What a practice

[mikekn]

Tuesday's archery practice was far better attended then I would have expected for the first one after Pennsic. There were about 19 people shooting plus a few just watching. complexated got to run her first official line (ok, she's not on the official marshal list yet, but it is working it's way through the system).

I shot poorly, but right now I'm using three different kinds of arrows to make up a set of 6-8. I need to do some repair work on a bunch so they can hold me over until I get a new set.

Comments

[bertana.livejournal.com]

Do we need to take up a collection for that, or do we have actual budget for loaner gear?

[mikekn]

The shire can fund it. First we have to figure out all of what we do have (I seem to recall a few tubes of arrows that were to be loaners)

[joef-johnm.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of Kandy and my old arrows, most of which are in need of repair.

[joef-johnm.livejournal.com]

Couple of quick checks - Meric has School arrows at $28.00 a dozen, 3 Rivers has them for 15.99 a half dozen. We'll check at French Creek over the weekend and I'll call Lancaster Archery also...

[mikekn]

If the numbers keep up, then getting some more arrows and quivers would be good. But I can't recommend it based on just the one big practice.

[joef-johnm.livejournal.com]

Agreed, we need a few more practices like that one. But we really should have enough arrows and quivers to go with the bows we already have...

[joef-johnm.livejournal.com]

We'll bring it up at the next shire meeting, I doubt it will be a problem...

Mike, did we get a budget last time when we bought the bows? If so, did we spend it all?

[joef-johnm.livejournal.com]

We should probably get a couple more cheap quivers...

[mikekn]

We had a budget to buy specific items. I know we came in under budget, but that doesn't mean we can spend the money on other stuff :)

[nazrynn.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me that we really should speak to our Exchequer about the archery budget here in BBM - we blew last year's on 4Q, this year's was supposed to be used on Acorns and Pearls 2 - and we never touched that budget.

I think the previously mentioned at-the-meeting idea of buying some loaner gear for the Barony is about the only thing we can do at this point - Saunders matts are not conducive to apartment life.

[mikekn]

We keep all our even budgets separate from the other activities, and don't really budget beyond that. If some activity needs something, they make a case for it at the meeting and we either approve it or not (usually approve it).