Posted: Thu 25 Jan, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: Longbow Test - Hardy?
I'm looking for a longbow test performed by the Royal Armouries in which they fired at a combination of a padded jack worn over mail. Does anyone have access to the latest version of Hardy's Longbow? I think it may be in one of the appendices.
Posted: Thu 25 Jan, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: Longbow Test - Hardy?
Dan Howard wrote:
I'm looking for a longbow test performed by the Royal Armouries in which they fired at a combination of a padded jack worn over mail. Does anyone have access to the latest version of Hardy's Longbow? I think it may be in one of the appendices.
Hi Dan!
Are you talking about Longbow: A Social and Military History by Robert Hardy? I have the 1992 edition. Is there a newer edition?
There's "The Target" by Peter Jones in the Appendices. There is one section called "Penetration mechanisms". I think it talks mostly about the penetration of plate. I didn't happen to see any tests on a jack and mail. Maybe it's in a newer edition, or a different source.
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Posted: Thu 25 Jan, 2007 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Longbow Test - Hardy?
Dan Howard wrote:
I'm looking for a longbow test performed by the Royal Armouries in which they fired at a combination of a padded jack worn over mail. Does anyone have access to the latest version of Hardy's Longbow? I think it may be in one of the appendices.
Dan...
I don't think there is a newer edition but will check.Lin Robinson
"The best thing in life is to crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of their women." Conan the Barbarian, 1982
if the R.A. did it it would also be in their journal. I did not see any titles of articles involving jacks and bows.... I will look later when I have a few moments to try more words choices (I have a charter to transcibe and translate, sorry).
RPM
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I think it might have been part of the tests at the Royal Military College of Science Testing Ground at Shrivenham. 2004-2005? I don't know where it might be published.
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