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Originally Posted by bitbyter
From personal experience it is possible to get through and through shots on bear and moose with a 60 lb recurve self-bow. In some cases this includes going through bone. This is usually at about 20 yrds or less but I'd imagine with bodkin points it is possible to do the same with most low TL armors at a similar range.
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I fail to see how shooting an arrow at an animal has anything to do with armour penetration. All of the best-researched tests have concluded that bodkins or any other type of arrow have virtually no chance of penetrating most low tech armour at anything but point blank range (even then it is marginal). Thomas Hulit did the best tests against scale armour. Alan Williams did the best tests against mail. It only takes a modicum of common sense to come to the same conclusion. The most common threat on any battlefield for around three thousand years was from spears and arrows. Any type of armour that didn't provide decent protection against these threats would either have been augmented till it did or it would have been discarded.