ANST - Boffer guidelines...
harry billings
psobaka at mail.myriad.net
Tue Mar 9 17:15:35 PST 1999
How about shall be covered with duck/duct tape or cloth?
>
>Thank you for the clarification, cozyn. Yes, I saw Plachoya's posting.
>I still don't think we should mandate the cloth covers. My primary
>reason is that the majority of cloth covered boffers I've seen looked
>like pillows. True, some were fitted. I believe we should leave the
>requirement at tape, which will not prevent those who wish it from
>making attractive, fitted covers for their children's weapons.
I have see madhu on the list field did not know that they were that new
learned some thing today.
>
>See Sir Richard Burton's *Book of the Sword*. While Burton's methods
>and sources are often questionable, he provides excellent explanations
>of the physics of sword travel and details the use of the North
>African/Middle Eastern madhu, a weapon usually constructed by joining
>two Ibex horns. Metal points and shields were only added in the early
>nineteenth century, and no one has yet demonstrated the existence of
>madhus *anywhere* prior to the seventeenth century.
Plachoya Sobaka a humble archer in Ravens Fort, Kingdom of Ansteorra; play
nice, have fun
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