[Ansteorra] Combat Archery Challenge

[Doug Copley]

Last year at Grand Assembly of Archers we received permission to have 
fighters on the field and archers were shooting at them but it was still 
classified as target archery. We had a firing line where the archers 
stood and then well in front of that we had another line that the 
fighters could not cross so there was no possibility of any direct 
contact between the fighters and the archers.

It was a great shoot and several of the people who participated in that 
event are now combat archers:-)

Vincenti

On 3/23/2011 2:48 PM, Paul Thorne wrote:
> The moment you shoot "at" someone it becomes combat.
>
> -JP
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Chris Zakes<dontivar at gmail.com>  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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