[Archers] Archery at YMIR, wow

[Janyn Fletcher]

Congratulations to all of you, I wish I could have been there! Sounded like
a great day of archery in Atlantia!

 

Janyn

 

 

From: archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of
loreleielkins at aol.com
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 9:14 PM
To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: [Archers] Archery at YMIR, wow

 

I'm exhausted.  :-)  It's a good kind of a feeling, since there were more
than 60 people who came to the archery range today.  I'm sure it's at least
doubled the amount we've had in the past!  Not only that, but we had 14 kids
shooting, as well as a few teens, and a bunch of new-comers. 

 

I'd like to send my thanks to Stella di Lodi from the Canton of Middlegate -
our newest MiT, and Nick DeGan from Black Diamond and Einarr from the Canton
of Attillium for their tireless help in running the range today.  These MiTs
did a fantastic job!!

 

I would also like to thank Her Majesty for sponsoring and helping with the
Queens Shoot.  It was a blast.  We had a friend or foe target about 30 feet
out.  There were "gems" buried in the "mountain", worth different points.
The higher scoring gems were closer to the top of the mountain where Her
Majesties symbol rested.  Naturally you received negative points if you hit
her symbol.  We did this three times, and the highest scoring  4 archers had
a shoot-out with three arrows at a post about 100 yards out.  They shot two
arrows to range in, then selected a slip of paper from Her Majesties hand
which contained the description of a shooting handicap.  

 

The four finals were: Christophe of Grey, Akira from I don't know where but
he shoots pretty good, Tommie from Windmaster's Hill who is new to the SCA
but used to bow hunt and he's really good, AND Damian le Archer who I
believe is from Windmaster's Hill as well.

 

Christophe's handicap was facing away from the target and shooting by
twisting around behind him for his last arrow.  Tommie had to shoot with her
Majesties (left handed) bow.  Damian had to aim, then shut his eyes before
he released.  Akira had to shoot from his knees (with a long bow).  It was a
crowd-pleaser.  The archer who came closest to the wand was Akira who won
the Queen's Shoot.  Damian had the highest score, and received the Boar's
Tooth that we've started handing off to the winner of the Ymir prize shoot.


 

An earlier prize shoot was won by Christoph of Grey, and Tommie of WMH
taking second place and William of Scarborough from Sacred Stone coming in
third.

 

The weather was amazing and a good time was had by all.  Happy Shooting!

 

Your very tired DEM,

Lorelei

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