{"id":7290,"date":"2024-10-27T18:27:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2024-10-27T18:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T23:29:03","slug":"archery-season-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=7290","title":{"rendered":"Archery Season Comes to a Close!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The temperatures are dropping, as are the leaves, which means that&#8217;s a wrap* for this year&#8217;s Archery Season!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(*for outdoor Sunday practices at the Washington Blvd. site)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will resume regular outdoor practices next spring, likely mid-March, weather-permitting, so watch the blog and the Facebook page for updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next week, martial practices are being hosted at the Debatable Lands Harvest Revel (Barony Social) at Duke Byron and Duchess Ariella&#8217;s in Wexford. Archery will be included, but not a full Royal Round range (and unfortunately, no archery off the roof&#8230; this time&#8230;), but all are invited to come for arrow-launching good times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to keep your archery skills from getting rusty, our neighbors in Steltonwald continue their practices through the winter at the Beaver Valley Archers&#8217; Association (site for 7 Pearls and Archers to the Wald) on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 6:00 to 8:00 pm &#8211; contact Bill Moore for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, watch for information for our annual Archery Potluck at Chieftain Archery in New Kensington early next year (January or February).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been a joy and an honor serving as the barony&#8217;s Captain of the Archers this year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>We had so many new archers join our ranks that once or twice we nearly ran out of loaner gear!<\/li><li>We had five archers attain the rank of Marksman or higher for the first time, including the first Junior Royal Round Bowman in our area in at least a decade!<\/li><li>Our monthly Sky List Stellar Tournament produced 5 different Defenders of the Sky, and each competition was a unique shoot crafted by the defending champ.<\/li><li>Several of our archers received recognition for their skills at the Baronial and Kingdom level, including several Hematite Comets and Golden Alces, and even a couple of Scarlet Guards!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We close this season on a high note and I look forward to what next season will bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yours in service,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niall mac Raedwulf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The temperatures are dropping, as are the leaves, which means that&#8217;s a wrap* for this year&#8217;s Archery Season! (*for outdoor Sunday practices at the Washington Blvd. site) We will resume regular outdoor practices next spring, likely mid-March, weather-permitting, so watch the blog and the Facebook page for updates. Next week, martial practices are being hosted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/?p=7290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Archery Season Comes to a Close!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,52,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archery","category-practices","category-stellar-tournaments"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7293,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/debatablelands.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}