January 1933 by National Field Archery Association

JANUARY-1933 THE PET ARROW GETS BROKEN, AND AN ARCHER IS CONFIRMED By Sha-Nic-Co-Um

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■ ■ THE ANNUAL HUNT IN UTAH . By Dr. L. D. Pfouts

• • THE HERMIT OF MAD RIVER . By P. Elmer Roland

■ • SAGINAW BRAVES TAKE SCALPS . . By Jerome F. Payne

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CONTENTS The Pet Arrow Gets Broken, And An Archer is Confirmed. By Sha-Nic-Co-Um

The Annual Hunt in Utah By Dr. L. D. Pfouts

The Hermit of Mad River By P. Elmer Roland

Saginaw Braves Take Scalps By Jerome F. Payne

Fifth Olympic Bowmen League By Kore T. Duryee Chicago Club Elects Officers By G. L. Nichols Archer Bags Lion in One Shot Salt Lake City Tribune Betters

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The Editor's Page TO SHA-NIC-CO-UM,

An individ ual in the world of archery, we are indebted for the story of the Pet Arrow. A lover of the silent, kingly sport, a worker for the cause, Sha-Nic-Co-Um has done much in his home state to promote the establishment of archery hunting preserves. Jerome F. Payne, having read “BackYard Reminiscences,” wrote: “I wept. Not from grief, by any means. ShaNic-Co-Um has given us a classic.”

DID YOU SAY Stan Spencer has “TECHNIQUE”? written a book on technic. (It appears that Webster and Funk & Wagnalls cannot come to an agreement on the word; no more can Stan Spencer and Ye Ed.) But the book’s the thing, and it radiates technic right out through its “forest green” covers. the depression has Even the ITS PLEASANT ASPECTS most optimi stic must acknowledge that the strange times now upon us are very real in deed, and no longer to be thought or as “a state of mind.” Few, nowadays, and -! spending. -------<=■ Food * are given to eermr,™frivolous experts and ----cc. - , 'sts ali ’ ’ ke_admonish ---------the population at large to “Eat wheat,, the staff of life.” ““Patronize Patronize the the pro ducer and cut out the middleman,” and so on and so forth. The penny-counter has come into his own. There used to be people who “squeezed the eagle till it squawked,” and we fain would em ulate the breed. But the eagles seem to have become extinct. That Canadian editors are findng a °f dePression troubles is indiof Art a horn a recent copy copy as tollwB™1"8 Oreeonian’ which reads “Th® press must carry on. so Alberta newspapers seem h have dls-

covered a v--way not only depression, but dieman as well.

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ing accepted in th^t “0Aeda^ and One editor told of taking chick™, ducks, a few pounds of butter, a f beef, some buckwheat, wheat ad ten pounds of sauerkraut in lieu cl cash payment for a three-year subscription to his paper. Another ac cepted a supply of angel cake (or a two-year subscription.” But, though emergencies rise on ev ery hand, and barter serves at neces sity, still the economic depression has its pleasant aspects. It is permitting a revival of interest in home crafts. Sup plying, to many people, a great oppor tunity to indulge in long-loved and long-neglected hobbies. Weaving, pottery, etching, metal- and wood-*® ing, agate-grinding,—the list °, including, of course, the makinS

archery tackle. . . „„„ Apparently a change is c“n^chaos the country, and underneath w caused by the uncertainty o v there is growing a widesbpreee,ms des craft consciousness, wluc tined to play an importan it Whatever the future 31 pving seems likely that we 3r more fully and comp e e have in the past-exhpeople austil? raced hither and thlth“Lr, , one amusement after an son>d^ finding in .the making M with their own hands once sought in vaineCort« >« We look for a^hery^e in^and ' more popular. used are products of g0 into ( ship. The same ideals violin shaping of a Stradiva forn>in^ Sung vase may toda5LoWn. finest archery tackle kn

