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Table of Contents NOCKING FOR DEER IN MICHIGAN SNO.WS, by L. W. Patchin.

SANTA MONICA TOURNAMENT, by Phil W. Clancy.

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ARROWS AND SHYBUCKS, by Albert E. Andrews.

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MID-WINTER ARCHERY TOURNAMENT AT PINEHURST.

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ARCHERY PHOTO CONTEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST SPRING TOURNAMENT, by Kore T. Duryee.

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MY LADY’S FIRST LESSON WITH THE LONG BOW, by Miss

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OUR FIRST HUNT WITH BOW AND ARROW, by Jj T. Jones.

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^Cocking for CDeev CDeer in Michigan Snows

By L. W. PATCHIN, Berkley, Mich.

My son, Lucius, Jr., known as Jim, Les Case of Sidnaw, Mich., took us and I, usually hailed as Pat, were out, and most of our success was due bitten by the archery bug a couple of to him. He is one of the best hunt­ years ago, and have ever since har­ ers and finest woodsmen1 I ever have bored the idea of a hunting trip. had the good luck to meet, and on top This year everything broke right so of that he is a sportsman, and, since we could get away. our trip, an archer.

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and I am a six-footer. A miss meant a lost arrow and for hard work I can recommend walking in deep snow as a world beater. But it sure did make for good hunting, good tracking, and soft under foot for sneaking.

We were lucky enough not to have to camp, as my father-in-law has a farm right in the middle of the best deer cover in Michigan. In the sum­ mer the deer raid his garden many a night.

Les came in one night saying he had wounded a big buck in the front shoulder (with a .rifle) but it was too late to trail him then. He told Jim he was sure they would find him the next morning if Jim did not mind having one bullet in his deer. They picked up his trail with no trouble and caught him lying down a couple of miles from where Les had left him.

As he came to his feet Jim put a broadhead in his neck and i knocked him down again. Then as the deer struggled to get up Jim continued to shoot, one arrow splitting a piece of antler and the last one passingthrough the lungs. When they got in that night, Les said, “All right, I know you can kill him, I’ll show you one tomorrow.”

We hit a trail that satisfied Les, next afternoon, and followed it about two miles in perfect tracking snow.

At last Les motioned me ahead and pointed to a patch of brush. I step­ ped up with an arrow nocked and bow raised and then the deer stepped out.

There was a shot for archers to dream about. Thirty yards away, suspicious but not really scared, he stood broadside to us, ears erect, and head raised, sniffing the air.

My arrow caught him behind the shoulder with a wicked “chuck.”

“That got him,” yelled Les and we ran to where he had stood. There was blood on both sides of the track. Shot clear through.

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I knew the best thing to do was to sit down and wait a few minutes, but it just couldn’t be done, Away we went after those blood stained tracks.

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away before we came within bowshot. He ran but a short distance when I got a running shot but missed.

Two more running chances through thick brush and I was almost out of arrows.

By now, though, the deer was go­ ing very slowly and I could wait for a good chance. Then I got my sec­ ond hit. I was at the top of a little slope and he was at the bottom.

The arrow hit about halfway back in the body just below the backbone. It ranged forward and down on a diago­ nal and the head and eight inches of the shaft stuck <out over his front shoulder. He plunged on a few yards and went down again. I_____ drew for his neck, but just as I loosed he turned his head toward me. The arrow hit him just below the eyes, c through the skull and down into .j his throat. I

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had only to push it through the neck skin and pull it through to retrieve it.

I was surprised at the penetration of the arrows, although I had done lots of shooting, but Case was almost pop-eyed. He was so enthused over the bow that I gave him one with all my spare arrows when I left. The morning I went he conducted an experiment with a blunt arrow and a water pail. It was his only pail and the store six miles away, but the ex­ periment was successful.

I have a big owl as an additional trophy. I was watching a runway when he came sailing along to light on a big pine snag about twenty-five yards away. I loosed almost at the moment he lit and caught him plumb center. It was the best shot I made on the trip.

I am not a mighty hunter nor an expert archer. I only make a little better than three hundred in the American and Les Case furnished most of the woodcraft. I went sim­ ply to have a .good time, and I surely had it.

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Santa cTTonica ‘Tournament

By PHIL W. CLANCY, Sec. S. M. A. The first annual club tournament Fifteen trophies consisting of cups of the Santa Monica Archers was and archery equipment were awarded held at Clover Field Recreational to winners of the different events.

Park, Santa Monica, California, No­ Immediately after the tournament vember 19-20, 1927. Total hits and the annual business meeting was held scores decided the championship, by the club at the range. Future which was won by Stanley F. Spen­ events were decided as follows. cer with a total (score and hits) of One Handicap Shoot each month.

2790. This is over 300 points more One Invitational Open Shoot each than Mr. Spencer made when he won year. the National Championship in 1926.

One Annual Championship Club The tournament was held by the Shoot each year.

Santa Monica Archers on the new Inasmuch as the first annual club archery range set aside by the City shoot was held in conjunction ‘with of Santa Monica for archery pur­ the first invitational open shoot, a poses. This range is part of a two- separate report is made of club mem­ hundred-acre municipal recreational bers only. park and is considered to be one of It is of interest to all archers who the finest archery ranges in the Uni­ may read this report to know that the ted States.

Santa Monica Archers is composed of A portion of this park is used for women and men, who, up to the time a municipal airport, the starting of this tournament, had less than one point of the “Around the World year of experience in archery.

