[MR] News from afar

[Velsthe1 at aol.com]

Greetings All,

Resulting from a number of injuries and situations involving Combat Archery at Gulf Wars X, the Society Earl Marshall has prepared and sent a letter to BOD. This letter examines the safety issues concerned with the wide variances in construction of arrows and arrow shafts from kingdom to kingdom. 
Duke Eringlen is proposing society wide that Anti-Bounce Devices be required on all arrow and bolt shafts that are narrower than 1 1/4". 
In response, there are several in Ansteorra that are argueing rather than changing the arrows, all fighters should be required to wear additional eye protection in case an arrow shaft does rebound and pass through the grill or eyeslots of a standard SCA list-legal helmet. The instigators of eye-protection over weapon modification are preparing a letter writing campaign to BOD to support their stance. 

I can not say if this issue will be dealt with at the next BOD meeting, or if this will be considered at all. In the event that this does become a major issue, I thought it might be a good idea that this be known before it became an entirely one-sided issue.


Vels, called Landstrykkr