Equipped To Survive Equipped To Survive® Presents
The Survival Forum
Where do you want to go on ETS?

Topic Options
#14361 - 03/26/03 06:42 AM Back To The Future
Chris Kavanaugh Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/09/01
Posts: 3824
World events can overwhelm anyone of sentience ( a faculty I see slipping in the numbing onslaught of 'civilization'.) Disregarding political views, many of my friends and acquaintances are finding personal escape time; music, camping trips etc. I just acquired a rather hard to find copy of the Abbe Breul's 4 Hundred Years of Cave Art. Gazing into the coloured images of long gone animals from a lost world, a not quite so ancient vinal LP of a wolf pack howling and a pink lady candle provided a truncated version of the ancient hearth. It dissuaded 3 major religous groups from knocking, worried the new coyote family outside and reminded me to find my old spear thrower. I hope everyone is finding their center in enjoyable ways in these tumultuous times <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Top
#14362 - 03/26/03 05:06 PM Re: Back To The Future
Anonymous
Unregistered


Finding your old spear thrower? Chris, you closet survivalist, or at least primitivist. Picturing you bearded like ZZ Top and clothed in furs while tracking Wooly Mammoths has made my morning. Regards, Keys

Top
#14363 - 03/27/03 01:51 AM Re: Back To The Future
Chris Kavanaugh Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/09/01
Posts: 3824
Actually, I have all this stuff from my student days replicating stuff. This is now a active aspect of serious archaeological research called experimental archaeology. Getting a grant to build ancient siege engines or greek triremes must be awesome! Anecdotaly, during WW2 a researcher took a yew longbow and, using RAF armor plate as a safety backdrop let fly a bodkin ( the armor piercing round of it's day.) Much to everyones consternation it fully penetrated the plate. This was made a state secret for the duration <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />.

Top
#14364 - 03/27/03 03:08 AM Re: Back To The Future
Anonymous
Unregistered


I've watched video of siege engines competitions. Never know when a longbow or warbow might come in handy - with a range of 180 to 200 yards. Wonder how chainmail compares to kevlar. Guess you'd have to find a good blacksmith to make you a few broadheads or bodkins nowadays. Bet my grandfather could have - he was a wiz at casting his own tools from sand molds. Made some indestructable hammers - not bad for a mountain man. Regards, Keys


Edited by KeysBear (03/27/03 03:50 AM)

Top
#14365 - 03/28/03 08:20 PM Re: Back To The Future
Anonymous
Unregistered


I watched a program about trebuchets and it showed a man firing alongbow from around 200yrds and the arrow went straight through the breast plate of the dummy's armour, through the back and was just held in by its fletchings. Its amazing to see the power of ancient weapons.

Top
#14366 - 03/29/03 02:23 AM Re: Back To The Future
Chris Kavanaugh Offline
Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/09/01
Posts: 3824
One linguistic argument for the origin of a certain word and gesture comes from British history. When King Henry landed in France to defend continental territories his small army consisted of mostly yoemen archers.The French nobility were incensed at their presence and announced those captured would have their fingers amputated. Henry positioned his small army on a muddy field, the French mounted knights charged en mass and met with a horrific rain of arrows. The archers supposedly then stepped forward, raising their "Flucking" ( old english for plucking) fingers in defiance. Another theory holds it comes from the old german "flucken" which translates " I strike you." <img src="images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Top
#14367 - 03/29/03 07:15 AM Re: Back To The Future
M_a_x Offline
Veteran

Registered: 08/16/02
Posts: 1203
Loc: Germany
One thing that might support that theory is that in England a certain gesture (the "one finger salute" ?) is sometimes perfomed with the two fingers you actually use to pull the string of a longbow.
_________________________
If it isnīt broken, it doesnīt have enough features yet.

Top



Moderator:  Alan_Romania, Blast, chaosmagnet, cliff 
March
Su M Tu W Th F Sa
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
Who's Online
1 registered (adam2), 444 Guests and 319 Spiders online.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Newest Members
GallenR, Jeebo, NicholasMarshall, Yadav, BenFoakes
5367 Registered Users
Newest Posts
What did you do today to prepare?
by dougwalkabout
03/27/24 11:21 PM
Zippo Butane Inserts
by dougwalkabout
03/27/24 11:11 PM
Question about a "Backyard Mutitool"
by Ren
03/17/24 01:00 AM
Problem in my WhatsApp configuration
by Chisel
03/09/24 01:55 PM
New Madrid Seismic Zone
by Jeanette_Isabelle
03/04/24 02:44 PM
EDC Reduction
by EchoingLaugh
03/02/24 04:12 PM
Newest Images
Tiny knife / wrench
Handmade knives
2"x2" Glass Signal Mirror, Retroreflective Mesh
Trade School Tool Kit
My Pocket Kit
Glossary
Test

WARNING & DISCLAIMER: SELECT AND USE OUTDOORS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPMENT, SUPPLIES AND TECHNIQUES AT YOUR OWN RISK. Information posted on this forum is not reviewed for accuracy and may not be reliable, use at your own risk. Please review the full WARNING & DISCLAIMER about information on this site.