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Table of Contents Notes on the National Tournament

By Janies Duff .

A Boy, a Bow and a Buzz-tail

By A. J. Stover .

Summer Cut Yew

By W. C. Thurlow .

Archery Under Handicaps

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By K. R. Thompson . . 9 Western Archcry Association Formed . 11 Utah State Archcry Tournament 12 Oregon Archers Shoot at Coquille To Hyt Ye Markc 15

By A. J. Stover ........... ............

Thoughts on the Bow

By John B. Wallace ... ... .15 Arrow Velocities and the Projectile Formula

By W. O. Robinson . ............. ......... 20 Arrow-maker

By Mrs. Ruth E. Robinson 22

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Notes at the National Nournament

By JAMES DUFF, Field Captain The greatest problem to the aver­ selves in being at their places ready age archer as far as the tournament to answer the call to shoot. The good held at Santa Barbara, California, this nature of the folks, etc., are all things year, seems to be: What is the great that must be taken into considera­ tion when seeking difference between for an answer to the archery shooting in problem. the East as against the same thing in “But,” say some the West? of our friends, “we My reply would have these things on be: There is a world our own private of difference. I go grounds.” Truly; but back many years in if we arc to go fur­ searching my mem­ ther in search of a ory for conditions complete under­ that were equal in standing we will tournament condi­ have to take natural tions and can find conditions into con­ nothing to compare sideration. The hu­ with the things pro­ midity that accom­ vided by God and panies our extremely man for the running hot days in the East of that shoot. i s something u nknown out in the We have had many West. This was the ideal grounds in the greatest archery past as far as space tournament, at least and being level is as far as numbers concerned, but noth­ go, that I have at­ ing that had a per­ tended and I did not fect background that hear- a single comcould compare with pl a i n t about the the last one. The bows going down total absence of any­ and yet the heat thing that even ap­ was as great as we proached being wind. ever feel it. I tried An even and steady out several bows af­ sun, a consistent ter a day’s shooting temperature, a sort and found, without of silence throughJames Duffy, field captain actually weighing by out the entire shootat the National tournament, the aid of an instrument, that the ing that reminded one of our private bow marked 50 was as near to that practices at the old home grounds. weight at the end of the day as it The total prohibiting of friends and was in the beginning. This latter re­ other visitors on the shooting grounds. mark opens up a new thought in The promptness of the archers them-

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archery that must be dealt with in a special article at some other time.

But we must not overlook the fact that even with all of these advantages if the leaders were not real archers they could not have accomplished their record breaking feats no matter what the conditions may have been. One would dearly love to see a home and home match as between Roberts, Douglas, Coke and Spencer versus Crouch, Palmer, Elmer and Fulton.

My impression is that each party would take the home game, unless they were abroad long enough to become sort of acclimated. Such a match may be arranged one of these days under the immediate jurisdiction of the N. A. A. to take the place of the team round which means, as a general rule, a local run away.

Ford’s record gone at long last; all records broken in fact, and despite the advocates of the modern appli­ ances as aids to perfect shooting not one of them was in use by the lead­ ers during the tournament.

I looked in vain for something spe­ cial in the way of archery tackle, but like the darkies they all appeared to be of a sameness.

It is a thought of this kind that entitles us to make the boast that we Americans stand supreme in the archery world. Had Dr. (Dusty) Rob­ erts used a peep sight or something else sort of combining the firearm and the bow we would not feel so sure of ourselves as we do today; but everybody seems to accept what is now an accomplished fact at its face value. Thank God we were true sports seeking no advantage over the other fellow so that even the ghost of the great Horace Ford may con­ tinue to rest in peace.

At each and every tournament there is an individual who rises to the oc­ casion and excels himself as well as

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all others, but whose feat is generally looked on as a sort of fluke. There could be no thought of accident as far as the Santa Barbara tournament is concerned. Single and double York, single and double American (several times). Team round, two flight records all broken in a few days. It might well be that my ex­ perience amounts to little and my thoughts on the subject anything but convincing, but I stand ready to have better reasons for the record break­ ing feats given to me.

Take the two flight shoots, both men and women. We have had bows in the hands of expert long distance shooters, claiming distances approach­ ing 400 yards, and after watching both Dr. Cathey and Mrs. Prouty I will not doubt that these distances have been approached, but never in the East. Indeed I watched a young lad take an ordinary target bow and arrow and send the latter 282 yards, a distance that would have won the flight shoot time and again, and this was at Santa Barbara. The grounds were surveyed and the distances are accurate as given for the two newlong distance champions. Why. the Cathey record is little less than the late Sir Ralph Galwey made with a real Turkish bow of 110 pounds draw at Richmond golf course in England.

But enough of these things at present. The social end of that tour­ nament was all that one could desire.

The entire management was in the hands of Dr. Weld and he certainly did his duty well. The entire shoot­ ing ground was taken care of by Col­ onel Hamilton and if there was any­ thing missing I did not notice the want. He deserves more credit than we can give him. The visitors spent a day at Santa Monico or some other Santa (there are so many of them (Continued on page 20)

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A Boy, A Bozv and A ^Buzz-Tail

By A. J. Stover, Los Angeles, Calif.

Rattlesnakes seem to be on the in­ crease in some parts of Southern Cal­ ifornia. During recent months we have shot six with bow and arrow.

The last killing may be of interest to the younger readers.

We were in the mountainous back country of southern San Diego coun­ ty. It was one of the hottest days of this past summer, surely great weather for snakes. With my two boys, Alan and Evan, aged seven and five respectively, I was returning from a climb on a nearby mountain where we had been examining a quartz ledge. We were just walking into camp when we saw a large diamondback rattler stretched full length across the trail.

I threw a rock. Instantly the snake whipped into a coil, with his head and upper coil a foot off the ground. His mouth was wide open. He hissed like an old gander and all the time his rat­ tles were going like a buzz saw. He had more “pep” than any other large rattler I had ever seen.

Alan had his twenty-two pound lemonwood bow. He stepped up to about eight yards, took his position carefully, pulled to the head and loosed his first arrow. It merely grazed the snake. His second shot, with a target arrow, pierced the rattler in two places through the upper- coil and caused the snake to turn a flip-flop down hill towards the source of an­ noyance, hissing and rattling fur­ iously, whilst Alan made a back-trail stampede to keep out of harm’s way.

