[Archers] loop string nocking

[Garth G. Groff]

Noble friends of the arrow,

In the Osprey book ENGLISH LONGBOWMAN 1330-1515 by Clive Bartlett there 
is a detail shot of a curious way of nocking. It uses arrows without 
nocks, instead ground to a sharp point approximating the way a modern 
arrow is tapered before the plastic nock is applied. This "nock-end 
point" is inserted into a loop tied in the bowstring. Has anyone here 
ever seen or tried this in real life?

Of course this is prohibited from an SCA range by the prohibition 
against knots in a string.

Kind regards,


Lord Mungo Napier, Archer of Mallard Lodge