Flight” planes. Due to a change in The events consisted of a Double date of the annual celebration of the York Round and a Double American successful flight of these planes, the Round for men and a Double Nation­ celebration fell upon the same day as al and a Double Columbia for women; the tournament. This condition did also the usual flight shoot. not interfere with the archery tour­ The following are the scores of the nament but was the cause of some women contestants: twenty-five or thirty thousand peo1. Mrs. R. Johnson...................... 1829 pie viewing an archery tournament 2. Mrs. Violet Carter.................. 1652 for the first time; thereby, undoubt­ 3. Mrs. Raymond ........................ 1424 edly, creating considerable interest in 4. Mrs. C. R. Yeaman ............... .1366 archery.

5. Edith M. .Strasser ................ 1218 The weather was that of an ideal, 6. Mrs. Earl D. Grubbs ............ 1075 warm, California winter day, with a 7. Mrs. Hodson (did not shoot temperature of 75 degrees and a gen­ all the rounds) ,....................... 870 tle westerly breeze. This breeze was Dorothy Douglas .................... 863 8. at all times with the flight of the 9. Marian S. Clancy .................... 801 arrows.

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1017 W. E. Henn (one York and two American Rounds) 948 18. R. W. Hodson (one York and one American) ........... 850

Many bows were broken during the last of December and first of Janu­ ary in Washington, D. C. The writer has considered this at length and has reached the conclusion that this was primarily the .result of dryness and not directly a consequence of cold.

With the weather cold and dry out­ side the air has a voracious capacity for water by the time it reaches in­ door temperatures. A layer of wire wound tightly on a one inch wooden rod in the summer becomes uncon­ trollably loose in winter. Measure­ ments in a basement where the hu­ midity leached 87% in the summer fell as low as 17% in winter.

Two of the bows personally ob­ served broke at room temperature, and one outdoors when the weather was quite mild.

Freezing weather may cause bows to break, but the effect of dessication is needed to account for the failure of about ten bows in two weeks.

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CArrows and Shybucks

By ALBERT E. ANDREWS, Huntington, Indiana

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Two surprises are in store for any archer who hits his first rabbit. One will be the mere fact that he hit the beast; the other, the great power of the arrow. And this will be true whether the archer is a boy with a twenty-pound bow or a man with a weapon weighing forty to seventy pounds.

This article is based, on, experience with the shybuck, the long-eared whitetail that inhabits Indiana and many other states of the central west. It is an interesting beast, too.

When I first learned, occasionally, to see bunny on its form, I took a cam­ era with me, intending to photograph it. For two days, bright, snappy days of fall, I carried that camera with me and I took pictures of rabbits that I could see most plainly in the weeds and grasses. The exposures were at ten to fifteen feet and were excellently timed.

The negatives were perfect, but the prints showed nothing but fall vegetation. Never have I seen a picture of a Hoosier­ cottontail on its form. Even the books on nature, so far as I have no­ ticed, contain no photographs of the kind. Even that extremely interest­ ing volume, “American Animals,” by Witmer Stone and William Everett Cram contains no such photograph.

But it does show the picture of a young shybuck in a vegetable garden.

I doubt that a picture of a Hoosier­ cottontail in its form is photograph­ ically possible, though good nega­ tives of white snowshoe rabbits have been obtained. * For hunting the Indiana shybuck the first requisite is experience in seeing. No one can tell how to see a rabbit on its form, but he may give

a few suggestions. He can advise the beginner to watch for grass and leaves with an eye or an ear in it.

Whenever a .rabbit gets up the archershould go to its form and examine it, imagining the i abbit sitting there and what he must have looked like on the form. Eventually he will learn to see a few of the whitetails before they bound away but never may he hope to see all of them. The sailing hawk that hunts through the bright au­ tumn sky, searching the ground with eyes trained from babyhood, the sly fox and the bloodthirsty weasel will all overlook the rabbit on its form, and the human being whose eyes have accomplished more than the vision and cunning of bird and beast has reason to be proud of his woodcraft.

Yet it can be done and is done.

It means slow going, Five acres of good rabbit country are enough for two or three archers in a half day’s hunt. And if they put in more time on less ground they will see more of interest than the game. Archery teaches the hunter to be very observ­ ing.

My first rabbit was not shot on the form, however, though I have shot at rabbits on their forms more often than when they were running. My first game was shot on the run and on my first hunt. I was using a sixfoot lemonwood bow, leather-backed, and a twenty-eight-inch, five-six­ teenth birch arrow with small hunt­ ing head. We were on the north side of a ravine when a rabbit got up and ran along in front of me and into the ravine. I shot at him in the ravine and missed, and stood there, watch­ ing where he went, observing that he stopped in a briar patch on the south

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side The patch was between two promontories that jutted into the ravine. My companions were my two sons. We made a circle, retrieved my arrow, and I took a position on one of the little promontories, one son be­ ing on the other, and the third of the party entering the briars.

The rabbit hopped out toward me and stopped and sat down, looking me over as I began to draw my arrow. Evidently the motion startled him; for he started running to my right and along my side of the ravine. I followed him with the arrow head, sighting under him, and as I twisted for the follow I released. The arrow struck him in the right hip, ranging forward and coming out just back of the ribs, pinning him to the ground. We were all surprised.

The talk about that shot spread among the sportsmen of our town and I achieved a reputation as a crack shot with the bow—a reputation I did not deserve then and do not deserve now. I am really a very poor shot.

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The one whitetail was shot .in a clump of briars covering an area roughly two by four feet, Such an isolated clump is always a likely spot. The rabbits rseem -; to know that predatory birds and animals do not like to be scratched and that heavy animals will not step on them; so they get into the briars, kick out a form and go to sleep. A tree in a cultivated field is another likely pl;ace.

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I believe the rabbits use such things as land marks.

The briar patch was approached with caution and careful scrutiny.

