OK, So that might be a little over enthusiastic.

The document I’m talking about is a means of simply printing 10 copies of the one page, and joining them all together to make a Period Target Face.  It’s by no means the easiest way to make a period target face, but it does only require glue to put together and gives you a fairly strong almost 3 ply target face with the correct period markings.  Why do it this way?  Some people may find it the easiest way, not having access to a large sheet of paper or cardboard, or just not haveing the means to draw accurate circles with 3, 12 and 30cm radii.

You can also choose to use this document as a template or a reminder of the period scoring system by cutting along the division line you can have a template to remind you where the scoring divisions are on a normal 60cm target and what their points values are.

Hope some of you find it useful. I have included a link to the PDF File below.

PeriodTargetFaceA4_v1.pdf

The IKAC scores for Lochac could do with some improvement and I know that Lochac has more Period Archers out there. It would be great to see more and more people choose to shoot period and also shoot the IKAC to elevate Lochac’s rankings.

As such, I shall be providing a prize to the highest scoring period archer in IKAC this season. The prize is a hand crafted pewter drinking vessel which will comemorate the victory. To be in the running you will need to make sure your scores are entered into the Lochac IKAC online scoring system at http://scores-sca.org/.

The season ends in December and I shall forward the prize to the worthy archer once the final scores have been added.

From there I cut and layered on 2 layers of a nice heavy linen backing with outdoor aquadhere, this was then stretched along each of the upper and lower limbs and left for 4 days to harden.  on the 4th day I cut off the excess, strung the bow and ensure that it was still the same, then I left it until Yesterday before attempting to shoot it.

It’s well…  Smoother…  Seems to have taken out alot of the kick, but unfortunately it also seems to not really increased it’s poundage at all, which was the hope.  Further testing shall continue, as will actually testing the draw weight, but so far it doesn’t really seem to have made a huge improvement.  Might be time to make my own bow like Lorccan and Mercurio have.

10 am at the Club, $5 for non-club members.

Oh my! I have just found a wonderful new site and will be pestering our Kingdom Deputy Archery Marshal and a few other people for us to take advantage of it. The site is a Known World wide Archer score database, something which I was attempting to convince a friend to help me get going on a small basis for Politarchopolis. Whilst this site isn’t as extravagant as what we were planning, it will certainly do what I want it to do which is provide a number of leader board type score tables for a populace.

As such I have already contacted the powers that be, to convince them of the benefits of this site and offered my help in getting it running. We’ll see how this goes, as my last web project for Archery in Lochac failed dismally when the dodgy forum software that was the only software I could find that would allow integration with a mailing list failed, slowly corrupting the database over a few days, which then would not restore from generic backups as it required to be backed up utilising a special script provided. Stupidly I hadn’t gotten to that part of the software yet. When the site was rebuilt, it seemed that there was a lack of interest in getting it going again, so it fell into disuse.

Hopefully I can convince them to go ahead with this one based on the fact that someone else is cuurenly doing the job as scorekeeper and probably wants to keep that job.

Join us at the Tuggeranong Archery club from 10am if you feel like bringing your Bow along for a walk through the Field course.  Should be a fun morning.

Come along and enjoy a morning of Archery in Garb.