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Broken, and The Pe‘ ArroW Gets C A ' ■ is Confirmed An Archer By Sha-Nic-Co-Um — ■ mV guns, two years

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4^^ was mainly because of but large disgust with aslow-F° , that are so efficient e...... —le a matter -- of -• prac— , and thereby bring the - j 1---- l to the |W status of sscientific, --------- wholesale wS deer-hunting consists mostly “anny of men with high-powered rifles invadng the woods in such num bers that the deer have no slight chance of evading them, and picking them off at leisure—in many cases [ram beside a comfortable fire at some high point. I have seen places in our woods that resembled a shambles—so ray blood trails and deer entrails were in evidence—and all accomplished without the least pretense of hunting. The native who knows the country Wly stations the blood-thirsty dudes 11 the proper points, where they can ®mand the entire country roundbuild their fires, talk, L? md sh°°t deer. Very little >s wasted in tracking cripples,

ManTr ‘^Wait by the £ire and Meeting is to RTT T Wh°le ObjeCt °£ the hast ^v,° K£LI^. ^d that with the tbil It i,: / exertion or exercise of

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a d'er in VUde a rifle can if £ashion> while the own bis own devices ?dCostW°c:dcra£t and cunning, ‘ Cases not only fail to ’.week, but would get -to the bargain. ?riiice era,,. Utn^e’ that an craves "W mth the 1= 1 bunt in act - W’ must hunt at l 7 time lmie the ButT^T are staging

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not hava Ph does Provided he 6 from guns, or is

willing to hunt the poorest country. My time, during the deer season just past, was mostly occupied in seeking out partly deserted areas, where I could sneak along up-wind in peace without dodging bullets or wading through blood, hair and guts. I es tablished a sort of beat, or orbit, up over a ridge, down through a flat, and around to some pines and a creek. There were few deer dared show thenfaces in this area, which was pretty open, so the hunters were correspond ingly few, though I did observe eight men shooting at a doe and fawn at one time, at one end of my circuit. No harm done. Marksmanship and sports manship equal. My method of hunting was a series of long, silent sneaks up the wind, in the hope of meeting a deer so crazed by the din of guns as to travel down wind. On the second day out, I did en counter such a deer, and promptly de prived him of a large amount of hair. The arrow shaved his west end. He was traveling east. By the method of “Tangent Pro longed”, I established the location of the arrow under the snow and sweet ferns, and retrieved it with huge satis faction. “There is more joy in heaven” —etc., etc. This was a half-hour’s job, but it was my pet arrow. Now of course comes the alibi. The arrow touched a twig ten feet from the deer, hence the haircut. I proudly pocketed a copius handful of hair for evidence, and hunted three more days before I laid eyes on another deer. My personal hunting spot was completely bereft of deer, but I was strongly at tached to it because I could hunt there as I darned pleased. The hunt is the thing. Why be vindictive and fret about the kill? Now on the morning of the fifth d?y, I decided to hunt rabbits, of which

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there were some tracks along the creek, and to more strongly confirm my intentions in this direction, I picked up the thirteen-year-old son of a friend, who with his thirty pound bow and a few ragged arrows, would lend a great deal of color to a rabbit hunt of the right sort, but would hard ly add to the sanguinary prospects of a deer hunt. In accordance with the best practice of dogless rabbit hunters, we separated, and approached the theoretical rabbits from opposite directions. Now, the Be ing who notes the sparrow’s fall must have been on our side, for hardly had we gotten into the swing of the thing, when out burst a small buck, hell bent for election, all sails set, his course laid straight at me, right in the open, and nary a bush or tree. I stood as still as a burnt pine stump till the brute regis tered thirty yards south by south east, then heaved up the pride of my heart— a snappy, flat, reflexed Osage bow, and spat the self-same arrow of haircut fame neatly amongst his slats. He was swinging off for a dive into the swamp, so I had a quartering front chance, which reduced the lateral coefficient of his forward speed to an extent that I was at least able to see him, and I most plainly did see the arrow pro truing from his side as he faded inalde«e meSquit&~°r ”>aybe it was

