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Livery Arrow record
brian:
It cant be a world record,Will wasnt there at the time. ;) ;)
Ian.:
This one Badger http://leatherwall.bowsite.com/TF/lw/thread2.cfm?threadid=169135&category=88 from 2008
WillS:
--- Quote from: Badger on March 11, 2015, 02:32:15 pm --- It was supposedly done with a self yew elb. It might have been done unofficially.
--- End quote ---
Very cool if it's genuine. Its a testament to the modesty of guys like Simon and Joe when stuff like this happens and isn't recorded officially.
Yeomanbowman:
Huge congratulations to Joe and Ian for the EWBS livery record. Smashing 300 yards is a massive achievement.
Regarding the other point, Simon shot the 340 yard distance at a I.L.A.A. FLIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP with a war arrow which seems to be linked to the Fraternity of St George around 2006. It would have been with alongbow and ‘Military’ arrow which is 75g and 1/2" diameter. He must have accomplished something similar with the Mary Rose Trust whist testing with the late Roy King.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/technology-obituaries/6840541/Roy-King.html
It begs the question what ‘officially’ is. FITA records are measured with a taught steel tape and a theodolite type thing to record to the inch and requires billiard table flat land. I suspect this is more accurate/exacting than the EWBS' (and certainly Warbow Wales’, for that matter) methods.
I think the issue Brian has is the term ‘world record’ which would imply a hierarchy of whose records and arrows are most ‘official’ and whose others positively 'un-official'. It could be read as a bit self-promoting. Regardless, it is a truly brilliant accomplishment by all concerned.
PatM:
What's the status on the strings? Was Simon's shot perhaps made with modern string material?
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