{"id":193,"date":"2015-02-14T10:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/?p=193"},"modified":"2023-10-07T07:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T12:49:05","slug":"period-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/period-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Period Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year is going to be my year to shoot as much “Period” archery as possible.\u00a0 By that, I mean that I plan to use equipment that is more similar to what would have been used in my persona’s time.\u00a0 Of course, this change will be somewhat of a small step toward Period shooting in a global sense, but a large step for me personally.\u00a0 My wonderful Bear Montana longbow<\/a> and my modern arrows with plastic nocks will take a break. I will be using one of my wooden bows. None contain fiberglass.\u00a0 Mostly, I plan to use my tri-lam longbow with horn nocks that was made by Joshua Albanese at Bowskin Archery<\/a> or one of my 3 single-wood longbows that I’ve picked up from several vendors.
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I’ve been working on my first set of self-nocked arrows. I’ve finished six 5\/16″ arrows with a traditional self nock and green wrapping (lacing the fletches will have to wait until later!).\u00a0 \"self-nocked<\/a>I am working on six 11\/32″ arrows with nock inserts.\u00a0 Three of them have horn inserts and three have purpleheart wood inserts.\u00a0 I still need to do a little stain touch up and seal them before I can fletch and install points.\u00a0 A couple of them may require a little more sanding and filing too. It may seem odd that I am making so many variations, but I consider this a testing phase to see which combination I like best. I tried putting inserts into 5\/16″ shafts, but that diameter is pretty hard to work with.<\/p>\n

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Horn and Hardwood Inserts<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition to the previously described construction parameters, I also selected some fairly light tips for installation.\u00a0 Last year, I shot one IKAC with my existing period equipment and found that by the time the 40yd ends were shot, my arrows were hitting the target at a pretty steep angle.\u00a0 I am hoping that lighter points and a slightly heavier bow will rescue me from what amounted to shooting 40yd clouts. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Allen Graham (Roderick de Graham in the SCA) has been very helpful to me with suggestions of equipment and technique for making the arrows with inserts. This first set is a bit rough.\u00a0 I learned a lot about what not to do. My goal is to make a more polished set once I get all the performance parameters figured out.<\/p>\n

Let’s encourage folks to “shoot more Period!”\u00a0 Join the Academy of Historic Archery Facebook page<\/a> and check out the AHA’s Mission Statement<\/a>. The AHA also publishes a great newsletter, Quivers & Quarrels.<\/p>\n

Happy Shooting!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year is going to be my year to shoot as much “Period” archery as possible.\u00a0 By that, I mean that I plan to use equipment that is more similar to what would have been used in my persona’s time.\u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archery","category-arrows","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IN7p-37","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}