Armour Piercing Tests, April 2007

Armour Piercing Tests, April 2007

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• arrows
• armour
• piercing
• archery
• penetration
• bow

[dorisijanek]

doesnt matter for piercing

[LutefiskSavage]

guess that's why they wore lammelar coats and shoulder armours when they could. what range was the riveted mail armor tested at?

[dorisijanek]

@LutefiskSavage between 20 and 30 mteres

[TheSeekerBG]

what kind of wood do you use on the shafts of these pieces of Art mate?

[dorisijanek]

@TheSeekerBG Northern pine and 10yrs seasoned regular pine, some cedar could happened

[lordlen8972]

are those arrowheads on that mass collection or arrows sockets heads? i see they are sinew wrapped and they look cool but i never seen socketed heads wrapped b4, only the kind that have a split in them like flat stoneheads...

[dorisijanek]

@lordlen8972

some shafts were wrapped for tanged arrowheads but used for socketed when no tanged left

cheers

Jan

[Pourleduc]

No, a good 100lbs bow and a good hardened arrowhead will pierce any chainmail. When it comes to hardened platearmour its different. Still the impact will not be that harmless.

[amy8lemon]

3:00 you have your mail hanging side ways. Mail should be set up so the links are hanging like a single chain, one off the other, with the one next to them side looped in.

[Zswordwielder]

Chainmail is made to stop SLASHING not percing type attacks MOST arrows will break chainmail.

[mojothemigo]

I think arrowheads were made of iron and and chainmail was worn in layers. Key words, "I think". Good vid

[legioXequestriis]

This is one of the better, if not the best, armor test that Ive seen on youtube. They use a wide variety of relevant armors, bows of sufficient power to recreate realistic shots by loosing from 25-30 meters in order to simulate a bow of double the poundage firing from a distance likely to occur in combat-as well as using the heavy canvas and cow ribs to help simulate penetration of heavy clothing and ribcage..... I was impressed-at least compared to most "armor tests" on youtube

[ValentineTheory]

Butted chainmail, extremely poor quality riveted mail, no gambeson or aketon, unrealistic condition for arrow ranges, another useless test. You and bigbowbrum can be friends now.

[minxel16]

@Protherium urrm this is called 'armour piercing tests trying a range of armour so before you bias armour knowledge goes down the bin just accept what an arrow can do to this stuff

[alexanderskeleton]

The chain mail isnt in the good way, you have to flip your mail patterns by 90degrees, if you want to test and comment on chainmail, at least use it right.

[Protherium]

Seriously, it's quite boring to see butted mail gets owned by an arrow. Butted mail was never used historically in Europe so any test with it is pointless.

[ishouldplayzelda]

lamellar > chainmail