In addition to my interests in brewing, I find archery and thrown weapons to be  enjoyable activities for participation in the SCA. I find my fellow archers in Calontir to be some of the most fun folks to spend time with (OK, this is a blog and is informal, so I can end a sentence with a preposition!).  I cherish the hours of challenging shoots and camaraderie experienced at events that include archery.

I don’t have a huge number of bows.

• A Hungarian horsebow made by Attila Keresztes. This is a beautiful bow made of blood wood and ash with green cording.
• Three wooden longbows (2 hickory and one red oak)
• A tri-lam longbow with horn string nocks (from Bowskin Archery)
• A Bear Archery Montana modern longbow
• A Flemish Crossbow made by Master Iolo.

Recently, I’ve been working on constructing period arrows.  Some of them are plain, run-of-the-mill self-nocked arrows.  The more challenging ones are self-nocked with horn or hardwood inserts (I’ve been using purpleheart wood).  I’ll say more about arrow-making in future posts.

Well, that’s about it for my first archery post.  I hope to add more in the near future!