[Archers] Archers Digest, Vol 142, Issue 2

[Michael]

I'm currently in eastern Lochac for work for a few days, so sadly, no
archery for me at the moment, though it is an awesome place to visit
despite this drawback. Also (archery content) it's the location of the most
recent historic usage of the atl-atl anywhere in the world, except for
possibly in the Arctic, where its use also persisted into the post-Society
time frame.

My present location was historically the land of the Eora people, from
whose language we get the word woomera, the term now used more generically
for all aboriginal atl-atls that originally would have had their own names
in each language. The woomera is shaped more like a long flat bowl than a
straight stick, but it has the same hook to hold the butt of the dart that
our atl-atls do. The bowl shape could double as a way to transport damp
foodstuffs, and the woomera apparently sometimes also had a sharp stone
edge affixed to one end with tree resin for use as a cutting implement, so
these were a multipurpose tool.

in service,

Eirik Gralokkr

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> Just curious about what everyone is up to.  What have you been shooting
> lately?  What's happening at your events?
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> I just got done with the Return to Crecy event this past weekend.  It was
> a lot of fun. All archery points went toward the side of the English and
> the Equestrian points went to the French.  We had 33 people shoot over the
> course of the day, with about 5 or 6 of those being newcomers.
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> It was a lot of fun.  Miles de awesome won the prize shoot, and also had
> the highest accumulation of war points. (But who's counting.)
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> Best!
> Lorelei Greenleafe
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