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<o:p></o:p>Noble Friends of the Bow,<br>
<br>
I'm not comfortable with the notion of having one marshal cover
several targets. From my experience last year, some people needed
help understanding the rules (not that they were all that badly
stated at Pennsic). We also had a problem of overlapping safety
zones, with some people wanting to retrieve arrows before shooting
had stopped at the adjacent target. Finally, there were beginners
and youngsters who did not fully understand the safety rules (as an
example from the recent Chalice shoot, I stopped a young man who was
behind the shooting line and was about to loose an arrow over the
head of someone in front of him). I would still like to see one
marshal per target, unless we organize the shooters into teams under
the direction of a traveling marshal, which probably wouldn't work
for so big a shoot with people wanting to join all day. Why weren't
there more marshals from the other kingdoms? Just because we sponsor
the shoot, other marshals should still make themselves available.<br>
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Perhaps it would help to limit the range to 12 targets instead of
14. We could increase the number of arrows at each target, so as not
to "cheapen" our product.<br>
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Yours Aye,<br>
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Mungo<br>
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