[Archers] St. Sebastians III?????

[John Atkins]

"Our Favorite Scott" has a good point here.  Let me modify my suggestion
of non-marshaled shooting stations.  How about we have red sashes, 3 X
18 inches.  Any warranted marshal in a team, or all marshals, wear one
on their draw arm.  That way we could have roving marshals watching more
than one station, reducing the marshal load, and be able to easily
identify which groups may need to be watched more carefully, i.e. those
without a shooting marshal.  By wearing the sash on the draw arm it
would be highly visible and yet not interfer with the archer's shooting.
 
cog

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Garth
Groff
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 7:08 AM
To: archers at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] St. Sebastians III?????


Noble Friends of the Bow,

I'm not comfortable with the notion of having one marshal cover several
targets. From my experience last year, some people needed help
understanding the rules (not that they were all that badly stated at
Pennsic). We also had a problem of overlapping safety zones, with some
people wanting to retrieve arrows before shooting had stopped at the
adjacent target. Finally, there were beginners and youngsters who did
not fully understand the safety rules (as an example from the recent
Chalice shoot, I stopped a young man who was behind the shooting line
and was about to loose an arrow over the head of someone in front of
him). I would still like to see one marshal per target, unless we
organize the shooters into teams under the direction of a traveling
marshal, which probably wouldn't work for so big a shoot with people
wanting to join all day. Why weren't there more marshals from the other
kingdoms? Just because we sponsor the shoot, other marshals should still
make themselves available.

Perhaps it would help to limit the range to 12 targets instead of 14. We
could increase the number of arrows at each target, so as not to
"cheapen" our product.

Yours Aye,


Mungo


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