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ONE-SHOT PE RIN

By Jeff Perin

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THE OLD TIMER

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WISCONSIN ARCHERS BAG SIX DEER woman kills wild boar MAJOR CRANSTON BAGS BIG BEAR

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NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSOCIATION

By John L. Yount

EDITORIAL OHIO RABBIT HUNT FIELD ARCHERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By John L. Yount BEE HODGSON BREAKS ANOTHER RECORD LETTER BOX

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AN OLD ENGLISH BROADHEAD

By Eugene Robinson 9 THE BOYS IN THE LOWER BRACKETS

By Retired Basement Champion 10 THE MAYFLOWER PRIZE 10

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One-Shot Perin

By Jeff Perin, Alsea, Oregon

Since the year of 1891 I have heard many very interesting bear stories.

Some were made to tell little folks, some were true, while others were badly stretched. Usually the longer the story the larger the bear becomes.

The story that I am relating does not concern a big bear and since I have confessed this fact it should be interesting enough to read a little farther. The first of July, the 5th, to be exact, I saddled up our mustang cayuse and hit for the hills to see about the range cattle. At the far end of the range is an old vacant shack and the remains of an old or­ chard where I have often found signs of deer, bear and coyote. On this particular day I had my favorite rifle along, a 25-36 Marlin—didn’t expect to see anything but just took it along anyway. After climbing the hill from where I left the main road, I reached the clearing where the cabin stood. From there you could see the orchard which was mostly apple, pear and a few cherry trees

Jeff and the bear’? overcoat

and of course a good stand of grass.

The whole clearing would be approx­ imately five acres.

Usually I could ride into the or­ chard, throw the reins down and the horse would just stand and graze, but this day he was nervous, and snorty. By plenty of persuading I managed to get up past the house and part way into the orchard, then I could see what was wrong. There was a bear in the cherry tree. I swung to the ground, leveled my rifle, fired and out rolled Mr. Bear.

I walked up to the tree, but no bear —just a bloody trail. I called the old shepherd that had been trained to stay with the horse and started him on the trail. He would run until he caught up with the wounded bear and then he would come back to see if I was coming. Finally the bear got away entirely. I went back and set a bear trap and just ten days later I had him. He hadn’t eaten a bite because the rifle ball had passed through his upper jaw and taken all the teeth out of his upper jaw on one side and half of his nose. If you have ever seen a poor and skinny bear—well, this was one.

After I had gone home and told about catching the bear, several peo­ ple asked why I didn’t shoot the bear with my bow and arrow, and the onlyreason that I could think of was that I just didn’t have it along at the right time.

A few days later I visited my trap again and could tell by the actions of the pony that there had been another bear around. A look at the trap showed that I had another small bear and still no bow and arrow. I took the bear out and found him to-be small but fat; then set the trap again.

Nearly a month passed without any more bear. Finally I started to go .and take my traps up but changed my mind after reaching the orchard.

I had just ridden past the cabin when the horse broke back down the trail, missed the gap where there had been some bars, jumped an old rail fence, ran under a big limb that hung from a big fir tree, raked me off onto an old windfall and tore my pants from

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the bottom of the leg to the waist­ band. I managed to hang on to the reins and after I got through rubbing the sore spots, I took a lariat and snubbed the cayuse to an alder sap­ ling. Then I walked on up to the trap to find another bear. Still no bow and arrow. Well I made a vow right then and there that I would never be caught in that orchard again without my yew bow and broadheads.

The next time I went to the trap I took the bow, even if every one did call me Chief Wahoo, Sitting Bull, etc. Anyway, there was nothing in the trap that trip nor for the next couple of trips. But one day I made another trip to the traps riding a different horse, one that I knew wasn’t afraid of anything. When I reached the cabin I could look down the rows of apple trees and by scrooching I saw what appeared to be a bear in one of the traps. I ran into the cabin, got the bow and went forth to kill my first meat with an English or Indian gun. As I approached I could see that the bear had gone so I was standing by the apple tree look­ ing for tracks when three apples came tumbling out of the tree. I looked up and—lo and behold! there was Mr. Bear sitting in the top of the tree.