Getting- to that patch was a business of minutes. But no rabbit was visi­ ble. Yet one ought to be there. If j were a rabbit, I’d select a place like that. I got right up to that patch and looked over into it—but no rab­ bit was visible. I started to go past but loooked back and I saw an eye looking at me out of the browns and grays of the autumn blend of colors.

Then I made out the outline of the shybuck. I shot, the arrow striking the eye, passing down the neck and out just back of the ribs.

Shortly thereafter one of the other fellows whistled to me. I looked toward him and he was poised almost as tensely as a setter and looking directly ahead. I walked slowly to­ ward him and he pointed. Finally, only ten feet away, I made out the outline of the rabbit. It was a clean, open shot, but my arrow stuck in the ground just above him and he bound­ ed away. Again this same man whistled and I went to him. At first I could not see the game, and then a gust of wind came and as it moved the grasses and leaves I noted that a very small patch of the ground sur­ face was fur. It looked—when at last I could differentiate it—like a piece torn from a fur muff and cast care­ lessly on the ground. I drew and shot. The arrow head must have touched the tips of the hairs of the rabbit as it zipped past and .stood there vibrating.

Rabbit hunters are very likely to overshoot at short distances. They draw on the rabbit at three to fifteen feet as they would draw on the rov­ ing target at possibly twenty yards.

They need more practice at ten feet.

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Here is another case that proves the point: We were in a bare pas­ ture field, shooting at paper cartons.

As we walked from one carton back to the other and picked up our ar­ rows, one of the men saw a rabbit.

It was in a little clump of grass not fifteen feet away and evidently had been looking at our practice game.

My friend shot from ten feet and stuck an arrow in the ground just above the rabbit.

Poor shooting, thought I. So I drew up my roving arrow to pin the beast to the ground — and missed worse than he had done. My son was near and I told him to shoot just under the beast.

He followed my advice and actually did shoot under it; and out of that triangle of feath­ ered arrows sprang an Indiana shy­ buck to .gallop away to safety, follow­ ed by a fourth arrow from the small boy of the party who really made a better shot than any of us, but missed.

When I began hunting rabbits I used the finger tips described by Dr. Pope in his book “Hunting with the

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Bow and Arrow,” but for the fall and winter in Indiana one suffers from the cold. Then I hit on an idea of my own that solved the problem of cold fingers. Buying a pair of leatherreinforced canvas gloves, I put the right glove on my hand and with the left hand sewed up the three draw­ ing fingers to the proper snugness.

The gloves cost about 35 cents a pair.

I used ordinary needle and thread, using the whip stitch. The leather on the inside of the fingers grows smoother with use and it is not diffi­ cult to sew through the canvas on the back of each finger as far up as the second joint. Doubtless a better shooting glove can be devised. For example, it might be lined with rab­ bit fur to make it warmer, and pos­ sibly some glove company will man­ ufacture one of that kind; but to date, so far as I know, there is noth­ ing superior to the canvas gK ’e with leather palms, sewed on the backs or the three fingers to make the fit snug.

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Winter Archery" tournament at Pinehurt N. C. The Mid-Winter Archery Tourna­ ment at Pinehurst has just been con­ cluded and was held jointly with the Southern States Archery Association, a new organization that has just been formed to include all archers south of the Mason-Dixon line.

A number of archers from various points in the north and throughout the states participated in the event which was conducted for the most part under the English style instead of under American regulations. Ma­ jor George A. E. Chapman, D. S. 0., 1922 Champion of England, has been instructing in archery at Pinehurst and was requested to take charge of the tournament and lun it exactly the same way in which tournaments aie run in his own country. The main difference between the American and English shooting is that the English shoot up and down as they say, namely, at two sets of targets. Three arrows are shot at one target and then three arrows shot back at an­ other target. This method is ratherconfusing at first to American ar­ chers because of the great difference in light and wind conditions and the scores in the York and National Rounds were correspondingly low.

The Juniors, headed by Stephen A. Douglas V., of Greensboro, did some very fine shooting indeed. Young Douglas, who is only thirteen, cap­ tured the Carolina Cup for the high. est score made with six consecutive arrows at any distance, his score be­ ing six hits, 52 score at forty vards This is four points better than was made by the Metropolitan Champion General Ivor Thord-Gray last year’ the first holder of the Carolina Chal­ lenge Cup.

In addition to the above fine score, Douglas made the phenomenal record of 88-600 in the Junior American Round, one of the highest scores ever made by any Junior anywhere. Of the ninety arrows, thirty at each distance of fifty, forty, and thirty yards, Douglas missed only two shots, and his average arrow was within a two foot circle in order to make such a score.

Another outstanding feature of the tournament was the close competition between the two leading men, James Geeslin, Scout executive of Greens­ boro, and Phillip Rounsevelle, presi­ dent of The Archers Company of Pinehurst. At the end of the first day’s shooting Mr. Geeslin was three points ahead. At the end of the shooting at noon on the second day he was thirteen points ahead.

Through the afternoon of the second day, Rounsevelle kept diminishing Geeslin’s lead until about thirty min­ utes before the close of the event, when they were tied. From then or. it was nip and tuck, and it was not until the very last minute of the tournament that it was discovered that Rounsevelle had won by a mar­ gin of only a few points.

This made a double victory for the Rounsevelle family, as Mrs. Phillip Rounsevelle won the woman’s cham­ pionship of the Southern States by a good margin, with excellent scores.

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McNair Kah­ ler of Princeton, New Jersey, and Southern Pines, N. C., were en­ trants in the tournament and MrsKahler surprised all of her friends by winning the cup for the best gold, although she has had less than a week s actual experience in shooting-

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The prize winners were as follows: Ladies’ Championship Ladies high score, Mrs. Phillip

Ladies’ most hits, Miss Virginia Douglas, Greensboro, N. C. Ladies’ best gold, Mrs. Hugh Mc­ Nair Kahler, Princeton, N. J.

