[Ravensfort] Fwd: [Ansteorra] Early Archery Information

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--- "C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.org> wrote:
> From: "C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.org>
> To: <ansteorra at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Early Archery Information
> Reply-to: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:17:48 -0500
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> If you don't get Primitive Archer you probably ought to.
>          http://www.primitivearcher.com/
> There are a lot of articles having to do with the history of archery and the
> tackle from many cultures. Lots of how-to articles. The Fall issue is on an
> international horse archery meet and includes Japanese, Hungarian and
> Mongolian archers. Other articles include the Medieval Fletcher, finding,
> felling,  and fetching bow stave trees, Breaking in bows, Maurice Thompson
> part II (this was a seminal American 19th C. archer), the all bamboo
> laminated bow. Do it yourself rawhide, many providers of horn, sinew,
> staves, strings, etc.  Very good magazine. I highly recommend it. I think
> you can still buy all but one of the whole set.
>
> http://www.instinctivearcher.com/ is another very good one. Hugh Soar of the
> English Archer-Antiquaries writes for it too.  Old archer-Antiquaries
> articles are sometimes run in it as well.
>
> They seem to have inspired Germany and Austria's first  archery magazines as
> well. http://www.pfeilundbogen.com/ and http://www.bogenschiessen.com/
>
> The Second International Horse Archery Festival will be at the Webster
> County Fairgrounds, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sept. 6-9, 2001. Traditions from
> Japan, Korea, China, Sudan, Native American
> and elsewhere. For further information contact  Yumi at 519-595-8791, or Meg
> Beshey at 515-573-5996, or http://www.horsearchery.com/ They will have
> actual classes. Since horsearchery is involved I would expect Steppes style
> as well.
>
> I'm very glad to see archery turning around after thirty  years of compound
> mechanical bows messing up the real stuff.  I used to shoot and teach
> multiple styles myself. My teacher
> was a three time former F.I.T.A. world champion and later sat  on the first
> Olympics Committee for Archery. I can't pull a bow anymore with the FMS I
> have, but I still like reading and
> researching the art. After thirty five years I have quite a collection of
> relevant books and articles/magazines.
>
> I saw on the Regia-North America list that Revival magazine quit after two
> years/eight issues. For those that don't know  it was a magazine on European
> reenactors of many periods.
>
> The Regia group is reachable through Tom at netword.com It's the North American
> start of Regia Anglorum here, not quite a year old. http://www.Regia.org/
> 950-1066 AD.
>
> Renaissance Magazine on the other hand seems to be extremely popular. I see
> huge stacks of the thing coming into the local Barnes and Nobles. Virginia
> dropped it's Rennaisance Fair this year, and North Carolina has gone from
> two to three different ones - Charlotte, Asheville, and Raleigh. Raleigh is
> about to get a Medieval Restaurant in the snooty Cary  suburb.
>
> Magnus Malleus, OL, GDH, Atlantia © R.M. Howe, Raleigh, NC
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