There I stood with no weapon other than the lowly bow and arrow. What would you have done in a case of that kind? Wrong Way Corrigan . took a chance, Lindbergh took a chance, the old maid took a chance, so I took a chance. I pulled that broadhead back until it clicked against the bow, then let it flicker.

The bear leaped to the outer ends of the branches, rolled to the ground, and never got to his feet again. That was the first living animal that I had ever shot at with an arrow, yet I got him the first shot.

Isn’t that something to crow about?

I have hunted with friends before now who have shot at deer and come so close that the arrow would just part the hair on the deer’s back but still not kill. Others have hunted for years before killing a timid and very cowardly deer with a broadhead, but imagine the thrill you would get meeting a big ferocious bear with an arrow. What if you should miss or just wound him? I might have had to go home in a barrel or fashion

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myself some clothes from apple leaves.

Boy! How a crippled bear can fight!

Here’s to the man who totes a gun, Big shoot, big bang, and lots of fun, Blood shot meat from head to toes.

Now. here’s to the man who carries a bow, No noise, no bang, still lots of fun, No blood shot meat like that of a gun.

THE OLD TIMER

Heh! Heh! Heh! That’s pretty trood, but that ain’t the way I heered it, Johnny. Now the wav I heeded it. one feller says to tother feller, “Say,” he says, “that ain’t the way ter build a string an besides it takes too gol danged long. Now this is the way I do it.”

Take about one strand of No. 12 shoemaker’s linen to each two pounds of pull of the bow. Cut them a foot longer than the bow and divide them into three groups. With a dull knife, taper out the ends and wax each group thoroughly into a strand.

Grasp the three strands, about seven inches from one end, between the thumb and fore finger of the left hand and hold firmly.

Take the strand on the left side between the thumb and fore finger of the right hand, twist tightly away from you and lay it across the other two strands Keep repeating this process until you have about an inch and a half twisted tightly. Double the ends back along the main strands to form a loop and pair the ends with the strands. Then with the loop held tightly in the left hand repeat the twisting process until the ends are completely twisted in, being careful to get the tension as even as possible at the junction of the loop. Place this loop over the nock on one end of the bow, straighten out the strands and pull each to an even tension two inches short of the other nock. At that point begin a new loop as before, (Continued on page 11)

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Wisconsin Archers Bag Six Deer (The following account of the Wisconsin archery deer season is taken from the November issue of “The Wisconsin Sportsman” with some changes and additions given us by the editor, Mr. Hugh Jackson.—Ed.) As the special archery deer season drew to a close on November 12 after a month’s shooting on forked horn bucks it had become apparent that the state’s bow and arrow big game hunters had at last justified their faith in the weapon Robin Hood made famous. The sport had come of age.

Six archers had brought down bucks.

Never before has more than one buck fallen in a season, and in 1939 more bucks were downed with the bow than in all the special bow and arrow sea­ sons since 1934 when special areas were first set aside for archers.

Skeptics who scoffed at the wielders of the thin feathered shafts now must admit that these long bows are not playthings when handled with skill.

Three of the six bucks were bagged on October 15, second day of the season. Howard L. Thrapp, Madison, using „ a 26 1-2-inch unbarbed arrow and pulling a 72-pound Osage orange bow, brought down on that day his 191-pound buck with a standing shot at 66 feet while hunting one mile south-east of Camp Perry in Colum­ bia county.

Walter Wilder, La Crosse, also got his buck on the 15th while hunting nine miles from Arcadia, in Buffalo county. He used a lemon wood bow with a 45-pound pull, shooting a 28inch unbarbed arrow. It was a stand­ ing shot at 20 yards. The buck wear­ ing a ten-point rack, weighed 278 pounds, dressed.

