[Archers] WoW incident

[Bruce Calvert]

Janyn, et. al., Please forgive this old, feeble archer, but if I'm provided
a choice between not skewering someone and chivalry, I'll choose the safe
course every time.  I would also have been tempted to personally walk down
range with a full length arrow - it would be difficult to do what I wanted
with a bolt - and throttle that soul.  The delay would have been about the
same, but we might get a couple points across.  Every pun in this paragraph
was intended...  And I hope someone would have been able to provide a loan
for bail.  YIS, Samuel Calvert


On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 8:48 AM, John Atkins <cogworks at triad.rr.com> wrote:

> Archers,****
>
> During the Champion’s Shoot at War of the Wings an incident occurred that
> I would like to flesh out for all on this list and those who were
> participating in the shoot and witnessed it.  First a description of the
> incident.****
>
> ** **
>
> As archery is typically located in the “back forty” of most event sites it
> was my intention to bring it out for the populace to view, much like the
> Grand Exhibition Tournament at Gulf Wars.  Thus, two hours before court I
> set a range on the battle field behind but within view of where court was
> going to be held.  There were several fighters still on the field doing
> pickups but I set the range such that we were shooting away from them and
> left them plenty of room to do their thing.  As we were shooting one squire
> began walking down the tree line about 60 yards away from our shooting
> line.  However, he continued walking until he, unknown  to him, entered our
> 45 degree safety zone/cone.  We shouted to him that he was going onto a
> live weapons range (we had to shout due to his distance from us).  He
> responded that he was “just trying to find his stuff” left on the field.
> Reluctantly he moved out of our safety zone.  However, he then got his
> truck and drove into the back of our range, about 75 yards down range, got
> out of the vehicle and resumed his equipment search.  Again we shouted with
> no response.  As Baron Achbar was near us, we asked him to “talk” with the
> young squire, which he did and ultimately the squire left the field,
> obviously not happy.  In both cases as we were telling the squire he was in
> our safety zone and to clear the field, he responded that he was “too far
> away” to be an issue.  However, when he drove his truck on the field I  had
> a few “volunteers” to “put a shaft or two in his tire” to make the point
> that our weapons could easily carry the range at which he was.  As I am
> mostly a lazy person and did NOT want to deal with the paperwork, we did
> not shoot the squire nor his truck, haha.  However, when I relayed the
> story/incident to Doubghal, our site coordinator, household brother of the
> squire and a heavy himself, he said it would be no issue, When I reminded
> him of the paperwork, he said it would be no issue if we buried the body!
> J  (That’s Doubghal.)****
>
> ** **
>
> I believe this incident brings up a few points.  Most non-archers have no
> clue how powerful our weapons are.  In this case with all Champions on the
> line, their weapons could easily fling a shaft 150 yards or more.  As many
> of them are hunters hitting something at 100 yards is a very doable thing.
> In fact, after the champion shoot, just to prove the point, they set a
> target at about 85 – 100 yards and shot at it.  Many do not know the skill
> of the better shooters in the archery community.  There is the perception
> that if they can move, archers will not be able to hit them.  i.e. All we
> can hit is s static target.  Read Cam’s Facebook post to clear that
> misperception.  There are several other issues represented and wrapped up
> in this incident that, as archers, we are all painfully aware of.
>  Generally heavies hate archers unless we are on their side and hit what
> they point out.  I believe there is also the perception that archery is
> what a heavy does when they are “too old” to continue fighting.  Again as
> archers these are issues we all know about but what’s important is the
> relationship between the archery community and the heavy community.****
>
> ** **
>
> Now the MAIN point of this post is the what happened afterwards.  When I
> talked with Doubghal about it, he said he would talk to the squire’s
> knight, Sir Afshin.  Apparently that was done because Sunday during break
> down Sir Afshin came into my camp with his squire and apologized for the
> incident.  This was a difficult thing for the squire to do because he felt
> he was treated in a less that chivalrous manner during the incident.
> Perceptions are perceptions but I believe the main point here is that the
> squire apologized for the incident and I believe he should be commended for
> that.  We parted on amicable terms and I believe Sir Afshin and his squire
> should be applauded for their follow up action.****
>
> ** **
>
> Christophe of Grey****
>
> Archery MIC for War of the Wings****
>
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