straight into- the -«= wilderness WJ and missing any chance brier c- d tot brush piles, either, either. Patches or the worse v’~;. The <’ .. for wear. ' ' ' 0Ur -KO. rags were torn from red bowstrings were ------ not i~- Caps' Our not improved. rode down the v; We worst brush “—A patches in the north woods. Followv a badly wounded deer, and carry a 1bow and quiver, and you’ll set what I mean. see At last a great light burst upon us. We perceived that the deer dig sooner or later. A foot or so must of arrow with a broadhead attached, insidearrow the ---- “ uifi hide, is rank poison *' *’ to the future of any deer. Our efforts keep him moving—and moving,"^

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way farther from a road. So we Ld, a brave show of taking our bearings with a busted compass, there in the midst of ten thousand acres of opaque, homogeneous brush, blazed a bush and tackled the job of getting out of there. Next day the boy had to go to school, so I took a large, muscular archer into the plot, and set out to collect the deer, now supposed to be dead. This man is a devoted archer, whose views of sportmanship check rather closely with my own. But he had never been confirmed. His arrows are free from blood, and never, until our hunt for the arrow-stricken deer, had he beheld blood shed or ga®e killed with his chosen weapons. Now let me state, I am far proud of the fact that we found “ above blazed bush than any ° e I had in the whole affair. a . j my choice of partners for e hold to be a stroke of re Once arrived at the bush, ' ^ce our job complicated by e .j 0 of another similar bloo pointcrossed our own at that e- $ such ^7 It so happened, as sue ble^' rmporarily point that our deer temporari y ing, likewise, at 1this exact, .urally took tunn®1; So we quite naturally

on—and on-and on e and walked could see him. Sometimes we Vards Xad yF a “UPle °£ hunfollowed him, and three hours we and on he walked,

track. After an hour ing through brush an oh^deof noticed the screaming Y wron?si<ie that the blood was on 12) (Continued on F

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The Annual Hunt in Utah By Dr. L. D. Pfouts region is well placed for the archer hunter. When we first went up North Creek, several years ago, it was visited by only twenty-five hunters and the little pocket under the Baldys afforded that number good hunting and .not any crowding was experienced by either archers or riflemen. Reputations travels rapidly, and each hunter has a good friend somewhere, so that in 1932 our little seclusion was over-run by as many as 100 riflemen, mostly riding on horses, shooting, shouting, driving everything before them as they went along. The dream we had of' being so far away that few rifles would stir the echoes from crag to mountain top, was shattered by blast after blast, the which would scare every deer within hearing and start it out of the country. Well, for a little while each year we get together, plan together, and talk over the outing. Dean' Green, Paul Davies and our own Gerald Thorne—who has been in Washing ton for three years—all of Salt Lake City, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Pace and yours truly from Payson, made return of tbs 5” mterest for each up the archers participating in this C in AST°n-briaga one more year’s hunt. Sam Littlefield, our good fte whrch T may again enact friend and agent of transportation, met ” memory’s Wa]]dlm tradition shows us at Beaver City on Sunday and we went into camp that evening at the ”ll,“Mefor?ftIly begins about three mouth of North Creek. is XT Openin§ date, which Cocking a weather eye around, the We hale each weather man said, “Storm coming! ' go k. ..IUnety days and was promptly chased out of camp. > long h?ntlt'g!” E„. • . now till Each ten days Were we not ten long mountain miles S pracLPass‘ng, but from camp, and camp at least twentywhat with fc‘-«4 "nd making UP a few four hours in the future? maybe a new bow, Good camp, dry and plenty wood and leaves to make beds. No Wns ” manage to somehow, and when put up; we just unrolled bags an crawled in. In the early morning a sup»■* »»Wt0husineSs. Can-tT t0 try astir. Again that weather prediction, “Storm today sure,” and a hasty o g an ^e done. ing of a hurled frying pan. Quickly loading the wagon we bedifficult^ ersParadise. fan the long trip up to camp- In ten 65 f access, this miles we had to cross the stream

