The All British Fire Arrows Championships (report)

[Greenman]

Originally Posted by yawazz

way way back in the day i used to have an Amiga and you could get a disk called "the little black pirate hand book" on it was a way to blow up your garden shed.... Take pile out of the end of an arrow... fill with gun powder.. replace pile with a percussion cap and shoot at a shed..... don't know if it would work never got round to getting the gun powder lol

Had a similar idea (though it was just to wind up the club captain),. Replaced pile with WW1 egg grenade, it was inert ,but did not mention that. X7 shaft fitted the fuse shaft nicely, and then went into detail how the fuse had been replaced by a percussion cap, a small ball bearing in the arrow shaft would on impact shoot down the shaft hitting the cap and setting off the grenade. Also discussed how you would have scored when taking out the entire target. When it looked like the contraption was going to be shot lots of whistle blowing and shouting occurred. He wasn't amused.

[Ceri Jones]

Some archers were seen putting marshmallows on their arrows before shooting.

[Jerry Tee]

Originally Posted by Dave

Wish my boss was on a small island in a lake.

During the Competition??????

[Jimster71]

Originally Posted by yawazz

way way back in the day i used to have an Amiga and you could get a disk called "the little black pirate hand book" on it was a way to blow up your garden shed.... Take pile out of the end of an arrow... fill with gun powder.. replace pile with a percussion cap and shoot at a shed..... don't know if it would work never got round to getting the gun powder lol

A friend of mine had the Anarchist's Cookbook, which probably had the recipe for gunpowder in it. A fascinating read...

[BobCat]

Originally Posted by Dave

Wish my boss was on a small island in a lake.

My boss is on an island ........
Unfortunately the same one as I am on (The main British isle)

and oh c**p now in the same office, gotta go ........

[*JJ]

Originally Posted by Jimster71

A friend of mine had the Anarchist's Cookbook, which probably had the recipe for gunpowder in it. A fascinating read...

Chupatti flour and hydrogen peroxide. Havn't you been watching the news?

[ThePinkOne]

Originally Posted by Jimster71

A friend of mine had the Anarchist's Cookbook, which probably had the recipe for gunpowder in it. A fascinating read...

When I was a kid (pre-internet days) I was thrilled to find the recipe for gunpowder in a library book (you can see why I did chemistry...). No, I never tried it as getting hold of potassium nitrate was a little tricky... that's when I discovered just how potent little charges made from crunched-up (non-safety) matches can be...

Of course, in these days of internet bomb-making instructions little things like black powder and picric acid are old hat, but in my day it was somehow more innocent, that sort of normal schoolchild discovery of how to blow things up (albeit on a small scale) has gone out of it now, along with making magnesium flares and stinkbombs...

As for fire-arrows.... hmm, when I was a venture scout I do remember a method of lighting campfires known as the "flaming arrow" for which we used a wire-guided arrow- powered by a little rocket rather than a bow though I seem to recall.

Oh happy days... (and yes, I still have all 8 fingers and both thumbs...)

P.

[*JJ]

Originally Posted by ThePinkOne

Oh happy days... (and yes, I still have all 8 fingers and both thumbs...)

P.

On the other hand, I used to know an archer who had only part of the little finger on his right hand - he had blown the rest off playing with explosives. (It hadn't gone off so he picked it up to check ... )