[Archers] loop string nocking

[Gordon Kinnie]

This is a similar idea to the magnetic nock used on modern compound bows.
The arrow is not attached to the string but put into a pocket or loop and
fired that way.  In modern compound bows, they use a magnetic nock that is
concave and a magnetic ball on the string.  

Godai  

-----Original Message-----
From: archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of John Atkins
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:03 AM
To: 'Garth G. Groff'; Archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] loop string nocking

At one point in my reading of archery stuff I recall that, I believe,
the Mongols or a Mongolian tribe or off shoot did not have nocks on
their arrows.  Instead the arrows had blunt ends where the nock would
be.  This blunt end fit into a "pocket" on their bow string.  The idea
behind this was that the enemy could not harvest their arrows and shoot
them back at them. 

As for trying this myself, the closest I've ever come was pulling the
string out of the nock on the draw then basically dry firing my bow.
NOT FUN!  It actually caused part of the veneer on the limb tip to snap
off but the bow survived, luckily!

cog 

-----Original Message-----
From: archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Garth G.
Groff
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:42 AM
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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