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Miles:
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J. D. Duff
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Hey J.D.
Yes but you need big fat mats or points stick 1/2 way out the back I'm thinking of adding one more mat be because when I shoot my big 5 bow at it ~110# there going in very deep. ;D
Ligth Bow say -45# can Bounds off it at times no fun for the kiddys. :-\
I'm looking for round mat's to make a target from but had no luck yet.
There's two type's out there they cost about the same straw (very much like the cool English Straw Targets the real ones from the UK that cost a arm and leg to ship to the US but then we have game to shoot here ;)) and coconut husk, when I was testing this out I took my old used welcome mat from the back door of the house and started shooting it, this one was coconut husk it work well.
Miles
duffontap:
Thanks for the help Miles.
J. D.
Dane:
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Funny how we have the skills we have. Fabric is easy for me, but leather and bone are horrifyingly difficult. Horn and bone simply hate me, and leather needles love to impale me.
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Hi Dane
If you can stop by a saddle and tack maker shop and them show you there tool's and how they work leather I've picked up alot from doing that.
I'm not bleeding as much now ;)
Good advice, Miles, but my leather needs are not that great right now. One day, perhaps. I do manage to poke myself once in a while working in linen and wool, so all this is bought with blood, :) Blood doesnt look good in natural linen. Sometime, I'll post some photos of my Roman kit, though not English War Bow related. Neither is a Scorpio, for that matter, but it is a mega-powerful arrow shooter for war. That will go in the regular bow forum, I guess.
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Miles:
Hey Dane
Where you at Roma day 2007 Maryland?
I was just looking at all the cool stuff here's some it not the Warbow we talk about but it is a type of Warbow.
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Dane:
Miles, I alas, missed it this year, but nine members from my Legio, Legio III Cyrenaica were there. That stone throwing ballista was just finished weeks before the event by Flavius Octavius Servus (aka Fred Wojick), and we call it the Roman Atomic Cannon. It weighs thousands of pounds, and is primarily ash. he did a fantastic job.
You can't tell it from the last photo, but that is the bed of the new cart Publius Clodius Secundus (Randi Richard), Tesseraruius of the III built recently. He is the guy manning the scorpio, with the straw hat. One of the big things for us about this event was having possibly the first arrow firing catapulta mounted in a cart in nearly 2000 years in action. The scorpio you see is from the Legio XXIV.
My scorpio is coming along nicely. I'm about to start the base, and within I hope a few months, cast the washers out of bronze. That is a new skill I have to acquire for this project. I expect to start building my melting furnace in the next few weeks to a month. The nice thing about this is I can cast bronze tribolate and bibolate arrow heads, something you simply cant find at all out there as repros (echoing the difficulty you English war bow guys have with authentic bodkins and such).
I'll be using actual artifacts as the starting point for my molds. I have a nice little 100 BC bronze head here, a small one that was almost certainly not for a full sized war bow, but would make a nice target point.
Dane
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