[Archers] this looks FUN!!!

[Garth G. Groff]

M'lady Lorelei and Noble Friends of the Bow,

At our last practice on 24 April we had a 10-yard prize shoot. Our 
target was a leprechaun left over from St. Patrick's Day (our March 
shoot was called because of snow). The idea was to separate him from his 
gold by hitting the coins in his pot (1 point each), or the single coin 
in his hand (5 points). His pot itself was worth nothing, and any hit 
even breaking a line on the leprechaun himself was a minus 2 points. You 
can't kill a leprechaun with arrows (they're immortals you know), but 
you can make them really mad.

So how did the shoot go? It was a miserable failure. The leprechaun was 
made of felt in multiple layers, and even with a 40 pound bow, some of 
my arrows bounced off the target. Other archers had nothing but bounces. 
So here's the lesson: FELT TARGETS DON'T WORK! I called the shoot closed 
and we switched to a Royal Round.

This month we will massacre cutsy bunnies and chicks, but they are NOT 
made of felt.

To those of you who are curious, we usually open our practice with a 
10-yard prize shoot at some sort of novelty target; usually two rounds 
of six arrows. The highest scoring adult and youth each win a prize 
provided by Lady Sarah Sinclair and myself (we shoot, but our scores 
don't count--we're trying to get rid of the stuff in the prize bag). The 
previous month's winners are also disqualified, so more people have a 
chance to win. This is especially important for the kids, since one 
pre-teen would win all the time. I announce the time for the shoot on 
our email tree the week before practice, and nobody is allowed to join 
in once the competition starts. This was a positive way of getting all 
the archers to show up on time, and it works much better than nagging.

Kind regards,


Lord Mungo Napier, Shire of Isenfir TA Marshal

On 5/2/2011 9:49 PM, loreleielkins at aol.com wrote:
>
> <http://www.brighthills.net/events/crescent-guard2011.html>
>
> What else are people doing this spring and summer?  Post it here, let 
> us know.  What are people doing on their home ranges?  Anything new 
> and exciting archery related stuff going on in your are?  Please 
> share.  Or, is it still snowing in the northern part of the Kingdom. :-)
>
> Lorelei

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