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A horse? Seriously? No way can this guy win against a horse. Have you seen horses? They’re huge.
Fast too! And have you counted the legs?? DOUBLE the number, I shit you not!
Thank you for not shitting me, that sounds more unpleasant than fighting a horse...
Idunno, some people pay good money for that sort of thing 🤷
Fighting horses right?
That too.
No arms though.
When people say stuff like this, I assume they never lived much outside of cities, and never had much contact with animals, besides pets. Seriously, a horse? Even smaller animals can be a challenge. Most animals are stronger and/or faster than us, and have fangs, claws, etc.
I mean I or you certainly couldn't get it in PvP. But if you can scare it enough so it starts to run, a human (of old times) would win.
If you have trail finding/following skills, you can literally chase it to exhaustion. Humans have one of the best stamina in the animal kingdom. We used to chase animals until they just couldn't move further. Apart from hunting in groups, that was our thing.
Stamina and intelligence, our standing out traits in nature.
Don't forget throwing. Human wrists are so agile and delicate because they need to be for us to throw things as well as we can.
But if can't put up a good fight, I'd feel too guilty to hurt it. For me it's gotta be something I have a good chance against but that isn't just utterly defenseless lol
A horse is just an intense will to die on four legs. You can defeat a horse by feeding it after it runs around for a little while.
But it has 3 more! You've just made a temporary tripod angry and it kicks with one whole horsepower.
Just to further unbalance things, the Internet tells me that the maximum output of a horse is actually 15 horsepower! So by my math that means there are 59 legs still standing?
Who tf decided to call it horsepower? Obviously they had no idea how strong a horse is. Smh
It's the average output of a horse, not their peak output.
Correction, he has 4 more legs.
Prep time. I choose to use that prep time to install a cattlegrate. I am now basically guaranteed the win.
Or, i bring along poisoned grain and something to hide in/out of the horses reach.
Maybe a miniature pony I could take. Pretty sure I could put one down in a rear naked choke hold. There's not a danged thing I could do against a horse that wants to fight me in unarmed combat.
Ponies are horses too.
Yeah but they also have powerful magic
Friendship magic, by far the most powerful kind.
Yeah but if you have prep time, you can make a massive spear and thrower (I forget what those are called), an able bodied man could probably take a horse with one of those.
Do you mean atlatl?
Yes, exactly
I don't know anyone (who is not already a professional in this) who could make a spear in an hour. Best most would do was to get a couple of injuries while trying to make a spear.
There was no time limit set, with an hour, yeah, no chance unless you do this regularly.
With enough prep time, you can purchase a shotgun. More than half a pound of lead pellets will bring a horse down if it's delivered at the typical velocity.
That relies on somebody elses prep time, so, I don't think that would count.
Javelin?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower