[Bryn-gwlad] BAD III

[Chris Zakes]

At 11:15 AM 2/25/2008, you wrote:

>A bit of history....Bryn Gwlad was the hot bed of combat archery 
>back in the 80s (thanks to Iolo) and if I'm not mistaken, it started 
>on the rapier field.
>
>Eule/Steve


Well... for certain values of "started." There was combat archery on 
the armored field at my second or third event (Clan Wars in Buescher 
State Park, Labor Day wekend of AS 11/1976.)
We were using 30-lb kiddie bows and regular wooden arrows that had 
the points cut off and were mounted on 2" rubber balls (available 
from a local toy store in Houston.) Talk about bounceback! From ten 
yards out at a solid target, you could hit yourself in the face quite easily.

In March of AS 11/1977, the Society Marshal issued a ban on combat 
archery, which implies it was happening in other places across the 
Known World, too.

There was a plan to have combat archery at the first Burro Creek War, 
in February of AS 12/1978, but the powers-that-be changed their minds 
at the last minute.


Iolo's crossbow-making certainly encouraged the growth of combat 
archery, and you're right that it was very popular on the rapier 
field for a while, before being replaced by rubber band guns.

         -Tivar Moondragon
         fossil-in-residence 
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