07-03-2005, 09:44 PM
Quote:Is it easy to handle, march and kinda fight?
At first it took a bit of getting used to but now I love the vertical grip! its very easy to handle and is awesome for fighting, the hand grip is (as on the original) slightly offset to the top and being a vertical grip any blows deflect downwards rather than "pivoting" the shield board into your shoulder and face like you often get with a horizontal grip.
But when it comes to marching the grip is less than ideal. But on the original there are quite a few unexplained rivets, and I'm now thinking it was for some kind of carrying harness. How that harness worked I have no idea but I'll be sitting down to try and work out a possible system some time in the nearish future.
Tasciavanous
AKA James McKeand
AKA James McKeand