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Gold medals for sscores over 400, given by the Junior• National National Ar­ chery Association, were awarded to: Stephen A. Douglas V., Robert Hub­ bard, Billie Edgerton, and Edwin Garrett.

At the Carolina Hotel in the eve­ ning, when the prizes were given, Major Chapman, who was master of cei emonies, made a short, but very interesting speech, and said he looked for great things for the future of ar­ chery in America, although he could not say the same thing for England.

He pointed out that archery was ■ more or less on the decline in Eng­ land, but very much in the ascend­ ency in America, and the reason for the difference was that the Ameri­ cans laid great stress on the Juniors and particularly at the shorter ranges the Juniors had done as good if not better shooting than the men and the ladies. Major Chapman said he had never seen better shooting anywhere than that which was done by Stephen A. Douglas and Robert Hubbard.

ANTIQUITY OF THE BOW AND AND ARROW Phillip Rounsevelle, Southern States Champion

By C. A. BRIGGS

Ladies’ handicap, Miss Frances Bowles, Pinehurst, N. C. Men’s Championship Men’s high score, Phillip Rouns : velle, Pinehurst, N. C. Men’s most hits, James Geesixi, Greensboro, N. C. Men’s best gold, R. W. Brown, Jen­ kintown, Penn.

Men’s handicap, Dewey Black, Pine­ hurst, N. C. Junior Championship Junior’s high scoi’e, Stephen A. Douglas V., Greensboro, N. C. Junior’s most hits, Robert Hub­ bard, High Point, N. C. Junior’s best gold, Billie Edgerton, High Point, N. C.

Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, the noted an­ thropologist of the National Museum of Washington, in a conversation with the writer, leaned to the opinion that the development of the bow and ar­ row was quite recent in the history of man. He believes that it was probably about 10,000 years ago, and feels that it did not go back 20,000 years. Dr. Hrdlicka was inclined to emphasize the development of the bow and arrow as a notable achieve­ ment. While he seemed to think that there was not much chance that the bow and arrow would have escaped invention altogether, yet he seemed to think that the use may have spread from a single origin.

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The West Indies, the Phillippines and the Hawaiian Islands were also rep­ resented in the contest. This shows the very wide spread of interest in archery.

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Second prize was awarded to Mr. L. R. .Stoneman, Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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(Pacific JPorthweTb CArcher^ Association Spring Tournament

By KORE T. DURYEE, Secretary To start the season off with a bang the Pacific Northwest Archery asso­ ciation will hold a tournament for the Northwest in Seattle on March 1./, 1928.

This will be held in the new Uni­ versity of Washington athletic pavil­ ion. This building has a dirt floor and is long enough to shoot the 100yard range and wide enough for eight targets.

Entry fees of $2.00 will be charged the men and the ladies $1.00.

It is hoped that entries will come from all over the Northwest and make this first indoor tournament a huge success.

It will be probably the first time that such a tournament has been held indoors in the United States.

The program is as follows:

1:00 P. M.—Begin shooting the Metropolitan Round, 30 arrows each at 100, 80, GO, 50, 40 yards.

4:00 P. M.—Begin shooting the Columbia Round, 24 arrows each at 50, 40, 30 yards.

7:30 P. M.—Finish the Metropoli­ tan Round, 40 yard range only.

8:30 P. M.—Finish the Columbia Round, 30 yard range only.

9:15 P. M.—Novelty shooting.

The .reason for shooting part of the Metropolitan and Columbia Rounds in the evening is to give the evening spectators a chance to see some reg­ ular shooting besides the novelty shooting. . General admission in the afternoon is 25c and in the evening 25c and 50c.

Any proceeds above expenses is to be used towards rsending some representatives from this___ _ association back to the National Tournament

Skin of bear killed by Earl Ullrich and B. G. Thompson on the north fork of Umpqua river, in Douglas county, Oregon. The bear is a small three year old. Mr. Ullrich and Mr. Thompson report seeing much game on their trip, several bears, a pan­ ther, a wolf, a number of coyotes and numerous deer were sighted by the Party.

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By MISS VIVIAN SHRIVER Of the Archery Class of the Oregon State College.

No two persons shoot the same be­ cause in general no two persons have the same way of doing things. Al­ though some rules are followed, ste­ reotyped directions often do not prove effective because of individual characteristics.

The most usual method of string­ ing is to set the lower horn of the bow on the ground—its back toward the archer—against the inside of the foot, grasping the handle with the right hand and resting the lower part

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of the inside of the left hand upon the limb, just below the eye of the string. A strong' pull is then given the handle to bend the bow. The thumb and second joint of the fore­ finger of the left hand at the same time carry the eye of the string into the nock. Care is necessary to keep the fingers from between the bow and string, as beginners get their fingers between the bow and string and find the string can do something more than discharge an arrow and

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that is nearly cut off the fingers.

A. good standing position has firm­ ness, to resist force; elasticity, to free the muscles; and grace, to makeit. shooter and her performance attrac­ tive to the spectator. The heels a placed 6 or 8 inches apart. The feet are flat and firm on the ground, both equally inclining outward from the heels and the position at right angles with the mark.

Women, especially, find the string hits the left arm, elbow, or shoulders causing pain and ruining the shot.

This is avoided by holding the shoulders well down and back, or fac­ ing the target, changing the position of the feet accordingly.

The hand grasps the bow in an easy, natural way, the wrist is turned neither outward or inward. The ar­ row is laid on the bow, and put in the string with the cock-feather up at exactly right angles in relation to the string and not the bow, which may be crooked.

