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Friend "He was super smart & intelligent"
Not if you drown yourself proposing you're not
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Commit armed robbery and that's what's happens. I bet they were ******* bricking it. Probably still shaking now.
Associate
It wouldn't surpise me if US cops would have pulled the trigger in america going by some of the videos that you see.
The carbine tip did a decent job of punching through the window. Dont realy have much sympathy for those in the car. Good on the cops.
The carbine tip did a decent job of punching through the window. Dont realy have much sympathy for those in the car. Good on the cops.
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It's time for another 'damn nature, you scary' episode from one of my favourite YouTube channel subscriptions.
Man of Honour
Another good video from Tod's Workshop, related to the superb "arrow vs breastplate" testing.
No surprises, but a nicely done test. 160lbs war bow and 860lbs windlass crossbow. The archer can loose 6 aimed arrows before the crossbowman can load. Power is comparable, though the bow is better. But the crossbow requires far less strength and vastly less skill and can be used from cover. You could, for example, span the crossbow safely behind cover and shoot it through a small gap in a hide while crouching or even lying down. With a bow, you'd need to be standing out in the open to draw and loose. Given how common sieges were, that's a telling advantage. Someone described crossbows as the sniper rifles of the middle ages and I think that's spot on for one of the reasons they were used despite the clear advantages of a bow, in addition to the more obvious reason of training requirements. You could train someone to be an effective military crossbowman in weeks rather than the years needed for an archer.
No surprises, but a nicely done test. 160lbs war bow and 860lbs windlass crossbow. The archer can loose 6 aimed arrows before the crossbowman can load. Power is comparable, though the bow is better. But the crossbow requires far less strength and vastly less skill and can be used from cover. You could, for example, span the crossbow safely behind cover and shoot it through a small gap in a hide while crouching or even lying down. With a bow, you'd need to be standing out in the open to draw and loose. Given how common sieges were, that's a telling advantage. Someone described crossbows as the sniper rifles of the middle ages and I think that's spot on for one of the reasons they were used despite the clear advantages of a bow, in addition to the more obvious reason of training requirements. You could train someone to be an effective military crossbowman in weeks rather than the years needed for an archer.
Man of Honour
I know that many people here like the Primitive Technology channel. I recently found a channel with some similarities and some differences that some of the same people will probably enjoy. Two people build stuff in the wild from scratch using only hand tools. The tools are modern, but are modern versions of extremely old tools rather than more recently designed tools. For example, they use a draw knife rather than a plane.
The playlist I've started to watch is building a Saxon house. There's over 5 hours of video in it. This is part 1 of 11.
The playlist I've started to watch is building a Saxon house. There's over 5 hours of video in it. This is part 1 of 11.
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Some people are just so utterly hardcore they make Rambo look lame.
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Caporegime
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