12-26-2018, 02:03 AM
I hope everyone has had a nice Christmas or whatever you celebrate this time of year.
This video is very brief. It shows a man throwing plumbata heads into a shed door.
I hope it is his shed door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HnMbI9XZ-A
I can tell by the way he finishes his throws, when in frame, that he is throwing overhand. I can't judge how mechanically sound he is, but he is getting his body into the throw. Note that by necessity he is holding the arrowhead in his hand by the shank, not the held-in-the-fingers pub dart "push" style (which is only useful if you are fighting a battle down at the ol' Pig & Whistle!). This grip allows him to take all the energy that has built up in his body and snap it into the dart head via the wrist and do so delivering all his energy towards the target.
These are very broad heads and will not penetrate nearly as well as, say, a bodkin point on a narrow shank, a la pilum. There is neither additional weight for impact nor fletching for guidance, so strikes are off the preferred strike angle. But can you doubt that there is considerable power in such a delivery method? Now add in the missing wooden shaft which would extend his throwing arc, again multiplying his force, the weight and fletching.... do you doubt that even those huge heads would have completely penetrated those doors?
Also, please take notice of how quickly he is able to get off those strong throws.
Yikes!!
This video is very brief. It shows a man throwing plumbata heads into a shed door.
I hope it is his shed door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HnMbI9XZ-A
I can tell by the way he finishes his throws, when in frame, that he is throwing overhand. I can't judge how mechanically sound he is, but he is getting his body into the throw. Note that by necessity he is holding the arrowhead in his hand by the shank, not the held-in-the-fingers pub dart "push" style (which is only useful if you are fighting a battle down at the ol' Pig & Whistle!). This grip allows him to take all the energy that has built up in his body and snap it into the dart head via the wrist and do so delivering all his energy towards the target.
These are very broad heads and will not penetrate nearly as well as, say, a bodkin point on a narrow shank, a la pilum. There is neither additional weight for impact nor fletching for guidance, so strikes are off the preferred strike angle. But can you doubt that there is considerable power in such a delivery method? Now add in the missing wooden shaft which would extend his throwing arc, again multiplying his force, the weight and fletching.... do you doubt that even those huge heads would have completely penetrated those doors?
Also, please take notice of how quickly he is able to get off those strong throws.
Yikes!!