[Ansteorra-archery] Question About Sherwood TargetArchery Competitions
Greg Coffman
baroniago at earthlink.net
Fri Jan 16 15:02:13 PST 2009
Are you willing to disallow all recurves too? All horsebows? If
anyone shows up with a bow other than one carved from a single stick
of wood, is it disallowed? Or is it JUST crossbows?
Iago
On Jan 16, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Ken Theriot wrote:
> Thanks! So there is precedence;). I’m definitely leaning that
> way. I just want to make sure it isn’t a huge problem. We’ll
> still be using cross-bows for combat archery in the afternoon melees.
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> I believe that in Gates Edge a few years ago it was stated that due
> to the theme only crossbows could be used to be named champion.
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> From: kentheriot at ravenboymusic.com
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:50:49 -0600
> Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Question About Sherwood Target Archery
> Competitions
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> Hey Everyone,
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> I was at our event planning meeting last night and talking about
> the archery competitions. There will be several “novelty-shoots”
> for target archery, but I got to thinking afterward that I wanted
> to ask the experts about something. I’m relatively new to target
> (though I’ve been doing CA regularly for a few years).
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> This is a Robin Hood themed event, and as such, I was hoping to
> limit the target competitions (we’ll be doing target stuff with
> both the regular TA stuff AND the CA stuff in the morning) to long
> bow. I know cross-bows existed in this period, but it just isn’t
> in the “idiom” (zeitgeist?) of Robin Hood. Also, there is
> currently a set number of archery prizes…one for overall target
> archery, 1 for CA target archery, and 1 for “in-armor-actually-
> fighting” CA. If we have to ALSO split the TA prize into two (one
> for cross-bow, and one for long-bow), it will make things a lot
> harder to do. However, I know there are folks who prefer the cross-
> bow, or even shoot it exclusively for target. How is this handled
> in “regular” target competitions?
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> Cross-bows would have a huge advantage over long bows for the same
> target and distance wouldn’t they? It would make sense to me that
> the two types of weapons would have to either have their own
> competitions, or have different distances for the same target.
> Regardless of either situation, it seems like it would be
> exponentially difficult, given our full schedule, to have both
> weapons in the target archery competition. Am I off-base here?
> Honestly, though I have participated in several “fun” shoots at SCA
> events, have set up a range, and am an authorized TA marshal, I
> don’t have the competition experience to know for sure what to do
> here.
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> Any input appreciated.
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> Thanks!
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> Kenneth
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