[MR] The whole Combat Archery 'thing'

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Forwarded from another list. Though the messenger's opinion may not be in support of the idea that Ansteorra is going through with, it might be worth some consideration if it seems that upgrading arrows might be cost-prohibitive on the individual scale.

Vels

>Date:    Tue, 24 Apr 2001 13:19:51 -0400
>From:    Morgan Cain <removed>
>Subject: CA comments
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>As a semi-complete aside to all these things (and does 
>anybody else get snippets of movie dialog about 
>cocoanuts and swallows running through their heads as 
>background to some of this discussion?), the 
>Ansteorran community is starting a couple of major 
>fundraisers to gather the money so their combat 
>archers will be able to modify their arrows to comply 
>with the ruling.
>
>Yes, the archers are not being expected to foot the 
>bill for the modifications to their equipment.  
>Whether this would have happened had the fighters been 
>required to wear mesh screens, I do not know.  But I 
>find it odd, considering that in no other case to my 
>memory has such a fundraising occurred.
>
>Of course, I am only 22 and have not lived everywhere 
>in the Knowne Worlde, I could be wrong.
>
>I'd still rather see the fundraising go to things such 
>as the Black Star, and require the archers to keep 
>their own equipment up to code themselves.  But that's 
>me, and I'm a curmudgeon.
>
>                                  ---= Morgan