handgonne vs breastplate

bullet vs breastplate

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• handgonne
• arquebus

[nickbownz]

Lame sauce

[rusofilUSA]

what did you mean?

[rusofilUSA]

bullet vs breastplate

[tschembel123]

Doesn't matter much. It is a very early gun and hardened armor became more frequent only in the later 15th c. Late 15th guns easily penetrate hardened armor, at least reconstructed ones do. Why else do you think these crude, slow, cumbersome and relatively expensive weapons had such great success and banned bow and crossbow from the battlefield? Very nice video. BTW, the second bullet hit the armor where the plackart shortly overlaps the upper part, the strongest breastplate area.

[DofSproductions]

You'll shoot your eye out.

[Pupil0fGod]

this may be actual citizens in eastern Europe preparing for war

[AyraWinla]

If I'm not mistaken, that's a Get Dressed For Battle breastplate. For the curious, it's a 16g armor, and it sells for about 80$ at most retailers. For their price, GDFB armors are awesome, but the fact remains that this wasn't exactly a top-quality plate.

[laksemann]

Hirvenmetsästys

[drewnickel]

the second one still would have killed the guy, the energy transfer would be like getting hit by a truck. you can wear all the padding you want, but that energy's gonna transfer through your body and cause major damage, that guy would have expirienced around 75 g's or enough to shatter the breast bone, causing the heart to be pierced by bone fragments, or the energy it's self could cause a heart irrithmia and death, just like being hit in the chest with a baseball.

[SkierFromNJ]

@rusofilUSA Sauce of the lame.

[ewbecht]

*@tschembel123 the handgonne wasn't very efective, that's why it wasn't until the arquebus and musket that firearms were widley used

[puffin02]

From the way that breastplate hefts, it's very light. But on the other hand, the handgun is very primitive, short, and not heavy calibre, not like a matchlock arquebus.

Note also that the shot that didn't penetrate would have been just about as damaging as the one that did. It would have caused massive concussion, broken bones, and internal bleeding.

[tina6581]

Good vid. I have seen this done in the UK using a stone, lead and an iron balls to find out the differs. All three went though breastplates that longbows using hardened bodkin arrows had failed to puncher at the same range. However the long bow guys fired over thirty shots in the time the gunner got off one shot.

[pyrosimple]

Where is this?