The bow when drawn is kept hori­ zontal and the first three fingers are held under the string with the arrow between the first and second, and the string resting on the middle of the pads of the first joints. The left arm is raised stiffly, with the elbow locked, straight away from the body until the left hand is level with the chin. To do this it is necessary to draw the arrow a few inches or to advance the right shoulder a little.

In drawing, the elbow of the drawing arm is kept free from the body, al­ lowing the powerful shoulder and shoulder-blade muscles to do most of the pulling. The pull from end to end is without jerk or any sudden movement. A sudden jerk, especial­ ly, towards the end, many times means failure to the success of the snot.

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whole line and length and the point of aim are kept in mind in aiming the arrow. By the point of aim is meant the spot apparently covered by the point of the arrow. In aiming be- 1 yond the target distances the mark and point of aim are too far apart to be seen in conjunction. Piactice is needed to throw the arrow up to the mark.

The point of aim higher than the target applies only for distances be­ yond GO yards. In a range of 60 yards or less, for the bow of average strength, the point of aim is below the target on the ground. If the ar­ row were drawn to the eye, the point of aim would be above the target and the nock is usually 6 inches lower than the eye. To raise the tip even as high as the line of sight from the eye to the target means a rise of 6 inches in 28, an inclination which sends the shaft much too high.

Holding is a part of aiming refer­ ring to the time in which the arrow is held motionless prior to the mo­ ment of flight. If holding is too long the bow is likely to break and the shot may be spoiled. A very slight pause is sufficient to steady the arm and correct the aim.

Loosing is considered the most im­ portant part in shooting. It is the act of freeing' the string from the fingers of the right hand, which retain it. No matter how correct and Per" feet the rest of the archer’s perform­ ance is, if loosing is not mastered, the result will prove a failure.

A bow with a like weight of arrow and length of pull will cast 40 or 50 yards further in the hands of one person than in the other because of the different manner in which the string is quitted. The aim which is correct for one shooter may be too high or too low for another who frees the string in a different manner. The

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left arm in loosing, maintains its po­ sition firmly and unwaveringly, and does not give way in the direction of the right hand, as in this case the arrow is sure to drop short of the mark.

THEY MUST BE SHOWN

By DAVE WILEY, Portland, Oregon

While Arthur Young was on his way to Alaska one year, it was his custom to practice with his bow on the deck of the boat, using a small target. One day as he was shooting, some spectators, doubting his skill, urged him to chance a shot at a sea­ gull. Young at first protested, not wishing to harm the birds; but de­ termined to show them, he took two arrows and went up on the upper deck.

A beautiful gull came winging its way across the water; ’tisp an arrow leaped out to meet it. There was a puff of feathers, and the shaft went on. It had only hit the tail and caused no harm. Again waiting his chance, Young selected another bird, this time farther away. He drew the arrow to the point, held it for a mo­ ment, and then released it. The ar­ row sped straight and true on its course, passing entirely through the gull and dropping into the water, far beyond. The bird dropped dead into the waves. Some of the observers uttered low cries of wonder; others, those who had challenged his skill, for some strange reason were silent.

(Editor’s Note—We submitted this item to Mr. Young for his approval and he added the following:)

“I believed at that time the sea­ gull was protected, hence my hesi­ tancy to accept the challenge, but

knowing of the depredations of this bird in Alaskan waters during the spawning season of the salmon, , was what caused me 1to finally accept the challenge and make two lucky shots, The seagull will eat thousands upon thousands of perfectly good salmon eggs that would, if left alone, hatch.

He does not stop there, but seems to delight in picking out the eyes of live salmon in shallow water. I never did like this pure looking, de­ structive bird, anyway.”

(Signed) ART YOUNG.

THE EAGLE BOWMEN

Enthusiasm in archery has grown so rapidly at the University of Sou­ thern California that a group of stu­ dents have organized their archery club into a regular college fraternity, called the “Eagle Bowmen.” The of­ ficers of the club are: PresidentCorresponding Secretary, Douglas I. Donald; Vice-President-Treasurer, Al Unmack; Club Secretary, Walton Hubbard; Publicity Manager, Russell Bolinger.

A candidate for membership is re­ quired to have his own equipment, shoot a score of 200 for the Ameri­ can Round, contribute to the club some book or publication on archery and present to the club an arrow bearing his crest and name and date of entrance. An interesting form of initiation has been adopted.

The club has contributed numerous articles to the newspapers and has given a successful talk on archery over station KPLA. Several tourna­ ments have been scheduled with other clubs on the coast and they hope to schedule meets with some of the eastern clubs.

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Mane Answers to inquiries from boys will be printed in this department insofar as space will permit. We have re­ ceived a number of inquiries from boys who are preparing for Merit Badges in archery. The usual ques­ tions asked are: What is wand shoot­ ing, clout shooting and flight shoot­ ing.

Briefly, flight shooting is shooting

for distance only, no attempt is made to hit a mark. Dr. George Cathey shot an arrow over 300 yards at the annual tournament of the Northwest Archery Association held in Seattle last year. He held the bow in regula­ tion fashion. Prof. Curtiss exceeded this distance considerably by shoot­ ing a heavy bow which he held with his feet and drew with both hands.

Clout Shooting In clout shooting the tar­ get is laid flat on the ground or slightly tilted. The arrows are shot into the air at about a 45-degree angle, the object being to drop them in­ to the target. In America the usual size of the target is just 12 times as large as a regulation target. The gold instead of being 9.6 ins. is 9.6 ft. The entire target is 48 ft. across. The regular distance for men is 180 yds. and 120 yds. for women.

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by Robin Hood was a willow wand about two thumbs in thickness. The wand was stuck in the ground and shot at various distances. The wand usually used nowadays consists of a 2-incJi strip painted horizontally aci'«sS the face of a regulation tai get.

