Hello all,
At tournaments last summer, I saw a wide range of configurations of pegs, stakes, and guy ropes used to secure varying weights and geometriesof bosses on different hardnesses of ground. Anything from 2 pegs to 4 pegs to 2 ropes to 2 pegs+1 rope etc.
Is there a standard/guideline for this anywhere? Or is it a case of adding more pegs/ropes until the boss stops getting blown over?
I ask partly because my local range uses large Danage bosses with a tent peg in each corner and a guy rope pegged behind, into ground that starts out fairly soft in spring but over the last few summers has ended up rock hard. While it doesn't take that long to set them all up, there's a fair bit of hammering and fixing inevitably bent pegs and if half as many did the same job then it would save time and finger pain.
I don't think I've been to any competitions with as complicated a setup, though most have used layered foam or much heavier straw. I have half a mind to try toppling a boss via a rope attached to my bow scale to measure the difference in force it takes with several peg configurations to see whether it makes much difference, but if someone's done that already or has a handy rule of thumb then I won't go to the rather silly effort.
So, what system does your range use with what bosses, and on what sort of ground (and what sort of wind exposure do you get)?
At tournaments last summer, I saw a wide range of configurations of pegs, stakes, and guy ropes used to secure varying weights and geometriesof bosses on different hardnesses of ground. Anything from 2 pegs to 4 pegs to 2 ropes to 2 pegs+1 rope etc.
Is there a standard/guideline for this anywhere? Or is it a case of adding more pegs/ropes until the boss stops getting blown over?
I ask partly because my local range uses large Danage bosses with a tent peg in each corner and a guy rope pegged behind, into ground that starts out fairly soft in spring but over the last few summers has ended up rock hard. While it doesn't take that long to set them all up, there's a fair bit of hammering and fixing inevitably bent pegs and if half as many did the same job then it would save time and finger pain.
I don't think I've been to any competitions with as complicated a setup, though most have used layered foam or much heavier straw. I have half a mind to try toppling a boss via a rope attached to my bow scale to measure the difference in force it takes with several peg configurations to see whether it makes much difference, but if someone's done that already or has a handy rule of thumb then I won't go to the rather silly effort.
So, what system does your range use with what bosses, and on what sort of ground (and what sort of wind exposure do you get)?