With heavy war arrows you can easily shoot through riveted mail and layers of gambeson. In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ32VnjOQ28) you can see a war arrow going right through rived mail and 8 layers of gambeson.
This Guy is bowyer and historian, and will be presenting research about this very subject at a medieval studies conference this spring.
This Guy is bowyer and historian, and will be presenting research about this very subject at a medieval studies conference this spring.