. niy one trip in a'l the 1W 13 which holds that paryea* and interest to make it tic* rehearsed many times sls”d °Ut Hon and remembered in reti”nilXti° the time comes to begin wsf“Mr another like it. Cn eari frosts begin coloring the X in the uplands, and the storms w bring rain leave the tops of the high ranges mantled in wbite> then «,mes a new tingle to the blood - a feeling of adventure old as the sagas, ffe must hie away in quest of meat to fill the larder against the coming of die Long Night Moon, the Snow Moon, and the Hunger Moon — all pinching times for people who must live by the chase. The annual hunt after Big Game 1 What visions it brings! What mem ories it awakens in us of times when we roamed our ancestral forests, — sometimes hunting and sometimes hunted Again, in fancy, we elude the of the sabre-tooth tiger, or bring 10 earth the lordly stag. folln 1111111 a ^me to which we who *!he Royal B°". -n

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times. Let us hurry over this as a very hard bit of traveling and say that at 3:00 P. M. snow began falling, the team was pretty tired, and our old camp-site was still two miles away. So we stopped at the first open space that afforded us room to place our tents and have shelter for the team. Camp was set in a driving snow-storm. All being seasoned outers, a little in convenience like a fall of snow only added zest to our enthusiasm for the hunt. During the night seventeen inches of loose, fluffy snow fell, and the land scape presented a beautiful outlook. — on Thursday, which Hunting& began gave us several s.----- . .days . to prospect the country. Deer tracks were everywhere, and many fine bucks were noted by different members of the party. No !’ one tried for a shot however and the only blood spilled was by Charles ■ ’Pace, who brought down a porcupine with one of his deadly broadheads. These animals are very destructive among the evergreens of the forest and the Forest Service encourages the kil ling of them although they were here long before there was any conservation Pohcy in regard to our timber. To prohibit the cutting of Christmas trees from the forests in Utah would con serve the timber much more effectiveriehf°t’ aft“.aU’ animals have some

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one five six-shooter b» Slde-arm, a forty ease a good cha„ a,ways carries in b°w shot. This isCthSh°WS Up out of ^kdled with the ninety-five e^’ h™ting affords s°, whether we kill °£ Pleasure, great enjoyment in °f not’ we have eecall the incident PPrsuit Well we whae cautiously “!he first morning, “vered with wXrkl UP a ridge Tw° bucks were f ^.gh manzanita. re feed«g some dis-

the ™d just right, it wo^X possible to lessen this dista?aVe However, they became X . a rifleman coming down same ridge from above St • the something was amiss, the budX^ to nervously twitch their , when the broadhead arrow toud,.^ twig ten feet behind, their bound carried both out of danger’ * The morning; the white snow green of the manzanita; the bou* deer. One more picture for memory wall. Comradeship; fair dealing with everyone; remembrances. The rich heritage of every true sportsman. Measured by the number of trophies we secured our trip was not a success. But the pleasant memories, the good clean feeling of bodily exercise day after day in that high mountain air, the return to business and profession rejuvenated in mind and spirit,—these things are the compensation one re ceives for time spent in the open, be the incentive what it may: huntinj fishing, mountain climbing or just plain “woods loafing,” as Nessmuk On the way home one wouHJ* such remarks as “Next year w so and so,” telling what was uppermost; we were co^ another trip ere the P complete. archers’ ---1 to We hope soon to have hav preserve set aside by ]jgisand Game Departmen wunW •*' an -n ideal game lature. Utah is ideaU^ for the archer- and and if we in wbi small section allotted to us, _ bey4 area ‘the"sound the sound ofaêry of a gu ~ it won’t be long’at a buck. w se have his chance a- al! y°u * o#'0 Archers help us n we havy êfs cure this and whenhunt in Utah and enjoy a r. Paradise. May you Editor’s Note: ^n°ûts pfouts hunting story by u ' pear next month.

