[Regia-NA] Re-assigned - archery

[J K Siddorn]

A thing I have tried myself is an archery duel. We used fifty pound bows and
started at sixty paces. Both of us were quite good shots (I was a target
archer for several years in the 1960's and became a GNAS Instructor). We
found that you took your life in your hands if you shot together, as -
shooting directly at each other - it was almost impossible to see the arrow
in time to dodge it. After a couple of close calls (a combat blunt bouncing
off your left upper arm and leaving a black rubber skid mark up your
forehead does so concentrate the mind), we retired to a hundred yards and
tried again. This was easier and the angle of shooting meant you could see
the bow limbs reflex, so you knew the arrow was on its way. If you shot
second, you had a good chance of a hit , but needed to rely on your
opponents accuracy not to step into the path of his arrow, as you did not
have time to judge the fall properly, but just leap aside after you'd
loosed. After I'd dropped an arrow right on top of his head and he'd nailed
my foot to the floor, we decided that honour was satisfied and spent the
evening basking in the glory that attaches itself to the foolhardy.



Regards,

Kim Siddorn

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me
than a free frontal lobotomy!


----- Original Message -----
From: "mik lawson" <miklawson@yahoo.co.uk>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Cc: "chris boulton" <chris.boulton@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] OT- Cooking squirrels & hunting rabbits


> I think Chris Boulton on the uk list would be the best person to talk
to,him being the archery officer.I shall post this mail to him & he can
answer in his own {official} words.
> Over to you Chris!
> Regards,
> Mik
>
> As a PS to this posting,if there is one archer you have a good chance of
knocking the arrow out of the sky at any poundage of bow just don't expect
to be able to do that with more than one archer.They have a habit of waiting
till you are distracted before loosing the goose shaft in your
direction.With more than 3 archers i don't expect to have a long life on the
battle field
> Wulfhere se Treowryhta <wulfhere@masspostroad.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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