Then, approaching to within twenty feet, Alan drew out his most cherished arrow, a keen-edged broadhead. It struck just behind the snake’s head,

cut through the back muscles and passed in up to the feathering. The fourth arrow was a body hit. The fifth struck in the same place as the third, cutting completely through the

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The boy, the bow and the buzz-tail, backbone so that the hissing head hung down by the skin and the fight was over. However, Alan had another arrow on the string and he let it go, for the snake still wiggled!

This rattler was one of the variety known as “red diamond-back.” He was over four feet long and carried nine perfect rattles. Although ad­ mitting he was afraid, Alan shot as calmly as he would have at a tin can.

The snake, moreover, was part of the time uphill and part of the time down­ hill from where the little boy stood on the trail, thus making the situation

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somewhat more difficult than as if he had been shooting at a stationary tar­ get.

Alan started shooting when he was five. His first bow was an eight­ pound bamboo. From that he advanced to a fifteen-pound bamboo, then to a twenty-pound lemonwood and later to the twenty-two-pound lemonwood with which he shot the snake. He has been taught the old archers’ method as described by Maurice Thompson, that of pulling to the ear and shooting by general sense of direction. He has not been permitted to shoot with other children except in the presence of an older person, for archery is a serious business and in its very seriousness lies its chief value to the child. Sling­ shots and air rifles, from their very nature and cheapness of shot, teach carelessness.

Camping in the southern mountains we use a 6 x 6 muslin water-proofed tent bottom with three-foot walls of the same material sewed in and sup­ ported by four dowel sticks with stout cords attached for fastening to brush, rocks or trees. This, we find, gives complete protection from all crawlers, be they ants, scorpions, tarantulas or serpents. The boys always refer to this topless tent as the “up-side-down tent.”

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Mr. Harry Noble announced an ar­ chery tournament for men to be held at the High School park, Dillsburg, Pa., on Oct. 26, 1929. This tourna­ ment was held as part of the Gala Day Celebration of Dillsburg. The American round was shot in the aft­ ernoon and in the morning team shoots were held with teams from William Penn high school, Harrisburg academy, and Dillsburg high school competing.

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Summer Cut Yew

By W. C. Thurlow, Portland, Oregon In some good archers’ minds there is a doubt as to whether summer cut wood is not as good as winter cut.

I settled once and for all time my opinion of it from a most practical experience.

Barnes, the old bow maker of For­ est Grove, Oregon, said that summer cut yew “contained the seeds of death.” He knew whereof he spoke.

Last winter I found a cache of wood that has been seasoning for fifteen years.

Here, I figured, is where I get some grand bows. I sent some to one of the best bow makers in the country.

In a short time he wrote that it was well seasoned but broke in the tiller­ ing. My good friend, Dr. Leach of Pendleton, Oregon, was in need of some wood so I sent him some, He had the same results.

I gave the remaining staves, con­ sisting of about six or seven, to another good bow maker and when I called on him the other day not a bow did he have to show for them, He. He however, “knew his onions.” showed me the way the bark had cured which showed it was summer cut. It proved beyond a doubt that if you give summer cut wood time it will die in the seasoning.

All buyers of yew staves should know absolutely whether they are get­ ting summer or winter cut wood.

Fortunately the main advertisers in the Sylvan Archer are lovers of good yew bows and will sell nothing but winter cut wood. I have spent hours looking over the beautiful staves and billets of two of them and can truth­ fully say that they are building up the prestige for yew to which it is entitled.

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Archery Under Handicaps

By K. R. Thompson, Etna Green, Ind. Some archers prefer to follow the trail and have little use for target, shooting. Others find the latter their chief delight, while some enjoy both.

If an archer of either class has time to travel far enough he may find suit­ able place for his favorite recreation.

But he is often denied the profit and pleasure of a short period of practice by such distance. Archery can be adapted.

First, there is encouragement to be given the person who has been dis­ pirited by trying to drag a six-foot bow through thick brush for game.

If, like myself, you have had a stout branch whip itself into the angle of lower limb and string as it came along three feet behind you, you, like my­ self, will either postpone indefinitely hunting in such a place, or suit your equipment to the conditions. I tried the latter and was surprised to find what accuracy (rather comparative accuracy) was obtained with a little, strong Osage Orange, hickory-backed bow of '54 inches and weighing about 60 pounds with 24 inch arrows. Such an outfit is not cumbersome in a car, may be carried vertically close to the body in brush, above moderately long grass and above water when wading for fish, water birds, ect. I once waded in four feet of water, overflow of the Wabash, for carp. I shot one weighing sir pounds, but only by hold­ ing the six-foot bow horizontally, up­ side down, drawing arrow on under­ side of bow and above my head. Need­ less to say, it wasn’t a long shot, but at that was too much handicap.

The condition named, that is, brush, water, ect., of course call for short, range so that the greater accuracy

given by a longer bow and arrow is not necessary. As for another—con­ tact of the drawing hand with face or neck—it may be obtained by letting one of the three joints of the thumb, rather than tips of forefinger usually used, touch the chin. With the best of materials in such a short bow one can use arrows longer than I have mentioned. Attempting a flight shot with my little bow I have pulled it a full 29 inches In shooting the short bow the reg­ ulation target stance should not be attempted, I think. With care and practice one can acquire accurary in two distinct positions, as the same man may pitch a baseball or “shoot” a basketball with equal accuracy. It is better to lengthen distance from chin to nock than shorten between body and broadhead, as the pistol shooter obtains advantage by thrust­ ing the weapon outward. And then, if we all could just do it, follow what I consider is the greatest single state­ ment of advice on archery. It was given by old (young, rather, for he was then only twenty-seven) Roger Ascham nearly four hundred years ago and consists of three words, “Draw evermore like.”

The second handicap—no long, level lot for target archery. An unused alley may be appropriated. Great care should be used to prevent wild arrows carrying over into a street, shop or house window. It is easy to underes­ timate the distance and power of pen­ etration an arrow will carry when once launched. I have used a back­ stop of an old 9x12 foot rug. By patching weak places such an instru­ ment hung loose by will sufficiently

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impede the progress of an arrow to eliminate danger. A backstop of boards or the side of a barn may be used but the number of broken arrows will soon influence one to pro­ vide otherwise. Or the rug may be

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hung 20 inches in front of the board backstop, which will save the feathers from contact with the tough cloth.

