Fencer Archive
Thread: SOE, this is what we want for swords..
Cornflake2gs wrote:
All that shows is that the japanese and american guy cant fire a gun.
However, that only proves that the tensile strength of lead when headed by the friction of a gun barrel and the charge of the round is less than the cold tensile strength of the wedge it is being shot at.
It's litterally like sliceing butter with a straight razor. Nothing Shocking.
RoadBurner wrote:
I would have been surprised if the bullet wasn't cut in half.
I mean for christs sake its being shot at the sharp edge. Id like to see if the sword can deflect bullets with the flat side, methinks it cant.
Dont forget that the sword is held firmly in place by a brace. Not only would a person holding that sword end up with the back of the blade embedded in their forehead but the two pieces of the bullet would still hit the person as human arms no matter how strong cant create a solid bracing platform to deflect the two pieces that far apart.
You can do that experiment with just about any decent quality sword from any country. The folding methods make the swords flexible so that the harmonics pass through them without cause micro-factures and the angle of the grain on the metal makes the length-wise facing the strongest facing. Japanese swords are great to look at and hard as heck to construct but a 14th century spanish bastardd sword or an 11th century Scimitar would match it easily.
Sprees wrote:
Cornflake2gs wrote:
All that shows is that the japanese and american guy cant fire a gun.
Looked to me like the sword slit the bullet, not that they missed.
Which wasnt my point at all. My point was they cant shoot a gun as in they have no aim.
^ Didnt even think of that. 5 star fir you.
Brainplay wrote:
RoadBurner wrote:
I would have been surprised if the bullet wasn't cut in half.
I mean for christs sake its being shot at the sharp edge. Id like to see if the sword can deflect bullets with the flat side, methinks it cant.
Dont forget that the sword is held firmly in place by a brace. Not only would a person holding that sword end up with the back of the blade embedded in their forehead but the two pieces of the bullet would still hit the person as human arms no matter how strong cant create a solid bracing platform to deflect the two pieces that far apart.
An awesome find! It was kinda nice to see real experiment.
Then again, you might find the sword like the one in Final Fantacy better at deflecting bullets. (as you can see some of them are simply solid block of steel ... lol)
Yeah, how come we get rusted water pipes for a weapon, when swordsman doesn't get solid 2-by-4 steel rod for a weapon?
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