Third deer taken on the 15th of October was brought home by Clay­ ton M. Sweo, Rhinelander, who tagged his quarry with a 65-pound Osage orange bow and a 28-inch barbed arrow. A standing shot at 30 yards sunk the shaft into the body cavity, and the 190-pound buck, after run­ ning 400 yards, fell dead.

On November 1, Lester Shore, Mad­ ison, hunting on a farm three miles west of Poynette, spotted a large buck and hit him neatly, although the big 200-pound deer ran nearly half a mile

before he dropped. The ... antlers ____ _ on . .

Shore’s specimen boasted 10 points.

Frank Parker, Milwaukee, also hunting west of Poynette, but about five miles out, bagged a 250-pound buck on November 5. Parker used a 55-pound bow, shooting the deer at a distance of 50 yards.

(The sixth buck was killed on the last day of the season and reported after the “Sportsman” went to press, so not included in above account, making the score six for 1939.—Ed.)

Woman Kills Wild Boar Mrs. E. M. McNish, only woman in a party of archers hunting wild Rus­ sian boars in Cherokee National for­ est, drove a steel-tipped arrow into a 200-pound tusker—the largest to be killed this season.

Mrs. McNish sank three arrows into the animal before he gave up a battle in which he turned on one of the dogs and seriously wounded him.

“The boar was a perfect specimen” of the breed brought to the forest from the Ural mountains, said Earl Shaub, of the state conservation de­ partment, who described it as the largest to be killed this season by either archers or riflemen.

Mrs. McNish was with her husband when they spotted the boar. She got within twenty yards before shooting the first arrow which caused the tusker, maddened by the wound, to race around in a circle. Two other arrows were shot from still closer range.

McNish stood ready with an arrow in his bow as his wife made the kill alone.

Buck Allison, athletic director of the Nashville YMCA, also bagged a boar, making but one shot from his bow to kill the 100-pounder.

Roger Raymo, president of the Knoxville Archers club, killed the first boar with the opening of the three-day hunt in which ten partici­ pated.—Chattanooga Times.

Doris Brown of the Oregon State college recently broke a record by shooting 90 arrows for a 678 score in the “Keasey Arrow” contest. This contest is for beginners only.

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Major Cranston Bags Big Bear From Pasadena Star-Times Criticism leveled by individuals at hunters who use bows and arrows instead of guns to bring down their game is unjustified, according to Maj. H. D. Cranston, resident of the Phil­ ippines who has a winter home at 1427 Hillcrest Avenue, Pasadena, and who has just returned from north­ western New Mexico where he bagged one of the largest black bears on rec­ ord with his shafts.

Several persons have written Maj­ or Cranston accusing him of adopting a savage and cruel weapon. Actual­ ly, the major asserts, the arrow is a more certain weapon and brings death quicker and with less suffering than bullets.

“Because it is necessary for an archer to be within close range to be effective he knows always what he is shooting at,” Major Cranston said this morning.

“There is no danger of killing another hunter by firing at a movement or a patch of something that looks like it might be an animal, as so frequently happens with guns. The fact that he must stalk his game to get close enough to send a shaft accurately gives the game a far better chance to be warn­ ed and escape than when he is sniped by a hunter so far away that the game can neither hear, see nor smell his pursuer.

More Humane Killing “As to cruelty, the arrow causes an open wound and the shaft keeps the wound open so that the animal dies quickly. With bullets the wound of­ ten closes and the animal lives for some hours, escapes the hunter and then dies in the woods. There has been an offer made of a reward for anyone finding game dead of an ar­ row wound in the forest. Archers get close enough to send their shafts into vital places and the game does not escape.”

The black bear Major Cranston shot measured 7 feet 4 inches from tip of nose to tip of his stubby tail and 17 inches from ear tip to ear tip across his flat head. Where an or­ dinary bear can be carried on one horse, this bear had to be loaded on two horses when it was dressed out

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and ready to be packed out of the mountains. The green pelt to which the head and paws were attached, weighed 122 pounds, and the weight

The Major and pelt of quarry

of the whole carcass was estimated at more than 600 pounds.

