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WillS:
I dunno. I think healthy debate on a topic that we're passionate about is fine. Forums are here for a reason - passionate people having discussions about things. I don't think anybody on this thread or any of the others are really getting annoyed and angry at what other people have to say. It's just good conversation. It would be exactly the same if everybody was sitting around with a pint, and the topic of warbows was brought up.
Very rarely it gets spiteful or nasty but that certainly hasn't happened on this thread! Also, it's not the warbow societies that you should be annoyed at, if you want to be annoyed at anybody. The societies are in place to encourage and inspire people to get involved in a sadly dying tradition. They put some rules and regulations up to keep themselves separate, but that's not something to be annoyed about. They could say "Eh, we don't KNOW what all warbows looked like, so until we find some 14th century photos of bows, feel free to come along and shoot with anything you've got" but then there wouldn't be much point in their society, would there. Remember, you can't please all the people all of the time.
Peter-t123:
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--- Quote from: Peter-t123 ---no one in the society claims that that one sentence is what they believe represents a medieval bow (that isnt what they think) and you are trying to change the sentence to say that is what it says.
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You should read more carefully. Nowhere did I mention that the English Warbow Society think that all medieval bows would comply with their society rules.
They are a society, therefore they need some form of guideline to stop people trying to join with 45# horsebows. The society guidelines are a separate thing to what individual people think medieval bows might have been like.
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people do shoot 45lb horsebows
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So... you show up to EWBS shoots with a 45# horsebow?
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personally mine is 53lb
adb:
Let's not forget that this is the 'English' War Bow Society, for the preservation of the 'English' War Bow, based mostly on the artifacts recovered from The Mary Rose. Not the Asian Horse Bow Society (if there is such a thing)? Why on earth would you attend an EWBS shoot with a 53# horse bow? I don't understand your reasoning?
Peter-t123:
--- Quote from: adb on April 02, 2013, 09:29:28 pm ---Let's not forget that this is the 'English' War Bow Society, for the preservation of the 'English' War Bow, based mostly on the artifacts recovered from The Mary Rose. Not the Asian Horse Bow Society (if there is such a thing)? Why on earth would you attend an EWBS shoot with a 53# horse bow? I don't understand your reasoning?
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personally i wouldnt use it to rove with but others do and theres no problem with them doing so, when it comes to the flight shoot which is just one of the several activities held yes you do have to use bows of xxxx spec, but for roving etc there are no limitations and i was pointing out how incorrect it was for another poster above to be told his bow has to be xxxxxx to attend a shoot, he could shoot whatever he liked unless he was setting a recorded shot in the flight with a specific bow and arrow
brian:
I just love it when you boys get going
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