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<DIV>By all means Archers Revel was in fact very much a fun gathering. While the
day started windy, even the wind was cooperative and died down in mid afternoon
so it was good shooting weather when the "serious" shooting started.</DIV>
<DIV>plachoya<BR>humble archer <BR>Ravens Fort Ansteorra</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><BR></DIV>Greetings Friends, <BR>
Many thanks to Arcus Gilli and HL Darcy for all their hard work,
<BR>generosity, and hospitality in hosting Archer's Revel. It was all about
good food, good <BR>company, and good archery. Even the fickle Ansteorran
weather did it's part by <BR>bringing a breeze to push the dark clouds far
from our happy gathering.<BR> Our friends from down south in Bryn Gwlad
put on a really fun tournament, <BR>in which each archer had to shoot scores
with an open bow, a period self bow, <BR>and a crossbow. Now, as a diehard
longbowman, I consider a crossbow to be an <BR>infernal mechanism with the
devil's own taint upon 'em, but I must meekly <BR>confess they are a load of
fun to shoot (just might have to make me one of them <BR><grin>). Hats
off to Ricardo the Wanderer for putting together such a fun and
<BR>challenging tourney.<BR> If that weren't enough excitement, our own
Southern Region Archery Marshal <BR>displayed her prowess with my 48 lb.
longbow, by promptly "Robin Hooding" one <BR>of my brand new arrows (and oh by
the way, she'd just put that one in the <BR>gold, before she split it with
another one). Kind of hard to get aggravated at <BR>that, and kind of hard not
to be tickled pink that folks were having fun shooting <BR>my twelve dollar
"AOB floor demo model" longbow (yup, it's the one I was <BR>whittling on in
the class). Judging by the interest in that humble stick and <BR>string,
there's going to be a few more of them made first part of next year.<BR>
Well, I'll sleep good tonight, with a belly stretched full by Gilli's world
<BR>famous meatloaf and "Death by Chocolate". But, I gotta tell y'all, as I
was <BR>driving off site this afternoon, Arcus Gilli and Ld Edward McTavish
were down <BR>there clanking around on the combat range, letting the arrows
fly quick and <BR>thick. You could see their silly grins gleaming through the
grilles of their <BR>helms. Archers, God love us, we're all just a wee bit
nuts;-)<BR><BR>Cheers All,<BR>Robert of
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