[Steppes] Archery Practice 4/13/08

[William Meriic]

Well, no matter what the circumstances, I hate the old archer expression
"Fire at will!"  Too many times has that caused sufficient confusion to make
me generally uneasy around missile fighters.

Will Meriic

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Subject: Re: [Steppes] Archery Practice 4/13/08

More often then not I'd say "we shoot the breeze" on what
is well considered to be the most wind plagued archery
range in Ansteorra!  

However I believe poor William would have been even more
confused had our good Lady Lyneya used more typical archer
jargon within her invitation post such as, we usually spend
time telling tales "across the bow".  There are many common
phrases & saying within our English language today that are
archer specific.  Even the rude two-fingered salute the
British are so quick to offer dates back to the medieval
archer.  Doesn't quite mean now what it did then, but the
basic message is still the same!  

So go spend some time with the archers, ya just may learn a
little more than how to loft arrows & bolts down range.

"Watch yer butt's",

Ironwyrm


--- Sir Morgan Buchanan <morganbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Considering the fact that there is air between the archer
> and the target, 
> wouldn't archers "shoot the breeze" on EVERY shot?
> 
> Morg
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Meriic" <wmeriic at tx.rr.com>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Steppes] Archery Practice 4/13/08
> 
> 
> >> and shooting the breeze.
> >
> > Now please forgive this stupid question, as I am not an
> archer, but why
> > would you shoot the breeze when, I assume, you have
> perfectly good targets
> > down range?  Sounds kind of dangerous to me, but you
> are the experts.
> >
> > Will 
> 
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