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CONTENTS A B C’s 3 By Forrest Nagler Oregon’s Contribution to Flight Shooting 6 By Dr. George A. Cathey Noted Archers I Have Met 9 By James Duff 10 W. A. A. Third Annual Tournament Tournament Dates .................................. 10 V’ho Hunts With Bow and Arrow 11 By Cassius Hayward Styles 14 Resume of of Target Target Shooting Shooting .............. Constructing t ’ . ._ J the Bow with Rectangular Limb Section By Paul E. Klopsteg 16 A Plea for a Standard Technique Panir7 Tan'ey F’ lencer ...... 22 By c B6-y Ass°eiati, 24 Hutchinson WhV Archery lery ? By Petit« Jean 29

May, 1932

A B C’s By Forrest Nagler

Archery Arrows A Alces

British Bows Beginner's Bears

I couldn’t resist the snootiness of that last one. Alces, my dear, is the scientific name for the moose, our American variety being sub-dubbed Americanus. Anyway the meat of the story is in

Columbia Climbing ChattelCaribou

The background of our B. C. trip is found in several years of rifle compe tition in the national matches at Camp Perry, a sometime record for consec utive bullseyes at 1000 yards, sundry revolver championships and a gradual

Packing out the trophies of theTX-”'?65 a" rejected in favor growth from deer in Wisconsin and of the At S> Wh’Ch are quite tyPical Michigan to moose in Quebec and On archerv f1' S. s*'a^e education in tario. Bill and I shot our first “mooses ’ the bow ant ,’"S ®-ame hunting with together in N. E. Quebec in 1921.

4 YE SYLVAN ARcgft Since then we’ve run an informal com petition in spread of antlers, both passing up many that were not surely good. Last fall the recurring subject of grizzly came up but I had been bit ten with the archery bug about three

years ago and ventured suggesting my use of a bow, tho not for grizzly. I had spent the first year in the 200 class, (Am. Round) the second in the 300’s and in ’31 had broken into the 400’s. That about defines my posi tion in archery.

Rockies we would have beeninlb Cassiar region. We left the railroad at abo feet elevation and in the first miles climbed to about 8000. Tryihi on green hind legs if you want to fa. get the depression. I almost te away one extra bow-string to sin weight.

Moose tracks two miles out, ddeerous big blue grouse, and bear track in the snow of the first ridge helf^i a lot. Reed went ahead to prepare the inevitable tea pail and while re-t ing and looking over the valley Bill and I spotted a bull moose lying down about 1300 yards away—meas ured with the rifle scope. His horns were not exceptional but we marked his location as well as we could and tried to stalk him for a bow shot. No luck, as things looked so different across the vallejr tho we found W we had been within about 200 )a

Bill, who informally is W. W. Tefft of Jackson, Michigan, rifle crank and engineer, was agreeable and made ar rangements with Arthur Reed, outfit ter and guide, of Longworth, B. C., for two guides, a cook and food. I made up three 55 pound, 5% ft. bows; two of yew, one backed with fiber and one with hickory, also one self bow of osage. Incidentally they were a little too strong for me to shoot ac of where he lay. curately in the cold of high elevation. That was our start. Forty arrows of Port Orford cedar with an experimental variety of We made our main camp inap® moose loadheads, several strings, a quiver frequented by caribou, all a*’ and some wax made up my outfit. Our bear. Roots were dug up track-’ >' objective was the western slope of the by grizzlies and numerous tho no * Rockies about 200 miles west and both varieties were seen, t north of Jasper Park on the Canadian mals. Some kind of big game ’was >’ -r and n* National. sight practically every day a-; differ1* We left Wise. erous grouse of four (.— Sept. 18, reached Longworth on *.onsin f eties kept continual interest”e -• and hiked blood for the bow and canJ^f^rOcaiund away from thethey 21st railroad the next morning having been quickly. A blue grouse on _a met by Leslie Hal le, a Canadi; on the train was missed and he lit in ai tree- “ |er of Dorn. tan forest ran- got out his movie camera wi Reed were v-te Creek, B. C. He and very much photo lens, the sun was *•Tonoko range at home in the close !»'■_ of the ■ . view. ■ * X, ■ ■ a and bird .in After one . • 1 ppp of the Fri Rockies, north -aser river v/ hunt. R. the next arrow, a broadhead, where we were to r Q filo"’ Sn\. familiar . A. McLeod ter, slipped thru unl u leaving icaviaafa .-.fop ■with the --•I".was v end. LonL camp ; splendidly er <of feathers ____ and the bird W1 a igworth is just and cooking famous huntin, intact skidded past my head o°u range —ag ground north of the bloody ^uuay landing on the camera ‘her north and had we of the CariBill kept it in the finder until J proceeded farover the backbone of the too big and the film shows, sue lvely, two arrows in glistening

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May, 1932 ation five mule deer came out midway the feather shower and a series of fas cinating poses of a grouse in the air. between the moose and us. One hund Score one for the camera and bow. red ten yards and too far to risk Incidentally Reed and Hale became wounding one. Efforts to call them enthusiastic about the bow right, then, close by imitating their bleat, which not appreciating the combination of we had never heard, brought two does back repeatedly but not to closer luck that existed. range. Took a long range photo of all A caribou, killed the same day with the animals but distance was such a rifle afforded opportunity for some that even my imagination can’t find penetration test that gave us all the them on the prints. They all departed more assurance, none of us ever hav presently tho not without further ef ing seen any game killed with a bow. forts on oui1 part and we resumed Next morning at breakfast Hale our ridge hunting. Within half a mile quietly interrupted a hot conversation we spotted a bull moose lying in a about where to go to hunt that day snow patch in perfect stalking posi with “Why don’t you try that one.” A tion. His horns were splendid, palms caribou bull was feeding our way over a foot wide judging by the 8 across about 180 yards of open mead power binoculars I used. We had a 4 ow. Bill got his 300 magnum into or 500 yard stalk but the last 100 action but the bull was .running by up-wind was exciting as I could smell then. One shot broke a hind leg and him plainly. We got to 40 yards, I as the country was open and he looked snapped a vest pocket camera at him slow I begged him for the bow. Got just as he got to his feet and stood ahead of him and after one miss got broadside, and their broadside is about two broadheads thru him just back of 3 feet by 4 feet. I was used to a sight his forelegs. Neither flew free on the and judged the distance as about 55 far side but both chest walls and lungs were cut thru. The arrows sounded yards. My buck fever always comes after like the “pft” of a target and not at all like I expected. Both were full the show is over so that arrow was full-drawn and was released perfect drawn but hair, hide and one rib of a ly. It pass thru his ruff or bristles 0 pound animal were quite a back- on his hump, dead over the right spot s op. Anyway the bow came thru on back of foreleg. It never touched his * ive moving animal to everyone’s hide but he ambled into the brush be It'act*on th° the trophy belonged fore I could nock and release anothei to the rifle. arrow. His outline was still discern , T1,ere followed a day or so of an unplaced try grouse and grizzly tracks and then but I hesitated to animal. Thus endtl?ngs happened. Scouting a ridge shot at so large an the climax of the ed what is to me It was good location of I °,Ve timber Une> Reed and I were whole atrip. good stalk and perfect arch when”6 °Ver Valleys on both sides game, ■when c ■ good vestio'o^,-n°'S2. uP~wind suggested in- ery marred only by poor judgment of vestigation. Result, three moose lying distance. We paced it three times We paced down 700 7Qo feet away (paced) and no with an average of 43 yards. The average cover. One of the cows was calling photo shows him as well as a camera tho not loudly. This was about noon shows ' ~ telephoto lens can do at and I-m without a t not a nature faker either. The hall sure 25) ~ looked .good but not a bow that distance. (Continued on page Possibility. ;y. While discussing the situ—

