[Archers] loop string nocking

[Allen Miller]

I do not see why that could not be tried as an experiment with the approval of the DEM and the EM. other wise set one up and try it on a non SCA range, or give me a call and come up some weekend and we will try it on my range. I Would be couries to see how it works and to see the documentation. allen ---------- Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone


-----Original Message-----
From: Garth G. Groff
Sent: 7/16/2010 1:41:50 PM
To: Archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [Archers] loop string nocking
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
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