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Warbow myth?
nick1346:
--- Quote from: ThimoS on July 18, 2008, 10:40:12 pm ---I gotz lotz of good stuff to show on warbow penetration. But is it really wanted here???
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Hi Thimo,
Good to see you again!
Of course we want to see it!
Cheers
Nick
The Burnt Hill Archer:
thats an impressive shot man, good to see you over here too!
yup i deffinately think you could post your penetration tests...
Phil
ThimoS:
I'll see what I can do.
Thanks all.
Goose Fletch:
I think this discussion is worth revisiting, lots more people seem to be taking an interest in warbows. One thing i didn't notice being considered was the climate in thst region . Constant dampness and rain would cause serious rot, plus life then was filty. Who knows what parasites might have been living under a tarred oak surface. In addition to this, wood may have been weather proofed but if its a gate door then chances are its been through some horror before which may have weakened it.
It could be that that particular door was really rotten at a place where two pieces of wood were joined.. However in this day and age i doubt that any bodkin on an arrow of any mass off a bow of very high calibre could have leverage over the hundreds of tiny oak tree fibers such that it could pentrate it. Really wish someone could build a big heavy door to try it on, i dont think stacks of homedepot red oak will do it justice =P
JW_Halverson:
As we all pause to reconsider this thread, I pose another little tidbit to cogitate in your brains: to wit, WTF were trained archers doing shooting at a closed and barred door? What bleeping purpose did that serve, other than to waste ammo?
Unless someone can produce said door, I am going to move over to the skeptics camp and wassail in mazers of mead all whilst composing epithets for French chevaliers.
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