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Oregon s Contribution to Flight Shooting By Dr. George A. Cathey

During the spring shooting of 1927 a few of us Oregon archers learned that Rev. L. L. Daily of Snohomish, Washington, had passed the three hundred yard mark in flight shooting. Since this was better than any record made in a national tournament in the last forty-six years, our interest was stimulated to such an extent that flight shooting rapidly became the event of interest to a large group of Oregon archers. It was soon learned that the target bow and arrow was not designed along the lines necessary to convert accuracy into distance. After much experimenting on bows and arrows, it was found that the bow must be short ened and increased in weight up to one hundred pounds. The arrows were made much lighter and the feathers cut down to a minimum and yet sta bilize the arrow. The mythical record established by Mahmood Effendi in 1792 of 482 yards of course could never be approached, let alone bettered. Even the record of Ingo Simon in 1913 of 459 yards with his reflex composite Turkish bow was beyond the wildest dream of a flight shooter using a wooden bow and full length arrow; yet from the fol. owmg records I am beginning to besmd ’..iS °Urr ’-7ed Jimmy Du« has sibilitv ? afrald t0 question the pos sibility of anything in archery rec-

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the limbs are thin and wide, the ends are sharply curled to the back, aid the bow over all in length is about five feet, two inches. The arrows are made from the best selected Doughs fir or Port Orford cedar, stream-lined to the nth degree, and f(etched with celluloid veins in order to reduce to a minimum all possible air resistance. According to the weight of the bw which varies from eighty to one hund red pounds, the arrows vary in "'eight

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from 150 to ISO grains, ana * from twenty-six to twenty-eig p. th«a es in length. In order to f°Je 0)ve , r resistance of the veins PaSS111uaIK the hand, a recess is cut in the ]o"'ct of the bow in order that the pass hen feather, as it were, ca" trUcthrough this recess without 0 .. ^dle

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May, 1932 Barometric pressure, humidity and wind tests were made and contrary to scientific opinion, an arrow shot into the wind will travel farther with lower elevation than one shot at the recognized forty-five degrees. It was also elarned that the still morning atmosphere was more favorable to long distance than the up and down currents created by terrestial radia tion at the end of a hot day. In answer to many arguments rela tive to the merits of yew wood, osage orange, snake wood, lemon wood, hickory, and many others, I can only state that the following records were made with Oregon yew wood bows, Oregon Douglas fir or Port Orford ce dar arrows, and Oregon archers; and let you draw your own conclusions. I can also state that the following rec ords are considered by our best au thorities to be the present world’s of ficial records, and while these records fluctuate, the gradual trend is toward the five hundred mark, and year by year the records fall. Homer Prouty’s record of 466 yards, 10% inches would appear to he the limit, yet this spring measured one of Homer Prouty’s yardsWh!ch stretched the tape to 473

ty with his new design of flight bow, started in springing- one new surprise after another on the flight shooters until at the end of the season he had relegated us would-be flight shooters into the archives of noxious desuetude and planted himself upon the pedestal of honor, the world’s champion flight shot.

The championship does not stop with Homer in the Prouty family, for Mrs. Prouty has led her husband to the Na. tional honors. Peculiar as it may seem, at the time I held the National honors for flight, Mrs. Cathey became the Woman’s Western flight chans pion, and in 1931 our son, Ralph, an-

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May, 1932

Quoted Archers I Have Met Miss Cynthia Wesson, One Time Record Holder By James Duff Miss Wesson holds an enviable rec ord in archery circles, to win a cham pionship means something, to hold a .record gives one a greater degree of satisfaction, but to know that just when one is likely to soar to unknown heights, we were prepared to sacri fice all for love of country must in itself bring its own reward. Many years ago, I had the honor of spending almost an entire spring and early summer season in keen com petition with Miss Wesson at our Jer sey City range, it was there that I had my best opportunity of studying her every move in the „ ---- -Not on game. one occasion did Miss Wesson essay the Columbia or National Rounds, in her practice that year. We >»e nau had aa sort of daily- duel at"both the.American Americanand v ---"" “ w* me Vml T>. til. 0Unds’ and while 1 must admit that the --J texclusive 600 in the Ameri can can Rounds ounds was never accomplished fin i<n <.er us’ each day would find „ V a least 550 for the round with a few Points separating the two scores.

With each year bringing new honors and new records looked forward to a one naturally recoiu a war ’s record from Miss Wesson, but alasIdthe .great world’s tragedy came along, and ev erything halted for the time being. 1918 found Miss Wesson driving a truck over the war zone, and one can readily imagine that kind of training lor an archery future. Along with r« Elmer I had a sort of taste of ^hat it might have been as we shot a a tournament at Sheephead Bay,

wlth the heavy artillery doing artillery *S darndest toheavy shatter what little > shatter rves we had. 'Ready to shoot, when

bang went the big gun, and we either dropped the bow in fright or shut our eyes and let go. They never come back again is an old saw in sporting circles, this may be true or not, but who is worrying about coming back these days. What

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YE sylvanaRC!ei seems to be the greatest trouble is tournament Dates not in coming back, but in getting there for the first time. But recently I watched Miss .Wesson take part in May 28, 29, 30. Santa Barbara,Cfi a tournament, and while the lady was Channel Archery Association. Amij not declared a winner, she had all of Championship Tournament. Secnun, the old stuff left, the same method Geo. F. Weld, 940 Mission Cany« ‘ and systems as of old, and one was Road, Santa Barbara, Calif. forced to the conclusion that time and May 29, 30. Decatur, 111. Missnri practice could work wonders. And yet Valley Archery Association. Amu! Miss Wesson stands in the front Championship Tournament. Secretary, ranks of archery instructors today Dr. L. M. Cole, Janies Milliken Vi she seeks to impart that which she ac ve rsity, Decatur, Ill. quired some years ago. Her fame May 30. Worcester, Mass, ft brought her into contact with college work and I am told that today she Worcester Archery Club. Open Spring stalks the campus at Madison, Wis Tournament. Secretary, Flora H. Bry consin, the admired of a multitude of an t, 25 Elbridge St., Worcester, M archery pupils, who will eventually June 1. Spokane, Washington. seek to emulate her successes of the kane Archery Club. Annual 0® past at one of our many meetings. pionship Tournament. Secretary, J* It is a genuine pleasure to recall E. Hoyt, 421 Medical Bldg, Spokue. the Auld Lang Syne and to know and feel that Miss Cynthia Wesson Washington. June 4, 5. Seattle Washingtonthrough her own efforts and genius as an archer secured her place in the nual Championship Tourna®* hall of fame. Washington State Archery -55 tion. June 11, 12. Santa Monica. c. W. A. A. Third Annual Southern California Archery tion. Annual Championship Tournament ment. Secretary, Frank X. G. F. Weld of 2036 (West 78th St, Santa a* Califomi? Barbara, Calif. ■ la, notifies Santa Barbara, era Arche us that the West, ,. p. hery /Association June 19. Philadelphia, ra- PH"' T ‘ nual Tow Third An■ amament delphia Archery Association■ —t will be Golden G Park, San j. held in Championship Tournament, a July 2nd,Gate Park, Francisco, , 3rd r’ and 4th. taking pThe archers C. R. Johnson, 511 Walnut t*part in l.i ithe members3 .in good event are all kintown, Pa. iated clubs standin; ing of affilJune 18, 19. Ardsley, N. • | on the •well as r**__ Pacific coast, as members-at-lar Chester- County Archery K the executive c ' rrge elected sociation. Thecommittei «. of ’ .M by Annual Championship Tou jjSrr S .re a date of the the as- Secretary, Charles H. Pease, y ment falls conveniently jj Sunday, and Monday. J on tourna- aroneck Ave, White Plains, ! ' Saturday, Mond, June 18, 19. .Seattle, Wa^r I Meet Pacific North West Archery ' gri^ ■ Nathional.Vour archery friends at the tion. Annual Championship I ment. Secretary, Kore TI Drggett Bldg., Seattle, Washing

