[Archers] Sponsored Shoot at Pennsic

[Jonathas]

Yep, the floor is open for comments on requiring the "modern/flat limb"
bow.  Anyone else care to add their 2 cents to the jar?

Jonathas


On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Siegfried <siegfried at crossbows.biz> wrote:

> Good point Jonathas ... And I'll just reiterate my thoughts ...
>
> I like having representation, but I dislike 'requiring' a modern bow.  I
> do like encouraging period bow use (be it crossbow or period handbow)
>
> Therefore, my suggestion would be simply to say something like:  "3
> competitors, one must be shooting a period crossbow (defined as not
> having a split prod nor a rifle/pistol stock), and one shooting a period
> handbow (defined as having X/Y/Z per the ATlantian RR rules)"
>
> The 3rd competitor could use anything, modern recurve, modern longbow,
> modern crossbow, whatever.
>
> Siegfried
>
>
> Jonathas wrote:
> > The idea behind the bow categories was that each competitive team should
> > represent the kingdom as a whole, and I don't know of any kingdom which
> > does not have *ANY* flat limb bows shooting anywhere in it, or for that
> > matter any crossbows or any period bow in some form.  If you want to
> > claim the top spot you have to cover all the bases in SCA archery not
> > just some of them.  I wanted to keep the teams as small as possible so
> > that even the most distant Kingdoms could potentially compete and win,
> > while allowing the closer kingdoms to have multiple teams.  All those
> > years ago when I was just starting and shot at the Masters targets
> > (after "they" were done with them) it was for the fun of it not for a
> > good score(hell I was happy to hit the backstop most of the time!).
> > Most people will be doing it for the fun not the prize, but still wanted
> > to have something to strive to win as well as a challenge of some type.
> >
> > I'm not tied to the categories, it was just the original idea to get
> > this thing started, and to give it some legs so that hopefully it
> > continues year after year, not just this once.  So given all that, what
> > bow types does everyone think should be required to *compete*.  Any
> > combination is still allowed to shoot for fun.
> >
> > Jonathas
> >
> >
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