[Regia-NA] OT- Cooking squirrels & hunting rabbits

[Wulfhere se Treowryhta]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 01:23 PM, mik lawson wrote:

> Ok understood!
> While we were in Eire the first year,a couple of guys went a huntin 
> with Regia strength bows {35lb draw weight} just to see if we could 
> actually do anything useful with the bows.They came back with a couple 
> of bunnies which were promptly eaten & tasted all the better for being 
> fresh.They were shot with regulation rubber tipped blunts the same 
> ones the archers shot at me that week.So bunny hunting with bows is 
> practical.
> Regards,
> mik
>

Can you get me some link to a source for these? The combat shafts the 
SCA uses are a bit more comical than functional. Some of the heavy 
listers claim you can whack them out of the air if your looking. Both 
my longbows are #65 or better. Are these self bows? I ask because it's 
so hard to get a shaft to bend properly around a handle with low draw 
weight wood bows. That bend is critical to accuracy. I would imagine 
our Viking age friends would have snared small game.