May, 1932

Who Hunts With Bow and Arrow By Cassius Hayward Styles ‘“And Bahram, the great hunter— the wild ass Stamps o’er his head, but cannot break his sleep.” ’ In these ringing lines the tent-mak er tells his listeners how thoroughly beyond recall is sturdy Bahram. One who has ever heard the hoofs of any wild game he was stalking knows it is a sound that would thrill back to life the body of a hunter who was only ordinarily dead. I know that Omar traveled the stony ranges of Arabian mountains, bow in hand, circling rocky mesas in trial of strategy with the wise wild ass, for only thus could he know how to write those words. We have thought that with Bahram and his time, passed all the romance of such hunting. Happily we know to day, that it has not. A man of my ac quaintance threw a broadhead into the

heart of a buck, among the Idaho mountains, twenty paces. The horns fell to the ground, never knowing what struck. Last year at Portland 1 shot in tournament with that surdy bowman, Dr. Fayne Kenagy of Ruper, Idaho. ' So, red blood still flows in the veins of American sportsmen. From all over our wide continent come tales of arch ers and their hard earned trophies. None please me more than that of Moffet and Sisler, who hunted black bear in the Dismal Swamp in Virginia. I must digress for a moment, if I may, to tell of the pleasure I had in meeting these young men. Five years ago I was at the Na tional tournament in Boston. Early in the forenoon of the second day, be fore shooting had commenced, a quiet person sitting alone on the line spoke

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12 to me and asked whether I was not Cassius Styles of California. I agreed that I was; he introduced himself as Hugh Moffet of Virginia, and showed me his tackle. 1 shall never forget my delight in examining the set of footed arrows he had—a dozen he himself made at home. As Dr. Pope would have said, they could not have been improved upon. I dragged this person over to Louis Smith, who per suaded him to take part in the shoot ing. Moffet strongly protested, say ing that he did not want to make a clown of himself among these veteran tournament bowman—but he entered, just to please genial Louis. Moffet’s painstaking enthusiasm had had real results in the study of shooting technique as well as in the making of arrows; he ranked fourth among the entrants that day. The first day he had ever seen another archer. Next year, 1928, at Rye, New York, Sister appeared with Moffet. My last glimpse of the pair after the shoot, showed them roping into a bundle two of Jim Duff’s targets, purchased from the National association, used, at an advantageous price. These they took home. They used them too, we must infer, after reading what Robinson says about their deadly skill. Painstaking enthusiasm was second nature to this pair. Each year for DUrn FT they camPaiEned into the Dismal Swamp. ,Luck was elus.ve

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at home in front of a warm stove. A list of all the bowmen who h~t hunted big game successfully wfl amaze any sportsman, or would tan

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amazed any of us ten years ago '*'■ there was a scant handful of An>® Harb' cans using arrows or, big gamehis Jordan of Maine told me 1-of then' amounts to 18 bear—two, cf " " 1”8' . inenSod in the same day. (Bet me '■ - that that»J°r' tion, as a hint to the wise, dan, like Arthur Young, ran shoot mighty good American Rom target, well up in the Rand of Vermont, out chucks, got him a bear, iusetts, of Worcester, Massaci— the s»te buck last fall. Lately hunt'0": New York has legalized bow thanks to loud howls fi°nI sinCp Lr> Alzoo-ophiles. A buck has slain there with a broadhea lasant °U cock pheaf; (X bert Krueger shot a a cock the wing in New Jersey-'deer red olina has a successful 1 has Howard Hill of Florida Atleast o»e wildcats and a panther.

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Texan has aa bow-killed bear. Louisiana has its i-~ blocded deer hunters, among them Mrs. Elizabeth Rounsevelle Whitney. Bill Mullins gathered two panther in New Mexico, whose turned-up toes did obeisance to the longbow. Ari zona and California have furnished we don’t know how many bucks to hunter-archers. My shooting mate, Bill Burgess, got his on his first bow hunt. Dr. Warren B. Allen shot a buck while his young son watched him; the lad was so thrilled that he hugged his father. Mrs. Gable killed a wolverine in Montana, still hunting, with broad heads. Elk have been taken by the Wyoming archers, and the story ap peared in our beloved “Sylvan Arch er”. Robert Martin of Wisconsin, with his redoubtable doggie, did to ■ death a stag. Washington has its deerslayers who will shoot in the National tournament at Seattle this July. I feel sad when 1 realize that there certainly will be

too few hours to spend chatting with them when we meet three months from now. A young lawyer of New York City on a hunt in British Columbia brought down a very fine buck. He was out with Tex Woods, of Banff, who should know how to find more in his marvel ous wilderness, where I have hunted. 1 did not hunt as well as did the at torney; letters from him have told me of marvelous feats of still-hunting he has seen performed by Canadian In dians, such as I had never dreamed of. Walking to within thirty yards of a band of deer in the open. Still more astounding, the calling back of a buck after he had been alarmed and started to take to cover. It fills me with pro found thankfulness to know that such feats of the art of hunting will not become lost, but are being re-learned by Mr. Chanler, hunting with our ro mantic weapon, the bow. Very recently John Cuneo of San Francisco traveled into the haunts of the Oregon bear' with Perry Wright, my perennial guide. Of course Cuneo got a bear and a panther in nine days. Go and do likewise, and hear Perry Wright tell of the beautiful shot made by B. G. Thompson, business manager of this magazine. Perry said, “He had a mark the size of a hen’s egg, and he hit it. The long-tail hit the ground, and B. G. tried to jump right on top of him, probably intending to wring the lion’s neck.” Dave Craft of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has just been made archery editor of the Tulsa Tribune, the leading Tulsa newspaper. A weekly column under a special heading will be devoted to archery. This should be an interest ing feature which should be added by other newspapers.

after Ringing thc Hon,s neck The National, at Seattle, in July.

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Resiane of Target Shooting During the last five years, most all known records have been broken in target shooting. Flight shooting has reached the point where even the sup posed mythical shots of the past seem likely soon to be surpassed. The quantity and variety of big game that has fallen to the bow is beyond the wildest dreams of even Maurice and Will Thompson. Review of the results of the annual tournaments of the National Archery association for the past five years, gives us a pretty good picture of the progress archery is making in the United States.

tional tournament. Mrs. Beatrice Hodgson, San Pedro, California, w the ladies’ championship with 126-620 for the double national and 169-841 for the double Columbian. W. B. Palmer, Wayne, Pennsylvania, wi the championship with 219-1021, in the double York and 178-1190 in the double American. Miss V. Douglas, Greensboro, North Carolina, won the young' ladies' championship, and Don ald MacKenzie of Greenwich, Conner-icut, won the young men’s champion

ship. In 1929, thirty tournaments were. I reported in the bulletin. The & I tional association’s tournament was I

lu 1927 there were fourteen tourn aments reported in the national bul letin. The forty-seventh annual tour nament of the National association was held at Boston, Massachusetts, with 93 archers on the shooting line. Mrs. Robert Johnson of Los Angeles won the ladies’ championship with a score of 134-680 in the double national, and 142-904 in the double Columbian. Mrs. Cummings, of Brookline, Massa chusetts, placed first in the double oumbian with a score of 142-910. cimYn‘ttC1'°UCh’ Newton Center, Massaa double v°uthe chamP>™ship with a d m1 4 r°Und °f ^21-1049, and, a d^ble American of 178-1106 Dr

double Arneri’ wun a score of 179-1177 r™ ■were siv There’ WareTAm°wonatthteiStOUrnament pionship.

