Test on Armour

[Cheomesh]

This has probably come up before:

http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewto...t=11131#112880

What I mean to highlight here is the test on the jacks. It appears that the acuteness of the point matters less than the sharpness of the edges behind them. Brokes further examination, certainly.

M.

[DanHoward]

It is one of the better back yard tests. Even the mail is better than most.

[ErhnamDJ]

What I've always wondered with these armor tests is why they don't put the armor on some hogs and then see what the weapons do. Wouldn't that be more effective than sitting it against a block of wood?

[gjc8]

Originally Posted by ErhnamDJ

What I've always wondered with these armor tests is why they don't put the armor on some hogs and then see what the weapons do. Wouldn't that be more effective than sitting it against a block of wood?

Part way through that thread, the author explains why he didn't use pork as a flesh substitute in these tests (expensive and messy), though apparently he's used it in the past. I can only imagine that actually using live pigs would be worse.

[ErhnamDJ]

Originally Posted by gjc8

Part way through that thread, the author explains why he didn't use pork as a flesh substitute in these tests (expensive and messy), though apparently he's used it in the past. I can only imagine that actually using live pigs would be worse.

Well, dogs are pretty cheap. Didn't ancient people sometimes armor dogs? We could at least get some useful information that way.

[DanHoward]

Goats are apparently the closest human analogue for these sorts of tests. You don't need a corpse if you just want to measure flesh injury. Ballistics gel is well accepted for penetration and ballistics clay is used for blunt trauma. Those materials produce consistent and reproducable results. If you want to use corpses then you would need to test a large number of them and average the results.

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by ErhnamDJ

Well, dogs are pretty cheap. Didn't ancient people sometimes armor dogs? We could at least get some useful information that way.

The majority of the people on this planet are NOT RP gamers. If any such gamers or, simply, history buffs were to conduct such experiments on living animals there would be h-e-double asterisks to pay.

I suggest that this would not be a good idea. Note how there is a wave of revulsion when, for example, the US government tests various weapons and/or body armor on living animals for what seem to be much more justifiable purposes than historical research.