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trad versus primitive
Hillbilly:
Steve, we're just pokin' at you and having a little fun with your pet peeve. We're easily amused, and you seem to be on a quixotic self-appointed mission from the Almighty to correct our ignorance of arrow terminology by any means necessary, up to and including deadly force. :) You have a total of 66 posts on this forum, and it seems like 67 of them are connected to the "spline" thing. There's other things to talk about. Stick around awhile and you'll see that we love to poke a little fun at each other, it's nothing personal. Your observation that this is too trivial to keep rehashing is right on the money, it's just not that big of a deal. My arrows would fly pretty much the same no matter what I called the measure of their flexibility.
recurve shooter:
ooooo! i got an idea, lets just all start calling it "measure of arrow flexability" that way noone will have anything to argue about. ::)
cant ya see it? "have some cane to trade, they should measure of arrow flexability out to around 55-60 pounds" :P
Dave 55:
Spline-spine what a peculiar place to draw a line in the sand,Ive looked at many spine charts.
Kegan:
I think the horse is sufficiently ground to hamburger. Can we please eat it now :)?
JackCrafty:
Actually, when Marco Polo went to China, he brought some arrows with him to see if he could get a bunch made for a good price. Being a merchant (and not an archer) used the term "sprine" to describe the "spring" of the arrow shaft when flexed. But since they had a hard time pronouncing the "r" in sprine, they called it "spline" and Marco Polo, being the wise negotiator, let it go.
That's what I heard, anyway. ;)
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