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In 1928, the of twenty tour naments were results reported in the bulletin- The.’ National tournament this year Was held held at Rye, New York. Ninety-four archers took part. T)r. Roberts, of Santa Barbara, California, made a perfect end at the forty-yard ^ange, the uV ever made in a na-

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this tournament Dr. E. K. Ro” a new world record for a d°u . frad r°und, breaking a record

May, 1932 stood for 72 years. Eight other rec ords were broken at this tournament, 110 archers participated. Mrs. Aud rey Grubbs won the ladies’ champion ship with a double national of 119581, and a double Columbian of 141291. Dr. Robertswon the championship with a double York round of 2571293, and a double American of 1801308. Miss Betty Gene Hunt was high in the young ladies’ intermediate di vision, and Jack Selby was high in the young men’s intermediate division. Kathleen Thorburn won the girls’ junior championship. Brownell Mc Grew, Jr., won the boys’ junior championship. In 1930, 44 tournaments were reported in the bulletin. The fiftieth, Jubilee tournament of the National '^^^ociation was held at Chi efs ± *udrey Grubbs, Los Anwith’127 fin 6 ladles’ cllamP’onship and 143 nr?1! In,the double national. Miss Hunt I*" ‘d°Uble Columbian. the young la(K• ngeles> won first in Miss Hunt ±^int«iate division. thirty-yard ** PXrfect end at the

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hurst, North Carolina, again won the championship, with a double York of 231-1133, and a double American of 179-1343. He set a new record of 90698 for a single American round shot in a national tournament. In the in termediate division, Miss Elsie Mache, Buffalo, New York, won first place in the young ladies’ division, and Dale Hallett, Syracuse, New York, first place in the young men’s division. Miss Madeline Taylor, Newton Center, Massachusetts, won the junior girls’ championship, and Gordon .Schopfer, Syracuse, New York, won first in the junior boys’ division.

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Our cover picture this month ®b° Messrs. Nagler and Hale delaying the bear hide mentioned in M ■ ler’s hunting story._____ friends at the Meet your archery National.

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Constructing the cBow with Rectan^. Limb Section By Paul E. Klopsteg In the December 1931 issue of Ye his usual eighty-yard score at a fe. Sylvan Archer the writer discussed dred, nor his sixty-yard score from a non-technical point of view eighty. He can be assured, hows, the question of the “proper” crossthat a properly constructed bow far section of a bow. This article was ing theoretically proper limb-sat: written after a season’s satisfactory has possibilities of becoming a ojs experience with a design of bow factor in improving his taig-raa based on Dr. Hickman’s t analysis scores. It will enable him to use th which v ’ ~~ ■ was presented in the January same bow at all standard ranges, to emo 'T'1- •* 1932 issue, The starting point of the the long range bow will not be to design was the theoretical shape heavy for him to draw through:shown in Fig. 3a of the Hickman an entire York or Metropolis article. So r—many questions have been round. It will lower his po®1 '■ asked me, both “~ " personally and by' aim if that is desirable. Intte® letter, about the bow with r"t_.-o..'.J.i rectanguof the woman archer, it will P'®’’ lar limb r:i section, that it has been implement of a®11 ,her with an possible only to acknowledge the inlight and low 1>*“ low drawing wei quiries, and to hope that ’ v more comPlete and detailed aim. ’■*' „^v«dcd ? answers might be characteristic* •given in Ye Svlvan Archer than Reviewing the Sylvan could be done - *■ the new' type -of bow, we may in individual replies. , . . cire«® The rnl- present discussit that its limbs bend in *rue throng®' —„^ion is intended to give such arcs, with uniform stresses from # -- ' infovmati* ion as has been requested, and to ] out; that the limbs return ’2 the amateur z' point the v. way to drawn to the braced ci L- — archer-craftsman wards achieving his toshorter time than do the -g his ambition of ing a bow of 1 \ ownany other shape about whic i high efficiency. is les An impression information; that there. is e s ■■ cion seems to ] corresf"”11. that the new in the limbs than in a cofItsecli>>' Prevail form of bow is easier to bow of conventional H'1' ten# 3 much construct f than me is the of ttraditional „div. form. reader bow The fiber stresses, i- e-, t- e should be whi# The -1 ’ ' cautioned that this is not and compressive forces to the case, that this a In fact, the c------ —vx limbs are subjected, in of a bow construction of the new form, havh weight bow of the new foil1’, ‘ predetermined than in a corresponding b°’' the length and -d< specifications as ’ing to drawing weight, is conventional type, which Pel tto difficult, if n; not more so, than is i as new bow to be made shorter case r-” the ' with .3 conventional bow. the archer wishes to have it s®’ Prospectb Ave owner The owner of the new i °f bow should however, is a matter of «*’ to eexpect ”also be cautioned type choosing. Many archers "'it not to be1 1the a bow of high efficiency reason prefer a long bow. effici, It cure for sick scores. not enable We are assuming = that weThe abl. scores, the arcb^'* J make archer to ffood stave to begin with. r9n'e >ty to select wood with the ass111’

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desirable properties foi that it has its intended use ls a matter of long experience; and eveni the experts appear sometimes to be t. fallible in this respect. At present there seems to be no other way than to carry out the construction of the bow nearly to completion before it is possible to say whether the wood is good, bad or indifferent. Many of us are inclined to .generalize about some particular kind of wood on the basis of very limited experience. It seems to it me that it requires careful study of many bows of different kinds of wood before a valid estimate of the relative of the merits average of any particular kind can be reached. What we need in archery is someone who has the in clination, ability and time to work out a detailed method whereby a test-piece may be cut from the stave, and measurements made upon it which will remove all guesswork about the quality of the raw materi1 ®ucb a method would, on the one band, save much work on wood that cannot possibly make a good bow; on ‘be other, it would prevent much butchering of really choice pieces which deservi e the best there is in “'aftsmanshiiip. While ( on the question of quality of V* - ’ "■"ood for bows,, II may perhaps be I'mJ4.1. _ i ' Psymitted —J a1 brief digression from the Principal topic under discussion. Wallace Burr’s pioneering in the ^n-dryi] lriK' of yew has aroused much ■bterest tion of ai??n® archers on the quesns 'in-drying, and expressio >r„„ either u a're n°t uncommon of .J ‘’unified condemnation or the highest ,?aiSe Thos-e who <■- - the kiln-dried yew. ‘ condemn it say that kilnrying “takes V —s the life out of it”; ynTnably’ they mean that such bow '°SeS aU its good qualities for hibg- On the other side we

