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- From: alpha@w6yx.Stanford.EDU (Alpha Schram)
- Newsgroups: alt.archery
- Subject: Re: Any traditional archers out there?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 08:35:52 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University Amateur Radio Club, California USA
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- References: <1993Jan19.191045.7394@cs.wayne.edu> <185034@pyramid.pyramid.com>
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- In article <185034@pyramid.pyramid.com> khearn@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Keith Hearn) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan19.191045.7394@cs.wayne.edu> mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu writes:
- >>As I've mentioned before, I've returned to archery of late, but rather than
- >>shooting a recurve with a sight, as before, I'm shooting a longbow instinctively.
- >>It is great fun, and after a very few short practice sessions I'm starting to
- >>group the arrows fairly well.
- >>
- >>Are any other readers of this forum traditional archers? I'd like to see some
- >>discussions of styles, techniques and materials. I'm be glad to initiate such
- >>discussions, but only if there's interest, of course.
- >> --mike mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu
- >
- >I shoot traditional longbow. I'm involved in a group in California
- >know as 'St. Sebastian's Rennaisance Guild'. We're a bunch of
- >actor/archers who perform at ren faires up and down the state, doing
- >traditonal longbow demonstrations. We have over 50 archers equipped
- >with traditional tackle (wood longbows, most of them self bows, wood
- >arrows with feather fletching and self nocks). I'm using a ~55 lb
- >hickory bow and cedar arrows.
- >
- >
- >--
- >Keith Hearn \ If a million dollars is a stack of
- >khearn@pyramid.com \ $1000 bills 4" tall, the national debt
- >Pyramid Technology Corporation \ would be a stack over 63 miles tall.
- >(408) 428-7304 or (510) 263-2701 \ And it's getting taller, FAST!
-
-
- I'm also in St. Sebastian's--it's great fun for doing tournaments/demos,
- Keith didn't mentions that we have a bowyer (Wayne Simpson, in Tracy, CA)
- in our guild. He has made most of the bows we have in the guild.
-
- Alpha
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