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Uploaded by on Jun 12, 2010

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  • I wonder if anyone has tried to make a steel version of this...

  • @Lukos0036 that would be cool

  • I have two of those, one is a reply of wood and the different one has steel. mortal

  • @supercrazy370 cool

    

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  • @Lukos0036 Well there are always advantages and disadvantages of every weapon, Obsidian is much lighter then metal which may slowed it down. But no matter what material was used, it got the job done. And in the hand of a skilled warrior who knew how to wield it made it just as deadly then most swords that were used during that time, if not deadlier.

  • @thebigs14 Various Europeans swords, various Chinese swords, various South Asian and Middle Eastern swords, and maybe a Japanese katana would probably also take two or three strikes on a horse neck.

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  • @thejock55

    No one said it would behead a horse with one swipe, just kill it. And I think the first swipe in this video would be already fatal for a horse, if this were a real one.

  • @thebigs14 Pedro de Moron was a very good horseman, and as he charged with three other horsemen into the ranks of the enemy the Indians seized hold of his lance and he was not able to drag it away, and others gave him cuts with their broadswords, and wounded him badly, and then they slashed at the mare, and cut her head off at the neck so that it hung by the skin, and she fell dead

  • @TheStrawberryLolicon No it doesn't...... Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one of the conqistadors serving under Hernan Cortes wrote:

  • @HughJass370 well it is harder than organic skin bcuz it doesnt have cavities or fluids running through it.

  • I wonder how hard the ballistic hore is?! is it really that hard?!

  • It's worth bearing in mind that people nowadays are likely far less physically capable than they would have been in a stone age culture in which they had to do everything by hand. And the Aztec soldiers would of course have been even stronger than ordinary citizens due to their training. So the idea of the horse's head coming off "at the neck so that it hung by the skin, and she fell dead" in one swipe is not too improbable.

  • @Thejock55 HAHA YEA JUST LIKE THE "SPANISH CONQUEST" READ A BOOK HERE ILL START U OFF.....

    7 MYTHS OF THE SPANISH CONQUEST:

    BY MATTHEW RESTALL

    LEARN A THING OR 2 & THAT GOES TO THE REST OF YOU GOONS.... HAHAHA

  • @ATgodElite92 Yeah, it cuts exactly like glas and we all know glass is the nastiest of them all, there's actually a video where they tested this on real carcass, on the youtube video called "Mexica/Aztec weapons (discovery channel)" , and it was much more potent on real meat, this balistic horse was not fair lol. But then no horse that ever goes balistic is! XD

  • @LR575 I know this, but it also shatters like glass since it is. The Aztecs didn't choose this over metal, they chose it in absence of it. But the shape of the thing, wood and all, is reminiscent of a meat cleaver. A steel weapon forged in it's image, with the profile adjusted for the material given, would function in that capacity. And no blade shattering. Provided it is tempered correctly.

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