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hear of marvellous results achieved with kiln-dried yew, and its champ ions can see no good in air-seasoned wood. The controversy would probably be completely settled if it’s participants accepted a common understanding of “kiln-drying”. Certainly the kiln treatment of wood at temperatures not greatly in excess of our warmest summer temperatures, under condi tions of controlled humidity, and prolonged until the remaining mois ture is at the desired value, cannot “take the life out”. When such wood comes out of the kiln straight, witho u t checks, twists, o r internal strains, it can be said to be “proper ly” dried, and in every respect should be the equal mechanically of “properly” air-seasoned wood. The principal difference seems to be that in the kiln the process can be ac curately controlled; air drying can not be. The better- reputation of winter-cut wood as against summer cut apparently lies in the fact that in the winter the seasoning process may commence without doing vio lence to the wood, so that it gets in condition to withstand, without detenoratien, high temperature with possible low humidity during the ho summer weather. If summer in a kiln Pr°perly Pressed in : • ’s ’“mediately after cutting, it ? comn Properties would no doubt c— ■ wr„e?VOral)ly with those of similar °od, cut in winter, and subjected to the Because of —“ sa“« process, differences among in” ‘' staves it dividual .- -- is impossible to give exact ■ ‘ dimensions bow of to which a rectangular or ; section sshould be finishedany other Producingig a bow of 1 to insure characteristic, certain desired ;s. Approxii imate and sen«al directi. ions only can be and these must given, serve as a starting

point from which the craftsman „a more or less ‘'feel" his wav goes along. Before outlining the back of th bow on the stave, it is well to revia several fundamentally imports" facts. Referring again to Dr. Hick man’s Fig. 3a (January Sylvan M I er), we note that the bow tf I

theoretically consist of two etej- [ atecl triangular bars of uniform I thickness, firmly attached to a vigil mid-section having a length of sir inches to eight inches. The bar cow will, in genertuting the upper limb 1.............. al, be Hi" to 21b" longer than determined by Ik lower, this being d. of handle relative lengths of bow, < and of the dips. Were we> to foil01 precisely, rc the theoretical form dificulties. ® should encounter two width of lit' first would be that the her# at the nock would be zero,, which there would be nothing on '• support the string. The sec<;ondpoinficulty would be that at some on each limb, as we proceec•ded “f . secft" ward from the handle, the would become square, and be)*’ this point the limb would be n»«”: This. » er than its thickness, insta|)il® course, would result in li»le such that the ends of the would tend to bend sidewise. sb"*5 The accompanying figu,e how to lay out the back, a- By f« in addition, a profile view. ■ith, lh' lowing the suggestions here" „ve difficulties mentioned ab° avoided, and it becomes p<I re?0 to approach the theoretical ments as closely as is prad

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The handle is located ju J1U 5hoy | in one the usual usual way. way. The ' the bow is indicated at Angth bow is desired, the hand e J and the length of the <iips respect/ rnay be made 3” and In s 10,18 ly» making a total of 6”*

Slay, I932 thickness T of the upper limb should bow K may be made 4” as is custo be very slightly less than the thick mary, and the dips 2” each. The ness S of the lower. Hickman’s maximum widths, W and N, of upper theory calls for application of the , occur and lower limbs, respectively, r----Having laid force at the point where the side at the ends of the dips. II„._\ - on --l this lines intersect, and for uniform out the center line, locate I un, the intend- thickness of limb all the way to this line the points In and of the nocks. Then point, in order that the limb may ed locations of " i the extremities of bend in a true circular arc. It is draw lines from W and N respectively, intersecting at therefore obvious that the necessary the nocks. In the upper sketch these modification we have made in the lines are dotted in the sections .M end sections results in less bending and F. Now choose a width D which of these ends, the width throughout is to be the width of the limb at the the parallel-sided part being greater nock (usually ’/a” or somewhat less; than theory calls for. To insure 7/16” is satisfactory in most cases proper bending, we remove from the and %” in weak bows). Find the belly side of the stave enough wood place at which the distance between to bring this about, as shown at t the converging lines is D, draw par and r in the lower diagram. The allel lines of length M in the upper thickness in the parallel-sided ends limb, and F in the lower.* Since accordingly becomes progressively Uh, the length of the upper limb, is less as we approach the nocks. greater than LL, the length of the To reduce the impact between the lower limb, the convergence of the bow at the arrow-plate p and the ar lines from the end of the dip to the row as the latter is loosed, two expe nock will be less rapid in the upper dients are worth adopting. The first than in the —e lower limb; hence the distance M will be somewhat greater is to make the handle as narrow as for H than F. The very obtuse angles at practicable; I have found to be satisfactory in yew and a six the points 5 where the parallel lines teenth less for osage. For the thick meet the is suitable. The sides converging lines may be ness G, 1 smoothed out to a gradual ‘If a.'I to a gradual curve, of the dips should be rounded grad desired, these lines drawnS«theSe UneS may be ually, so as to leave the “exposed” •awn slightly convert’ case lengths lenX D C0nver ™ which ends of the limbs as strong as and F8W. will be some- inner possible, thus guarding against split What greater than r "' ■' when the lines ting out. The second expedient is are Parallel. to put a slight intentional twist into *7/ dressed , the gdown the sides to both limbs such that, as the bow is 'ines, we are ready to work drawn, it’s handle tends to rotate down '‘“...«s> lbs to pHess. to the the proper thick- opposite to the direction of the hands 11 is assumed that the back of a clock, as viewed from above oi Meen assumed that hat the Properly dressed down, and a right-handed archer). This sug usual•1 precautions as to fol gestion, made to me> by by >• , the f'*linently pia Prac' grain have been observed. man, has proved eminently "ext lay It is iy out the lines to which as well as practicable. eas leaving *ill be e -e dressed for thick- embodied in the bow by leaving the . —c this should be limbs somewhat thicker on on the t^ t0 1 Vthe - way from the end of side (as Viewed from the belly Of viewed fro’11 the place where the sides the limb effect ,, ~ vicrht. J become parallel. The than on the right.

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20 reduce appreciably the “whip” of the arrow as it passes the arrow plate. The combination of narrower handle and correctly scraped limbs has the effect of decreasing very considerably the horizontal dispersion of any particular- group of arrows.

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1. Osage, conventional link; inches long, drawing weight, at 27 inches. 2. Osage, rectangular limb a:-.| made from same stave as Nu Length, 6314 inches; 36 lb. at inches. 3. Yew, kiln-dried, conratt limbs; 72 inches long; 391b.tr :

It is important, in constructing the bow here described, to make ab solutely sure that thickness of the inches. limb, (S, T) does not exceed the 4. Yew, kiln-dried, rettar-'l r«tap width (D) at any point. This re limbs; 68 inches long; 36 lb. t ’ quirement makes somewhat difficult inches. the choosing of dimensions for a bow Efficiencies were obtained tills I of predetermined length and weight. different weights of arrows,Sis: The following approximate guide as 427 grain, respectively. These ata to dimensions will assist the archer were shot repeatedly by handanius , _.t__ craftsman in getting a starting point. ■ time -re(lUI'red to travel 3.44 ftB three of these bow Tn His proceed experience two him or t° with in.S making J-. enablc measured with an Aberdeen <1/ W1’H turn out a hn^l IG^nCe t,lat Iie graph. Close agreement in the aeteristics that n hav,nE the char- of time for the individual sMs” have. The table >-Intended ifc to ■elates to a bow dTI.1Tlen®Ions given ar>d 50 pounds It between 40 surements made ,1^ °n mea’ ■pore bows, constructs t * ,dozen or lnes forth in this artide^

