Hi, my name's Kevin Hicks welcome to my YouTube channel The History Squad and what we're doing
today, we're out in the field. Got my longbow on the go, we've stuck a knight's helmet on top of
a post with a camera inside it. We're going to have a look at the knight's eye view of arrows
going towards it yeah. So I'm in ambush, we're only 25-30 paces away
but we'll see how it goes. Let's release a couple first of all.
So you imagine the knights are coming down, we're hiding
I got the man behind him
That was the man next to him
So,
we've just had my first
dozen arrows and we hit the helmet.
Ah what a noise, but it just suddenly dawned on me to show you I'm only shooting ordinary arrows.
There is nothing special about these shafts these are shop bought, uh Port Oregon cedar
uh 11 / 32s, just modern bodkiny types. There's nothing special about these so these are armored
piercing, they're not bodkined or anything like that these are just pretty much ordinary arrows.
So you consider this is just ordinary arrows yeah that bodkin now at the end of the arrow is broken.
That's why Kevin has his arrows extra long so he can simply use this one again, little tip there.
Now look at the damage these ordinary arrows have done, there was no hole there. A skyte mark,
he's hit it, it's skyted past and it's driven the back of the visor into the support there, and if
I go around the other side there's a complete hole here, no hole before and two holes in the
actual crown of the helmet. So I'm gonna have another go, see if I can add some dinks to this
yeah. Another ricochet mark there and I hope guys you appreciate what I'm doing here,
I'm sacrificing a perfectly good pig face bassinet for your benefit.
Right,
let's go up and see the helmet now
Where's the other half of this arrow, oh here it is, right
It's amazing, I've been reading about splinters from arrows and arrows and the damage they can do.
So this has hit here from what I can see and the entire shaft has split. Look at that.
Now that's just missed the eye but let's lift them up let's see what's on the inside.
As you can see that's actually gone almost into, in fact it's hit him in the chin,
yeah he's got a splinter stuck up there. So wow, that's ah not gonna get that out easy
that's actually hit him through one of the air holes. Got another hit there. This to me is,
is kind of wow because I've never thought about arrows penetrating armor in in a big way what
I've been reading about is oh yes and so I've got three arrows in the face or arrow wounds to
the face are the most deadliest and even with the visor down and you're fully protected this
this is quite an ordeal for the for the nobleman and the knight on his horse charging forward to
face bows, and this is just Kevin 30 yards or whatever away and just pummeling a few arrows.
You imagine thousands of us at Agincourt and giving my bows the full draw, wow. Quite
something, quite something indeed, oh yeah by the way I'm sacrificing arrows for you lot out there.
Well would you believe it we've just taken the camera out of the inside of the helmet and I'm
glad because this would have gone straight through it. This was just one of of many of the, the shots
I took and the damage around the eyepiece is quite something, but to have one go through
and we can just about see it's gone at an angle just behind the temple into what would have been
the skull and it's in there it's not just a little uh ricochet it's gone right through, a lucky shot.
Well I just want to see if this is a clean shot, you can see where we've hit all around
you know the vitals, but I wanted to see if this is a clean shot it appears to have
gone in and if it is a clean shot it will come out with the head on.
Look at that, that was a clean shot straight through the eye slit. Job done. So we're just
stripping down the target and we took the uh the polystyrene head, Kev's favorite target,
out of the helmet and that's the damage that the arrow did. So it slid down through the eye slit,
down the side of the head and that's took a chunk. So if that's a human being he's got a nasty wound
down the side of his skull possibly into the bone and the arrow is stuck there that's the other
problem yeah so it just goes to show the shock and the, the power of the arrows. These knights
are brave beggars especially if they went through an arrow storm more than once, I know I wouldn't.
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