Ridecamp: Re: [RC] falling on weapons

At 09:58 AM 8/8/02, julie fox wrote:
> But I was always afraid that if my horse dumped me, I would land on the 
> weapon and seriously injure my hip or back or wherever I was 
> carrying.  How do all you armed riders carry weapons to avoid this?  Or do 
> you just hope you don't fall wrong?

I'm curious - in the "olden days" when a very high percentage of the 
population rode horses and other equines on a daily basis and also carried 
weapons on their belts, didn't people fall off horses?  Wouldn't they have 
fallen on weapons then?  I have never heard of this being a big issue, or 
maybe nowadays we're all becoming big wimps.  Maybe if we all carried our 
weapons low on the hip like gunslingers of yore, we'd not have so may 
worries - about people messing with us *or* about falling on top of weapons 
and getting seriously hurt.

Take this as tongue in cheek or not, as you choose!
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