Can you fit rubber blunts over field tips?
No, you'll penetrate the rubber upon impact I think.
Can you fit rubber blunts over field tips?
Roving is just magic fun, After me and my pal became accustomed to all the different distances on the range of our field coarse roving became the only real fun we had left and we mainly used judo points, hexblunts and bludgeons, Flu flu arrows were also great fun.
I have always found the Heritage shafts from Corbon Express as tough as old nails honestly solid as a rock.
From left to right 3 and 5 are two of the usual suspects, No4 is a 357Mag shell blunt on a 11/32 wooden shaft.
Hilary Greenland recommends 9mm in her book The Traditional Archers Handbook but whatever floats your boat, they all do the same job + or - a rim. I don’t have a picture of a hex blunt handy here but the face of the hex-blunt is cupped or hollowed which is supposed to help prevent skipping and seems to work just fine.
Can you fit rubber blunts over field tips?
NO NO NO do not in any circumstance put a blunt over a field point. We check arrows with blunts for this before a re-enactment battle because the point can move forwards through the blunt and injure someone on impact.
BTW, you shoot a bow, you don't fire it. The only way to fire a bow involves a box of matches (or a flint and steel, of course) ;-)
Peter
There was a perpetual law passed in 1514 that i don't believe has been repealed yet...
just a thought about the previous bit of pointless interesting bit of info about arrows being shot and never
fired, would infact the correct term be too LOOSE an arrow? and your both wrong and im all smug!
or im wrong and ill get my coat!
I thought that earlier
Read too much military history in my time
An easy way to add weight to the 357 or 9mm shells is to drill out the primer “Fired shell only obviously “ and still using some glue or hotmelt to fill-in any gaps or air spaces, screw in a long brass screw through the primmer hole and fix it onto the shaft permanently, I use round headed screws not just to add the weight but the shell also don’t need to be chamfered and therefore it sits flush over the base.
Roger Ascham declared that the archer must hold and loose. In other words one should draw the bow, hold for a brief interval (fast) and then release the string (loose). Fast being an archer's word for stop especially if someone wanders in front of the target with "fast and loose " being a phrase now more associated with someone playing fast and loose with somebody's affections.
http://archive.org/details/RogerAschamToxophilus1545
.....An easy way to add weight to the 357 or 9mm shells is to drill out the primer “Fired shell only obviously “.....