[Ansteorra] Combat Arrow making Workshop at Weisenfeuer

[Mike Catron]

Yes, I agree with Master Pug on personal preference in a later e-mail. I
was not attempting to "belittle" the silofex APD - hope that you did not
read that as such. Again it is a personal preference.

Thank you again for the kind words.

I have ask some questions about different silofex material in that later
e-mail.

One question that I wish to ask - there is a new e-mail list to discuss
Combat/Missile issues on in this Kingdom. Just wondering combat/missile
issues are being discuss on a list that whose primary aim is to promote
"static archery" and not Combat Archery here in Ansteorra.

This list was announced shortly after 3 Kings this month. The link is:

http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/ansteorra-missile


Michael of the Fray
Unit Combat Archer for the Condottieri


Eadric Anstapa wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Catron" <meggiddo at netzero.net>
> > Some of mine have been replaced after going through 8 battles of Gulf
> > Wars XI. Others are still in service even after Gulf Wars XI, Gothic
> > Wars and now 3 Kings this year. Plus practice time on them.
> >
> > Michael of the Fray
> > Unit Combat Archer for the Condottieri
> >
>
> As I have said before YOUR Golf Tube APD equipped arrows are exceptional.
>
> After inspecting thousands of APD equipped arrows at Gulf War last year and
> then more at 3Kings and Bordermarch this year my opinion remains that the
> routed channel 160 PSI design is the best.
>
> As Master Pug mentioned they do a good job of helping balance the shafts.
> The relatively heavy combat blunts don't make for well balanced arrows and
> bolts.  This is particularly true of crossbow bolts which are so much sorter
> and have so much smaller percentage of their weight in the shaft.  The APD
> actually seems to improve the flight of the combat bolts.  If the SEM
> decided tomorrow that APDs were not necessary I would still put them on my
> combat bolts anyway.
>
> The 160 PSI siloflex is thick enough that you can route a fairly deep
> channel in it for shaft placement.  Glue the shaft into this routed channel
> (hot glue seems to work best) and then tape it well and you have VERY secure
> APD.  They are more securely attached than 90 percent of the Golf Tube APDs
> out there and because they are so much more rigid they don't deform and they
> retain their shape.
>
> Golf Tube APDs are cheap and they don't require any special tools which is a
> big bonus. However to do them well it takes as long to do them as it does
> the other APD designs and from what I have seen so far they aren't going to
> last as long.
>
> I think APD designs will likely forever remain somewhat a matter of
> preference. Some people like crossbows, others longbows or recurves.  Some
> fighters use a sword, others a glaive.  Some will use a round shield, others
> a sqaured shield, a kite, or a heater.  It's a matter of personal preference
> as long as you can get the marshals to pass it at inspection.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lord Eadric Anstapa
> Kingdom Archery Marshal, Ansteorra
> eadric at scabrewer.com
>
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