The better way to play safe, I believe, is to use only such distances as one may be sure of hitting target. Much the same suggestions may be made about the use of a short, grassy lawn

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with a word on “snaking.”

A large nail or short iron rod inserted in the end of a broomstick and bent with a large curve makes a good instrument to find arrows under grass. Make strokes diagonal to course of arrow so as not to break it.

Then there is indoor shooting. No doubt many are inclined to think ar­ chery in winter is limited to hunting, but it is not necessary that the tar­ get hibernate with tennis racket and golf clubs.

Fro several years the Wabash Club members have been shooting in winter in the community gymnasium.

The distance is IS yards and the highest score to date is 754 with 90 arrows. With a thirty­ foot barn at my disposal, I have had happy hours of practice with snow on the roof. I can see much advantage and no harm to the archer’s regula­ tion distance shooting by close target work. The difficulties are two: it is hard on target and arrows. One must expect to split an arrow occa­ sionally, so we use inexpensive ones and get good results at such short dis­ tances. For a durable target, a frame of soft pine with a back of wall board or wire netting, filled with straw or excelsior packed closely and covered with heavy paper for face. Circles are drawn with a two-foot stick in which holes are drilled for a pencil using a nail in one end for center.

The gold is made of heavy black card­ board which shows better under light than yellow paint, or is cut from green window blind material.

For a smaller target, I made a frame of white pine pieces 3x1 inches into which I could just force a threeinch-thick layer of baled straw which is approximately 20 inches square. I was not able to drive an arrow from my heaviest bow through to the wail (Continued on page 12)

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Western Archery Association 'Formed At the suggestion of the officials of the National Archery Association, at the time of the N. A. A. meeting in Santa Barbara, the Western Archery Association was organized. This asso­ ciation is not intended to take the place of any already established arch­ ery association in the West, but is to provide the means for selecting a western champion, which, heretofore, could not be done. At the first meet­ ing the following officers were elected: President, Dr. George Cathey, Port­ land, Oregon; First Vice-President, H. Page Bailey, from the Southern Cali­ fornia Archery Association; Second Vice-President, Mr. Burgess, from the Pacific Archery Association; Secre­ tary-Treasurer, G. F. Weld, from the Channel Archery Association.

YE SYLVAN ARCHER was named as the official organ of the association. The following constitution was adopted: Name: The name shall be The Western Archery Association.

Membership: The membership in this association shall be open to arch­ ery clubs in the states west of the Rocky Mountains. The membership in this association shall be by clubs or associations, but any archer residing in any section of the West where there is no club that is a member of this association can be elected a member-at-large. Any club that has a paid-up membership of six (6) can become a member of this association.

Representation: Each association shall have the right to be represented in all meetings of this association by three (3) delegates. Each delegate shall have the right of discussion, but each association shall have only one vote on matters pertaining to the whole association.

Purpose: This association shall have final authority in the West in al! matters pertaining to archery that are outside the jurisdiction of any local association.

Second—It shall decide all questions arising between any two or more asso­ ciations.

Third—It shall be in charge of all official inter-association meets, tour­ naments, contests, etc., to be held in these states, and only such scores shall be official.

Fourth—It shall conduct at least one annual tournament. The man, woman, intermediate, or junior who is a member of this association, and who makes the highest score, will be known as the “Champion of the West­ ern Association” in that class.

Officers: The officers of this asso­ ciation shall be a President, elected for two years, who cannot succeed himself at the next election. The President shall be chosen from a dif­ ferent association than the one from which such officer was chosen at the previous election.

There shall be two Vice-Presidents, chosen from different associations, each holding office for two years. At the first annual election of the asso­ ciation one Vice-President shall be elected for one year and one for two years. Thereafter, one shall be elected at each annual meeting for a term of two years. The senior Vice-President shall preside in the absence of the President.

There shall be a Secretary and a Treasurer elected for one year and eligible for re-election. One person can fill both offices. No two of the above officers shall be chosen from the same association.

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The duties for these offices shall be as usual, except that the Secretary shall keep an accurate file of all rec­ ords made at every tournament of the association. These officers, when elected, shall constitute the Executive Committee, and shall conduct the affairs of this association.

Expenses: There shall be no indi­ vidual annual dues. The only expenses permitted to be incurred by this asso­ ciation shall be such as are necessary in connection with the annual tourna­ ment. These expenses in excess of target fees shall be met by a levy upon the local associations in propor­ tion to the paid-up memberships of each association’s several clubs.

Meetings: The annual meeting of this association shall be in connection with the annual tournament.

Secretary Weld invites associations to send in their memberships to him.

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After the Big Buck L. C. Thorne of Vernal, Utah, likes the idea of our trophies offered to archery hunters. He says, “I am go­ ing to try for the big buck with the most points in a few days now. We are noted here for the very large mule deer, and I think an old boy weighing around 200 pounds dressed, and with six or eight points on a side ought about to get the prize. Any­ way I’D like to get him.”

Mr. Thorne continues, “The latter part of July I was chasing young cottontails. They were very wild ann I was shooting at them running most of the time. One, half grown, got up and started off across the flats like somebody wanted him in a hurry. As

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it happened I was that somebody. I loosed when he was about forty yards from me. The arrow and he disap­ peared behind a bush, at the same in­ stant followed by a ‘plunk.’ Running up to the spot I found him kicking his last. The arrow struck him in the small of the back, coming out at the sticking place. That’s the luckiest shot I ever made.

"Hunting old prehistoric arrow­ heads is quite a pastime with me. I have quite a collection which I have been gathering since I was eleven years old. Last spring a friend from Idaho was here on a little visit. He wanted me to take him out to the hills to find an arrow head for himself to make a watch charm.

After we reached the hills I took him to i large camp ground and told him to look it over and I would practice a little. I took a couple of shots at a little bush out in the flat about sev­ enty-five yards and then went after my arrows. They were sticking in the sand about a foot apart and right between them was a very nice old flint head about an inch and three quarters long and the only one we found that day.”

Mr. Thorne inclosed a picture of Little Jim, a full blood Ute Indian illustrating the Ute grip and release.

It also shows a fine old sinew backed bow. The string is of sinew- and the feathers are wrapped in place with sinew. The feathers are hawk’s tail feathers trimmed down to about half an inch with a little tuft of long vane at the base.