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By JAMES H. DENISON Seattle, Wash.

A«hery scored a victory over golf at Nibley park Sunday afternoon, when Gerald Thorne and Chris Eg.gertz, wielding the long bow, outscored Micky Riley, Nibley profes­ sional, and Tom McHugh, Fort Doug­ las golf master, 31 to 34, on medal play and on match play were re­ turned victors by a score of 2 up and one to play.

The members of the Seattle Arch­ ery club have for a considerable time past derived much pleasure of an eve­ ning at their indoor range from a game they have styled “dueling.” It really amounts to the elimination of players by the scoring of a bulls-eye by opponents. Two teams are picked, say, four or upwards on each side, with a target for each team. A man fiom each side takes his place at a safe point of observation near the targets, which stand close together.

The two captains with their teams in file step forward and the command is given to “get ready,” then “shoot.”

The captains shoot arrow after arrow as fast as possible until one gets a bulls-eye. The observers at the tar­ gets call the target number and the man scored against being “dead,” drops out, to be followed in the twink­ ling of an eye by his next in line team mate, who staits shooting immediate­ ly, because the man on the opposite side is still shooting and may “get him” too if he is not lucky as well as quick. As one or other side loses a man his place is filled until the total elimination point, and the team with survivors or survivor is proclaimed winner. A score of one is chalked on the blackboard. The game goes very fast and is extremely amusing as well as exciting, because it is not always the crack shots who do the eliminat­ ing'. Indeed, quite frequently they fall victims to an archer not nearly so skillful, who, getting in a lucky groove, may kill three opponents in succession before his turn comes to fall out. Our murderous work is done at the 30-yard range. The two ob­ servers also participate, being re­ lieved by their fallen team mates.

The “best arrow” of the archers was never over par, and birdies were scored on the first, third and sixth holes. The pros had two birdies, Mc­ Hugh accounting for one with a twen­ ty-five-foot putt on the first hole and Riley going down in sub par figures by sinking a twenty-foot putt.

More than one hundred galleryites followed the unique foresome around and the contest was an interesting one. Thorne repeatedly sent his ar­ rows whizzing out over 200 yards from the tee, and Ms “drives” aver­ aged nearly 225 yards.

His long tee shots kept the pros pressing to outdistance him from the tee.

Eggertz had two of the birdies for the archers. On the first hole he made a great approach shot from fif­ ty yards from the green, and had less than a foot to reach the foot circle around the cup to “hole out.” On the ninth he executed the best place­ ment shot of the day for the archers • arrow ----- -r 2, foot from when he put ’his seventy-five yards from the cup at —-

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Miss Katherine Rauch and Chris p gert to act with the officers on th' board of directors. Twenty came •' as charter members.

The club will hold meetings the first Wednesday of each month du! ing the winter months, at which instruction in the use of the bow am] arrow will be given and papers on the general subject of archery will he read. In the spring when the weather permits, the club members will meet out of doors and hold practical instruction and intra-club competi­ tion.

sort of strategy to match the game of the long bow men.

Following are the cards: Pai. ...................... 543 344 344—34 Thorne-Eggertz .. 442 343 344—31 McHugh-Riley —- 453 334 345— 34 UTE ARCHERY club formed

The Ute Archery club was organ­ ized at Salt Lake City on January 5, 1928, and the following officers were elected: Gerald Thorne, president; R. I. Lambert, secretary-treasurer; Dr. E. W. Lambert, field captain; and

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The range of the Kickapoo Archers of Peoria is a very level field, 110 yards square, with the finest turf, which is kept cut very short. The ground is surrounded completely by tall trees which furnish an efficient “Cl or. n Vs located in beautiful Glen Oak Park,” named for the thousands of large oak trees and th! many lovely glens the

also ccompletely surrounded by forest" trees, -> elms,

oaks and maples, and level as a lake.

The bluffs of Peoria afford a view of the Illinois river valley ana haKe Peoria for a distance of 20 miles, and the scene has been pronounced one of the most beautiful by many gloke trotters.

Peoria is a beautiful city of over 100,000—between Chicago and St. Louis; Indianapolis and New Orleans, New York and San Francisco. Boston and Los Angeles—what better place could there be for a national tourna­ ment ?—Harold Plowe, SecretaryTreasurer Kickapoo Archers.

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In order to lessen the danger of breaking bows are sometimes backed with rawhide or fiber. It has been said, “A bow fully drawn is ninetenths broken.” This is especially true with hunting bows, which are usually several inches under the pre­ scribed 6 feet. Dr. Pope, I believe, backed all of his hunting bows re­ gardless of their length. The back­ ing not only lessens the danger of breaking but protects the bow against scratches and bruises.

The backing is laid on with a good grade of fish or casein glue and held tightly in place with clamps or ban­ dages. An old automobile tube cut spirally into a long strip makes a splendid “bandage.” It is wound on with sufficient tension to hold the backing and the bow in close contact at all points.

If a few holes are pricked into the backing before it is applied it is less likely to slip out of position when the bandage is wound on.

If clarified calfskin is used for the backing it will be necessary to use two pieces overlapping them at the handle of the bow. Fiber, however, can be procured in six-foot lengths.

made as follows: A galvanized iron tube 31 inches long, 4-/2 lnches -> 4% inches dimeater at the top and V/ i k at the bottom with the bottom^

dered m was obtained from our local inner. This was lined with heavy fe t. A piece of an old 29x4.40 auto tube was drawn over the outside. A loose fitting lid was fastened on with a rubber hinge. Due to the felt lin­ ing and rubber covering the quiver is practically noiseless. It is carried on a belt.

The arrows are easily drawn.

