[Ansteorra-archery] Congratulations, it's a bow

Ferguson ferg620 at austin.rr.com
Sun Mar 20 16:58:01 PST 2005


Include us - Archers of Dragon Tower.  How many can you handle?  d'Onray


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leofwine" <dragonlaw1 at nww.net>
To: "Archery within the Kingdom of Ansteorra" 
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Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:08 PM
Subject: RE: [Ansteorra-archery] Congratulations, it's a bow


>I would be interested in attending and would LOVE to be able to make my own
> bow.  I have a lot of things coming up, so hope this will not conflict 
> with
> anything.
>
> Leofwine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-archery-bounces+dragonlaw1=nww.net at ansteorra.org
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> Behalf Of Sylvrfalcn at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 5:23 PM
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> Cc: gilli at hot.rr.com
> Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Congratulations, it's a bow
>
>
> Happiness is.....
>  Finishing my latest long bow. Put the finishing touches on it Friday and
> "shot it in" over the weekend. What a majestic beast! It's a six foot 
> long,
> beautifully tillered, hickory self bow, that registers sixty pounds on the
> bow
> scale at my draw length.
>  A sixty pound longbow is not for the timid, but this one's very smooth 
> and
> stable, with a wickedly fast cast and flat trajectory. My first practice
> IKAC
> round, by way of breaking the bow in, yielded a score of 180 points. 
> Nothing
> spectacular, but not bad for a previously untested bow. Still smells of
> curing
> tung oil, and bee's wax, and oiled leather, sort of the medieval archer's
> version of "new car smell" I guess ;-)
>    I've been toying with the idea of setting up a two day bowmaking/string
> making/fletching seminar. Would probably ask Arcus Gilli if I could host 
> it
> at
> his place, since he's got adequate workspace and a range on site (if 
> archers
> get together, they're going to want to shoot). Just thinking out loud for
> now.
> If enough folks let me know they're interested, I'll start thinking harder
> ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Robert of Yorkshire
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