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The Hermit of Mad River By P. Elmer Roland Us rnu»h rough platform Platform

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““Hermit Hermit of Mad River ^“without envy on the world ^KeolSa) Evening News

of Dee. 15, 1932 ‘-,ls instructor in an Ohio college woods to spend the few reZung months physicians warned him he might expect to live. But the fresh air and sunshine of his Robinson Crusoe existence effected a complete cure and the hermit stays on, enjoy ing the companionship of birds and animals of the woods, and seeing no one except on rare occasions, when he slips away to a store for bare necessities. States the News: “Most of his wants he supplied himself. He took small game with the bow and arrow he Moned, and Mad River abounded fashioned, m fish. With his food, he hoisted himby means of a rope and pulley “J ““"‘erweights, back to his tree,0P perch. i en)kthree broke i years ag0’ 1115 rope N° longer sick, but too old to scale the tre< ““ and unable to buy a new ^Pe, he v*as forced again to dwell 4e ground. on ’’“ dwavs ■h°me for fifteer >en years nee—11 -J reach. Tiffin,V ej[ t -shetS ndfU% Grossman of of Seneca County,

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ley and attached the counterweights in order that he may rise or descend single-handed once more.” So the Hermit of Mad River is back in his tree-top home. No doubt he' leads a contented, though simple, life. He is, so to speak, above the turmoil of the times; has not felt the thumb and finger of the depression. From his arboreal aerie he looks down without envy upon the world. Happy in the companionship of furred and feathered wood folk. Secure in his skill with bow and arrow. SAGINAW BRAVES TAKE SCALPS By Jerome F. Payne President, Gouverneur Archery Club The mail match on January 7th be tween the Gouverneur Archery Club of Gouverneur, N. Y. and the Saginaw Archery Club of Saginaw, Michigan was won by the Saginaw club, score 1923 to 1610. The teams consisted of four archers each. One of the conditions of the shoot was that the losing team must report the result of the shoot to Ye Sylvan Archer, thereby broadcasting the fact that they got licked. Well, we got it all right and be it understood that we are in an ugly mood. Nothing but the scalp of those Saginaw braves will sat isfy the spirit of revenge that flames in the hearts of the Gouverneur warriors and we have dared them to try it again as soon as we have caught our breath. Incidentally, we suggest that it Incidentally, might be worth while to organize a league among northern clubs for the puspose of holding indoor mail matches during the winter months and by the process of elimination bring the two best teams together, as a closing. event of the season, to shoot for a suitable trophy which the winning team would be required to hold three successive years to make its title permanen Hear ye, hear ye, Men of the North,

what say you to this?

10 nFrH OLYMPIC^WEN LEAGUE

—i are sponsoring b^fifth^Olympic Bowman Bowman League, Xch^ill start the week January 16, 1933 and l^t for

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^d^Stoh targets at thirty standard indoors or doors EaTteam is to consist of few members of the club entering, ^matches must be shot under com petitive conditions. Team membership must be announced each time by the team captain before the shooting for

record commences. The score of each end must be checked by another archer. The num ber of golds for each end must be recorded. On the score card to be mailed, are entered only the total score, total number of golds, and num ber of “perfects.” Mail your reports the same night the match is shot. The registration fee is $2.00 per team entered and this fee should accompany the first report This permits any member of the club to shoot on the team if selected by his team captain. Each club may enter as many teams as desired. Last year’s victory was won by the Seattle Bowmen, with the Locksley Archers a close second. As to high in dividual scores, I. M. Stamps averaged 763, Stanley Spencer 749, and S. B. Hayden 738. Although these are splen did averages, they will probably be surpassed in this season’s League. Club officers entering teams in this annual archery event should do so im mediately, mailing reports to Kore T. Duryee, Secretary, 628 Liggett Building, Seattle. Chicago Club Elects Officers Reported by Nik annual ChlCcg0 Club had its oX VUd election of o^ers muX nber T1 1932’ at the Comodist Ch^rcT St James MethPart of the refreshments v— a venison roast, <contributed by was the" -—i ex-secretary, Dr. Andrews. He also coritributed a story of the slaying of the

