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Posted on 12/20/2004 9:01:36 AM PST by ecurbh
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Back in Miami now, yes the pics are from VA.
Kids (and me) had great fun shooting the bows. We set up boxes and fired the arrows at 'em. Lots of the arrows went right through them and kept on going, although this messed up the fletching a little. Thanks.
Here is something along the lines I was considering, looks like someone's already made one. Have to read the rest of the site to see if it was successful at shooting or not. However, if it worked, I imagine it capable of shooting an atlatl.
Oh, that's seriously cool!
My sibs and I are having a lovely evening watching stuff together. Fun.
Sam; both are osage, made from staves. There was a bit of natural reflex in thegirl's bow, helped along a bit by the rawhide backing. Theboys stave was an almost perfect elb until a knot mid limb surfaced. The offending knot was to big to work around so I cut the it behind the knot and commenced to make theboys bow. I shaped to the top nock a bit different so it appears to curve up a little.
Duuuude, you rock. That would be awesome and I think it would be powerful enough to launch broomstick handle arrows. :-)
There is a great book on the subject: "The Book of the Crossbow" Payne Galloway IRRC. There a number of old line drawings in it and the author shows how they could or could not work. Plus the usual assortment of crossbows.
That might make a good project, build your own crossbow. :-)
<waving hand madly in the air>I will! I will!
In ROTKEE, the corsairs had something like this on a flexible deck mount. The technology existed in PJ's version of the Tolkien universe.
The ballista was used to "reach out and touch someone" out beyond bow/crossbow range. Special targets were oficers or sappers.
My wish list for things PJ should have added includes the chief orc at the siege of Helm's Deep eatin' a 2-foot steel bolt while in the middle of his pep talk on top of that rock. Nothin' like standing right on top of an aim point that's recorded on the range card of the ballista crew.
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Are y'all considering electronic publishers?
Bear said you were sleeping in this morning. I got up way too early, and as a result, conked out about 2 hours ago. I decided I wanted a fire in the fireplace, so I built one, and it promptly put me to sleep. I woke up worried I'd slept through midnight! I figured the boys were too wrapped up in World of Warcraft that they didn't notice. Then I remembered that they would have come up for food within a couple of hours after supper. ;o)
I got varied and sundry snacks and a couple of bottles of Asti for our New Year's party! It's just SSQ and me, our four kids, and the older boys' friend who is staying with us over the holidays.
You don't need a rejection slip, you've done better than that!
I'd consider an e-publishing thing as long as it's not vanity publishing. I'd rather try for print. We'll see, depends if I get a story or not.
You'll shoot your eye out.
Hullo everyone!
We are loaded for bear to go shooting tomorrow. Got all kinds of .38, couple boxes .357... several boxes of shotgun shells, we got skunked on clay pigeons, but we gots lots of ammunition. ;~D
Now that you mention it, 300, didn't the orcs themselves have something like a ballista at Helm's Deep?
IRRC - the orcs used them to shoot the grappling hooks onto the walls to hoist up the ladders.
Sounds like a good time waiting to happen.:-) .38s are wadcutters or jacketed hollow points?
They had a jacketed practice round, cheaper than lead semi wad cutters.... $15 per 100. Got two boxes of them :~D
Glad to get them somewhat cheap, I am still pretty new to the idea that bullets cost money. When our friend Bob had the reloading business, he'd give me boxes of 500 at a time, leftovers in his perspective.... thought I had a lifetime supply.
My .270 bullets cost a dollar apiece, 'course I don't need too many of 'em.
Have to figure out how to make quivers, so we can reach over our shoulders and grab and nock arrows, like Legolas does ;-)
Yeah - you don't want to go shoot all day at that price.
We've got lots of .22 for my semiauto if we run out of big bullets. ;~D
I was really looking forward to letting ecurbh try a little clay pigeon shooting with the shotgun, but they were out of them... So it'll have to wait.
My friend Lisa has some kind of deer rifle she wants to shoot tomorrow too. not sure what.
That's a good price on those. Well, think Lee Loader. :-)
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