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<DIV><SPAN class=359091114-27062011>"</SPAN>Besides, no one takes YOU seriously,
let alone your stubby arrow comments ;)<SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=359091114-27062011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>Phew! That's good to know. So I can just blather on and
everyone will just shake their heads and ignore me. Cool. Good to
know I have such little influence and am NOT being watched!
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<DIV><SPAN class=359091114-27062011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>(Now
this is the fun we should be having instead of sucking sour grapes because some
person using a kiddies sideways bow beat us in a contest of
skill.)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=359091114-27062011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2
face=Arial>cog</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=359091114-27062011><FONT color=#0000ff size=2 face=Arial>In all
fairness I need to point out that, as I have said, a longbow, recurve or horse
bow is my weapon of choice. However, being more than mildly obsessed with
archery I also have some 6 crossbows hanging in my garage. They are
remnants from my delusional days as a combat archer. Johnathas challenged
me to his soda bottle HORSE shot using a weapon neither of us had scored RR
scores with. Not using the crossbow, that was my chosen weapon and thusly
armed I answered the challenge after dusting off the otherwise useless to me
weapon. As no one really listens nor pays attention, and previously
authorized by Johnathas himself, I feel compelled to point out that not only did
I win the challenge I did so convincingly with a score about one half of
Johnathas'. AND the challenge was to shoot at a soda bottle. I
mis-read the rules and choose to shoot at a soda CAN instead and still garnered
the score one half that of Johnathas! Thus the reason Dun Tyr, a fighting
household in Trimaris with whom Lady E and I used to run during the battles at
Gulf Wars, does lament that we no longer play as combat archers. "See that
knight/crown/baron? Take him out." We were obedient and accurate
combat archers and the crossbow was our weapon of choice.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr lang=en-us class=OutlookMessageHeader align=left><FONT size=2
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> james.kriebel@gmail.com
[mailto:james.kriebel@gmail.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jonathas<BR><B>Sent:</B>
Monday, June 27, 2011 9:38 AM<BR><B>To:</B> John Atkins<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Archers] Crossbows<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Now worrys Cog, I overheard many
comments on Saturday long before the finals even started. I probably
started it by responding to a comment heard at the event Saturday which was
then later posted to a non-archery list.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Seriously though, not
sure why this year the commentary took such a turn. Even Esperanza asked
me about it about half way through the day, if I had noticed the change.
For some reason "cheater" was being rolled out from odd
sources.<BR><BR>Jonathas<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>