New Approvals/Combat Archery Rule Changes

Updated 02/05/07

Combat Archery Blow Acknowledgment:    December 29, 2006

 http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/combat/archery/CAblowack.pdf

 

Until further notice, the following blow acknowledgment standards for Combat Archery remain in effect:

This is meant to describe the Society-wide standard on how to call a good arrow or crossbow bolt hit in heavy SCA combat. It doesn't apply to siege weapons or other missile weapons.

Any missile that hits a legal target area that is noticed by the fighter hit by it, that hits with proper orientation and was not impeded nor skipped off any other person or object shall be considered good.

            1. Just like in hand-to-hand combat, the fighter who is struck makes the determination. It is on the fighters honor to accept these shots.

 

            2. "Notice." This can mean a lot of things, and is meant to. It can mean that you felt the blow, saw the blow, heard the blow or you inquired about the blow and using that information determined that the hit was good.

 

            3. Due to the restrictions that have been placed on combat archery missiles (i.e. limited maximum draw weight, arrow construction and other safety considerations), missiles shall not be required to hit with a minimum sufficient force in order for the blow to be considered effective.

 

            4. Reminder, since arrow shots are designed for someone in minimum Society Armor, those fighters in plate need to calibrate themselves for missile weapons.

 

 

Except from President's Report of the October 2004 Meeting:

 

The Society Marshal ruled that the Universal Shot Standard is now in

force for acknowledgement of heavy combat missile blows. The Board

upheld this policy.

Approved Oct. 08th, 2004

St. Artemas Nocks. 

These can not be made out of pine.  Here are Pictures of the nocks.  These are approved for Siloflex and Golf  Tube Missiles.  They may not be attached using a metal staple.  Friction tape is not sufficient for attaching or keeping the nocks in place.  The approved method for attaching these is drilling one or two holes thru the wooden nock, the part inside the tube and the Siloflex or golf tube and using lacing/cording  to keep these in place.  Tape needs to be put over the cording or lacing.

Here are pictures of the wooden nock.

Pictures: 1, 2 and 3

Bruns split fletch design

1. Siloflex Missiles, Split Fletch design by Brun ·   Being tested in the Middle2. .

Master Erik's Siloflex Fletch design.   Approved March 24th, 2004

 

Cut a slit, about 2 1/2" long in a Siloflex tube (leaving at least 1" solid from the base of the slit), with a "stop" hole (7/32 of an inch) on either end of both slits.  The stop hole is a required part of the design. Then a foam or soft leather "fletch" is slid in one slit and out the slit on the opposite side.

 

 

 

                tested in Avacal, An Tir (approved)

                      tested in AnTir (approved)

4. PE 1404 APD, testing a new Polyethylene tubing being tested by Deicyn

                    Photos will be added soon.  It’s being tested in An Tir. 

 

 

Previous approvals

 

The Asgard APD.  Approved Feb. 1st, 2003   

This APD is a molded one.. it slips on a 1/4" fiberglass shaft. It is a tight fight, but you still need to use super glue. You should be generous and roll the shaft in the super glue, before slipping the Asgard APD into place. It does not work on other diameter fiberglass shafts and it's not approved for wooden shafts. It's designed for 1/4" fiberglass shafts only. This is a one piece unit, that slips over the shaft and it includes a nock.

These are pictures of Duke Baldar's new APD, the Asgard APD. These didn't turn out well, so I'll be adding more and better pictures as I get more time, but these should give you an idea.

I just put a bunch in this picture, so you could see multiple angles at the same time.

These are some photos of the new Asgard APD

Old (not legal) on the left in this photo Old (not legal) APD is on the right in both of these photos. You can see the differences in the thickness.

 

This was supposed to show the differences Between the old (not legal) one on the top,

Vs. the newer (approved) APD.. you can see the cut of the nock.

The photo on the right was supposed to show the difference in the cut. Old one on the left, new on the right.

You can see the differences in the angle of the nock. Some of the other pictures might show this better.

 

 ***I would like to thank his Grace Baldar for sending me samples of these new APDs.***

 

Please feel free to pass this information on and/or to post it on your website or kingdom newsletters.

 

Thanks,

 

Tessa the Huntress, DSMCA