New to me, "Archery battle"

[dwardo]

[video=youtube;CkC1wxAaDjM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CkC1wxAaDjM[/video]

Looks like it could be fun. Would depend on how well the arrows fly but looks like a laugh,.

 

[sandbender]

That looks like fun.

Here is the Hungarian equivalent...

[video=youtube;hF4jO540Fn4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4jO540Fn4[/video]

Turn the sound down and nip forward to 01.40 for the school, or 00.40 for unicycle archery which might make an interesting addition to the 'Archery Battle' in the OP.

 

[dwardo]

I have seen that guys stuff before, pretty amazing.

 

[ozzy1977]

Looks like fun, only a matter of time before you can get paint marker arrows for paintball events

 

[Tony]

I'm already wondering about getting some gear for the youth group I help run

 

[Tony]

just been trying to find where you can get the stuff, not easy LARP arrows are £8.50 +

 

[Badger74]

They look like SCA legal arrows. Having done something like this on the streets of St Albans, its great fun, although we weren't wearing face protection and they were the small red blunts :yikes:

 

[dwardo]

Wonder what it would be like being shot with one of those out of one of my heavy bows, 70lb or so :yikes:

 

[Tony]

yeah, I wonder


I thought about blunts but even they're going to hurt as they're not really padded, just softer
if blunts would work that would be great at 50p each

 

[dwardo]

Taking a bow with me to the woods this weekend. Will take a blunt or two and see what damage they do to various things, I imagine pretty horrific! They are used for hunting after all.
I am taking my nephew too so so will see if he wants to volunteer for human trials

 

[boatman]

Being told to take my armoured gauntlets off as they looked too martial for a non-combatant I scurried for arrows at the Battle of Tewkesbury and got hit on the hand by a blunt which hurt and bruised. People have lost eyes to blunts. We do shoot directly at an advancing shield wall at one show but it is controlled.

 

[Corso]

seen this sort of thing at LARP events - couldn't get into the whole fantsay thing myself but the combat was entertaining stuff

 

[mrcharly]

Your blunts must be different to my blunts . . .

I used to use 'blunts' for hunting in Australia. A bit like a field point but with a perfectly flat end, same weight. They were lethal on anything up to fox size. Even out of a 22lb bow they would kill a rabbit.

 

[Badger74]

MrC, the blunts we associate with re-enactment are made of rubber with about a 15mm diameter face at the blunt end http://www.longbowandarrow.co.uk/redhead-blunts-409-p.asp I'm guessing yours were like empty shell cases?

 

[dwardo]

Your blunts must be different to my blunts . . .

I used to use 'blunts' for hunting in Australia. A bit like a field point but with a perfectly flat end, same weight. They were lethal on anything up to fox size. Even out of a 22lb bow they would kill a rabbit.

Think I was getting confused here too. I use spent 38 shells with a bit of lead in the end. Very lethal.

 

[Tony]

Yeah, there's hunting blunts, taking out birds etc and then there's the rubber blunts that go over tips, then there's the really padded blunts that are fine to shoot people with and not go to jail...Umm, well, as long as they say it's ok

 

[Badger74]

and then there's the rubber blunts that go over tips

Major no no. When the rubber stops, the tip comes straight through :yikes:

http://www.azincourt-alliance.org.uk/uk/_private/redhead_files/redheads.jpg this should be how there fitted, for sort of safety purposes; cos it still dangerous :twak:

 

[Big Stu 12]

Try this...

http://archerytag.com/about

http://www.archerystrike.co.uk/

 

[Big Stu 12]

Looks like fun, only a matter of time before you can get paint marker arrows for paintball events

There is a bow that shoots paintballs, it been out for a few years now..