The weapons checkers will test the poundage of the bow at 28" - so a bow with a strength above 30lbs will fail. While most bows will probably draw further than 28" it’s your responsibility as an archer to ensure that you use your bow safely.
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I’ve been shot by a few arrows and I agree that it’s not great fun, but most archers aim for centre-mass (somewhere between sternum and belly-button) because bows do Impale and Impale on the torso drops normal orcs and player-characters in one shot. Getting hit in the back or chest is not awful, especially with armour or layers; getting hit in the arm or leg can leave the area a little numb; getting hit in the head sucks.
In battle, wearing fake plate as an orc, even a 30lb bow was impossible to ignore. Not ‘fall backwards’ powerful, but enough that you really need to adjust your blows for short range because anyone you shoot will know about it even at half draw. Some other systems even ask you not to fire at close range, just giving you the hit as a freebie once you nock and draw.
My brief forays into archery have not left me that impressed with back quivers though; just so that you know, a belt quiver might be nice, but I often pull everything out of the back quiver and hold extra arrows in my hand. Less easy with a LARP arrow than a real one, but doable.
Quicker to fire that way I guess. I need more practice with a larp bow to test and control my strength but I’m not dumb enough to point blank someone unless it’s an accident which is rarely gonna happen unless out of sheer panic
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Oh, the awful things I have accidentally done to people when panicked…
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so you can get a bow for 55 quid at having a larp, you can get bows ranging from 50 quid to 500 quid. personally
I spent 120 on my bow.
I went to in your dreams fx who do a dozen arrows for 70 quid. I would buy from them, mine lasted me years.
I spent around 50 quid on two quivers, the one I use on my hip was 35 from velvet glove and having a larp do a back one from 10 quid I think.
To be honest though you can make them as well with a bit of canvas, rope and stones.
Look its like any hobby spend as much or as little but I would suggest a decent bow will last longer…
Always buy yourself bees wax for your strings and oil for the body of your bow if its wood.
Spend time training in the garden when not events or join archery club
I would suggest practising with your bow and your arrows in the back garden more than practicing with a club; LARP bows have quite a low draw weight and LARP arrows are less than aerodynamic, so you need to get used to the quirks of both. Just as an experiment, I compared a £30 kids’ archery set (20lb bow with suckers on the arrows) to a 28lb LARP bow with flat-headed arrows and the 20lb bow shot twice as far on average and tended to be more accurate.
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