Re: Suspension of Certain Combat Arrows

["David Ritterskamp" <jonnyb70@hotmail.com>]

Poster: "David Ritterskamp" <jonnyb70@hotmail.com>

[No, the fletching (as it is now used) wouldn't keep the end from coming 
all the way through.  There is a way to fix that, though.  Just allow 
the use of solid plastic vanes and make a 3-vaned bolt mandatory, since 
a 2-vaned bolt would still be able to flip sideways.]


Regards,

Ld. Jonathan Blackbow
Clan O'Shannon
"Good...bad...I'm the guy with the gun."
-Bruce Campbell, "Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness"


>Poster: "MTR/AAHR" <wolffe@onslowonline.net>
>
>Ahh! Quite possible, but wouldn't the fletching also keep the end from
>coming all the way through?
>-Wolfe
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Julien de Montfort <julien@spiaggia.org>
>To: MTR/AAHR <wolffe@onslowonline.net>
>Cc: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org <atlantia@atlantia.sca.org>
>Date: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 18:37
>Subject: Re: Suspension of Certain Combat Arrows
>
>
>>> How can one lose an eye or suffer a devestating injury to the face 
if
>>>they
>>> are wearing  prper head gear, i.e. a helm with the proper spacing
>>>between
>>> the bars allowed by Kingdom rules, which I believe to be a 1" space
>>>verticle
>>> or horizontal.  I saw a Balder Blunt, ain't no way, one of these
>>>could fit
>>> into a 1" space.
>>
>>The question here is if it's likely an arrow could bounce *off*
>>something or somebody and fly back *backwards* through a face grill --
>>i.e., not the head coming at you, but rather the other end, the nock,
>>coming at you, which is significantly smaller than a face grill 
opening.
>>
>>Julien


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