buck; but on fh amidst applause, he"‘add’ d*“L^ two years ago!” ’ That So that couldn’t be the the our- plates. That was before °« doctor had taken up archer go on with the tale: But b This season he went forth with some tremendous broadhead?”^ most large enough to slice off a £ leg. He got a shot at a buck at deer’s -~aut forty yards, and made a miss; i..’ but the buck paid no attention. So -J our mighty Nimrod kept on pestering him withal rows that hit the wrong place until he had scored six perfect misses. Then the deer wouldn’t play any more, and walked out on him. No, that wasn’t the deer that furnished the roast lot our supper, either. That one ran into a bullet from the rifle of another mem ber of the hunting party. The new officers are: President, Dr. Andrews; Vice President, Mrs. Enos; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. Randle; Lady Paramount, Miss Case; Captain of the Green, Mr. Hartshorn. (He blows the

whistle).

ARCHER BAGS LION IN ONE SHOT Payson, Utah. — Di. L. _ widely known Utah arc M„ thrill of a lifetime. Sunday he killed a mountain^ Uo^ creek, in Spanish F shot his bow and arrow. Only necessary to bring .ornarkable feai foot female—a truly (lie with a gun, let alonej,o0r, Dogs tracked the 1 hunts5 finally treeing hen As^ t0 > proached, the: ho 1 pfoUts sho _ tree, from which D ■ , affo* down with one wel P Salt Lake City Tribune£

Editor’s Note. cUbs. Pfouts, there were were treed, caugh ’ ther W» docny sacks (not an rboBie. f tbe ceeding) and brough u tor is having a rUgthe hoh 5 cougar skin, - w1 ^inent Dr. Pfouts is a pi . e dethe American Broacin and is taking an en velopment of tha

Letters * ApoI°(W Mr.NNichols has been

1 bl°"' w and that he studies around j »nlv But granting all that, arc' archery to be in error in the 1 .grs'ph'of of his his letter letter in the December <«svlvan Archer wherein ’ te ° f that toe ’archer at Arroyo numb- he infers technic because apSeco did n°f use patently he used no anchor. ____ to ' > believe that the [ am inclined the improved tech archer was iusing — nic, and was drawing just under his jaw io gauge elevation only, and by drawing his arrow directly under his eye, lined his arrow by sighting innead of depending on his anchor to line it for him. I believe that the anchor is empha sized to such an extent that many archers secure a firm anchor at the upense of a proper draw and release. To force the fingers tight against a chosen part of the chin or jaw tends force ihe hand out of the line of and towards a forearm draw, ™ the set muscles leave ' the hand in ? awkward position 1 to release, and “» release is vusually ■■ forward. When

