[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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> Kenneth
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> From: Mike Wyvill [mailto:wyvillmike at hotmail.com]
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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
> To: ansteorra-archery at lists.ansteorra.org
> 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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