Yew or Dimension* Lemonwood Osage G t'-'s tol% 1% to 1% K 3 to 4 3 to 4 H % 13/16 A, B i’-n to 2 I1-- to 2 N, W 1% to 154 1% to 15/ L L 33 to 55 30 to 33 U L 3® to 37 32 to 35 D, F . % to % to 7/16 S 9/16 to 11/16 7/16 to V? T Slightly less Slightly less than S M, p than S 8 to 10 *All dimensioi 7 to 9 >ns in inches. Outer ends of . sections M ;and F *y be rounded fo, or horn tips. of ^Ve recently . Measurements completed a series ’"^hthefXvi-of bow efficiency, .ing four bows were

obtained in all cases. From Otkinivw ... ... velocities and kinetic energy velocities and kinetic were computed. Each bow | were computed. L...’ carefully carefully weighed weighed at at five five *. lengths of of draw, draw, and and the the enerb en«ff lengths ’ . Pende<' in drawing --^tioT*'*' pended the arrow ■ The efficiency is the ratio cenergy values for each case. Bow No. 1, wt., lbs. at 34.5; velocity, ft. per scc' I,if. 151.3, 427 gr. 136; efficient 64.3%, 427 gr. 69.9% Bow No. 2, wt., lbs- at 2' 36; velocity ft. per sec. 324 427 gr. 148.4; efficiency,

67.8%, 427 gr. 77.6%. Bow No. 3, wt., lbs. at ;' r.(J 39; velocity, ft. per sec, ». p 427 gr. 143; efficiency, 324 I ■ gr.Bow 63%.No. 4, wt., Ibs. at 35'j{|i 36.5; Velocity, ft. per sec. 3246* ft 427 gr. 154.3; efficiency, ' | /2-2%, 427 gr. 82.774. i>'1 These results are, of c0U^ fbd e°ndusive, but merely indica’’ (i> re given weight by the fact

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-very case thus far investigated, I have found the bow of rectangular section to have higher efficiency than a corresponding bow of traditional deSign.

It seems probable that the higher efficiency in the bow with rectangu lar limb section is accounted for by the higher “energy density” per unit volume of limb that is possible with out endangering the wood, and the uniform distribution of the energy in the limbs of the drawn bow. This was touched upon in the December article. There is, in the writer’s opinion, little question but that Dr. Hickman has solved the problem of the best cross section of a bow. Experimental evi dence which is accumulating shows that a decided forward step has been achieved in the new design. Oregon's Contribution

to Flight

Shooting,

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E tSt 28’ Wa‘ldp2°rt. Mrs. Ra"SOni- 239 Yards, 3 Oregon, inch. June n ^^8 ^■HomeXrState at Portland, July, p n «ty’210 yardsW»-, Mrs Ms, W’’trat Sedro w°Mley, 12 >nches. H y Hobson> 243 yards,

July 4, Oregon1929 £ Mrs. Homer Prout ’, -i State at Corvallis, inches. -ty, 294 yards, 9 Myl8,P. N.W. Homer Prouty, 292 at Portland, Mrs. yards. lune 1, VJ. 1930 Cal., Mrs. G. estem A. at Sacramento, W- inches. Cathey, 236 yards, Portl; yards, . 'a«d, Mrs. L. L. Inly 4 y foot> 5% inches. Daily, ^irs. Hoi onier pS°n State at Corvallis, r°uty, 319 yar(js.

July 13, P. N. W. at Longview, Wn., Mrs. Homer Prouty, 398 yards, 1 foot, 2 inches. 1931 July 4, Oregon State at Corvallis, Mrs. Homer Prouty, 346 yards, 4 inches. July 11, P. N. ,W. at Corvallis, Mrs. Homer Prouty, 329 yards, 1 foot, 11 inches. July 25, Western at Portland, Mrs. Homer Prouty, 330 yards, 1 foot, 5 inches.

JUNIORS 1931 July 11, P. N. W. at Corvallis, Ralph Cathey, 343 yards, 1 foot, 11 inches. July 25, Western at Portland, Jack Daily, 342 yards, 1 f loot, 1% inches. How long Oregon will keep the lead in flight shooting is a matter of ques tion, for in all parts of the country archers are busy with tackle making and are training hard to improve on the records established by the Ore gonians; and it would not surprise me in the least to witness such an event at the National this year- at Seattle, Washingon.

The second annual championship tournament of the Hoosier State Archery Association will be held at the Miami Country Club, Huntington, —.------ June 7 iri-i/and 12th, 1932. The Indiana, Miami club is situated on the banks of the Wabash river at the historic Treaty Grounds of the Miami Tribe, and is one of the beauty spots of In diana. The men will shoot the double York and double American rounds, the flight shoot and the team round. The women compete in the double Colum bia, double National, flight and team rounds. The Junior American and double Junior Metropolitan are on the program for the juniors.

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CA Plea For A Standard Technique By Stanley F. Spencer Seattle, Washington

(Continued from April issue)

few such shots usually maker,;. I porary wreck of the archer. id ■depth of archery easily meets c1

In offering our sport to the public the first thing of importance is to the above demands of it. see what parts of it have the most I will mention other feateq direct appeal to the average prospect archery that greatly expand its interested in sports, and what paits i hut add to its pleasures, U -£: | -e familiar with, «! | of the game are more or less frozen archers are briefly on some d M assets(Nice things to have but hard comment L. to me to be ov«* I to realize on). Since it isn’t what a that seem 1 Sed when taken entirely few can do that makes a sport pop ular, it is how much skill the aver the pl«*| angle of sport. age archer can expect to attain. In order toin.sportsjt^l see ..TTMd Everything will have to be rated on should 1— that basis. Most persons expect to taken in its entity.J devote only their leasure time to of archery is esP ^taSBU sport, and they expect to get enough The tackle is ^^>4 pleasure out of it to compensate for like in appearance, .t tQ who see itt0 all they are deprived of during the sire in those fte^E ] to visual^ '• routine of meeting their more serious handle it, and problems. They want something that wonders performing is recreational, interesting, and of is not expend Archery fers both mental and physical diver to other sporfe pared sion. pleasures and benefits espe'i*;:i| For a game to be of major calibre, it. The ranges a the to", 4 it must be progressive and have tractive, and sh°hea]thful, scope enough that you never become graceful, clean, ^’^1 so perfect that you reach a limit ’ tbat ’...help' where you cannot improve your 1 3 family joyed by all adaP ting .y| scores by a little neater application of rival in c ^ny «i4 without a uva technique or by adding a little more environment, wi nditioJs I delicacy to your touch. In other it about meets all . I words, a .game must be difficult to as all temperments. ga„e 1»’M 1 e extent that absolute perfection is enou^Tnt’y P°SSible yet aUurin® shooting, hunting' .ery.golf. t small. roving. ‘ varietyI It al™ ^e,eP you stri™S for it. that ace °U\d >haVe a scorinS system shooting with 1 an(l i and lengths, >nd shooed Thriha It y reglsters Progress. ranges with «oveltyand f'l (/ sport and Ar ,Usually required of a stage demonstrating. unrjvale<* ' the finest variety them °f direct result f ? they are the this is a setting 0 >1 tion. , M con1’ $ They consist o f m akin a “hievementFor a single single sport sport a' p shots in secession > a feW Perfect __ _ and ‘ ■ arrows fly to th and watching the these advantages, O ■ ’ an ntaI) — d 11 to the gold. only a existance, years of its c.—

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May, 1932 efforts made to promote it, to remain still a struggling minor sport, cer tainly there must be something wrong. After we get away from the main attraction (which is the amount of skill to be attained) it seems to me that maybe we expect too much of some of the other features in the way of promotion. For instance that arch ery is a healthful exercise is a great asset to it, but not over valuable in making it popular for those who take up the sport as a health measure usually take it more as a medicine than a pleasure. The fact is that the public will pursue its favorite sport even to the point of risking their health or a possible injury. The abundance of tradition behind archery has a nice sentimental value, but is not enough to keep it alive. The progress of archery in England attests to that. Even tho it is said that the found ation of England was built on arrow cads, and the empire built with the onB bow, to say the least, archery is ua ng very little, if any, headway ere. Yet much more of the lives boima°Se ^10 ''Ve ™ England are bound i— fae,. ...,? 'n tradition than is the case with us, and the long bow is the ’nost prominent feature -------- a in their his-

