[Bryn-gwlad] August Archery Tourney

[Patrick R]

I am not sure if this helps but after reading the Kingdom Archery Handbook this is what I have found. I am sorry for not being able to cut and paste from the site to here from Adobe, so I typed selected ones. 
   
  Bows may be made of any material, provided they are judged safe to shoot by the Target Archery Marshal.
   
  No compound bows are allowed in competition. There will be no exceptions to this prohibition. 
   
  Adjustable or fixed sights are not allowed.
   
  No modern spring/flipper rests or plunger buttons are allowed. 
   
  No stabilizers, clickers, or modern string release devices are allowed.
   
  Bows with cut-out risers (i.e. those that can be seen through from the side, often found in take down bows with metal risers) must have the openings covered so as to present a solid surface and an appearance more in keeping with medieval archery equipment.
   
  Peep sights or kisser buttons mounted on the string are not allowed.
   
  All shafts shall be of wood or bamboo like materials.
   
  Both self and footed shafts are permitted.
   
  Fletched arrows and bolts shall have feathers or other pre- 17th century material. Plastic vanes are not allowed.
   
  I hope this is able to help. Remember we have archery practice in McNeil park every Sunday afternoon at 2pm, please feel free to join us and I am sure any questions you have will be answered. 
   
  Dante (aka Patrick) 
  

Bernard Wright <bwright672 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
    I was more specificly using the word "period" as it is used in the Inter-Kingdom archery (?) when defining the class of "period" bows; as it is the apperance (non-modern) instead of construction and materials.
   
  -Barnet
   
  

tmcd at panix.com wrote:
  On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Ferguson wrote:
> Just curious, what kind of Self Bow would NOT be period?

"HickokSports.com Sports Glossaries" at
defines
"self bow" as "A bow made of a single piece of wood."
But other definitions,
e.g. , say "It is made of
a single piece of pliable material, generally wood".

I'm no expert, but I don't see why you couldn't make a self bow out of
fiberglass or a metal alloy, or some wood native to the interior of
the New World.

In Googling for
fiberglass "self bow"
I saw several references to coating it with fiberglass and such --
though you may think that that makes the bow not a "self bow" when
it's coated in something that's structural. (But would lacquer then
be forbidden too?) It might have a plastic hand grip or arrow rest, a
nylon or whatever string with a plastic nock rest, rubber caps, et
cetera.

It also depends on notions of what "period" means. Period in
function, period in appearance, period in finished product, period in
manufacture? (I'm sure I'm missing other possibilities.) In its
entirety, or mostly?

Danihel Lindocolina
-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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