Thursday, 16 December 2010

Final flighty touch

i hope to get to a shoot over the Christmas break, so have been putting the final touches onto my kit:
nocks on the string - small rings that get crimped onto the string and act as a mark for the arrow; and putting my name on my arrows.
The arrow naming is not so much so lost arrows can be return, but more so that damage causing arrows can identify the shooter...

Should i have put 2Mogs..?

[update - 16.1.11]
Because of the pegs used in field archery, i have marked my arrows 1, 2, or 3 so i can tell which shot gets the best score if i shoot from all three pegs during practice. 
My first thought was to add a number after my name, but then thought that banding would be more elegant and, in addition, would allow me to tell the number whichever way i look at the arrow.
I used the artificial sinew i have for fixing the flights to my own more traditionally fletched arrows, and used a little glue to seal the band and reduce the possibility of slipping.
I also took the opportunity to finish the ends of the flights with a sinew band to stop the cut ends of the feathers cutting my hand when shooting as there is no arrow rest on a traditional longbow.

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