[Ansteorra-missile] Clear the bow!

[Pug Bainter]

The 1/2 inch padding was an oversight! There were so many edits it's amazing
that we have our brains and not a bowl of mush. I will see where it got
dropped and get it added back unless people want to run with it.

Ciao,
Pug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ansteorra-missile-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org [mailto:ansteorra-
> missile-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Donnchadh Beag mac
> Griogair
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:30 PM
> To: Missile combat in Ansteorra
> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra-missile] Clear the bow!
> 
> 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?
> 
> ***********
> 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_su
> pplement.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.
> ***********
> 
> 
> 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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