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It's amazing what you pick up...
Aug. 28th, 2019 12:00 am.. when you read a lot and your reading covers SF, fantasy, historical fiction, history, and few mysteries as well.
Tonight I was reading a fantasy story in a semi-medieval setting. A character was treating another character who was sprouting several arrows with barbed heads She'd taken the medical kit off the victim's horse and was about to cut out the arrows.
My *immediate* thought was ""Why isn't there an arrow-spoon in the kit?"
Then I realized the writer likely had no idea such a thing existed. *sigh*
For those not familiar with such things, an arrow spoon is a somewhat spoon-shaped device. You slip it into the wound along side the arrow and they "spoon" part goes over the head of the arrow and the "bowl" of the spoon is wide enough to cover the barbs on the head.
That let's you draw out the arrow without the barbs getting hung up on things and ripping the hell out of them.
Works better than having to "cut out" the arrowhead, and lots better than the "break off the shaft and push the head the rest of the way thru the body" that are the only other alternatives.
Tonight I was reading a fantasy story in a semi-medieval setting. A character was treating another character who was sprouting several arrows with barbed heads She'd taken the medical kit off the victim's horse and was about to cut out the arrows.
My *immediate* thought was ""Why isn't there an arrow-spoon in the kit?"
Then I realized the writer likely had no idea such a thing existed. *sigh*
For those not familiar with such things, an arrow spoon is a somewhat spoon-shaped device. You slip it into the wound along side the arrow and they "spoon" part goes over the head of the arrow and the "bowl" of the spoon is wide enough to cover the barbs on the head.
That let's you draw out the arrow without the barbs getting hung up on things and ripping the hell out of them.
Works better than having to "cut out" the arrowhead, and lots better than the "break off the shaft and push the head the rest of the way thru the body" that are the only other alternatives.
