Well, they got cut, just not all the way through. What do you think Odigan? Wish I had your good form :mrgreen: It's tricky! Definitely helps to use a downward diagonal strike, forcing the bottle against the stand at least momentarily to start the cut since they've so little mass to resist the impa...

TaylorSteiner wrote:Nice! So a total of four bottles or two?

Two, I just did it twice so figured why not include it.

Greg wrote:Justkiddingnotreallysorrynotsorry

This is definitely getting etched in Tengwar somewhere!

I'm not sure how long that I've been with the forum officially, maybe 6 or 7 years? You joined June 22, 2013 @ 5:31 pm. Don't you remember? :) Greg and I joined about a month apart, being the 26th and 25th members, respectively. Even having a head start, I can't compare in terms of kit and complete...

My apologies for the delay, it's been rain, rain, rain here. The original intent with this challenge was to cut empty bottles. As you may note, however, there's a fair amount of wind where I live. So I put just enough water in them to keep them from blowing away (most of the time). Two cuts to make ...

Greg wrote:Those Gatorade bottles are thick.

They are! I actually picked that one up off the road since I didn't have any. Recycling!

The weather finally cleared but I had a dearth of bottles, so I used two 8" tall pieces of 2x in place of them, on either side of the brick.
In retrospect I should have gone all out and used bricks for everything.


https://youtu.be/k6axBtK3NrY

Iodo wrote:Nice one Taylor, risky though, you could hit the brick and cause a nasty notch in your blade

Oh, I thought the challenge was to slice through the brick!

Well, rain here for a while anyway, will get to it when we catch a break.

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Fantastic! I don't know how I missed this post the first time around, but lookin' good! If not for the title I'd have thought you were in Snowdonia.

For mounted archery, historically and often today, one also does not look at the bow nor use a nocking point. Honestly when I switched over to many of those techniques (I use a mish-mash depending on the day) I was shocked at how little difference where I nocked on the string made - usually none, ho...

Biggest speed boost I could for sure acquire would be from wrapping a nocking point on my string...makes a WORLD of a difference over the fumbling you see here. I dunno, that was pretty fast anyway! And a topic for another discussion but I find nocking points pretty unnecessary and a relatively mod...

Use a thumb release!

Going to argue this bit a little... Historically Archers where pretty highly trained soldier that had to do it all..... They wasn't armored but every archer carried a short sword, or an arming sword, or an axe and knew how to use it extremely well... We have this romanticized vision of ranks of arc...

TaylorSteiner wrote:Hey wait a minute your blade WASN'T wooden...?

I'll save that for when we set them on fire.