[Ravensfort] Archery Targets

[Eadric Anstapa]

To purchase good targets and get them ready to go budget around $300.  
That should cover target matts, building of stands, and purchase of 
burlap to sew covers for them so they don't look so mundane.

Remember you need to have targets that will shop bolts from a 100# or so 
crossbow before the fletches hit the target.  If your targets are so 
weak that the arrows/bolts embed so deeply that it strips the fletches 
off the arrows/bolts it really annoys the archers.

As far as affordable good targets consider    *http://tinyurl.com/6s9ksf*
They are synthetic, stop well, and last a good while it properly cared 
for.  Being 12" thick they are kinda bulky.

Or *http://tinyurl.com/5j46hn  <http://tinyurl.com/5j46hn>  *
These have the advantage of being larger and FLAT so that targets affix 
to them more easily and being FLAT means they stack, store. and 
transport nicely.  Store 6 of these where you could store one of the 
above.  With these it it sometimes nice to stack two them together to 
get a really strong double thick target.  These are made of compressed 
rice straw so ya don't leave em out in the weather and store them in a 
nice dry place.

Both of these targets look nice when ya cover them with burlap to 
minimize the mundane appearance.

If ya decide to go this route I can look to see what the wholesales 
prices  and shipping would be.

Regards,

-EA

byzytym wrote:
> From the Autocrat of Defender of the Fort :
>  
> We have exactly two months till the Defender of the Fort event.  As 
> announced previously, we need new archery targets.  The targets and 
> the stands we've used in the past are completely wasted.  New ones 
> must be built or purchased.  I am in favor of building new ones.  It 
> would probably be cheaper.  However, this is a project that must be 
> started now.  It will take time to put a bid together and submit it to 
> the financial committee for approval.  Then purchasing all the need 
> materials and construction will also take time.  I do not want to be 
> working on the targets the weekend before the event when I will need 
> help doing last minuet things.  Again, this is a project that must be 
> started now.
>  
> I am still looking for a volunteer to take charge of rebuilding the 
> archery targets that is willing to start working today.
>  
> If I do not receive a volunteer in the next day or three, I will 
> assume that no one is interested and will petition our Seneschal to 
> buy store bought targets and stands.  If it is determined that it is 
> too expensive to buy targets than we will paint targets on the ground 
> for our Baronial Bowman Champion competition ( wouldn't that be classy 
> ) or cancel it all together.  I certainly don't want to see that 
> happen.  Won't someone please step forward ?
>  
> In service to the Barony,
> Vlod NotVlad

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