{"id":734,"date":"2015-07-01T14:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/?p=734"},"modified":"2015-07-01T14:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T19:09:57","slug":"period-shooting-at-lilies-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/period-shooting-at-lilies-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Period Shooting at Lilies War"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a week and a half since the end of Lilies War<\/a>. The blisters have now healed and I’ve had a chance to give thought to my first Lilies shooting only period equipment. By period equipment, I mean bows that do not have a cut in shelf (shooting off the hand), do not have a metal knock point, and do not contain any fiberglass.\u00a0 For the entire war I shot my 70″ tri-lam longbow with horn nocks.\u00a0 The bow has hickory belly and back with an ipe core. It was made by Joshua at Bowskin Archery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I said in a previous post<\/a>, I have switched to shooting only period equipment. Shooting period equipment has been both a humbling experience and exhilarating. Shooting less forgiving equipment leads to lower scores, in general. If concentration wanes just a bit, it is quite easy to throw arrows way off line and\/or whack your bracer with the string. Overall, I believe that I improved as the week progressed. One way to track improvement involves shooting “standardized” competitions. For the Kingdom of Calontir this involves an IKAC (Inter-Kingdom Archery Competition). IKACs involve shooting two static rounds and two 30-second speed rounds at 20, 30, and 40 yards.\u00a0 Compared to my Period Longbow score just a few weeks ago at Horse & Falcon, I improved by 30%. I’m hoping to continue improvement.\u00a0 To do so, I need more practice at 30 and 40 yards.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I was the only person to shoot the Lilies War IKAC with a period handbow. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

\"self-nocked<\/a>Highlights?\u00a0 I made the semi-finals in the Ladies of the Rose Tournament.\u00a0 In this tournament, former Queen’s of Kingdoms choose a champion to shoot for them. I got beaten by Cian Rhys Gravenor and Thomas ap Dewi, the eventual winner of the competition.\u00a0 I also finished first in a Period division of one shoot after a shoot-off with Alessandra de Piro.<\/p>\n

All-in-all, I was satisfied with my performance, but recognize that I need to continue to practice and improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a week and a half since the end of Lilies War. The blisters have now healed and I’ve had a chance to give thought to my first Lilies shooting only period equipment. By period equipment, I mean bows …<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,13,20],"tags":[77,85],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archery","category-history","category-sca","tag-longbow","tag-self-nocked-arrows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5IN7p-bQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socpsy.com\/casks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}