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Never seen this before. What was it good against?

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Not much more than small arms fire, probably. Bit of an ad-hoc solution to Boer raiders and sharpshooters.

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Hemp fiber is stronger than steel tensile strength wise, a bunch of it in thick layers is like a proto-kevlar

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yeah, but without being able to bind them together horizontally, the gaps between the larger rope strands will allow small arms fire to pass through in most cases.

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It doesn’t require daily brushing to maintain the look.

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Barber-ians

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Normalcy, I guess.

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I was walking down the street, concentrating on trucking right…

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Spiders?

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