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New Year Shooting at the Medieval Butts
Jaro:
I would try society of archery antiquities. They have forum and he is member there.
There is rather comprehensive info on earthworks preserved until victorian /or pre victorian era in Hardy´s longbow, altough he does not necessarily writes about the size etc.
One of the main problems was actually maintenance so they were eventually discarded in favor of lighte and portable targets.
Jaro
Dane:
Thank you, Jaro, for the lead. I will see what comes of it.
I find it frustrating that the warbow folks seem such a closed society. You (not you Jaro, I mean in general) seem so unwelcoming of "outsiders." It seems to me war bow shooters and scholars would be very happy to see a medieval earthen butt constructed anywhere, and perhaps there are none in the world? Or, no one really knows much about the dimensions of such substantial works?
Maintenance should not be an issue at the site I will be using.
Dane
Jaro:
Dane, I dont think that warbow shooters are closed comunity, but constant influx of idiots can make people edgy. I recall myslef some 10 years ago when I came to this very exact forum - which at the time was far less politically correct, with questions about bows and was told "f**k o**, read this, this and this and THEN return to ask. There is awfull lot of research and work published in couple of last years on the subject of warbows and certain things have became established fact eg - median weight of bows on MR - which is something which cannot really be much disputed in the light of what replicas in decent wood do. Yet every once a while comes an individual .........
You see where I m comming. Also, there is steady harrasment from a group of people who cannot do it themselves, yet they dont hesitate to have opinion on everything as if they do.
Jaro
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: Jaro on January 03, 2010, 02:20:47 pm ---Dane, I dont think that warbow shooters are closed comunity, but constant influx of idiots can make people edgy.
I recall myslef some 10 years ago when I came to this very exact forum - which at the time was far less politically correct, with questions about bows and was told "f**k o**, read this, this and this and THEN return to ask.
You see where I m comming. Also, there is steady harrasment from a group of people who cannot do it themselves, yet they dont hesitate to have opinion on everything as if they do.
Jaro
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??? I remember when you first came to the PA message board and I don't remember that Jaroslav. Who told you that?
Jaro:
That I dont remeber either. I remeber you and Rod being most helpfull though - even though my english was really bad at the time ;D
Jaro
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