[MR] From the news: Teen shoots dad with bow

[David Chessler]

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Received: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:36:49 AM EDT
From: Marybeth Lavrakas <katrous at yahoo.com>
To: Marco da Verona <marcodaverona at earthlink.net>,	Atlantia Mailing list
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Subject: Re: [MR] From the news: Teen shoots dad with bow

> On a more period/slightly happier note, just yesterday I was reading an
article 
> that mentioned the English coroner's inquests from the 16th century that 
> happened b/c people were doing stupid things at the archery range. People 
> gleaning arrows and getting shot by other archers, or someone telling an
archer 
> "shoot my hat!" while it was on his head makes me glad of our marshals. I
still 
> can't quite picture how someone managed to shoot himself in the head while
at 
> longbow practice, but it happened...

At a guess the arrow split at the nock, and part bounced off the bow.

--
YIS

Davitt il Bigollo da Pisa
Erudit de l'Academie de Espee de Atlantia
Storvik (rapier)
Roxbury Mill (other things) 

Defence or attack, a battle is fought by running. 

                              --- 7 Samurai 1:11:03
> 
> "Archery Practice in Early Tudor England, " by Steven Gunn, in PAST &
PRESENT, 
> no 209, pg 53-81. I can easily email a pdf of the article to anyone who
doesn't 
> have easy access to the journal.
> 
> Kateryn Rous