(01-28-2015, 01:39 PM)Boo the Hamster Wrote:(01-28-2015, 01:32 PM)Dogberry Wrote: I'm very aware. I have made armor. My friends and I have made chain mail, studded leather armor, and plate mail from scratch. I am around armor a lot. One of my long term projects is to build an authentic reenactor quality Knight Hospitaller kit.We should talk then, because I'm curious on how it works historically, and don't really understand leather and plate outside of some light reading here and there.
My point is this:
We know nothing about the construction of this specific piece of armor. The weave or what it's made of. Is it aluminum, steel, or titanium, which are three very common materials for modern chain mail that one can easily buy from budk? Is he using a cheap piece of aluminum chain mail and extrapolating out to make claims about history?
Then we see no more of the armor after the shot.
Is this guy asking us to be impressed that his half draw, close range shot may or may not have pierced cheaply made aluminum chain mail? Or is this a painstakingly woven, high quality mild steel chain mail hauberk and padded gambeson?
I have seen aluminum armor fall apart when hit by padded sticks.
Wouldn't arrows pierce chain mail and leather at that short of a distance regardless if the armor was well made or not?
The Geekdad article claims definitely so. I know more about armor than archery, and have never fired actual arrows at any armor made at the workshop. If that's the case, I'd say it's more damning to the guy's narrative than the idea that well-made armor would make a distance.
That said, I'm really suspicious of the actual amount of force in his shots. He's shooting for speed, and no doubt has to sacrifice draw distance, and thus power. In that case, I can say the material of the armor definitely matters.
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