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New Year Shooting at the Medieval Butts

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Jaro:
Doesnt change the fact that it is the backed bow, or I have not seen one.

J.

jb.68:
The bow shown being shot is Osage, yew, Hickory - Made by Roy King
The other bow being handled by Robert Hardy is also Osage, Hickory - Made by Chris Boyton.

I have to agree that all shooting is at a target of some description, be it a flag in the ground, a spot on a tree or a patch on a bears backside.  ;)

Yeomanbowman:
JB,
Would that be a real bear or a foam field target bear with a spotty back side? :D

bow-toxo:

--- Quote from: triton on December 20, 2009, 07:39:17 am ---Going to poke my oar in.  Define "Butts".  Butts is plural for Butt which means end, hence clout shooters refer to each round as an "end" "I shot 12 ends yesterday".  These days to say "I shot 12 butts yesterday" would sound like you've shot 12 arses, as opposed to 12 diminutive donkeys (asses).
Water butt, A container for collecting water at the END of a drain or soak away.
Cigarette butt.  The END of a cigarette, the finish.
It's perfectly good English from the Anglo-Saxon. 
Therefore it makes NO difference what the butt is made from.

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No offense intended. Here’s my oar. It really helps communication  to stick to correct definitions and don’t get into discussions of what a longbow is that end up including flatbows, Holmegaard bows, shortbows of fibreglass or other inappropriate materials. There are  archery butts, pretty much any archery practice field, and there are medieval butts which are mounds of earth, usually constructed in facing pairs, of a specific size on which are fastened marks consisting of cloth or paper with a small spot of white or black and no Horace Ford coloured rings. That’s what’s in a name.

Of course an arrow in the gold is as good as an arrow in the white. My understanding is that facing butts were almost universal to save a lot of walking when only three arrows were shot at an end [in the one direction]. While there were no coloured rings to accumulate points, every mediaeval archery competition I know of followed simple rules. First, shooting order was determined usually two teams Then first arrow in the white won that end. If no one hit the white everyone went to the other end and closest arrow won. Other hits were considered worthless. Please decide. You’re shooting butts or shooting medieval butts

For those still confused about mediaeval butts I suggest http://www.englishwarbow.com/medieval-archery.html

     Happy New Year

Phil Rees:
from EWBS website
"An archery butt was nothing special in itself; it consisted usually of an earth bank, about the height of a man and probably as wide and as deep again. These would be allowed to grass over and upon which a target of cloth or paint could be put.

If you advertise a shoot at medieval butts, wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that you'd be shooting at something that resembles the description above, and not a hay bale, after all the description is taken from the EWBS website. The last time I looked there were no hay bales depicted in the Lutteral Psalter

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