Getting Medieval with a Revolver

[MrAcheson]

The average weight of a knight's armor is 50-60 pounds. If its a good set. Sometimes they can get up around 80 but thats not usually stuff that you would fight in, its turney armor or badly repro armor. That sounds like a lot, but its about where a typical combat loadout is for modern soldiers as well. Considering that armor is well distributed about the body perhaps people should reconsider their "knights are slow and get tired easy" belief systems.

However I'd go with stout .357 FMJ. Anything with lots of energy will tend to go penetrate a hardened target well and the ball should hold together going through the armor. Some might deflect, but keep shooting.

 

[Checkman]

SUNRAY

You're absolutely correct about my reference to "platemail". I really was thinking plate armor, but my fingers were not talking to my brain. Thanks for the pointer.

 

[Frohickey]

fine... if knights are not slow in their 50-60 lbs of well-position/balanced armor, then I'm faster in my Suburban.

 

[Radagast]

I've got three rounds of .357 conical metal piercing winchester fmj. I've been waiting for the right opportunity to use them.

Ken

 

[Radagast]

I'll second SMLE's recomendation of 1632 and 1633 and the online slush pile. Anyone taking a slight interest in this thread will probably enjoy them.

Ken

 

[Lord Grey Boots]

The .357 puncturing engine blocks has been long proven to be false.

However, a good full power FMJ will probably have no problem punching a hole in plate armour.

I suspect that even a hit from a modern JHP will probably hurt A LOT, even if it doesn't penetrate. The dent will be a pain to deal with.

I would definitely want something that would penetrate hard. Doing the Touller test against a charging knight with a long sword would not be a good thing.