<p>I'll take the hit on that! I really did mean to shoot it, really I did, even had the targets made.... ;)</p>
<p>Now with that and my recent suggestion, I guess I better step and shoot this one a lot!</p>
<p>All in good fun. Hope those who did shoot had fun.<br>
Jonathas</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 4, 2010 3:02 PM, "Holly Gibbons" <<a href="mailto:holly0920@yahoo.com">holly0920@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Well, fellow archers, I can say that the summer challenge, the "circle shoot" <br>
> was a problem for a couple of reasons. For one thing, you could not tell from 20 <br>> <br>> yards if you had cleanly hit every outer circle. If you moved on and you were <br>> wrong your inner shoots might be moot and if you reshot a circle and it had in <br>
> fact been hit you were wasting arrows. We at the Needwood Forest Company of <br>> Archers found it very frustrating! <br>> <br>> Also I believe it was Jonathas who wanted bowmen and up to shoot at rather small <br>
> <br>> circumferences - - and therein lay the challenge. It was really a crossbow <br>> shoot. Where's your score, Jonathas? I tease you - - but it was indeed <br>> difficult :)<br>> <br>> I suggest a fall shoot with no "gateway" requirements. How about nine circles <br>
> arranged in a pyramid. The bottom three are 11" diameter, the middle two are 8" <br>> diameter and the topmost is 4.5" diameter. You have 6 arrows, your choice of <br>> target. big guys 1 pt, middle guys 2 pts, little guy on top 3 pts. If you hit <br>
> all six individual circles, an extra 5 pts. You will have some choices to make, <br>> but once you figure out what you are doing, it's clear shooting. Oh, and unless <br>> it's a muti-target shoot with some fast and some really close and some really <br>
> far, crossbows should be their own category! Oh, and if your arrow does <br>> not hit the target you were aiming at it is out of play (no accidental pts!) and <br>> <br>> one more thing, there are many ways to shoot this so try them all. Plus one more <br>
> <br>> thing, it would be great if all six circles were different colors . . . . and <br>> no, I did not forget a timed round. I hate the very idea!<br>> <br>> Nuala of the Needwood Forest Company of Archers<br>
> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 1<br>> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:32:08 -0400<br>> From: <a href="mailto:loreleielkins@aol.com">loreleielkins@aol.com</a><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:archers@atlantia.sca.org">archers@atlantia.sca.org</a><br>> Subject: [Archers] shooting opportunities: seasonal, winter, IKAC<br>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:8CD496A43FC2281-788-2049@webmail-d007.sysops.aol.com">8CD496A43FC2281-788-2049@webmail-d007.sysops.aol.com</a>><br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> <br>> There are a couple opportunities for shooting something a little different this <br>> winter. First, we have the Winter Challenge: <br>
> <a href="http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/wint.html">http://web.raex.com/~obsidian/wint.html</a> Atlantia has participated in this in the <br>> <br>> past. <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> IKAC, just get out and do them. They are a lot of fun. I think we just did one <br>
> or two last year locally. We tend not to because we often have new or beginner <br>> archers who see the IKAC as a daunting task. We'll have to get them over that. <br>> <br>> (Eirik, if you want to have a monthly IKAC shoot on a Baronial level, we can set <br>
> <br>> that up.)<br>> <br>> <br>> Also, we have our Atlantian seasonal challenge. We had our summer challenge, <br>> which didn't get much participation. During the summer months people are usually <br>
> <br>> busy with a ton of other things, but we are over due for our Fall Challenge. <br>> Anyone want to come up with one? The scoring should be straight forward and the <br>> <br>> targets easy to understand and reproduce for all areas. Let's see what we can <br>
> come up with this week and I'll post it before the weekend.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Lorelei<br>> <br>> <br>> PS The Summer Seasonal Challenge (The Circle Shoot - <br>> <a href="http://www.scores-sca.org/public/scores_current.php?R=2&Shoot=54">http://www.scores-sca.org/public/scores_current.php?R=2&Shoot=54</a>) had only 6 <br>
> participants. Gregge the Archer took first (and only) place for the crossbow <br>> with 60 points. Geoffrey and Nuala of Needwood tied for first place for <br>> Handbow. Ceridwyn of Needwood Forest won first (and only) youth category for <br>
