[Ansteorra] Combat Archery Challenge

[Paul Thorne]

And that my friend is the whole reason I go to Gulf Wars!

-JP



On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Bill Tait <arwemakere at gmail.com> wrote:

> In years past I have held fundraiser shoots in which I was shot at by
> non-combat persons. As there was no risk of them being hit (far enough away
> nothing would bounce back) it was considered to be target archery. The
> first
> year was "Shoot at Will", the second was "Kill WIll: Vol 2".
>
> Lemme tell you it went over very well, with dozens of people lining up to
> shoot at me.
>
> William Arwemakere
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Paul Thorne <paul.v.thorne at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I guess I should have said "It used to be..."    ;)
> >
> >
> > -JP
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:44 PM, B Scott Mills <b.scott.mills at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > That's sorta a gray area  and how that has been viewed as changed
> > depending
> > > on who to Society EM is.
> > >
> > > The current ruling is that such fight the knight type of activities are
> > not
> > > considered combat and are OK and authorizations for the shooters are
> not
> > > required.
> > >
> > > -EA
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/23/2011 2:43 PM, Chris Zakes wrote:
> > >
> > >> At 11:53 AM 3/23/2011, you wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> The is no way you can do without the authorization.  We have taken
> this
> > >>> to the Society level on a couple of occasions.
> > >>>
> > >>> When you are shooting at another live person it becomes "combat"  and
> > >>> from the Marshals Handbook.
> > >>>
> > >>>   *II.B.2.* /No person shall participate in Official Combat-Related
> > >>>   Activities (including armored combat, period fencing, and combat
> > >>>   archery) outside of formal training sessions unless they have been
> > >>>   properly authorized under Society and Kingdom procedures. /
> > >>>
> > >>> So if it is a "tournament" or a "competition"   it is almost
> impossible
> > >>> to call it a "formal training session".
> > >>>
> > >>> I agree with you that I would NOT want it to be part of a Baronies
> > >>> "Archery"  Championship Tournament because it means that so many
> people
> > that
> > >>> traditionally participate in target archery would have to be
> excluded.
> > >>>  However, it does not have to be part of "archery" championship and
> can
> > be a
> > >>> stand alone competition.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I'm curious about something. If it was a "target" shoot, but the
> targets
> > >> were fighters in full armor, just standing there, would the shooters
> > still
> > >> have to be combat authorized? (We did this, along with a boffer "fight
> > the
> > >> knight" game several years ago at Canterbury Fair, a fundraiser for a
> > local
> > >> wildlife preserve.)
> > >>
> > >>        -Tvar Moondragon
> > >>
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