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<DIV><SPAN class=718204018-23112008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Jonathas,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=718204018-23112008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I'm
right on board with you. Ater this year's Pennsic I asked the attending
Atlantians if there was interest in designing and running novelty shoots at
Pennsic. Reynard has said he would like to do a woods walk shoot for the
populace. Pennsic should have a different shoot, if not every day, then at
least every other day. The shoots they have had for the past few years
have been quite boring, and this from an archery fanatic, that would be
me. I like the idea you have proposed here. Is it open to the entire
attending populace? Sonds like it is. Your proposed
shoot brings us up to two Atlantian shoots. Who else is willing to
design and run a shoot at Pennsic? Let's have Atlantia show the rest of
the known world how to run an archery shoot/range.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Jonathas<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 22, 2008 10:39
PM<BR><B>To:</B> archers@atlantia.sca.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Archers]
Sponsored Shoot at Pennsic<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Greetings to the Archers of
Atlantia,<BR><BR>Some comments that Seamus made at the shoot I was running
last weekend got me to thinking. After the Pennsic Masters tourney
several people where commenting on the lack of good fun shooting at Pennsic
outside of the couple people who get to play in the Masters tourney, the same
war point shoots are done yearly but very little else. I don't remember
who, but someone suggested sponsoring a shoot.<BR><BR>I would like to propose
that we, the archers of the great Kingdom of Atlantia, challenge the Knowne
World. That is we, sponsor a shoot. I was thinking of something
like the Lochmere Arrow, but between Kingdoms instead of Baronies. Teams
of three archers, one crossbow, one period bow, and one flat limb, each
kingdom could have multiple teams competing. The cost to enter each team is $6
($2 per archer) half of which would be used as seed money for the following
year's shoot, half of which would be used for the prize which the winning
Kingdom chooses which charity receives (would recommend a charity local to the
Kingdom). The top teams would get first crack at the shoot, then
starting at say noon every archer is challenged to put together a team (no bow
requirements) and shoot. <BR><BR>If this is to work, it will need deep
support of the archery community. Being no one person has the space to
transport an entire shoot to Pennsic, each person would need to take one
target. Plus we would need to staff the marshals for this shoot
ourselves. From the few archers at Holiday Faire I chatted with seemed
to like the idea, but this will need broader support. <BR><BR>As Seamus
pointed out at the shoot last weekend, I have the space to host a shoot.
So, if there is support to go forward with this, I'll volunteer to host a
tournament to raise the seed money for the first year, and act as a trial run
before Pennsic.<BR><BR>Soooo..... I'll turn the floor over for
discussion.<BR><BR>Jonathas<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>