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> Cc: <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Archers] Youth Archery<br>> Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:8CD496C1FF22712-788-2309@webmail-d007.sysops.aol.com">8CD496C1FF22712-788-2309@webmail-d007.sysops.aol.com</a>><br>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> Greetings! I don't know of list or forum specifically for youth archers and I <br>> can understand their feeling of isolation. Our local group has one youth archer <br>
> <br>> who is continually voicing his opinion about having to compete with the adults. <br>> <br>> I don't see a separate youth archery program starting up any time soon, but I'm <br>> not sure there is a need for one. In archery, we tend to take the youth under <br>
> our wing and include them on the line with the adults. This seems to work very <br>> well, as they learn from experienced archers. I agree with Nuala that Pennsic <br>> seems to be the place where youth archers can get together. <br>
> <br>> <br>> <br>> I do encourage all local groups and marshals to recognize the efforts of the <br>> youth archers and when holding events, to make sure there is a youth category <br>> in the competitive shoots. A separate youth shoot is also desirable. You may <br>
> get one youth archer showing up, you may get 10, but at least they know they are <br>> <br>> being encouraged to participate. In general I think we do a pretty good job of <br>> this.<br>> <br>> <br>> New ideas are always welcome.<br>
> Lorelei<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Holly Gibbons <<a href="mailto:holly0920@yahoo.com">holly0920@yahoo.com</a>><br>> To: Summer Rain <<a href="mailto:summerrain.wa@gmail.com">summerrain.wa@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br>> Sent: Tue, Nov 2, 2010 10:53 pm<br>> Subject: Re: [Archers] Youth Archery<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Dearest Anne Rose: <br>
> <br>> In Atlantia there's no separate youth archery program so our kids shoot royal <br>> rounds like everyone else. I don't think Ceridwyn ever scored from the 40 until <br>> she moved out of her 14 bow and got the 20 she has now. The few youth archers <br>
> all know each other up here in the north, but I wouldn't say that my children <br>> were really looking for other children to be archers with. Instead I think they <br>> really appreciated the advice and mentoring of adults in the sca, and they have <br>
> always enjoyed competing against adults (Godai who is iinfinitely kind and <br>> patient and wise will attest to how much pleaseure Ceridwyn has had trying to <br>> catch up to him - - to no avail). <br>> <br>
> <br>> The IKAC has both children's and youth divisions but it has crazy rules - - as <br>> soon as you score well they kick you out even if you are 7 years old, and you <br>> have to shoot the adult IKAC distances, post scores on the adult list, and <br>
> there's no way to identify who is a child on the list. So the youth of the known <br>> <br>> world have no way of knowing how they stack up against youth from other <br>> kingdoms, and the designation of "winner" in the child or youth division of the <br>
> IKAC is completely meaningless. <br>> <br>> <br>> BTW, the one place Ceridwyn has made really good friends among other youth <br>> archers is at Pennsic. She has a regular gang there. The other place to find <br>
> good youth archers is at a traditional bow event like we have here at Baltimore <br>> Bowmen every spring. <br>> <br>> <br>> How old is your young archer friend? Ceridwyn is 12 and I could pass along a <br>
> message if you like. She has a facebook page, which is another option for <br>> getting them connected. What about Pietre and Oilliam, the bright young archers <br>> of Bright Hills? They are about the same age, too. Lorelei might know of other <br>
> good tween archers in the south of Atlantia.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> From: Summer Rain <<a href="mailto:summerrain.wa@gmail.com">summerrain.wa@gmail.com</a>><br>> To: Holly Gibbons <<a href="mailto:holly0920@yahoo.com">holly0920@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org">archers@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org</a><br>> Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 1:21:41 PM<br>> Subject: Youth Archery<br>> <br>> <br>> An Tir's rules changed for youth archery effective yesterday, because of the <br>
> fact that there are some Damn good young archers. Unfortunately, the one youth <br>> archer I know here, feels very isolated, as she's the only youth archer she <br>> knows who is as good as she is. I did tell here there were others, albeit in <br>
> other kingdoms, but she's not alone.<br>> Is there an email list for the youth archers to learn about each other? Or <br>> something? <br>> <br>> Yep my bow is glaring..I'm shooting my mouth off again :) <br>
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