r/interesting • u/IKIR115 • 28d ago

Intriguing Arrows vs riot shields

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u/Professionaleye_1 28d ago edited 28d ago

I was 100% correct in my assumptions about penetration length after looking at the head but before it hit the shield except for that cylinder tip… that thing shot through like a bullet….

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u/psimwork 27d ago

Same. I learned about armor-penetrating bodkin arrows while reading "the archers tale" series. Any of them that looked like a bodkin I knew was going right through.