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12310 Godwin fitzGilbert &l...
godwinthearcher Send Email
Mar 1, 2003
2:27 pm
The Kingdom of Artemisia archery manual: (on a Baronial Website). http://www.barony-of-arnhold.org/Marshal_handbook.pdf The Society archery manual: ...
12311 Ragnar Ketilsson
ragnarketilsson Send Email
Mar 3, 2003
4:29 am
Caedmon, Actually, the limbs of a compound bow do move, just not as far as those of a traditional bow move. The cams or offset wheels provide a variable...
12312 tigerslili <tigers...
tigerslili Send Email
Mar 3, 2003
2:41 pm
I am a new member to the archery group at Bronzehelm and Naima was posing the question about compound and recurve bows for me as I hadn't gotten onto the list...
12313 hanhebin <hamberg@...
hanhebin Send Email
Mar 3, 2003
3:28 pm
... The Internature loaner bow I donated to your group is 35# and I know that Naima and Alf both like the way that shoots. It's the bow that I learned to...
12314 Yama Kaminari no Date...
dateyukiie Send Email
Mar 3, 2003
9:12 pm
Greetings, ... of my questions....(/snip) Simplicity in questions leads to exponential growth in the understanding of the answers...(Frankie says..."relax...")...
12315 jrosswebb1@...
eastwood813 Send Email
Mar 5, 2003
10:04 pm
Greetings, A friend recently forwarded this page to me concerning an archeological find in Great Britain of an ancient archer's burial site. I can't remember...
12316 hanhebin Send Email Mar 6, 2003
5:28 am
... This was an E-mail response that I recieved from a former Hoyt Product Manager and one of the top Olympic Recurve and Compound archers in the country (and...
12317 James Brummet
brummets Send Email
Mar 7, 2003
3:28 pm
Sense I am the one who asked for book ideas I thought I would share one with the list. If you have not read Bernard Cornwll's The Archer's Tales go out and...
12318 David Peno
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Mar 7, 2003
6:01 pm
This is a awesome book and the next chapter in the story is "Vagabond"; I think. It is out in hardback now and hopefull paperback soon. Dave ... ...
12319 Eadric Anstapa
uisge77362 Send Email
Mar 7, 2003
6:14 pm
... This is an excellent peice of hisorical fiction by Bernard Cornwell. Dont forget the next book in the series "Vagabond";. According to Cornwell there are...
12320 James Brummet
brummets Send Email
Mar 7, 2003
6:15 pm
I saw Vagabond and was going to get it intill I saw a litte blurp on the Cover "From the Auther of The Archer's Tale". I asked the store to order me a copy in...
12321 James Brummet
brummets Send Email
Mar 7, 2003
6:25 pm
Thank you M'Lord for the website! I must admit that I have fell in love with Cornwell's writting. I will have to check out the Warlord Chronicle and I also...
12322 jrosswebb1@...
eastwood813 Send Email
Mar 7, 2003
7:28 pm
Greetings, Yes this is a really good book. It's part of a series that he's written and they are all available in paperback. I know, cause I have two of them....
12323 Ian Griffen
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Mar 8, 2003
3:14 am
Greetings All Does anyone know of a referance to the use of wooden crossbow prods? Ian Griffen ... Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips,...
12324 AMENSEYA@... Send Email Mar 8, 2003
3:33 am
Without checking my other reference books at this hour I can say that Payne-Gallwey in his Book of the Crossbow does mention wooden prods. Part II, Chapters X,...
12325 Carolus Eulenhorst
eulenhorst2000 Send Email
Mar 8, 2003
7:34 am
Both George Cameron Stone in A Glossary of Arms and Armor.. and George Stevens in Crossbow refer to wooden crossbows but they appear to infer their existence...
12326 Marko Peussa
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Mar 8, 2003
10:38 am
Not much of a reference, but there is a huge crossbow with wooden prod at the historical museum of Wien, Austria. The thickness of the prod was incredible, if...
12327 Siegfried Sebastian F...
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Mar 8, 2003
2:29 pm
... According to Payne Gallway: Before 12th century: Wooden prods 12th century: composite prods start showing up. late 15th century: steel prods Also, in...
12328 hanhebin Send Email Mar 8, 2003
3:26 pm
... I know that the crossbow I am about to reference is out of period and the prod is made of bamboo but I have gotten to hold an early Chinese repeating...
12329 Chad and Erin Wilson
caeman Send Email
Mar 8, 2003
9:49 pm
I used my new Woodchuck Power Taper Tool today for the first time. Once I got the taper just right, I went through 16 arrows in 2 minutes, a perfect point ...
12330 ALBERIC@...
alberic6 Send Email
Mar 8, 2003
10:24 pm
... Ian: Sure. Where and when? As a general rule, simple 'just wood' prods tend to be lower tech. (No kidding?) So they occur either earlier, poorer, or in...
12331 James Brummet
brummets Send Email
Mar 8, 2003
10:58 pm
Okay it took me a bit longer then I thought (call me a busy beaver) but here is the list of all the books you all kindly thought I should read. Longbow by...
12332 Carolus Eulenhorst
eulenhorst2000 Send Email
Mar 9, 2003
7:33 am
My apologies to those who receive this more than once. I apologize to those who made the journey to Wintermist to take Caid's Range Marshalling class. Due to...
12333 L.J. Sparvero
lyev1585 Send Email
Mar 9, 2003
1:31 pm
... One of the things that seems to correlate is that the wooden/composite prods would have been spanned with a belt hook/samson belt (the hook and pulley at...
12334 robert1015@...
scotthecathorn Send Email
Mar 9, 2003
9:06 pm
Personally, i never liked the New woodchuck. I prefer the older version from Horizon before being bought out that had the plastic type tubes that you insert...
12335 Chad and Erin Wilson
caeman Send Email
Mar 9, 2003
9:26 pm
No advice from about the arrow drift, except maybe that the arrows are spined too heavy/too light and are just bending funny on you, but since the straight ...
12336 Carolus Eulenhorst
eulenhorst2000 Send Email
Mar 9, 2003
10:34 pm
Are you using the same size and cut feathers for your helical and your straight fletches? I assume you are a right handed archer. In this case I suspect that...
12337 Andrea Sprague
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Mar 10, 2003
4:19 am
Greetings everyone. My husband is an archery marshal in the East. He is quite happy to do the safety bits and paperwork and all. However, he would be just...
12338 hanhebin Send Email Mar 10, 2003
3:25 pm
... There are a couple of suggestions is to find rounds that teach good form and do variations of these rounds in your practices. One I like is a wand round...
12339 Sam Cohen
saintelmo_2001 Send Email
Mar 10, 2003
5:54 pm
Greetings all, due to a very recent comitment I will not be at archery practice on the following dates, Mar 12 & 19 and possibly the 26th, April 2nd and 9th (...
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