[Archers] challenges

[John Atkins]

Jonathas,
Now I know why they made you a baron.  A varietal fountain of knowledge.
You see, I haven't shot a crossbow in about 12 years now so I took mine
down and tried a few bolts just to see if I remembered how.  The target
was my regular archery target of stacked foam strips about 3 feet
square.  Well, needless to say, I missed more than I hit.  Very
frustrating.  Then I recalled that most of you crossbowmen sit while
shooting.  Fatigue, old age, rumatiz, don't know, but sit you do.
Watching Gregge is a lot like watching Woody Allen playing his cello in
the marching band!  So I decided to sit while shooting.  And voila!  the
scores.  Now this perplexed me greatly as I did not think I would do so
well.  That is, until your enlightening post today.  Now it all makes
sense.  German crossbowmen.  Yes, that's the key.  You see, I was
sitting on my BEER COOLER and we all know how you Germans love your
beer!  Thanks for the tip!
 
cog in jest...................................................

-----Original Message-----
From: james.kriebel at gmail.com [mailto:james.kriebel at gmail.com] On Behalf
Of Jonathas
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 9:01 AM
To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
Cc: John Atkins
Subject: Re: challenges


Yep, Cog you are a better at shooting a crossbow then you let on, maybe
you should try shooting it more, you might ... well I'll leave that
blank for someone else to fill in :>

Ah yes the age old years to train an English Longbowmen verse weeks to
train a Germanic Crossbowmen.  Well when you consider that "proficient"
means that one is capable of hitting a target the size of, well and
entire ARMY, I'm not so sure that "years to train" is something I'd be
bragging about!!!! Course it might also be that us Germans are just
better at making and handling precision weapons, so getting to the level
of hitting an entire army just isn't that much of a challenge.  :D

Jonathas



On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:07 PM, John Atkins <cogworks at triad.rr.com>
wrote:


Jonathas,
OK, color me confused, but I won, I think.  Looking at the Seasonal
Challenge scores I see that even though I consider myself a REAL archer
using REAL equipment that requires skill and technique, I had to shoot
your challenge with a weapon I have not scored an RR with.  Thus I was
relegated to going to a neighbor's house, who has children, and stealing
their son's toys.  You would call it a crossbow.  Breaking 6 of Achbar's
new arrows in half so they would be short enough to shoot on this
child's toy - let us recall that the crossbow was invented because it
took years for an English bowman to become proficient with a real weapon
while it took only weeks to become proficient, if you could all it that,
with a crossbow.- it appears that my total score is LESS than your total
score for the shoot.  As this challenge was for HOW FEW SHAFTS it took
to accomplish I believe that means I won.  However, here comes the
question after all my crossbow insults :), what do the scores on the
main page mean?  How are they tallied?  Does it mean you have sustained
15 challenges and I only 2?  if so, it is incorrect, even though I won
this challenge using the devil's instrument.
 
Have I mentioned how glad I am to be back using a REAL bow?
 
cog the boastful...........................and fearing the wrath of the
crossbow community!


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