ANST - Royal Huntsman

[Weiszbrod, Barbara A (Barbara)]

> Are you an archer?  If not, why are you worried about what they may or may
> not get?
> 
Well, that came across as rather rude, don't you think?

As I see it, the respondent was not so much concerned with what the archers
get, as much as saying "put the horse before the cart".  As I understand it
there were only 8 IKAC scores submitted last year from Ansteorra (please do
correct me if that is wrong, I would rather it be higher).  It is not time
to be asking when archery is going to get an armigerous award; instead the
question is how to get archery more main stream.

Many, many years ago I lived in a Kingdom that was, for a great part of it,
very urban, very liberal (implying that hunting was kind of frowned on) and
very strong in archery.  I shot there often (we had a bi-monthly archery
practice at an indoor range), and participated in the Pensic War point.  

Then I came to Ansteorra, a kingdom that is mostly rural, strong in hunting
all styles, and very week in archery.  I didn't understand it at the time,
and frankly still don't. My assumption would be that archery would be more
prominent here than in NYC.  

There has been an increased emphasis on archery here, but primarily in
Combat.  Target archery is still languishing in obscurity.  This is the
issue, Gilli, that you should be addressing.  

Alys
Steppes


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