Sigh....... Bintananth will you please read this.
Boomstick's and shooty shooty bang bang's - The GUN Thread!
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I think it's clear that you're conflating bodkins with traditional broadheads, because bodkins don't remotely cause such damage.
bintananth
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Maybe.
Bodkins are armour-piercing. Broadheads are not.
I really wouldn't want to be hit by either and neither would you.
I mean I am sure you can get someone who is able to fire a longbow woth a bodkin and angle it onto moderm ballistic helmet our at range.
bintananth
behind a desk
The barrels of WWII-era battleship guns needed to be relined or replaced after a battleship gunfight.
This was planned for and expected.
We sre talking about your ancient gun
Dude you are seriously testing the limits of my High Blood Pressure Medication. Stay on topic.
bintananth
behind a desk
You shared an article about gun barrel degregation. This is a known issue people have been taking into consideration for centuries.
Yeah but you aren't one of those people.
Those ships are literally a century newer than the gun you're talking about, and they are also massive artillery pieces as opposed to small arms; the solution set for them is completely and utterly different, making your response utterly absurd.
More to the point, a naval artillery cannon can have a worn out barrel relined because the barrel liner is a separate piece. That isn't true of small-arms, so the claim that, "Barrel wear was a recognized issue with solutions in the 1940s, therefore a primitive small arm a century older built to a design multiple centuries older just...magically doesn't have barrel wear issues." is just. . . WTF.
bintananth
behind a desk
Duh.
The Tanegeshima has a 22mm bore. While it doesn't have "rifle range" it's going to hurt when it does hit.
Modern air-superiority fighters typically have a single 20mm cannon and about 80-100 rounds.
Bodkin point - Wikipedia
"Bodkin arrows complemented traditional broadhead arrows, as the bodkin arrows had the force to pierce armor while the wide cutting surface of the broadhead caused more serious wounds and tissue damage."
plz, take thy pills before posting
That isn't how this works woth muskets.
Comparing that to a modern 20mm Canon is like saying a 6 pounder Canon is the same as the 6 pounder AT gun.
Buba
A total creep
I forgot to add that "rifle" in naval context means "cannon" ...
Added to my previous post.
And even if naval rifles needed to be robored after 100-300 shots, infantry rifles withstand years of use and shooting.
One of the reasons Italy was reboring its Model 91 to 7,35mm was to regenerate the barrel.
After WWI Poland adopted the Mauser. Yet the 80k or so Mosins it had were rebored (plus general TLC) to 8mm. The troops loved them for their accuracy, better then the worn WWI veteran Mauser rifles.
Added to my previous post.
And even if naval rifles needed to be robored after 100-300 shots, infantry rifles withstand years of use and shooting.
One of the reasons Italy was reboring its Model 91 to 7,35mm was to regenerate the barrel.
After WWI Poland adopted the Mauser. Yet the 80k or so Mosins it had were rebored (plus general TLC) to 8mm. The troops loved them for their accuracy, better then the worn WWI veteran Mauser rifles.
bintananth
behind a desk
Um ... "armour piercing" was the entire point of a bodkin.
"A knight's extremely expensive body armour is worthless" was what those prooved.
Soldiers pretty much ditched body armour during the late-Medieval/early Renaissance.
bintananth
behind a desk
A Tanegeshima can remove limbs in ways that the Winchester model 1897 "street sweeper" 12-gauge pump-action shotguns Lucille's great-great grandfather's unit used to clear trenches during WWI couldn't.
You have to hit the target first. And I would say the Ditch Witch would get off way more shots and chances to shoot at the target than that Permian Era Relic.
bintananth
behind a desk
That "Permian Era Relic" can blow your head off with one shot.