[Archers] Target Archery Badge (fwd)

[Deedee L Cole]

Strictly defined by a previous EM (Duke Galmr), there is NO distinction
from one marshal to another.  He was saying that ALL marshalls should 
use the crossed swords.   

There was a lot of debate at the time, that it would cause a lot of
confusion
during large events, when a person wanting an inspection might just look
for 
someone in the black tabard, and assume that that person was qualified to
do 
the inspection.  The confusion would stem from the following types of
situations
(at least)
 - a heavy fighter approaching a CA marshal
 - a combat archer approaching a heavy marshal
 - etc....

Still, last I remember hearing, he had not given in.  It might have
changed.
For the rapier marshalls, the 'adaptation' of just using rapiers, instead
of 
broadswords didn't seem to matter.... still crossed swords.  But the 
questions arose regarding allowance of crossed arrows or axes (for 
thrown weapons).   Other things were suggested, such as having the
main part with the crossed swords, and maybe crosssed arrows up at
the shoulder, but I don't know if that was ever approved.
Also, whether it was going to be highly enforced was never pushed,
nor was the fact that Target Archery and Thrown Weapons were 
not 'marshal activities' (meaning contact in my book), and could be
treated as different.

Me, I plan on having a tabard with crossed swords in the main part,
and crossed arrows on one shoulder, crossed axes on the other, 
and (hopefully soon) crossed rapiers somewhere between :) :) :)
(need a marshal..... just find Dealla :) (okay, so I won't have
equestrian or hounds, but....... :)

Dealla
On Wed, 01 May 2002 13:55:54 -0400 <lbudzier at mindspring.com> writes:
> Well if that isn't offensive....
> Thank you for the ever so useful information which you have posted 
> and thank you for wasting my time I took to read it.  It was a 
> question considering we are technically Deputies to the Earl 
> Marshal...and therefore it was a question regarding a convention 
> that has been part of the Society I have grown up in.  I never said 
> it had to remain that way, but doesnt it make sense that we 
> do...look at the Kinght and rapier badges...isnt it CLEAR who the 
> marshals are??  I personally think so.  You are entitled to your own 
> opinion but please dont waste our time on profanity and other such 
> unchivalrous words please.
> 
> 
> -------- Forwarded message --------
> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 10:52:12 -0400
> From: lbudzier at mindspring.com
> Reply-to: "Jerry N. Alexandratos" <alexandr at ncifcrf.gov>
> To: lbudzier at mindspring.com,detomamd at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [Archers] Target Archery Badge
>  
> lbudzier at mindspring.com wrote:
>  > Isnt it the similar design as the knight and rapier marshals, 
> except
>  >  2 arrows crossed?
> 
> The fact that nobody has a @#$%&!&! clue about this should indicate 
> something.  I'd always been under the impression that 6 Scadians 
> hold at 
> least 8 opinions on any particular subject, now reinforced.  Couple 
> that 
> with my thoughts that no one in this group should be trusted with 
> sharp 
> objects and that working on anything in the SCA is like herding 
> cats, in 
> order to get them to a vet, to give them pills.  Just don't quote 
> me...
> 
> Jerry
> -- 
> Jerry Alexandratos, Technical Laboratory Manager,   
> alexandr at ncifcrf.gov
> Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory,          tel# 
> 301-846-5335
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