Hunting Preparations

St. Huberts' Rangers has gone FB. Secret site though, only visible and accessible to members. Has a slew of activity right off, no surprise.

Almost to where I can resume work on various bits of archery gear, Ranger kit, and clothing. :) I have nice woolens of grey, green, and brown...perfect! They'll be made in medieval style, which also works for Tolkien.

St. Huberts' Rangers has a pretty narrow focus being entirely Europe and running from the 11th through 15th centuries. My own persona therein is Lady Galiana deBeaumarchais...a Welsh-English woman living somewhere along the border of Shropshire, Wrexham, and Powys in the 14th century.

That said, the garments are suitable for any time frame from the 11th through 14th centuries.

In the current lineup...putting in a tillering board so I can more accurately tiller the bow staves I have. Soon we shall see how well..or how poorly..I have done. I aim to acquire a froe for the purpose of splitting my own billets for boywering purposes.

String making is about to leap ahead and once again we shall see if I have it down or now. Hopefully without catastrophic results. I prefer natural materials over synthetic so I have flax and hemp cording to work with.

Arrow building continues! A lot of new arrows to come, all with self nocks this time around, and any softwood shafts will include a horn, bone, or hardwood insert for strength. I have good medieval heads for these and will get more. Eventually I should be able to make them. I will also be experimenting with footed, breasted, and tapered shafts.

New pouches, of course. The hunting trousse has a new sheath, nearly completed; that is one nice knife I might say.

The horn is polished and clean. The baldric is gaining some work and decoration. I may place buttons or toggles on the main strap and fashion the secondary pieces such that they can button to the shoulder baldric or around the belt itself. A little more flexible.

My lady Jannat is going to craft a scroll for me with a hunting theme. I never got my Award of Arms scroll from the SCA...twenty years gone...and I am highly unlikely to receive one anytime in the foreseeable future with their backlogs...plus hunting down the King and Queen of the time to sign it is..complicated. The Duke isn't, and I suspect he'd readily sign it. The Countess...she'd have to be tracked down first, if she's even still around. I'd rather have Jannat do it anyway and the signatures are incidentals. Jannat never got her scroll either, more's the pity, nor one for her service award from Western Seas; the Wa'as' Oar. She did get one for her Arts award here in Bergental; the Hourglass.

Neither of us have Kingdom Awards aside from the AoA and honestly, I am not that ambitious.I do what I do and that's it. I am not about to jump through hoops or schmooze it up. Not my style.

Hunting season is only a few weeks away. Ta-Rahn! Ta-Rahn!

Eledhwen