[Archers] Archery at Tourney at Elchenburg

[Lorelei Elkins]

​Well done, Tristan!  I heard lots of great things about the shoot and the
event.

Lorelei​


On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Tristan Wulf <tristanwulf at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I had a very good day running the archery at Tournament at Elchenburg in
> the Barony of Sacred Stone last Saturday (November 11). Everything went as
> I hoped it would. The crowd was engaged in the shoot and the archers all
> seemed to enjoy it. It was a 2-target shoot: a qualifier using the inner 3
> rings of 4 royal round target faces (scored 1-2-3 with best arrow only in
> each face - 60 seconds) and then 7 or 8 rounds of archery duels at a
> "knight" target similar to combat archery IKCAC (sp?) targets.  A hit to
> the red kill zone (face and chest) was a kill, a hit to a gold-colored disc
> on the shoulders rendered the opponent unable to shoot (actually happened
> once -- loved it -- still have to get a kill with one of the remaining
> shots - 6 total).  If no kill in 6 shots, do it again.  Time pressure does
> interesting things to archers of all skill levels.
>
> The score off the first target was used to set the shooting order for
> archery duels at the knight target. The results of this contest set the
> order of entry for the armored melee that followed. The tourney was team
> oriented with archers, equestrians and armored fighters. The winner of the
> duels also got a nice Spike banner as a prize.  The event was such a
> success that there is talk of doing it again next year so find yourself
> some horsey and armored up friends and you can come play too!
>
> Lorelei Elkins <https://www.facebook.com/lorelei.elkins>, thanks for
> bringing the knight target to me Wednesday. The other one was completely
> buried at the back of the target shed. I was not up for digging all that
> out right now.  Maybe over the winter...
>
> Now all I have to do is hunt down the report forms I need to fill out
> after the event.  :)
>
> Tristan di Lupo
>
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