Qabaq game

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Ashbow
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Post by Ashbow » Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:22 am

Steppenreiter wrote;
Also it doesn't make sense to me to use arrows with point but to exercise the qabaq game with blunts. For safety reason according to my understanding it makes sense when shooting with fluflu fletches.
I agree that using flu-flus is a lot safer than shooting with all-round arrows,
but if it comes to shooting at a fixed target and arrow points I strongly belief that a blunt is actually more of a threat than an arrow with a target point. In case of a hit an arrow with target point will stay in the target but a blunt will bounc off and when shooting at a terget that is above you the blunt can land back on you, especially when you exercise moving slowly or standing, but of course when riding fast the chances are small.

We hadn't any scary situation when the archer was using flu-flus with target points. Everything went very smooth. By the way the qabaq pole was about 7-8m high.
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