[Archers] Pennsic shoot

[Jonathas]

How I *LIKE* that idea!  Any who shoot the Champions/Masters shoot may shoot
for fun, but may not be on any team competing to win (Sorry you all already
had a fun shoot!).

What is the general consensis on the bow requirement?

Jonathas

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Greg Christensen <gcjckc at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  So, is this a one day shoot or will it be held for a few days?  I would
> also suggest since this is for the populace and not an elite shoot such as
> the Champions teams, then anyone on the Champions team or possibly trying
> out for Champions teams should not be allowed to win this shoot.  This way
> the regular archer has a better chance of winning, because if the kingdoms
> put together a team to win they want to use their top archers which are on
> the Champions team and that means that the general archers will
> be discourage to shoot since they know they can't win since a Champions team
> will beat them all.  The Champions have their own shoot, so let them just
> shoot, but not score, and this would prove this is not an elitists shoot.
>  Also if the shoot is limited to a set number of types of bows in the group,
> it makes it seem that it is still elitists shoot, there are some small
> groups that like to shoot together, but no one has a period bow or cross bow
> in the group so they are left out or they have to get an outsider to shoot
> with.  Also our specific definition of a period bow would not hold with
> people of the known world.  There will be numerous people argue that there
> bow is period and not meet Atlantian's definition.  Basically make the rules
> very basic and exclude the Champions teams.  This is my 2 cents oh well more
> like 50 cents.
> GREGGE the ARCHER
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:19:36 -0500
> From: Jonathas at redfoxden.org
> To: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: Re: [Archers] Pennsic shoot
>
> I believe what Cog was suggesting was have many teams on the line at once,
> but only one team shooting at each target at a time.  For example if the
> line holds 18 archers, there would be 6 teams on the line, team 1 shoots at
> target 1, team 2 shoots at target 2, etc.  once all complete that target
> everyone scores and retrieves.  For the next end team 1 shoots at target 2,
> team 2 shoots at target 3, with a new team shooting at target 1.  Rinse and
> repeat until all the teams have shot all the targets.
>
> If the only choice is to run the shoot on one of the gated ranges, it would
> work, but I think it would be much nicer and more fun if we could set it up
> as a woods walk like the Masters is.
>
> Jonathas
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Travis S Goodman <Fnfal1a1 at cox.net>wrote:
>
> >
> > I was thinking of bringing a moving target. Not all moving targets can
> > be shot as a big group. It would need to be broken down to smaller
> > groups of say only 5 archers.
> > Do all targets that are brought need to be able to be shot by all
> > archers on the line at one time? or are you talking about only the team
> > of 3 on the line shooting at one target, then moving to different gates
> > on the line and shooting another targets?
>
>
> Mors
>
>
>
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