ANST - Gulf War Archery Update

[harry billings]

>1. Fiberglass arrows are approved for longbows only. We are only 
>waiting for the corporate go ahead for crossbows and fiberglass, but 
>that probably will not come in time for us to get rules in place for 
>Gulf War, so plan on wood shafts for crossbows.

recurve and longbow for fiberglass 
>
>7. To be a combat archer, you must be authorized for Armored Combat 
>AND Combat Archery. For the armored combat, see a knight or your 
>regional knight's marshal. Karl mostly wants the archers to know the 
>rules of the field so they don't do anything stupid and to have 
>proper armor; he does not expect us to have to show ability with 
>sword and board if we only plan to arch. For the archery 
>authorization, see your regional archery marshal.

You copuld come to regional fighter practis in Middleford next week end the
20-22 HL Gilli and I Plachoya Sobaka will be there and bouth of us can
authorize also Loard Talon of Balckoak shuld be there and he is the regional
marshal
>
>3. Due to the instability and the mass of the arrows we are using, I 
>recommend that you fletch with at least 5 inch feathers and use a 
>strait fletch. The spin of a ballistic fletch will not really help 
>much with our arrows, and it will cost you significant range.
>
You realy can not put jealical fletch on 1/4 shafts with out some work is
just plane easer to use straight.
Every thing else sounded good to me have fun play nice :-)
Plachoya Sobaka a humble archer in Ravens Fort, Kingdom of Ansteorra

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