------------- o------------There is no doubt but that some of our readers will disagree with some of the writers in this issue. Ye Sylvan Archer invites comment and constructive criticism.

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Utah State Archery Tournament The Second Annual Tournament of the Utah State Archer’s Association was held Sunday, September 8, 1929. on the campus of the East High School, Salt Lake City, Utah. Aided by ideal autumn weather, new title­ holders were crowned in all events.

Charles A. Pace of Payson winning

shoot, and Miss Rauch also won the Clout shoot.

At the annual meeting of the As­ sociation, Gerald N. Thorne of Salt Lake City was elected president for the coming year; Dr. L. D. Pfouts of Payson, Vice-President; and Ora L. Smith of Ogden was re-elected Secre-

Utah State archers: The man in the center with the bulging chest is Charles Price, state champion. the majority of the honors, taking the Double American Round with a score of 803, setting a new mark in the flight shoot, 331 yards 7 in., and ac­ cumulating enough points in the Clout and Indian Rounds to win the first leg on the All-Around Trophy.

Gerald N. Thorne pressed him closely for all-around honors, Dr. E. W. Lam­ bert taking third. Dr. L. D. Pfouts of Payson was a close second in the flight, making 324 yards, 1 foot, 3 in., Wendell Nelson coming third with 290 yards 4 in. Dean Green annexed the Indian Round and Fred Nelson won the Clout Shoot.

Jeannette Herron won the feature ladies event, the Double Columbian Round, with a score of 496, Kather­ ine Rauch taking second with 412 points. Ethel Pace shot an arrow203 yards 1 inches to win the flight

tary-treasurer. On account of the unsatisfactory shooting and attend­ ance, chiefly due to the late season, it was decided to hold future state meets in June of each year, with the next annual tournament tentatively assigned to Payson, Utah. o-

H. A. McCaughey of Racine, Wis­ consin, was a member of the Tusculum Archery club of Cincinati, Ohio, dur­ ing the 80’s and shot in the National tournament of 1885. He saw Mrs. Lyda Scott Howell make the highest score ever made by a woman up to that time, 14 consecutive golds at 30 yards. Mr. McCaughey still has his bow and arrows used at that time. He says, "I am not too old to shoot ar­ chery but I am not old enough to play golf as that is an old man’s game.”

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Oregon Archers Shoot at Coquille On September 2 the Oregon arch­ ers met at Coquille, at the invitation of Chief Crowquille, chief of the Coquille Longbows, or, rather, by his command, for the notice we received read: “You are hereby ordered, by command of Chief Crowquille, chief of the Coquille Longbows, to wax your bowstrings, fletch your- arrows afresh, polish up your longbows, and appear in person at our archery grounds in Coquille, Oregon, September 1 and 2, there to shoot in our autumn tourna­ ment for the glory of our ancient sport and the winning of the prizes, of which there are fifty.”

However, Coquille did not believe in letting the best prizes leave the city, so Grover Gouthier, of that place, made the highest score in the York and American rounds combined, and Mrs. Perna Harris, also of Coquille, took first in the highest aggregate for women in the Columbia round, clout shoot, and the flight.

Winners in the various events were as follows: York Round—First, L. L. Daily, Monmouth, score 400; second, Grover Gouthier, Coquille, 396; third, John Stone, Coquille, 388.

American Round—First, Grover Gouthier, score 564; second, John Stone, 548; third, Dr. Cathey, Port­ land, 504.

Flight—First, Dr. Cathey, 349 yards 4 inches; second, L. L. Dailey; third, John Stone.

Clout—First, Dr. Cathey, score 230; second, B. G. Thompson, Corvallis, 206; third, N. E. Tyrrell, Portland, 182.

Columbia Round—First, Mrs. Perna

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Harris, score 440; second, Mrs. B. G. Thompson, Corvallis, 406; third, Mrs. Charles W. Trachsel, Sweet Home, 400.

Ladies’ Flight—First, Mrs. L. L. Daily, 261 yards; second, Mrs. Harris; third, Mrs. Trachsel.

Ladies’ Clout—First, Mrs. Trachsel, score 202; sesond, Mrs. Harris, 162; third, Mrs. Earl Ullrirh, Roseburg, 108.

Junior American—First, Greenough, Coquille, score 364; second, Jack Daily, 338; third, Ashton, 165.

Junior Flight—-First, Daily; second, Greenough.

Junior Clout—-First, Daily, score 150; second, Greenough, 88; thirl, Thompson, 64.

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Archery Under Handicap (Continued from page 8) board back. Such a target is conven­ ient to carry, effective and not unduly hard on arrows.

Roving archery need hardly be men­ tioned here for roving is a species of sport by nature a series of handicaps.

Almost any bow, any arrow and cer­ tainly any distance which suits the archers fansy may be used. I have “roved” with great delight in my 0119hundred-foot-square back yard.

Of course there’s nothing like the level greensward with the best tar­ gets of rye straw and new regulation faces for the York and American Rounds and the open fields and big woods for hunting, but here’s to the archer who is able to enjoy himself where he is with what he has. May you, winter or summer, on hill or plain, land or water, day or night, send the swift moving, low whistling shaft straight to the mark!

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“To Hyt Ye Marke71

By A. J. Stover, Los Angeles, Calif.

“It is strange, but nevertheless a fact, that the archers of history shot largely by intuition and that the prin• ciples of accurate shooting were dis­ covered long after the bow and ar­ row had been discarded as an import­ ant weapon.”

The above statement occurs in a re­ cent book on archery and is quoted because it typifies so well the pre­ vailing attitude in regard to the var­ ious methods of shooting with the bow. In other words, a digest of books, handbooks and articles dealing with archery would show that the modern archer is unique in that he alone, of all who have used the bow, shoots by a precise method, that of using a “point of aim,” and drawing to the chin instead of to the ear as did the famous archers of the olden time.

Practically all the instructions pub­ lished for beginners in archery advo­ cate the point of aim as the only ac­ curate method of shooting. Briefly, the system consists in drawing the right hand to the chin and sighting past the point of the arrow to a point either above the target if the range be far or on the ground in front of the target for short range shooting. This is an indirect method of aiming. You are looking, primarily, at something else than the target and experiment has shown that this will result in your hitting the target.

