[Archers] Crossbow Triggers - was: Re: Pennsic and Atlantian Archery

[John Atkins]

I second Jonathas' comments here.  There is one individual at Pennsic who
shoots a rifle stocked, triggered crossbow with a rear sight with lots of
color tape on it.  One year Squirrel actually held the bow up and proclaimed
that it was legal.  If the individual who owns the bow could actually hit
the ground with it I  would be concerned.  But as Jonathas states, Atlantian
crossbowmen, with their weapons of the evil ( smile ), outshoot him
definitively.  Let them try anything to compete, it still doesn't work. Let
us remember the score at the champion's shoot this year.  After the team
shoot of 10 stations the East, Atlantia as its allies, was 1000 points
ahead!

 

Cog 

 

PS:  [Jonathas authorized comment to follow]  In the days of the challenge
seasonal shoot cog actually out shot Jonathas.  The challenge was shooting
at a soda bottle with a weapon not usually used.  Thus Jonathas shot with a
handbow and cog shot with a crossbow!  But now days cog can still pull a
REAL bow so chooses to shoot handbow.  Hahahahahahaha  I love it that we can
joke like this and still have a deep respect for each other.  I really mean
that!

 

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[mailto:archers-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Jonathas
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 9:46 PM
To: archers at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [Archers] Crossbow Triggers - was: Re: Pennsic and Atlantian
Archery

 

And Atlantia's archers can still shoot circles around the vast majority of
those crossbows! (And I mean all of our archers not just or crossbows)   If
it is a crutch they need let them have it, we'll show them how the game
*can* be played and still out score them!  

In years past I've had the displeasure of shooting with several of them, and
having to listen to them boast, prance, and preen over there crossbow vs the
one I carried.  In the end I was ok with that, as time and again I and whom
ever I was with out scored them.  I still remember one timed end up at the
old range where the Mid team forced the marshal to have me reshoot as "the
prerecorded timer HAD to have malfunctioned, since I got off too many
arrows", not being one to back down from a challenge I reshoot and put even
more in the target. The bows they use may be good, but that only helps in
the hands of a skilled archer.

   
No point in letting it bring us down, be proud of the game and how we choose
to play it, 'cause we have fun and look good to boot!

Enjoy the fun we have, and let it infect those around you.
Jonathas 

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