ARCHERY PUTS TOWN ON MAP

Newspaper stories are telling of the performance of Boy Scout arch­ ers that is making the little town of Bronte, Tex., popular.

The Bronte troop of scouts con­ sists of 28 archers of the first or­ der. When it goes away from home for a match the mayor, the school children, the business men and the band go along to cheer for the boys.

John R. McDonald Jr. is the best archer among the 28. In ;a recent contest his father offered him $5 for every bullseye. He hit the mark five times in succession and his father hastened to pay before the boy regis­ tered any more $5 shots.

USE CARE IN PACKING A WATER-PROOF QUIVER

_ Hid you ever have a fine shot at a big six point buck and miss by inches due to the fact that the feathers on your arrow were soaking wet? We ave> and on the spot, took a solemn vow that next year we would have a water-proof quiver. We have done considerable experimenting during ® past winter and adopted a quiver

to get your bow It is not too soon in readiness to take with and arrows - vacation. Take plenty you on your pack your quivers so tl a of time to 1P ready and in good condi•eady and in go' they will beJ as you reach camp. you 1^—-tion as s0°". 0 that that will will afford afford you There iS nOth111 during yo“’ 0Uting , during y°ur c" more Pleasurethan vour your archery archery outthis summer t, fit.

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Our First Hunt with How and <34rrow

By J. T. JONES, New Britain, Conn.

I had been practicing all Dick and i ______ -, shooting at the target most summer, of the time, but when possible we used another scheme which is much better training for hunting.

We made up several dummies about the size and shape of a cotton­ tail, using burlap stuffed with excel­ sior.

These we would take out in the fields or woods wherever we could, and throw them out as far as possi­ ble, letting them fall where they would, just making a mental note of their general location. Then we would approach them against the wind, just as though we were really stalking game. It was surprising how often we found the dummy just where we were sure it wasn’t.

During the stalking we carried an arrow properly nocked on the string.

Blunt arrows were used at all times during this practice. When either of us sighted the quarry we signaled the other, then we both drew up. up, one released first then the other, the first shot going to the one who first sighted the game. If _ he ... missed —• then the other took a shot.

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Of course our practice at the tar­ get had taught us to hold under at the shorter ranges, and we were surely going to remember this point when we got out in the field.

Well, as it happend, the first time we went out Dick discovered the dummy first, and signaled to me.

We did not talk. Of course it was Dick’s first shot and I signaled to him to shoot iwell under by holding my hand down -n near the ground, Dick let fly f at the dummy, going over it about ut a foot, then I released

my arrow and raised Dick’s Unit about two feet.

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It surely is easy to overshoot f short range, especially if the mark j. on the ground. However, we had; lot of fun and during the summer tw shooting improved so that by fall could hit the dummy sometimes an,] most of the time come close enougl to make it interesting.

So, tlie night before the hunting season opened Dick came over to my home, and we sat in the den looking over our tackle, waxing bow strings, sharpening broadheads, etc., and talk­ ing over what we were going to do on the morrow. The evening' passed all too quickly. Dick went home and I sat around awhile having a final smoke before turning in. The morn­ ing seemed to come around pretty quickly. Dick was right on the jot and we started out full of excitement and confidence.

Our tackle consisted of our bows, some broadheads and blunt arrows, made as near as possible to the description in Dr. Pope’s book, “Huntwith the Bow and Arrow,” except the broadheads are welded to the ferrule instead of being riveted and soldered.

Dick’s bow is of ash and, while like all ash bows it is slow in cast, it >s stiff enough to drive an arrow with sufficient force to kill anythin? which may be killed in this vicinityMy bow is a lemonwood, about 45 pounds pull. All of our tackle is home made and of course full of faults, but if there were no room for

improvement the fun of making y°ul own would be spoiled.

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lunch and wished it was twice as just enough to make us feel fit for much. any kind of sport.

We were working- along a ridge After enjoying a smoke we started which had a scant covering- of cedar out again and worked over some fine and hemlock, when Dick gave a low raobjt ground and started quite a whistle and pointed down the side few, but we can’t “hit ’em running.” of the ridge. After looking carefully We went on to a big swale where it I made out a “chuck.” He looked was swampy and the going pretty as big as a dog, and was about 40 heavy and slow. I finally saw a yards away. As he was sitting up bunny sitting in a form of dry marsh looking around we stopped and glass. Dick was too far away to get waited till he started to feed again. in on this shot, so I pointed to the We both drew up and when he sat spot where the game was and he up again, Dick loosed his arrow, a drew up all ready to shoot if it came broadhead painted red its entire his way. I loosed a blunt arrow and length. Away it flew like a red it struck the rabbit just behind the streak, the first arrow we had ever- shoulder. He just went down and seen loosed at a live target. It was stayed down. It was a near shot— a downhill shot and a hard one to about 20 yards. make, but Dick is exceptionally good We had another smoke on that and at that kind of a shot! and before Mr. went along up an old trail. It was Chuck made up his mind what to do, getting along toward evening and we it was too late; the point struck him were tired. (Carrying a six-foot bow just below the chin as he was facing through the brush is no joke.) After us. He was dead when we got down awhile Dick said he had promised to him. The arrow went in up to the E— to go with her to the movies and feathers, the point going through thought we had better start for and burying itself in the ground. He home. I was ready to do so any was a big, tough old buck, but he did time, but did not want to say it first. not travel a foot after he was hit.

We swung around to the south to These broadheads do the trick if they avoid going over the ground we had get to the mark. I have seen chucks covered coming in. carry a good heavy bullet thirty or Down near the foot of the moun­ forty yards and then get into the bur­ tain there is a dry scar perhaps 40 row to die. or 50 yards across. It is partly filled We were surely delighted and with great boulders, fallen trees and rank bushes. It is a sort of spooky somewhat excited over our first kill, in fact, an onlooker might have place. We came along the edge of it thought we had killed a bear if he in the failing light, looking it over judged us by our actions. After fully carefully, when, I seamed to see a talking it over, we went along up the dim shape of something moving diag­ onally toward us along the trunk of mountain to a place where the pines, hickories and beach are still pretty a big fallen pine. I stopped in my thick.

