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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I second Jonathas’ comments here. There is one individual at Pennsic who shoots a rifle stocked, triggered crossbow with a rear sight with lots of color tape on it. One year Squirrel actually held the bow up and proclaimed that it was legal. If the individual who owns the bow could actually hit the ground with it I would be concerned. But as Jonathas states, Atlantian crossbowmen, with their weapons of the evil ( smile ), outshoot him definitively. Let them try anything to compete, it still doesn’t work. Let us remember the score at the champion’s shoot this year. After the team shoot of 10 stations the East, Atlantia as its allies, was 1000 points ahead!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cog <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>PS: [Jonathas authorized comment to follow] In the days of the challenge seasonal shoot cog actually out shot Jonathas. The challenge was shooting at a soda bottle with a weapon not usually used. Thus Jonathas shot with a handbow and cog shot with a crossbow! But now days cog can still pull a REAL bow so chooses to shoot handbow. Hahahahahahaha I love it that we can joke like this and still have a deep respect for each other. I really mean that!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org [mailto:archers-bounces@seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonathas<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 06, 2013 9:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> archers@atlantia.sca.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Archers] Crossbow Triggers - was: Re: Pennsic and Atlantian Archery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>And Atlantia's archers can still shoot circles around the vast majority of those crossbows! (And I mean all of our archers not just or crossbows) If it is a crutch they need let them have it, we'll show them how the game *can* be played and still out score them! <o:p></o:p></p><p>In years past I've had the displeasure of shooting with several of them, and having to listen to them boast, prance, and preen over there crossbow vs the one I carried. In the end I was ok with that, as time and again I and whom ever I was with out scored them. I still remember one timed end up at the old range where the Mid team forced the marshal to have me reshoot as "the prerecorded timer HAD to have malfunctioned, since I got off too many arrows", not being one to back down from a challenge I reshoot and put even more in the target. The bows they use may be good, but that only helps in the hands of a skilled archer.<o:p></o:p></p><p> <br>No point in letting it bring us down, be proud of the game and how we choose to play it, 'cause we have fun and look good to boot!<o:p></o:p></p><p>Enjoy the fun we have, and let it infect those around you.<br>Jonathas <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>