Rubber blunts, horses and far north queensland

[James Harvey]

#2664

Interesting photos from an unusual trad shoot down here recently..

http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2014/05/17/4006653.htm?site=farnorth

[Ben M.]

#11816

Jim–I like it! Several different styles of bow, different arrow shaft material, self nocks and plastic nocks…all the pictures show seem to show the use of a thumb ring…

I wonder where those black and white striped feathers come from. They are reminiscent of N.A. wild turkey feathers, but much too perfect to fit the bird.

[paleoman]

#12162

You don’t all do that as regular practice????:lol:!

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#12223

“…It became quite a serious competition and should a warrior miss the target he used to take it so personally that he would actually commit harakiri at the end of the run.”

😯 Whoa. Seems like that could thin the ranks rather quickly.

The Yumi is one of the most unusual and interesting traditional bows I know of. The Japanese had a smaller version, called the Hankyu (“half-bow”) but generally opted for using the longer Yumi Daikyu on horseback instead, unlike just about every other horse culture I know of.

Cool link, Jim.

[Col Mike]

#12765

Jim

Thanks great story and photo’s—wouldn’t you just love to see something like that?

Mike

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