Maurice Thompson, in “The Witchery of Archery,” (not the modern edition which omits four whole chapters) says: “Draw your right, and push firmly with your left hand until your arrow’s head rests on the lowest knuckle of your left forefinger. Your right hand will now touch your right

ear. Look straight and hard at the center of the target’s gold, but do not even glace at your arrow. Blindly direct your arrow by your sense of feeling. Let go the string.

“There is no such thing as ‘taking aim’ with an arrow. He is a bungling archer- who attempts it. Shoot from the first by your sense of direction and elevation.

“The requisite to good archery hard­ est to acquire is utter concentration of thought and sight upon the object to be shot at—this more particularly at the precise point of letting go the arrow. Mr. Hansard thus accurately and graphically describes the true method of shooting: ‘Again I remind you that drawing and loosing are to be performed together. Grasp your bow with the firmness of a smith’s vise, draw steadily, until the steel pile of your arrow rests upon the knuckle of the bowhand, while the thumb of the drawing hand grazes against the upper part of the right ear. That in­ stant of time in which the sight sud­ denly concentrates itself upon the tar­ get’s center, whilst every other object grows dark and indistinct, is the crit­ ical moment of your aim. Loose then, without a second’s pause, by gently relaxing the fingers of the right hand.

How often I have experienced this ‘growing dark and indistinct’ of all surrounding objects, as for a second I stood at full draw in the act of let­ ting go an arrow at game! You are sure to hit when this happens, for your aim is absolutely accurate. Those marvellously perfect archers of old had, no doubt, the power of command­ ing this condition at will. It is the need for which all bowmen should

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strive and which may be won by judic­ ious and regular daily practice.”

A person properly trained in this method of shooting with a bow carry ing up to sixty yards point-blank, pro­ viding his position is correct, has merely to look at an object and the arrow will follow his line of sight.

In 1894, at a private shooting match, Maurice Thompson broke for­ ty-eight out of fifty glass balls thrown into the air at a distance of thirteen yards. At another time, out of ninety­ eight wing shots at wild ducks he got sixteen birds.

However, Maurice Thompson ad­ vises anyone who is taking up ar­ chery for the sole purpose of target shooting to adopt the point of aim system. But he also states in no un­ certain terms that a person who wishes to hunt or rove will do better to adopt the old method of drawing to the ear and looking directly at the mark.

Truly, target shooting is now’ a highly specialized sport, a distinct phase of archery, while in the past it was merely a means to an end— that of war or the hunt. Today, tar­ get shooting is an end in itself and the trick we call the “point of aim” system is particularly adapted to that special phase of archery. We might call one method "shooting by intui­ tion” or, as some would have it, “shooting by guess.” And the other method might well be called “shoot­ ing by reason,” which well describes it. The same division is found in other lines of thought for there are number­ less books of rules telling us how to write short stories, how to paint pic­ tures, how to compose music and how to write scenarios. In the arts, intui­ tion is swifter and more certain than rule's.

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was a type lived under conditions where his very life depended upon the development of his intuition. The same may be said of the Indian. It is natural that these men adopted a method of shooting the bow which was best fitted for the purpose in hand. Much of their shooting was by moonlight. A great deal of it was at moving objects and through screens of foliage. Even today, Belgian and French archers even in their target shooting scorn to use the point of aim.

They draw to the ear, as did the an­ cients.

It is to be regretted that so much misrepresentation of the old methods finds its way into print, especially since modern mechanical devices can scarcely be said to constitute pure archery. Archery is both a science and an art. The followers of Horace Ford and the measured range repre­ sent the scientific phase of archery.

The point of aim draw has that me­ chanical preciseness peculiarly fitted for that one thing, target work. As to the other phase of archery, the bow developed in and belongs to a different age. It is above all a wood­ craft weapon, and those who prefer to roam the forests with Robin Hood and Maurice Thompson make of their craft an art. Both branches should be recognized and encouraged.

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Thoughts on the Boio

By John B. Wallace, Alameda, Calif.

Reported by Alan Ramsay Last summer when in the mounIf the object of the flight shoot tains where the Indians use a short were to get the longest shot per bow I was constantly asked why I pound of pull it would be more oi- less made my bows so long. My answer a measure of output and therefore of was that the English long bow was the efficiency of the bow depending the best ever made, that the white upon how carefully the other elements man had tried all the Indian bows were coordinated, such as the use of the same arrow for all bows, the use and the bows of all nations and found them all inferior to the English long of some method of getting exactly the bow and had therefore adopted that same length of pull and angle of arm, model. etc.

After giving this answer several If you take the table published by times it struck me that it was rather Pope giving the results of flight weak, was not a reason at all but a shooting tests of many bows and make statement of a fact, if it is a fact, and another column of figures giving the I began to think about the question: results of dividing the length of the What is a bow? What constitutes a flight by the pounds pull, or the yards good bow? What do we try to get shot per pound pull you will find that when making a bow ? the English long bow is not in a class The bow, providing it is reasonably by itself. well constructed, has absolutely noth­ Now what, aside from the manner ing to do with accurate shooting. The of its use, or in other words, what in flatness of trajectory secured by a the bow itself, affects its efficiency? stronge bow may be a help but it is Evidently the character of the wood only a help in securing accuracy. and the diminsions of the bow and A bow is a machine for changing nothing else. the slow motion of the arm to the Having our wood, the best we can quick motion necessary to propel the get, what diminsions shall we give it a'rrow and can give out no more to get the greatest efficiency? Gener­ force than is put into it. ally we follow the diminsions given in print or copy some bow at hand. But If, then, it is a machine, what we want in a bow is what we want in any why should the diminsions be so and so? Why should my bow be six other machine, efficiency, the greatest output for a given input. feet? What have we to start -with We measure the input by the pull that is fixed ?

Evidently the length of pull is fixed or weight of the bow in pounds but for each individual. This is generally there has been no measurement of the output. The ordinary flight shoot is taken as 28 inches for men but all men do not wear No. 10 shoes. Nev­ not such a measurement for the rea­ son that the only object in such a ertheless what ever it is there is unshoot is the greatest flight. The truck doubtably a fixed length of pull that is right for me. The same is true of that hauls the greatest load is not necessarily the most efficient truck. the pull or weight if you must use

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the lingo of Robin Hood.

These seem to be the only settled points we have to start with but in some of the writings there is a hint of another. Asham, Elmer and Pope say that a bow fully drawn is seven eights or nine tenths broken (have forgotten the exact figures). This seems to be a hint and it seems reasonable to sup­ pose that at some point in the strain­ ing of the wood, probably near the breaking point, there is a point where the resiliancy of the wood is greatest.

