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- From: comptec92024@camins.camosun.bc.ca
- Subject: Re: On the nature of light blows and too light blows
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:44:22 GMT
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- In article <Bzyvpr.2L9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, tbarnes@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (thomas wrentmore barnes) writes:
- > In article <921226041151_71431.167_EHJ44-1@CompuServe.COM> 71431.167@compuserve.COM (REED E HARRIG) writes:
- >>I do not object to that kind of research. In fact, I believe that some
- >>research was done on this subject several years back. It used a suit
- >>of riveted mail (the society standard) draped over a pig (deceased).
- >>The results were, if my handed down information is correct, that the
- >>force required to pierce that mail was less than what was the
- >>standard some 11 - 15 years ago.
- >
- > Your Grace,
- >
- > I believe that the tests were held many years ago by Duke Andrew of
- > Seldom Rest. The results got printed up in the Hammer. The article is
- > printed in one of the volumes (I forget which) of The Best of the
- > Hammer, which is published by Raymond's Quiet Press.
- >
- > These are the results as I remember them from the article.
- >
- > A pig carcass was draped with a piece of padding, then a layer of thick
- > leather, then a layer of riveted mail. The whole mess was then attached
- > to a tree, so it couldn't get loose. A "standard" swing of a broadsword
- > didn't damage the armor much, but did break ribs underneath the armor.
- > A thin bladed spear went between the links of the mail, through the
- > leather, padding AND the pig and stuck in the tree behind. OUCH.
- >
- > The consensus of the observers (Duke Andrew and Sir Polidor
- > Haraldsson, the editor of The Hammer are the only ones I can remember)
- > was that SCA blow calibration (ca. A.S. X or so) was sufficiently
- > powerful to breach period armor.
- >
- > If people are sufficiently interested, I can scrounge up the
- > article and give a more accurate synopsis.
- >
- > Lothar \|/
- > 0
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- Yes, please Can I have some More!
- Facts what a wonderfull Idea!
- Please, Please, Please!
-
- Mackenzie
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