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Loki:

--- Quote ---I don't really know about that, but from what I saw I'd say the floors were still original
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I dont know about Austrian Homes but English Houses had earthen floor's,so adding board's raises the flooring up a foot or so.With regard's to the size of the window's,thats due to them being made for wood shutter's,only the richest homes could afford Glass panes.

eduardbilanin:
Is perfectly accurate that an warbow arrow can penetrate such thickness of oak wood.Please take a look what can do an 110#,with an only 850 grains arrow,but ATENTION with an normal arrow head that you use to practice targeting:





And now" La piece de rezistence":3,5mm of steel(the rust is superficial believe me ;D)







Give me some litle time and I`ll show you what can make an 160#bow with an 2500 grains arrows >:D

recurve shooter:
i know that my 35 lb recurve stuck like 4 inches into my neighbors trailor :-X after a ricochete, i dont doubt the power of 100 lb plus warbows at all.

Bernhard Langbogen:
Hello

As first sorry for my English, i need times to remeber the correct grammar. ::)

We make in Austria a simple test with a 90lbs Yew-Warbow.
On a distance of 100m (109.359Yards) we through a 2.5mm(0.0984inch) thick steel plate (50HRC) with a bodkinpointed.
A dry oak had the same hardness as a medium hard  steel plate (30 HRC).

best regards

 Bernhard

Rich Saffold:
 :D If anyone can shoot an arrow through 4" of  clean dense flat sawn oak.  I wanna see it. Old myths like this are rather amusing since there were probably some variables like mentioned which actually allowed it to happen..

Rich

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