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not sure what to think about this.

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recurve shooter:
lol dont mind the hijacking. the original thread made me feel like an idiot anyway.  ::)

those ballistas and trebuchets are awsome. me and my dad made the retarded redneck's version of a trebuchet onece. uh, it threw a brick straight up, and you had to pull the pin and run like hell lol. :P

Tsalagi:
Dane, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Man, that gets my stamp of approval!!! I'd love to be there to see that ballistae shoot! Do you guys make your own caligilae or where do you get them?

Dane:

--- Quote from: recurve shooter on March 13, 2010, 11:07:13 am ---lol dont mind the hijacking. the original thread made me feel like an idiot anyway.  ::)

those ballistas and trebuchets are awsome. me and my dad made the retarded redneck's version of a trebuchet onece. uh, it threw a brick straight up, and you had to pull the pin and run like hell lol. :P

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Thanks, man. You made me laugh out loud - retarded redneck version. :)

One of the early pioneers of catapult reconstruction was a German named Schramm. He worked in the late 1800s and early 1900s, an officer in Wilhelm's army. He was demonstrating one machine for the Kaiser, and it misfired, shot a huge stone straight in the air, and it nearly crushed the Kaiser. Whoops.

Dane

Dane:

--- Quote from: Tsalagi on March 13, 2010, 02:11:14 pm ---Dane, that is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Man, that gets my stamp of approval!!! I'd love to be there to see that ballistae shoot! Do you guys make your own caligilae or where do you get them?

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Thanks for saying that. That machine was amazing. We called it the Roman Atomic Cannon. It weighed close to 3,000 pounds. Setting it up was really dangerous, too. Fred finally sold the machine to some prop house in Hollywood, and we miss it.

Most of us make a lot of our own gear. In the shot of me as an auxilia archer, most of the clothing I made myself. I did buy my caligai, Depeeka, an Indian company, is a good source, but not totaly authentic. The hobnails are all wrong, for one thing. I am planning to make a pair of closed boots this year, with proper hobnails.

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Tsalagi:
More great pics! Man, It'd be some fun to set up a bunch of junk Ford Pintos and AMC Pacers and start nailing them with that ballistae!

How are caligae as far as comfort goes?

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