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Archery accessories? - pavka - 03-03-2012
What do you guys (archers) use for armguards and finger protection?
Re: Archery accessories? - Paul Elliott - 03-03-2012
Armguards: a leather bracer based on a Roman carving mainly to pull the long sleeved tunic out the way. Fingerguards: nothing.
Re: Archery accessories? - Paul Elliott - 03-03-2012
![[Image: bracer.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/lord_mithras/3rdC_Re-Enactment/bracer.jpg)
From Trajan's Column via K.R Dixon:
![[Image: 01101.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/lord_mithras/3rdC_Re-Enactment/01101.jpg)
Although I fasten mine up with the lacing on the outside!
Re: Archery accessories? - pavka - 03-04-2012
Hm... I am a complete novice, and did some shooting with my new Grozer the other week and my fingertips still hurt though I had a fingertab. Probably I was doing something wrong, but whatever I do - I think the fingers will still need some protection. I found this link yesterday: http://leatherworkingreverend.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/archers-finger-tab-from-coventry-c-1500/ but it's of a much much later period (Medieval England).
Re: Archery accessories? - Gaius Julius Caesar - 03-04-2012
I cheat and use Grozers finger guards.
Re: Archery accessories? - Paul Elliott - 03-04-2012
Quote:Hm... I am a complete novice, and did some shooting with my new Grozer the other week and my fingertips still hurt though I had a fingertab.
I may sound like a dork, but I try to do everything by the same standard: if it feels wrong/hurts, I'm either doing it wrong, or I'm not tough enough to be a legionary ... (yet)