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battle' that w n<>t battle-thin." 01 mentlon a single With all « ■ S Won by the archers. -1 things considered it .. certain „ ly would bp"8! considered arct,?e Strange Grange “ if it did?- ^nce ty archer® U did

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People i than at; Present hfh bme eVen m°re nt, the common people anH6 SUpP°se'l t t-J to exist only to serve main 6 the Wr°ng overlords. Unless conception, their fu'-nishXCXe havin ® a war was to lights I 7 for the nobles and deed if ° “ w°uld be they should surprising in concede that

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glory to the archers. To find out the importance they placed on the archers as a fighting unit, it is necessary to see the laws governing their training, the efforts they made to arm them and secure the yew wood for their bows, the im portant positions they held in the battles and the battles that were won when the archers were present to do the fighting. These facts are almost too obvious to need any comment. Even now when a battle becomes old enough that the records are filed as history, the general and his officers are given the credit for winning it, even tho history does not record a single in stance when the general and his of ficers ever became absent minded enough to go over and whip the en emy without taking their fighting men along. To return to the subject, our nat ural optimism may lead us to doubt the urgent need of adopting and standardizing a system of shooting. We can point to a considerable growth in archery in the last few years, “as is”, and to the fact that the schools and scout camps are adopting it as a sport. This is time, and in just about the same proportion that the average scores have been raised during the same period of time. We like to make ourselves believe that the archery classes in the schools and scout camps will follow on and fill the ranks of organized archery. It is not necessary for me to estimate how many of them will really do this (unless they are taught to under stand archery and be interested in it) for you have all secretly estimated the number and one man’s guess is as good as another. Also, some clubs flourish and then disband, while many more are held together only by the efforts of one or more real enthus-

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iastic member, and they are often taxed to the utmost to create sufficent interest to get the members to last^ek of the Annual Paft: attend. Archery should not have to be led ^ Association tournament by anyone, but should progress rap sixth year we Will meat in a': idly under its own power, for it has tion that is growing in both afe-i every conceivable qualification to do ance and quality of shooting. so, except an opportunity to learn it. The first meeting was in 192;Archers should not have to be in the Greenwood Archers Range sfe duced by some special interest to at the association was formed. In > tend the ranges, but be anxious for and every year since, the toumaues an opprotunity to practice, and they have been held on Hilgard Field, ttwill be, when they can improve their vei'sity of California, Berkeley. At th [ 1928 meet we had an attendance d I scores enough to be interested in about 25. The high score was 581 ; shooting them. Archery is too grand a game and the Metropolitan round and 314info holds too many possibilities to be Columbia. Last year the she® : still at the foot of the class. Better numbered 102 and the high scores t' i the same rounds were 847 for theMetshooting by all archers is the only thing that will materially advance .ropolitan (a new world record) *-■ archery, and the only way to attain 456 in the Columbia. This year will be bigger and b®" this is by giving more attention to than ever. We will have twenty-b® shooting and accept a practical sys brand new targets and have ten tem as standard for all training. available if necessary so there will ■ If the archers will not sanction plenty of room for all. The prognr some system that will open the way will consist of York, American for the average archer to become team rounds for men, Columbia. good enough that he will be enthus tional, and team rounds foi 'VO®,L iastic about his own shooting, the Maybe American, too—double “ , great majority who are interested in American for intermediates ( sports, will continue to follow those and double Junior sJEj that, tho less attractive, do offer this years) for Juniors. Flight shoot anil opportunity. I hope the archers a ’ realize how shoot. In the flight shoot there «> jtr badly archery is .s 1handicaped in this events. The regular flight s way and will start the move that will flight bows, etc., will be hel^ actually give archery a chance. If this farticle should meet with Oakland Western water fro»- .;S any interest, I would like others to end of Fourteenth street. T e take up the subject and express sand fill there that is ideal fo^^ shooting—you can shoot a »” e. their views on it. want to. A new event will be j[ft. ( Stricted flight shoot”. Mr. F- K.'c(|a , Harry Hobson recently received an nsey of San Leandro has donI order from China for archery tackle, handsome cup to be a perped*3' j,ot from Ye Sylvan Archer advertising. Phy for this event, which is to with target tackle. To compete 1 Meet your archery friends at the event the bows and arrows must National. for een used in the tournament

May, 1932 least one full range, in other words, if if vou you use use aa “100 yard bow” and ar rows, have been used for rows, they they must 1. all the shooting at that range. We believe that the program will be much better than heretofore, the rounds being the standard ones and there is enough shooting without mak ing a killing job of it. The dinner will be at “Bex” Sunday evening and you know it will be good. We are working hard to put this over and give you a good time and we want you to help us. ,We have bought these new targets, a lot of medals and have a lot of other things to pay for. Now, a lot of you know you will be there so why not send in a check for your target fees now—if you do and don’t get there, we will refund them, and it will help a lot. Another thing, the clubs all voted several years ago to pay the association an assessment of twenty-five cents per member. If youi club has not sent that in and can do so, please see that it is done at once. In the matter of trophies we have cups for the Men’s and Women’s championships—York and National round and Women’s team round.. The Leandro club is putting ■up a ^andsome trophy for the men’s team.

Americed perpetual trophies for the Cancan and Columbia rounds and the rthose, ’ n1' fhght shoot Most of een Ve! 1MVe been donated by the G CGiee n d Archers and the Leandi want U ?' H S°me of the other clubs 1 °mPUt “P CUps for any of these events i th P eaSe me know right 8-Way sowS included in fhe list of ’will be gotten . the Program which a lot °f sue °U1 S°°n’ A'1S° We need tackh CKle or anvth^ prizes-artides of

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CA B C’s (Continued from page 5) Two more bull moose were sighted and tried for with the bow but could not get within shooting distance. Any archer who can’t get a caribou or moose in that country sure fails thru no lack of opportunity. Then the snow arrived, about a foot a day for 4 days. If you think 2-inch high grass conceals arrows just try arrows on grouse after a heavy snow fall. One unusually humorous occurrance had to happen. Resting in a pass one day the bow was laid on a rock and af ter a while I moved about ten feet to look around a balsam. Upon turning to go back a fine blue grouse walked as well as the snow permitted, sedately between me and the bow. Late five fool hens perched in trees on a cliff edge offering open shots at about 25 yards. Five broadheads were wasted, two cutting feathers and all close but I had the satisfaction of shooting sev eral 450 grain hunting arrows over 500 yards. No believe? .Well, where they landed was at least that far be low us. As a fitting end along came a bear. It happened thusly. Bill and I han gone over Silvertip Pass to look for anything seeable, the first foot of snow having just fallen. Across the valley over half a mile Bill’s glasses picked out a trail that after some dis cussion spelled porcupine. The tracks indicated a big one and I started down the one or two thousand feet to try for it. When partway down the trail became more visible and ended in the open at an animal that even at that distance was surely no porky. He spotted me shortly and started for cover- at a gallop. I later measured a 14 foot jump in deep snow across a creek so he was losing no time. He

