Re: Dodging arrows (was: Re: (TFT) Targeting Horses and their Riders)

["Edward Kroeten" <ekroeten@farmersagent.com>]

An English longbow arrow would have gone through Japanese armor at 50 yards.
Howard Hill (the archer who did the shooting in "The Adventures of Robin
Hood") did a test with armour at over 100 yards he was not only able to
penetrate the armor, he was able to hit specific parts of the armor.  He said
it would have been easy to target those areas even in motion, now admittedly
he was probably the greatest archer of his time and probably used modern
arrows.  But I would easily suspect that an English archer at Agincourt could
have done the same thing at 50 to 75 yards.




     Edward Kroeten
       Farmers Agent
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   ------ Original Message ------
     Received: 04:01 PM PDT, 08/28/2013
     From: raito@raito.com
     To: tft@brainiac.com
     Subject: Re: Dodging arrows (was: Re: (TFT) Targeting Horses and their
Riders)




       > The pull on an English Longbow was certainly greater than 45 lbs,
there
         > are
         > numerous accounts of arrows not just penetrating the front of the
heavy
         > plate
         > armor but coming out through the back as well. There is no way to
dodge
         > that
         > even at 50 yards plus the arrow would as you say just appear in
the
         > target.

         And there's alos accounts (both European and Japanese) of guys coming
out
         of a battle with nary a scratch, but with enough arrows hanging out
of
         their armour to make it difficult to swing.

         Neil Gilmore
         raito@raito.com
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