[Ansteorra-archery] Survival of Combat Archery

[Harry Billings]

Actually APD came about because a cross bow bolt entered a helm and cut/scratched a ladies eye.plachoya Ansteorra> From: pug at pug.net> > This was fine for a couple years and then enough archers had switched to> crossbow because of the effectiveness and the quality and quantity of> archers went up. Because of this, the argument about it not being safe came> up because of the complex rules and there being too many styles of ammo and> APD. This caused some angst and cost/hassle so some combat archers dropped> off the field.> > During all of this there are a vocal group of fighters including Knights> that are arguing that Combat Archery is unsafe and unrealistic. It should be> banned from the SCA so we can get on with fighting like real men do.> > > > Pug Bainter
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