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M'Lord Janyn,<br>
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Thanks much for all your hard work on this question. I have one
archer who brought such a bow, but though he has not been active on
the range. I will offer him a loaner bow if he comes back.<br>
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However, did the DEMs consider horse archery? Does this type of
archery fall under your watch, or is horse archery covered by combat
or equestrian DEMs? I suspect there will be some cross-over to
static practice as equestrian activities grow in popularity.<br>
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Yours Aye,<br>
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Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir TA Marshal-in-Charge<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/11/14 12:09 PM,
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<div aria-label="Compose body">Good afternoon my Brothers and
Sisters of the Bow. As most of you know last year the issue
concerning PVC bows and safety came up. At that time I did not
want to make a Kingdom wide ruling without having more data. I
left the decisions to our MIC's at each event to be able to
evaluate the bows in question. As a scientist in mundane
life, I like to base my decisions on data, fact and testing.
Over this past year that is exactly what I and other DEM /
Archer Generals did. At Pennsic this year we all got
together, (both combat archery DEMs and TA DEMs) to discuss
our findings and research. Also 2 bows were constructed that
were left in the UV light as much as possible to simulate
being out in the sun during the year at events. We also built
two bows the first few days of Pennsic at Pennsic and each of
us took turns shooting them and recording the number of shots
through these bows.<br>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">Without going into all of the
details here, the data and testing was damning enough that
most of us agreed we would no longer support PVC bows in our
respective Kingdoms. The two new bows we built were already
showing stress cracks in the PVC after hundreds of shots.
While this was not the only evidence we had, that based on the
research data we had about the chemicals used in PVC and their
volatility in sun light, it was a much easier time to make a
decision.<br>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">So, at this time I am making the
ruling that PVC bows are disallowed in Atlantia for Target
Archery. I obviously don't speak for CA and they will need to
make their own ruling. I will be updating the TA handbook and
our teaching materials and ultimately our rules to reflect
this decision. For all of our marshals, if you get archers
that show up with these bows, please be polite and explain to
them our ruling and that they can easily find a better
replacement in the cheap fiberglass bows or a good used wood
bow. My desire is to keep everyone safe and I just cant
continue to let these accidents waiting to happen exist on our
ranges.<br>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">In Service<br>
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<div aria-label="Compose body">Janyn<br>
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