[TML] Personal Armor Noise was Re: Current USAF fleet

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 1 May 2008 at 19:27, Tom B wrote:

> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Kelly St.Clair <kellys at efn.org> wrote:
> >  One of the interesting little details of my time in the SCA, which added to
> >  my experience as a gamer, was finding out what chainmail feels like
> 
> When I went to GenCon in 1987, I got to try on chainmail (full
> length). My observations were:
> 
> 1) Hard to get into on your own (there is a lesson for combat armour
> and battle dress lurking herein)

Not that bad. And there are tricks to make it easier.

> 2) Be bald or else have a cloth cap. The links grab and pull out hair. Ouch.

The "arming cap" is usually part of the padding that goes on under 
the mail.

> 3) The weight sits on the shoulders (40 lbs on the shoulders....
> argh). You can do some neat tricks though, like gather up a 'chainmail
> potbelly' and then tighten a wide belt around your waist which the
> potbelly overhangs. This helps distribute some portion of the weight
> to the hips.

I found it much easier to deal with than a much lighter pack.
 

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
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