[Ansteorra-missile] Clear the bow!

[Donnchadh Beag mac Griogair]

The new Complete Participant's Handbook was just released to the list by 
the Earl Marshal. They still have to sign it, so it's not quite official 
yet. Looking at it, for combat archery, we are going to SCA standards 
with just a few exceptions (see below). Two of the changes I can see 
right off are "clear the bow" rules, and 1/2 inch padding on UHMW heads. 
I'm interested to see what other changes this brings. What else do you 
guys see?

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Section 5 - Missile Weapons Conventions and Equipment Standards
Ansteorra requires that all combatants adhere to the SCA Missile Combat 
Rules described in a
separate section of the SCA Marshal’s Handbook with only the following 
changes:

Ansteorra restriction: Strike all wood and golf tube combat archery 
ammunition. Only
fiberglass and siloflex equivalent combat archery ammunition is permitted.

Section I.B.1. Combat Archery or the use of other missile weapons may be 
used in
tournaments, melees and wars when specifically designated for such and 
allowed by
Society standards.

Section IV.D.General.4. Shall have a single solid fiberglass, steel or 
aluminum prod. The use
of multiple fiberglass rods is not permitted.

Section IV.D.Light.1. A Light Crossbow is one which does not exceed 600 
inch pounds or 75 pounds
of draw strength. The number of inch […]

Section IV.D.Heavy.1. Crossbows shooting exclusively tube arrows may 
have a power of up to 1000
800 inch pounds or 90 pounds of draw strength, and are considered Heavy 
Crossbows.

Section IV.E.Shafted.3. Only wood or solid fiberglass shafted arrows are 
permitted. Shafts should
have a minimum diameter of 1/4 inch and maximum diameter of 3/8 inch for 
fiberglass or
5/16 inch for wood.

For convenience the entire SCA Missile Combat Rules of the SCA Marshal’s 
Handbook
(http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/combat/archery/missile_combat_plus_supplement.pdf) 
and all pertinent
Handbook updates 
(http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/combat/archery/index.html) through 
December
2006 are included below in Section 11 - VII. In case of conflict, the 
version maintained on the SCA
marshallate site supersedes the version in the appendix.
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Donnchadh

William Black Dragon wrote:
> Hey I haven't heard anything about it in a great while but
> whatever happened to our getting the "clear the bow" rule
> approved within Ansteorra?  Where do we stand on progress
> toward that now?  Does anyone know? 
>
> Ironwyrm
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