Kestros - The Enigmatic Missile that Nailed Romans

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• LE

  @legendaryusernamehero · 2 years ago

  I love people who carry history with them

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• TE

  @terrenusvitae · 2 years ago

  This may be a niche subject but I really like it, and you do a great job exploring these things. Good work!

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• GV

  @gvii · 2 years ago

  Wow. That dart hits that plywood like a truck. It really is quite impressive. I can see where having an entire unit slinging those at you and the soldiers around you would be more than a little frightening. Quite deadly too, though that kind of goes without saying. That's really interesting, thanks for sharing.

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• LU

  @lugo5678 · 2 years ago

  I haven't tried this design but I have thrown short plumbata with my sling. The bulbous "hand grip" of the plumbata goes into the pouch like any sling stone would and you throw it point forward; works fantastically.

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• HI

  @Historicalarcher · 2 years ago

  excellent video and don't feel you have to use the Roman word. be proud to be Greek man!

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• IR

  @IronGoober · 2 years ago

  Genius! I am impressed at how straight you were able to get those to come out of the sling.   Though I'm surprised the alternative method of holding them in the sling wasn't getting clean releases.  Did you ever try a figure 8 like Yurek (MrJugas)?  This is super cool... You may be honing in on a WR design for distance.

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• DA

  @davidmorningstar · 2 years ago

  I absolutely love this. Great work!

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• CW

  @cwhritvt9765 · 2 years ago

  One of the best channels on YT hands down. The research and practice are almost  unparalleled

• SI

  @simonphoenix3789 · 4 months ago

  that throw at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbcElk0vT4&amp;t=355">5:55</a> was incredible. if there is a way to make it fly like that everytime, I can see how effective this would be as a weapon, combining the power of a sling without losing a bunch of energy to angular momentum.

• KE

  @kevinfogle7929 · 2 years ago

  This was very interesting. &nbsp;The kestro doesn&apos;t get enough attention.

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• SC

  @schlingellore258 · 2 years ago

  If you had explained or shown me this before, I would have said, it will never come out cleanly. But it releases great, that&apos;s real experimental archeology at it´s finest 👍👍👍<br>If this works with your sling that you show at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbcElk0vT4&amp;t=150">2:30</a>, that points highly to this design, because it could potentially allow the use of many distance slings (available anyway, less logistical effort). Something like this can be adjusted even in the field to existing slings. I the throw at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbcElk0vT4&amp;t=488">8:08</a> without pre-rotation looks very good. Maybe it would also work with the style which is often depicted on the ancient coins. Behind the head and without pre- rotation. Great job thanks for the video

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• SN

  @Snowsergei · 2 years ago

  Great job, it turned out to be a very interesting movie!!

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