
I agree rod, 3" to 4" of penetration would have extreme effects if it struck over a vital area like heart, lungs, helm - etc.
Agreed, plate was to reduce the likelyhood of sustaining serious injury, I.E. cuasing a blow to glance and to protect against cuts. Armor was NOT standard and footmen to knights fell to the archer, crossbowmen and even sling stones i am reading. <---- i guess a football shaped slingstone was able to blow thru leather and into the body? I used to play with a sling - was quite good, but never could get power like that.
I have often wanted to fire a war arrow and quarrel into the air and get a radar gun on the missile on the way down. But im to chicken to fire in the air and get close enough when its heading back down.
I don't think archers or crossbowmen ran par se, i think they were ready to throw down if need be, but likely preferred not to.
I still can fire a needle bodkin through
chain maille, I am attempting to find someone that can get me ballistics gel and make a torso and try it with a cloth under garmet.
Dan........ firing a bodkin through even 3mm of steel is not going to be as big as an issue as you think its going to be. What the issue is going to be is you accepting that it can be done and WAS done and that the items we build (plate and weapon) to the standards that you want them at to hands down accept it. <<<----- NO DISRESPECT ment or inflected in tone towards you dan. Especially when i fired on 1050 carbon steel plate at .121 thickness (about 3mm?) and put one heck of a punch into it at 175lbs. I can say hands down a 600+ lb crossbow is going to destroy it, admittedly my worry is then at 600lbs the chain
maille behind it, but thats why we are also using a 1500 to 1900lb. I am just having real issues with anyone that says something like that. ESPECIALLY when you have not (to my knowledge) played with a heavy crossbow and know the power of one.
David