There is nothing to show just where this point is and we can find it if ;t is near the breaking point because when we get that far we can not go back. It would seem likely that after reaching the point of greatest resil­ iancy the resiliancy falls off some­ what before the strain reaches the breaking point. There is evidently a point of strain where the resiliancy or rebound is greater than at any other point and for want of better knowledge let us assume that this point is near the breaking point.

Therefore what we want is a length and cross section of bow that with a given length of pull will bring the strain closest to this point of greatest resiliancy and evidently these two fac­ tors of length and general cross sec­ tion are interdependent.

Let us examine this question of cross section first and by cross sec­ tion we mean of that part of the bow that does most of the work and bears the greatest strain which is what may be called the midway point of the limb.

There are only two and can be only two classes of bows in this regard grading from one to the other.

These are first, the section where the depth is relatively very great with refrence to the width as in the Eng­ lish long bow or stacked bow and sec­

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ond, where the depth is relatively vciy little with reference to the width as in the Indian broad, flat bow. It is also to be noted that the depth can never exceed the width for the rea­ son that the bow -will turn in the hand and the width become the depth. On the other hand the width may exceed the depth as much as may be desired.

Where a piece of wood is bent there is a neutral axis where there is no strain in the wood. On one side, the concave, the strain is compression, on the other side, the convex, the strain is tension. The strain in the fibres increases as their distance from this neutral axis increases. The location of the neutral axis depends on the cross section of the piece. In a square the axis would be through the center and the fibers on the outside would be subject to the same amount of strain—on one side compression, the other tension.

Take these two sections of a bow with the neutral axis approximately located.

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other words No. 2 can bend to a much sharper arc before breaking than can No. 1.

Now we will consider the effect of length, if our reasoning so far has been correct it is evident that length and cross section are interdependent and one being assumed or set by other factors the other must be made to cor­ respond. If, for instance, the length is assumed to be six feet as with the English long bow the depth must be such in proportion to its width that when the bow is pulled 28 inches the wood is strained to the point of great­ est resiliancy. But the English bow form is generally made with from six to 18 inches of dead wood or wood that practically does not bend and therefore does no work, at the handle.

The reason generally given for the presence of this dead wood is that it prevents jar in the hand. I have not had enough experience to have an opinion on this point but suspect there is a good deal of guff about this and while there may be something in it, it is not the only reason. Some woods such as Osage and Greenhart are said to have more of this jar than other woods such as Yew or Lemon­ wood and yet we see Yew and Lemon­ wood bows with the greatest possible amount of such dead wood.

If a six foot Lemonwood bow has no dead wood in the center and the cross section is such that it has the great­ est permissable stack, that is, the depth is nearly or quite equal to the depth the arc of the bow when drawn 28 inches is to the flat to strain the wood to the proper point. Such a bow is often improved by shortening and we constantly hear the remark, “the cast of the bow is improved by shortening,” which merely shows that the bow was not properly constructed in the first place. If there is 15 or

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18 inches of dead wood in the center the bend is all near the ends of the limbs and the arc of the bend therefore much sharper. Extreme cases of this arc said to be “whip ended.”

An exaggerated diagram of such a bow would be about like Fig. No. 3.

The line ab being the radius of the arc of the bent portion.

On the other hand an exaggerated diagram of a short bow with no dead wood at the center would be about like Fig. No. 4.

Here it is evident that near the end of the bow there are several inches of dead wood because near the end of the draw the angle between the string and th end of the limb is so slight that the pull on the string does not do the proper amount of work in bending the bow. This angle should be 90 degrees in order that the pull be most effec­ tive. Such a bow would pull hard at the end of the draw without any cor­ responding increase in casting power.

Here apparently is a sound reason for reflexing a short bow at the ends because reflexing would tend to make useful the pull near the end of the draw that would otherwise be wasted.

It would also seem that there is no call for reflexing where the length of the bow is equal to or greater than twice the length of the draw.

The length of a bow is generally settled by circumstances having noth­ ing to do with efficiency of the bow.

The English long bow was used in open country or open woods and its length was probably also much in­ fluenced by tradition and the glamor of great names. The short bow has generally been adopted by peoples hunting in thick woods or on horse­ back. It would seem that other things equal, the jar in the hand being neg­ lected and the proper cross section adopted there is no reason why one

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should be more efficient than the other. The Turkish bows were said to be better than the English and they were short bow's. The Igorrote (X4.8) and Yurock (4.6) bows tested by Pope and mentioned in his table were prob­ ably short bows, though I have no means of verifying this, and they showed results equal to the English long bow (4.6). That is the flight of the arrow pel' pound of pull was as great.

There is a chance here for some club to make a contribution to the science of archery. A contest in which the highest score is measured by the flight of the arrow per pound of pull would let in all classes from the girl with the 25 pound bow to the regular he man with his 120 pound bow and the big fellow would have no walk over at that. If entries could be secured to the number of 20 to 30 and many of them different from the standard bow and the results pub­ lished in the form of a table it would make very interesting and instructive reading. If the English long bow with its 15 to 19 inches of dead wood in the center is the best let us prove it and show the reason why, not tak­ ing the word of history and tradition, mostly tradition, for it.

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while the rest of the party had to be satisfied in giving those darn jacks some excellent exercise. Our only re­ gret on the trip was that we had no movie camera to record Billie’s record breaking sprints through the sage brush to get ahead of the rabbits that escaped her arrows.

The following morning they gener­ ously gave up some much needed sleep to meet the Ute Archery Club at 6:30 for early morning practice and gave us some greatly needed instruction m target work. The remainder of the day was spent in sight-seeing with a trip to the Great Salt Lake in the eve­ ning with the Utes for a refreshing float in the brine. Billie fails to see why we should have difficulty in cap­ turing our game here with tail salt so plentiful. From our hunting suc­ cess for far it looks as if we had bet­ ter accept her suggestion and make it an item of our regular hunting equipment.

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Daily instruction in archery has been begun at the Poinsettia Play­ ground, Hollywood, California. Doug las I. Donald is director.

'Rounsevilles Visit Utah

Mr. E. H. Hale, director of the Sawtelle Playground, Sawtelle, Cali­ fornia, has taken up archery as one of the playground recreations.