headed into an isolated patch of brush down to the archery tackle th to the target. The first art0^ and balsam and when the trail into cover led me to circle it at a very ap t'onal that Bill Rheingans hai • propriate distance it became evident me to bloody up for him, that a bear of some variety was near hmb over which the bear's pWr, by. His TVS by 11 inch pad marks in holding and glanced so far I coolii the snow induced respect so the cir find it later. It was a good shot th cles narrowed very slowly and con The next two buried their headsinth sumed over an hour before he became tree just under the bear’s foreamnervous, scrambled out for- a clear neither very bad—the next a good rj view and then back and up a balsam shot straight thru sidewise. This <2 about 30 feet. Someone with I think shows well in the movie for a toe before the bear broke off the feather a warped sense of humor, comment end with his forepaw. The last anw ing on our lack of baths for about pierced about ¥2 inch of breasta three weeks, has ventured the sug but was pinched by the bone so listgestion that a bear has a keen sense ly that the shaft is scored heavily r: of smell. Anyway he was up the tree, both sides and the penetration ratthe branches were not thick, the tar over eight inches. It missed the he® get was big and I swear no bear can about an inch and cut the main ami? bite or scratch seriously while so lo just above the heart. The bear re cated. sponded immediately with a kick « Then Bill had to inject more trou ble. That pesky camera was never far from the tree and Bill folio"'™ ' fall to the ground where he 3,1 _ from him. With our field glass pan like a ton, rolled over once a” 11 tomine signal system I let him know up on the ridge about half a mile kicked again. The movie film indicates the e® away that the bear had treed. This meant black bear to him and without shooting of 5 arrows, took 4lse compunction he and the bear checked out 16 sec^ pantommed cranking a camera and started --t-J down. after the first arrow hitVery fine. All that could have done better. He ''a-' was required was to persuade the target to remain full grown specimen, the s n placed and this n was done for 40 minuring 7 feet 4 inches when g1C^ utes. I know becausr - up by shri nking hung the nose. Flat j | -oe I timed it after the first week or so had passed. Ev. from nose to-■tai1- it was 6 t or so had passed. EvI. H alelate ^ erytime he would start down (the bear weight at 450 PoUTJ gro' -art down (the bear Three o not Bih) I -.- •> experimentally , i:f4- him oft stamp the ground, sign, whistleyell, >u»“1 ground, sign, whistle or could not nOt lift him eould swear. In the course c £ course 15 of the afternoon I must have gained move him. 15 feet on him. Eventually Bill Best of all the movie as could be, trotted arrived__pleased *ovu> out well considering the P°01 > out a fearsome array of movie camera, telephoto late after-noon. When I exposure m lens, mild curiosity as to what he ^p meter, etc., got it -and began m to Hollywood, adjusted of having an arrow-annoyed e mrstaking his evidently out of a tree within one hundr® socks for ridingstag pants and wool breeches , Hl only made some remar' ’eggings. and leather diaphram wilS j^e He took hoping- t-.re h the bear, enough, And nothing can then dropped about it. Anyway the pictur

May,1932 ■ was about 30 define, The shooting at about 30 yards, upward and : grees small button-head Jly sights are two " r at 25 brass screws set permanently the arrow-head being ? Thev”Jorked'fine tho I had to hoid between the two top ones.

There followed the usual padding out after about three more days of snow, only three miles being made the first day,’ lacking snowshoes. As to data on details the following may be of interest. We hunted mostly at or above timberline, 6000 to 8500 feet elevation. It was a little late in the season for best hunting but pelts and meat were in better condition and I would choose the same time again. The license in B. C. is $50 plus $15 for each head of moose, bear or cari bou and $5 for coast deer. Even with the higher rail rates from the east the trip can total under $300 as local costs are very reasonable. Horses can be used for much of the work if de sired. We used them for packing only as they are especially useful for the eavier tents and supplies and for troSuide is necessary and reIre by law. The country is very altera r 'S !deal f°r archery with its in ' Ptlne timbei' and grassy openbv fielrtT 1S 10Cated from the ^dges

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MueeeTfriend: You ters SoronCUss not to , must think I am answer' your letForesetr’BbUt When you left here ffor °>- me as rranch had foreman of a job waiting a trail crew.

McLeod went out with me as cook. We are working south into the cour. try we could see from on top of the mountains north of Longworth. “But say! Talk about game, this a hunter’s paradise, the caribou and moose are so tame it would be the real place to try for bow and arrow shots. There is one place about a mile up the valley from where we have our camp that we have seen as many as nine caribou at one time, they come there and eat the clay. I think it must be for the salt it contains. It is on the level with the creek and a person can sit on the opposite bank and watch them playing around within fifty yards.” Again on March 7th: “Dear Friend: I may as well start this letter where I left off in my last letter to you when I was out on the trail work. We built our trail to the edge of the best game country I have ever seen, before the deep snow drove us out. “Our camp was on ,Silm Creek about a mile below a salt lick where caribou and moose came to eat the clay for the salt it contained. I have counted as many as nine caribou in sight there at one time and the woods seemed to be alive with them. They would come within seventy-five yards of us and not notice us as long as we sat still. “It was an ideal place for getting pictures or bow and arrow shots, and say! talk about heads and horns, a fellow could pick out heads that would satisfy a professional crank. “I sent one caribou out with the packer for my family, part we took to camp, and some we hung up where we killed it for future use. When we ■went back for it a couple of grizzzlies had been there and cleaned up the works. They pulled down the meat we hung up and packed away legs and hides of the caribou we had taken out.

28 “I was talking to a trapper in Pen ny. He traps in the country Dr. Fen ton hunted in this fall, he says the grizzlies had big trails all through there the first part of the winter. ‘‘Was telling me he killed two deer, one caribou, and one moose for his winter’s meat. That should be enough wild meat for one man his size don’t you think? “The moose and caribou have come into the valley along the Fraser Riv er. We saw ten moose in one bunch the other day within one-half mile of our house. The game is not hunted around here and when a person wants meat they pick out what they want and shoot it and that is all there is to it. We don’t run them and make the others wild.

“The timber wolves are raising the deuce with the .game back in the hills. The crust on the deep snow gives them a great advantage over moose and deer, tho the caribou seem to be able to travel on top of the snow a little better.

My two oldest boys, Stanley sev enteen years and Edgar sixteen years old, took a trip back in the mountains at Christmas time, they went in to the McGregor .river towards those ree high peaks we could see north east of Where we hunted this last fall, thevtl ?' first winte1' triP and to Ll°Ught itw“Breat,Igot them am en tan a“°Unt of the trip and I anLenclosing same.” in it R*e?aS the tanS °f the open as follows^ W°te ™ Wth “I am cr enclosing some snaps. Three °f them sh<low the new taken in November, lodge, and were Since then we have had dandy y*— * Xmas day was as warm as aweather. a s""" summer day. Only a few inche of snow. -w New Year’s day Mrs. Reedles 1 and I ' to the toP- Therewalked up the trail - >s about 4 feet of

snow on top but the caribn _. moose have a fine beaten tn} j. game is still high up. never been driven down this yet,c it is unusual.” And again on January 19th: “There has not been a fisher a£ here this season. Two trappen a not on their lines as the price dk, is too low. But I have nettops! In regard to the raw hides. Iplail trip over to Crotch Creek leans .a of these days, as I am feeling fa trip in the hills. There has oalyte one moose killed on the flat ahere this winter. They are still :lthe hill. You can rui !h way up the trail, as the go®!2 the top on kept it open.”

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and Vancouver ald’ international tournaof of 1925. A goocdy and Sedro Woolley sa;-= • and took part. Mi- . of SedI Sedro fitit W. Doughty ot a claim the cup and can c ® ’jn the ’ jonshiP5 , national champion*™ field of sports. Balkan friends in the march think they ‘stole a nucks. Eh, <What ? frie"115 ’ Meet your archery National.

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