12-25-2016, 08:27 AM
(12-24-2016, 11:35 PM)M. Val. Naso Wrote: How can you not pull out something, when it is actually getting thinner?
The head is larger then the shank, the only time I've tryed it on a shield an old plywood blank, the weapon was diifficult to remove as the wood closed up a bit after the head had passed through but still left a hole big enough for the shank to follow easily, the shaft didnt bend but then it was steel....
The shield was rendered useless by the weight hanging of the front and a long length of head protruding from the rear, if anyone had actually been holding the shield it would quite possibly have hit the person....
I wouldn't call this a test by any means but it was interesting non the less...
Still its easy enough to try it out youself as long as you have a decently made pilum..."The Real Wrought Iron Company" and Chris Top can supply wrought iron bar which may not be perfect but is probably close enough if you want an "iron" pilum head to try out...
http://www.realwroughtiron.com/wrought-i...-sections/
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Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