On their way home from the na­ tional tournament, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Rounseville stopped in Salt Lake for a few hours that extended into a two day visit. The first after­ noon Jerry Thorne took them to Payson to visit the archery club there and this visit developed into a jack-rabbit hunt with Doc Pfouts and Charles Pace. Rabbits were scarce and wild but Billie and Phil each bagged one

A New Jersey boy, Russell Brown, writes us as follows: “One of my friends has just killed a large rab­ bit with his bow and he is as happy as a big game hunter with his first elephant. There is only on trouble with your dandy little book,—it doesn’t come often enough. But when it does come, oh boy, it reaches the gold!”

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Archery Friendships Roy Case says, "One of the great­ est pleasures of archery is the friends we make. There is a strong bond be­ tween all of us that are ‘crazy in the same way.’ ” In support of his state­ ment he sends us a letter and a poem from a friend he has made through archery, J. D. Allen of Mandan, North Dakota.

The letter describes the sport of shooting the “flickertail” gopher. J. D. says, “On a warm and favorable day it is seldom that five minutes passes without a shot, and often as many or more shots are offered as fast as one can draw and shoot, with­ out moving out of one’s tracks. Mr. Flickertail has a happy way of pop­ ping his head out of the hole often within a few seconds after he has dodged an arrow and made a dive for his hole. He either wishes to see what is going on, or he takes pleasure in drawing another arrow and showing how cleverly he can dodge it. His head is about the size of a silver dol­ lar, and with its bright black eye in the center of a side view, which is always presented, makes an attractive target. But it is most difficult to hit, partly on account of is diminuative size, but principally on account of the fact that its owner will most invariably ‘duck’ at the twang of the bowstring.”

The poem, written on Mr. Allen’s seventy-fifth birthday, we are sure will be appreciated by our readers. It follows: Mathusala, at seventy five Was but a kid; pants to his knees.

To longer pants but shorter life We’ve changed the style by slow de­ grees.

I’m seventy five this very day, And with life’s work about half through.

Must speed like (blank) as sinners say, To finish all I’ve planned to do.

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The seventy-five years young arch­ er is J. D. Allen, Mandan, N. D. I’m feeling fine! Right off the bat; Quite like a baseball on the fly.

But had I nine lives like a cat, I’d bump the last one by and by.

Birds there will be with song and nest, And shine the sun just as today, When I lie down a bit to rest, And in sweet slumber slip away.

How glad I didn’t die when young, As good so often used to do.

Then in the hot place all were flung, Except, ’twas said, the chosen few.

How better now of ’ell a dirth;

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Its embers are no more aglow; And all go UP, since FROM the earth There’s no such thing as Down Be­ low.

I overslept an hour this morn.

Suppose I’d slept two hours instead, Or through Eternity slept on, And never known that I was dead! . But while in dreamland where's no time, “Gabe,” on his engine for a joke His whistle blew! Was it a crime?

For from sweet slumber I awoke.

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National Tournament (Continued from page 4) out West that I am probably mixed up) but we were virtually at another tournament on the Sunday, and tak­ ing all things into consideration one will have to d.o some tall thinking if we hope to excel that great shoot at Santa Barbara in 1929. o-

Archery instruction has been added to the course in physical education at Willamette -university, Salem, Oregon.

Arm) Velocities and the Projectile Formula

By W. ROBINSON, Washington, D. C. The only velocity measurement of arrows available to the average arch­ er are recorded by Saxton Pope. He states that the average velocity of an arrow from a 50 pound yew bow is 150 feet per second over a distance of 100 yards.

If the extreme range of an arrow, or if the angle of departure for any intermediate range is known the velocity can be calculated by the pro­ jectile formula. This projectile for­ mula does not take into account air resistance. Air resistance is undoubt­ edly a factor but probably not of suf­ ficient importance to seriously affect the application to arrow ballistics.

Arrow velocities are comparatively low, and the air resistance is less ef­ fective with projectiles of low velocity than with faster moving bullets. The end density of an arrow is nearly three times that of a 150 grain .30 calibre bullets and this tends to show a lesser effect from the air on the arrow. Working in the opposite di­ rection, however, is the slip friction

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Knowing that the projectile for­ mula is not strictly applicable, but feeling its application is at least approximate and interesting we will try it on in a few cases.

The velocity of the arrow Dr. Ca­ they recently loosed at Santa Bar­ bara for 353 */s yards can be calculat­ ed. The formula is: D (distance) = V2(velocity) X sin2a 32.2 Where A is the angle of departure.

D is always greatest when sin2A is maximum or when A — 45°. Assum­ ing this was the angle of departure the velocity of Dr. Cathey’s arrow becomes: V = V1060 X 32.2 = 185 ft. per sec.

Sultan Selinis shot 1000 yards, which may have lost nothing by the telling, must have singed the feathers for the velocity is: V = V3000 X 32.2 — 311 ft. per sec.

Here we must digress a little for the purpose of finding the angle of departure for ranges of about 100

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yards or under. We will confine our­ selves to special cases where the point of aim is on the gold and the gold is lined with the eye. The angle of departure is obviously fixed by the drawing point and the arrow length. The drawing point of a few archers has been measured. It ranges from 10 centimeters to 16 centimeters for those having a chin draw. The average is not far from 14 centimet­ ers. Taking this average draw and the average arrow length the line of the angle of departure becomes 0.1957 and the angle is 11° 17z. The sine of twice this angle is 0.384.

We are now ready to solve the question. What is the target distance when the gold and point of aim co­ incide with the arrow velocity of 185 feet per second: D

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185'- X 0.384 = 136 yards 32.2

The arrow velocity when the point of aim is on the gold at 100 yards is: V — V300 X .384 == 158 ft. per sec.

The general relation between velo­ city and this particular distance is: V — VD X 9.16 or D = (V/9.16)Suppose the point of aim to be on the gold at 70 yards, then the velocity is: V = V210 X 9.16 = 144 ft. per sec.

There are a few other- interesting applications. The height to which the arrow rises in its path is: H = V-sin-A/2G for Dr. Cathey’s record shot the ar­ row must have risen: H = 185'- X .707- = 265 feet 64.4 It is the author’s opinion that the actual velocities are somewhat less than those calculated from the pro­ jectile formula for the distances at which the point of aim is on the gold are somewhat farther than is realized

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in actual practice with lively casting bows. The personal equation comes in here to a great extent in the sharp­ ness of the loose. We must wait, therefore, for someone to accurately measure arrow velocities and if this article will stir up a little activity in this direction we will be amply re­ warded. o-

The Old Dominion Heard Congratulations to Dr. Roberts! He has beaten a public record that has stood for seventy-one years!

