ARCH - IntraAnsteorra Archery Competition standings
Sylvrfalcn at aol.com
Sylvrfalcn at aol.com
Thu Sep 28 16:10:37 PDT 2000
Greetings Archers All,
I've been following this repartee' about bows closely and have the
proverbial "two cents" to add. I own simple wooden bows ( a hickory long bow
& osage orange flat bow), that I love to shoot and wouldn't trade for
anything. For me, nothing can match the charm of drawing my all wood,
non-laminated, longbow, and seeing the arrow whistle through the air to the
target (if I'd had it with me the day I shot my period score it would have
been my weapon of choice). And that's great, we need to encourage knowledge
and appreciation of how bows were made and used in period.
However, because the supply does not meet the demand, true period style bows
can be pretty pricey*. Should we bar fledgling archers, who may only be able
to afford a thirty dollar 'glass bow, from shooting period? Should garments
be banned from A&S competitions if they were sewn on "non-period" sewing
machines? I think you see where I'm going. If anybody thinks my little
30lb. fiberglass bow, with the handcarved leather wrapped grip, and the hand
twisted Flemish bowstring, gave me some sort of unfair advantage, then please
say so and I will cheerfully retract my score. In my humble opinion, the
essence of what we're trying to capture is the "spirit" of medieval archery.
Few, if any of us, could draw a 120 lb., 15th century, English war bow, much
less hit anything with it. And you can bet your beer mug it was made of all
wood!
Yours in Service,
Lord Robert of Yorkshire
* I did find a reasonably priced source for period style wooden bows, check
out
www.woodbow.com they've got an English style long bow in the 40 lb. range
for around eighty bucks
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