Here we had some good tracks as did Dick, who was right be­ sport with the gray squirrels. Using hind me. 1 nocked a broadhead on blunt arows we got one each, though the string without making any false it emptied our quivers more than motions, Dick doing the same. The thing stopped and seemed to be once in order to do it. watching us. We waited for it to This was somewhat strenuous sport move again, which it did in a few so we sat down awhile and ate our

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moments, and at the same time the light seemed to fall on it so that I could make it out, and believe me, my breath nearly stopped, for it was a full grown bobcat, about 50 yards

American may be shot. The Metro, politan is a good practice round as it includes all the distances shot in both the York and American Rounds.

away.

When I caught my breath again I knew there were two things we could do—leave him alone or take a chance with him.

Dick decided it. He poked me in the back and said very quietly, “Both together.” I moved a little to one side and we both drew up. I pulled the string well back till the barb pricked my finger, when something startled me and I seemed to hear someone calling my name.

Then I knew. It was friend wife telling me to get up from that old chair and come to bed. “Oh, Boy!” I said, “you surely spoiled it that time.” “.Spoiled what?”

“Why in just another second I would have killed the biggest bobcat you ever saw.”

“I’m sorry; but you have been asleep in that old chair ever since Dick went home, I could not go to sleep. The noise you were making would have scared a bobcat to death if he had heard it.’

Well, such are the vicissitudes of life.

SHYBUCKS AND ARROWS

We have received numerous in­ quiries regarding _.o the correct round for clubs to shoot, _ Several have suggested new distances and 1rounds. We believe that the American i and York Rounds should be shot at club and­ other tournaments, when at all prac ticable so that the scores will be com­ parable with those of the National tournaments, The men’s championship at the National ___ tournament is decided by these rounds. Where time will not permit th, te shooting of the full rounds, a single York and Double

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SITKA SPRUCE SELF ARROWS.

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It is our intention to make this col­ umn available to those who have some article of archery tackle to sell or exchange the value of which would not justify a display advertisement.

We have therefore cut our price for this column to 5c per word; minimum charge 50 cents.

FRANK TAYLOR & SON, archery printers. Specialists in Archery Club Stationery. 325 West Second Street, Albany, Oregon.

“BOWS AND ARROWS,” by Jas. Duff. Price $2.00, For sale by Ye Sylvan Archer.

LATEST and most up-to-date books on archery—“Archery,” by Dr. R. P. Elmer, $5.00, and “Bows and Arrows,”

by James Duff, $2.00. Address orders to Ye Sylvan Archer, Corvallis, Ore.

YEW BOiW.S, shoot straight, priced right. R. W. Denton, Oregon City, Oregon.

THURLOW’S Shooting Glove, $1.50 each. Thurlow Glove Co., Port­ land, Oregon.

FLETCHING—Clamp insures pro­ fessional feathering. Complete $1.00.

Best handmade bow strings that won’t break, $1.00. J. G. Pratt, N. Woodside, Silver Spring, Md.

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From selected,^ straight-grained Stiff, Light, and Tough Triple feathered, painted between tne feathers, and varnished water spar varnish. Bullet points. $4.50 a Dozen §2.50 for Six

R. W. PRENTISS 149 Kings Road Corvallis, Oregon

Ry Doxen Siz.e.

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A light weight yet rugged allpurpose hunting point. Satisfac­ tion guaranteed.

Wholesale prices on request.

HUGO BUCKNER 115 IV. Sth St., Hanford, Calif.

Lemonwood and Yew Hunting and Target

BOWS Spruce Hunting and Target

ARROWS Write for price list

P. W. LYNDON, Waldport, Or.

Barnes Archery Shop Manufacturer of Highest Quality Archery Equip­ ment and Supplies Send for catalogue

BELGIUM STYLE Bow Strings a specialty. One trial will convince the most experienced archer they are the best. Send for archery catalogue.

Barnes Archery .Shop, 601 N. 4th St., Sturgis, Mich.

W. H. BARNES 601 N. 4th St. Sturgis, Mich.

A GOOD YEW BOW for $15.00.

Any weight desired.

Satisfaction guaranteed. William Doughty, Aums­ ville, Oregon.

YE SYLVAN ARCHER, $1.00 per year. Single copies 20c.

Mention Ye Sylvan Archer When Writing to Advertisers

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“Archery”

By ROBT. P. ELMER, M. D. Six times champion archer of ___ ____ _ the United- States. Exhaustive _=__. and thorough. fScientific instruction in the manufacture of of the the bow and and use i arrow.. Complete records. Glossary of 549 archery terms. 456 pages, 30 halftones; many line drawings.

Bound in Lincoln Green Holliston Cloth.

PRICE $5.00

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Send orders to Ye Sylvan Archer BOX 156, CORVALLIS, OREGON

Sitka Spruce Dowels Free!

Special offer to Subscribers -As many of our subscribers had their subscriptions dated from the first issue and as this is the last issue of Volume I, a great number of our subscriptions expire at this time.

Ve have secured some air seasoned Sitka Spruce, 11-32inch dowels. 1 o each subscriber who will accompany his renewal by one ^.eW Subscription we will send one dozen of these dowels, post paid, ; , as a premium. These dowels are not for sale and will only be gi „iven as premiums.

Please send your renewal at once.

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BOX 15je SylVai1 ArChei* CORVALLIS, OREGON

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