Watch A Longbow Try To Break A Medieval Steel Breastplate
Here's a video our fantasy fans can appreciate. If you were to wager who would win in a match-up between a 130 pound longbow and a steel breastplate, who do you think would win? If you don't know much about either, you'd say the breastplate, right? I did, and it turns out I was right, but everyone else in this video seems super impressed the armor didn't so much as dent from the collision!
Now I wanna see it get hit with a mace! That has to dent it, right?!
A 130lb bow with a very hard arrowhead shooting at a steel breastplate at twenty yards. Will it penetrate? Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Lindybeige Shot in Visby, 2016. Many thanks to my guide Johan Käll, the armourer Albert Collins, and to Stian Green for providing the reverse-angle footage and the still of the arrowhead.