[Archers] Sponsored Shoot at Pennsic

[John Atkins]

Jonathas,
I'm right on board with you.  Ater this year's Pennsic I asked the
attending Atlantians if there was interest in designing and running
novelty shoots at Pennsic.  Reynard has said he would like to do a woods
walk shoot for the populace.  Pennsic should have a different shoot, if
not every day, then at least every other day.  The shoots they have had
for the past few years have been quite boring, and this from an archery
fanatic, that would be me.  I like the idea you have proposed here.  Is
it open to the entire attending populace?  Sonds like it is.  Your
proposed shoot brings us up to two Atlantian shoots.  Who else is
willing to design and run a shoot at Pennsic?  Let's have Atlantia show
the rest of the known world how to run an archery shoot/range.
 
cog

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[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Jonathas
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:39 PM
To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [Archers] Sponsored Shoot at Pennsic


Greetings to the Archers of Atlantia,

Some comments that Seamus made at the shoot I was running last weekend
got me to thinking.  After the Pennsic Masters tourney several people
where commenting on the lack of good fun shooting at Pennsic outside of
the couple people who get to play in the Masters tourney, the same war
point shoots are done yearly but very little else.  I don't remember
who, but someone suggested sponsoring a shoot.

I would like to propose that we, the archers of the great Kingdom of
Atlantia, challenge the Knowne World.  That is we, sponsor a shoot.  I
was thinking of something like the Lochmere Arrow, but between Kingdoms
instead of Baronies.  Teams of three archers, one crossbow, one period
bow, and one flat limb, each kingdom could have multiple teams
competing. The cost to enter each team is $6 ($2 per archer) half of
which would be used as seed money for the following year's shoot, half
of which would be used for the prize which the winning Kingdom chooses
which charity receives (would recommend a charity local to the Kingdom).
The top teams would get first crack at the shoot, then starting at say
noon every archer is challenged to put together a team (no bow
requirements) and shoot.  

If this is to work, it will need deep support of the archery community.
Being no one person has the space to transport an entire shoot to
Pennsic, each person would need to take one target.  Plus we would need
to staff the marshals for this shoot ourselves.  From the few archers at
Holiday Faire I chatted with seemed to like the idea, but this will need
broader support.  

As Seamus pointed out at the shoot last weekend, I have the space to
host a shoot.  So, if there is support to go forward with this, I'll
volunteer to host a tournament to raise the seed money for the first
year, and act as a trial run before Pennsic.

Soooo..... I'll turn the floor over for discussion.

Jonathas




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