But no one I have ever heard of has approached Ford’s private shooting— as for example the following three single York rounds: 69-371-48-274-24-154-141-799 71-335-48-272-24-158-143-765 66-344-47-301-24-154-137-809 Of the score in the first round, 548 was made in golds and reds! So we still have something to aim at.

I enjoy your- little paper—not the least, the Osage-Yew controversy.

Perhaps one reason for prefering yew to osage at the targets is that yew certainly tires on long round and a tired archer can handle the weaker bow, but an osage holds its draw like a piece of steel. You may tire, but the bow does not.

With best wishes, H. S. HEDGES, Charlottesville, Va. ------------- o------------We acknowledge receipt of an in­ teresting and scientific booklet by Dr. C. N. Hickman on The Velocity and Acceleration of Arrows and the Weight and Efficiency of Bows as Affected by Backing of Bow. It is a reprint from the Journal of the Franklin Institute.

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ARROW-MAKER

By Mrs. Ruth E. Robinson, Spokane, Washington Arrow-maker shivers, Ice winds wail and blow.

Feathers, sinews, strips of leathers Swaying thru a sift of snow, In a ragged, blackened wigwam, Where a fire burns low.

Gaunt hands groping, numb.

Arrow-maker crouches, Coarse threads, rosin, heaps of flint­ heads; To all other things he’s dumb.

He must make strong magic arrows, Soon the warriors come.

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Arrow-maker hungers, Weakness he would spurn.

Spear-hafts, pitches, seasoned oak­ shafts; Strong true weapons his concern.

Winds say—“Haste you- For new ar­ rows Haughty Braves return.”

Arrow-maker dreaming, While the winds chant higher.

Hunting, war-time, swift wild riding; Reckless days of youths desire.

Now he visions long-lost Brothers Gathered round his fire.

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C. M. HUNTLEY 6555 19th Ave. N. E. 6555 19th Ave. N. E., Seattle, Wash.

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Bows unsurpassed for beauty and utility. Good arrows, and equipment, raw materials. Send for price list of goods made by master craftman.

EARL B. POWELL. Box 728 Vernon Branch, Los Angeles. Calif.

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weight Yet jugged fallA light _ purpose hunting point, tion guaranteed.

Wholesale prices on request.

HUGO BUCKNER 115 W. 8th St., Hanford. Calif._ Douglas fir self arrows^ parallel points, fibre nocks, uniform in weight and balance, painted between feathers and varnished. A fine target arrow.

Price, postpaid, doz. $8; 100, $150.

Black walnut footings, 16 x 8 — price, postpaid, doz. 50c; 100, $1.50.

Archery score cards can be used for either York or American Round.

Price, postpaid, 25, 50c; 100, $1.50.

JOE HOFF. 1832 N. Oneida Street _________ APPLETON, WIS.________ _

Archery Raw Materials

Beefwood, Snakewood, Ebony, Ver­ milion, Purpleheart, Green heart.

Osage, Australian Rosewood, Mahog­ any, and other footings. Imported inlay and Fancy Woods. GEO. BROMMERS, Box 1164, San Pedro, Calif.

THE NEW ARCHERS’ HANDBOOK 1929 Edition WHAT EVERY ARCHER WANTS— HISTORY OF ARCHERY, TARGET SHOOTING. INDOOR ARCHERY, CLOUT SHOOTING, HUNTING, ROVERS, TOURNAMENT, ARCHERY GOLF — asd many other subjects. Each written by experts.

Abundantly illustrated with drawings, sketches, photographs, and colored Illustrations.

Price—Only 25c To:

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The Archers Co., Makers of Fine Bows and Arrows, Pinehurst, North Carolina.

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Weight Height Please send me the new Archers’ Handbook, 25c, (in stamps or coin) inclosed.

Please send.... dozen of the new Archers Handbooks at the special price of $1.20 per dozen, to clubs, troops, schools, etc. Inclosed $............................

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YEW WOOD WINS AGAIN bows of select air seasoned Yewwood; patterned after Ishi’s mg weapon. Have wrapped cord handles, leather arrow plates, woT^.fP^ln®S’J°rdinary nocks; 4' 6" to 5' 3" in length, built to any eight desired to 60 pounds. Priced at from $9.00 to $12.00 each, G. O. D. or M. O. Rates to dealers and clubs.

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Select white turkey feathers at $1.50 per pound.

• Dort Orford cedar arrow squares $.05 each in small lots; $.04 each m quantity. t jW-ipte1 cut air seasoned Yewwood staves and billets of high altiim er. Write me of your needs and I will write you of my price.

At rthe ---®ce^ National Tournament at Santa Barbara, California, of the seventy contestants ” ” men ' A—-—A on the target line, fifteen used bows of my Yewwood. I., In addition to this number, there were probably as many more using , ■=>’ my Yewwood, obtaining same from bowvers and manufacturers, whom I supply with staves and billets. vail yourself of the Ullrich quality and service.

Yewwood (E. L.) Ullrich Roseburg

^04 Commercial Avenue

Oregon

STYLES YEW BOWS

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y Majority of the Leading American Archers,— Those Wh ■ ■-io hoose with Absolute Discrimination.

Dr. E.recoi5°^ft K. S’ nati°nal champion, broke Horace Ford's 72year-old rc and duX° neuf vmy yew bows’ rt was point blank at 100 yards, Barbara it did not 1 sun of the shooting at Santa Will Palmer t stren&th °T cast' they have beenon^tTo^J”6^03’1 ckampion, has used my bows since cbampion, is one of mv Dr' EImer, many times American all existing records rons‘ Dr. E. K. Roberts who has broken says, “Any other make very successful hunter-archer as well, after one of yours ” n °'X *S JUS*' a dish-rag when I shoot t»ray, presidents, past anYGeorge F- Weld and General ThordRunn”’ Use and recommTr1, of the National Archery AssoS>Xr;UiP in the NatX? "^mTy b°WS- Mrs- George A Smith, lemonwood bow marled Lady Champion of New York, made by me.

Circulars sent upon request.

^feius Hayward Styles

Berkeley, California

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