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Miles_H_J

In my 30 years of part time steel fighting I seen a number of eye injuries to people do to the lack of protection around the eye or fighting with visor up and open most of the time it's been people wearing SCA bar-grill helm types. It's some thing I've been Bitching about for years... In fact James ...

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Hogfather wrote:
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Hi, is this a picture of the shield men of that era?

It's Hungarian and because it translated as Jagello-era Hungarian military attire, which I think is later.

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Hmmmm..... Nope I 'm not going to say anything.

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I thought we were around 27 ish? Edward Negative. We have lost folks since the original numbers came out. I believe we will lose more by the end. There are a few folks who I am not sure of their skill level yet but we will see at the National Practice in February. I am not sure that people understa...

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Here's the video link http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7386478n for Jousting makes a comeback...

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Lindsay wrote:The £12 restoration of the 16th Century Palace at Stirling Castle

Wow, all that work for just 12 quid

just kidding, great pictures...
Miles

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James B. wrote:I warn you I have more armor now too

Hey That's My Pollaxe

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFow07d5hHM

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Jeffrey Hedgecock wrote:This is hilarious:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTHxB0mA ... 5B&index=3

.....but sad, really.

Youtube put it back up after taking it down...
And that monkey has great aim.

Nope Youtube took it down 1st more

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Arrows nocks were reinforced with horn, I bet the ones that came off Mary Rose where of mostly white-brown color. But then being underwater for hundreds of years may have discolored the horn. I'm with you on this Tom, no more black arrows nocks on my next crap load of arrows I make... Miles mm.. wh...

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Arrows nocks were reinforced with horn, I bet the ones that came off Mary Rose where of mostly white-brown color.
But then being underwater for hundreds of years may have discolored the horn.
I'm with you on this Tom, no more black arrows nocks on my next crap load of arrows I make...

Miles

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EnglishSteel wrote:
Miles_H_J wrote:Most likely mercenary soldiers from outside of england...
When I was there for the reenactment early this year, they mentioned they had found Burgundian badges in the same area as the gonne fragments.

Was that in where they think the Yorkists forces lines were

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Most likely mercenary soldiers from outside of england...

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this past saturday Yep and this was you at MTA 2009 http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z39/Miles_falchion/DSC_0049-1.jpg http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z39/Miles_falchion/DSC_0050-1.jpg This is why you should stick to the Warbow, .... You're English types.(said in a outrageous accent) Miles

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Hi Gwen,

Yes he was jousting in 2007 and he is a very good rider.

And welcome to the forum Hugo

Miles

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Hey Archer's This is some video links of Canada's champion archer Patrick Doiron shooting 80 pound longbow he's also a Knight Jouster in Steve Gagnon's group. Speed shooting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUix3AASQSs Perfect http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpwmGkoXkVA candle http://www.youtube.com/wa...

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I"m not a fashion cop.

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Well Marc dresses up well beats the blue jean look he use to do he's a cool guy and a good armour as well.

Miles

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Hi Gwen Moose-Eating-Attack-Mosquitoes there bad I still think I have some scars from them the Canadian's use Listerine mouthwash they pour it on the ground in and around there tents it seems to work for area control. I have Rosetta Stone in French language it helps. You stayed at Steve's did he say...

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Hi Miles- Steve and his team are indeed amazing people, and what a fantastic job they did with this event! We had such a great time, it was hard to get on the plane to come home. :sad: Were you involved in the St. Catherine event? I saw photos, it looked like a blast. I saw some BSD and what I susp...

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Steve Gagnon his team and folks up there are great people I've had a blast up there for St. Colomban 2008, it's about 1 hour north of Montreal. The jousting looks great that i've seen on Facebook. It's Quebec, Canada so the French like speech and singing adds to the atmosphere it gives it a European...

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Who made the harness?

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Arma Bohemia makes a composite prod. "CB-1" but he's making it as a 14c. X-bow

http://www.armabohemia.cz/Novestr/fireA.htm

I'm looking in to making a composite prod my self.

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By the way a Yew woodÂ staves cost about $150+ and $30 shipping from westcoast to eastcoast USÂ What sort of yew? Plantation yew is grown too fast to make a decent bow. IIRC Hardy reckons that Oregon produces staves that more accurately resemble medieval yew. Pacific Yew or Western Yew Taxus brevi...

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Sweet. Love to see the dimensions and stuff for it. Who makes the yew prods? Thanks! Christopher Iâ€™d do not know any bowyers making crossbow wooden prods for sell in the US but there seems to be a guy in Czech republic if you look the Primitivearcher link I posted earlier look for Jaro or sagitar...

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RJ There was a wooden yew self-bow prod crossbow found in a dich around a castle in enland, but I do not have info on hand right now as my laptop is in the shop for repairs. I'm doing this on my I-pod :-/ Â By the way a Yew woodÂ staves cost about $150+ and $30 shipping from westcoast to eastcoast ...

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RenJunkie wrote:Those are cool, Miles. But what's all that stuff on there about they didn't use wood, they'd be too long, and wood is weak? Not sure the one that got Richard I would be deemed terribly weak.

Thanks!
Christopher

not for Yew

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it's been talked about onÂ primitivearcher.com Someone in Czech RepublicÂ did one here http://foto.curiavitkov.cz/main.php/v/zima2006/DSCF1260.JPG.html Primitivearcher look for wooden prod crossbows http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=tv9n0nohttft9gqvv5canb1re2&topic=3361.60 Miles

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I like it.

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Randy, Specification, and maybe a link to the manufacturer's website would be a big help. Im not clued in much into the live steel end of things, so I dont really know that manufacturer. Is it a real handmade sword, or what is known around here as an SSO (Sword Shaped Object)? Regards, and luck wit...

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Starting EZ stuff this is Tom Apple starting one on a damp wet day. [img]http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/23311260/hr/537841206/name/DSC_0094_2.jpg[/img] [img]http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/23311260/hr/1592769953/name/DSC_0099.jpg[/img] [img]http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/23311260/hr/856827972/name/DSC_0103...

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Hey, Tom There are some new theory's out there put out by Dr. James Horn of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in his book, A Kingdom Strange The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Quote Failure magazine.......Hmm Failure " Just about every part of the established view about ...

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Not new look up Lumbee Indians.

http://www.lumbeetribe.com/Lumbee%20Gen ... istory.htm

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Irish I wonder if the paint makes the difference? In Grey's we have one painted tent and is does not leak, that has been well proven for 12 plus years. The "old timers" painted before I joined over 7 years ago now and it pours regularly at events. They used house paint: http://www.historiclife.com/...

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Crimthann of Fid-Nemed and B. Amos Thanks. We are talking about doing something like this again around the 1st. weekend of next December and hopefully no snow. And Hi Mark! what's up? Did you get a passport yet? make some tools for MTA if you can common laborer stuff with spade, Shovel, Axe, Big Ass...

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