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In regard to skill—the light bow at the short range versus the heavier weapon at the longer range—I am a poor hand at mathematics, but, as near as I can figure, if an archer shooting, say, a 24-inch arrow, should release when the shaft is one-fourth inch out of line with the point of aim (not off-side, but out of line) he will score a white. On the regulation 48-inch face the hit would be about one and one-half inches from the outer edge; on a 24-inch target it would be about three-fourths inch, on the 16inch target about one-half inch from the outer edge. My figures may be off, somewhat, and if so I stand cor rected. But,—when we leave the realm of figures and step out into the great open spaces to Shoot, methinks ’twill be a somewhat different story. A breeze that is strong enough to blow a shaft completely off the 48-inch tar get at sixty yards may not do so at sixty feet on the 16-inch face. The shaft will not fly so high at the short range, so will most likely have the best of it. I would be in favor of giving the weaker archer a chance, but you couldn’t ask the National Champion to give up his title to an archer who had shot 144 arrows at 60, 50, and 40 yards against his regulation York, and 90 arrows at 30, 25, and 20 yards against his regulation American, could you, and get away with it? I’m afraid not, even if a smaller face were used. A 45-pound bow should not be too heavy for a man to master after a year or two at it. I have seen archers shooting 38-pound bow who would make a good shot hump to beat them. I have a bow that weighs just a little over 40 pounds, made of a stave from Captain Styles, that has a point of aim well short of the target at 60 yards, . and my anchor point is very mg , just below the corner of my mouth.

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Still, it has turned out scores of 228 aP£ly the same r , at 60 yards for me. For the short timrelativity. , For a club to fit out one of their trying to hit the t te that I have U. I members with the best tackle that tances with bowstarget at various^. money can buy would be a fine thing, become clear to s1 and arrows, it w I but when you suggest that the tackle easier to hit a 1 me that it fe Iei)1 gold at 9 I manufacturers do it,—why my dear yards than it isnine-inch to man, you’re barking at a knot! There arget at 100 yards. —t a- four-foot I hut would be so many potential champions I am m great hopes, b—-• But ■ despite based on teKK | the tackle makers would be swamped Strides made in tackle ' la efficiency, with requests. The shops would be m a short time from full of used (and broken) bows. If be achieving greater now, archers vfl ( accuracy at IS > you know the archer personally it’s yards than was thought possible at o. k. Championships have been won 100 yards a few years ago. This istime and again with lemonwood bows, sirable advance in tackle eifideotj some of the good shots seem to prefer will no doubt have .. a its beneficial ellemonwood, and it certainly isn’t so feet on spreading j— the volume of arilvery costly. >rp<=* ery interest. From the players’ point of view I When golfers first condescended to don’t know anything about tennis, but invite archers to a contest around th from watching it played 1 have never course, the victory of the archery gelnoticed that any provision was made fers no doubt surprised them. Who for those players who were lighter pistol shots thought they could afford built or shorter winded than the aver to wisecrack archers about their tes age. Golf offers you a course to play and arrows, and subsequently had to over and you have the privilege of shoot it out and take second place, that selecting a set of clubs to fit your also had its effect Purse, .but nothing is said about those I think we archers have merely who are not so strong as the rest. “just started going places.” If we will f 'BaJdIess °f the Production of the only apply some united push in tk fonvard pass in football to help the same direction we’ll certainly P somewhere. And I cannot quite ako teams use “ and all basket-ball, hockey, scribe to the idea that com®: “ueha^:tr sports are pretty profit must necessarily be the motive power in such a pus man a bigger^6^ g'Ves the weaker F. W. Peters Salem, Oregon just as i/is th/”06 t0 eni°y himself> THE PET ARROW GETS BROKF'

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Editor Ye Syb .Ivan Archer: would like to call attention to one fact in in relation j to Mr. Cameron’s letter. He 1 refers to relative-sized relative-sized tar gets at as a Possible various distanced1 ranges ranges as measuring-stick skill ___ uMs-sncte of relative at accuracy. It may be quite Possible le with a high-powered rifle to hit a 10-inch 1 bull’s-eye at 100 yards as easily "y as it is to hit a 5-inch one at 50 yards. But in archery this will not

(Continued from paSe the track, so back we went bush, and circled and « smelt around like man 0; fore. At length, ai sing cpyaZed a hundred feet from the betrayed the track we strenuous hour of bnish down in a hole whe so thick we could FaiI“r blood stopped altoge^^ot tf^ close upon us, bu it. We separated, w hop* j, on his forlorn hope search ■ of blood. Blood was there were myriads oi

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