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Arrows vs. breastplate.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...168#post157668
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...787#post148248
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...2689#post96874
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...366#post181435
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...110#post176325
Breast plates were the reason heavy arbalest were developed that fired a 4-cornered bolt that would catch and tear the plate.
I've seen a demonstration like this before, when the first projectile was fired it bounced off as in the vid. What the guy did next was to put a small piece of plasticine on the tip and it punched straight through a Brittish army tin hat. The plasticine stopped it changing it's trajectory.
Amazing the way that V shaped piece at the top deflected the arrow away from the head. It worked perfectly but I wonder how many deaths it took to realise it was needed.