Confined to Predators Major Cranston’s bow and arrow hunting has been confined to preda­ tory animals. His first bag, made last fall, was two cougars, both of which had been preying on cattle ranches in Arizona. The bear taken two weeks ago was about 25 years old and had been hunted by ranchers in the vicinity for several years because, during the season when berries, nin­ on nuts and other food it usually ate was scarce, it had been killing calves and sheep.

Forty-one deaths, directly attribut­ able to wounds received from fire­ arms, were reported from Washing­ ton, Oregon, Northern Idaho, and British Columbia during the recent hunting season. Just another argu­ ment for bow and arrow hunting in archery reserves.

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National Field Archery Ass’n

By John L. Yount Attention All Members With 33 new members from Wash­ ington and 11 from Arizona, all in the space of two days, our organiza­ tion is well past its preliminary stage.

It is now entering the very critical formative stage when we must draw up our permanent constitution, elect our first officers and decide, to some extent at least, our future policies.

This work will have been started by the time you read this article. Your representatives in this job will be the officers of your state field organiza­ tion so I want to request at this time that if you have any ideas which you think should be given consideration, you contact those officers at once so that they may have plenty of time to study them before anything definite is done.

At present the state associations which are members of the NFAA, are Washington, Oregon, New Jersey, Arizona and California. There are also a goodly number of members from the following states: Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, Michigan, New York, Minnesota, Kansas, Indiana, Pennsyl­ vania, Missouri, and Texas.

If those members from the states whose state organizations are not af­ filiated with the NFAA will send their ideas direct to me, Box 383, Redlands, Calif., I will see to it that they are brought to the attention of the proper committee. Or, better yet, if you have a state association, get it interested in the NFAA. If not, get busy and form one. Then see to it that enough members join the NFAA. to make your association a member.

The membership is still fifty cents.

You will then have your own repre­ sentative on the NFAA board.

Some Further Ideas on Handicapping It has been suggested that we should have a maximum handicap.

With the nuniber set high enough that anyone with sufficient practice could acquire a handicap and yet low enough that the beginner could con­ sider it as something of an honor when he could turn in enough reason­ ably good scores to be officially han­ dicapped. This was suggested with the idea that it would make the be­ ginner practice more and try harder,

also to keep some of the handicaps from being so high that the reason­ ably good archer would feel that he was shooting against a handicap rather than a person. A score of 60 for 14 targets has been suggested as about right for the lowest score that should be given a handicap.

Another suggestion was that while a 75 per cent handicap was about right for a new man who is climbing rapidly, an 85 per cent handicap would be fairer for the old timer, who can shoot just so good and no better.

My suggestion would be that if the handicap be set say on 10 scores if the first five average 20 points less than the last five this man be given 75 per cent of his handicap, if less than 20 points make it 85 per cent.

An Idea That Might Improve Your Shooting Get a fairly well matched foursome together and give each man a pocket full of pennies. On each target all losers are to give the winner one penny. In case of a tie on the target the losers put the money in a jack pot. Any archer who fails to get a hit on any target must immediately put a penny in the aforementioned jack pot. It is surprising what a help this can sometimes be to the pot.

If the foursome is well matched give the jack pot to the high point man.

If not, have your men handicapped and decide the winner on a handicap basis. It isn’t the loss of the penny that hurts. It is that silly grin or nasty horse laugh you get in return that makes you swear vengeance.

From now on you are really going to bear down and shoot those arrows as they should be shot.

What has all this to do with field shooting? Just this. To date you have probably talked a pretty good game and let the shooting sort of take care of itself with the result that you missed that buck last year— well, anyway, you missed a couple of good rabbit shots.

If some such round as this will make you count the days until you can get another crack at that bunch of lucky loafers, it is going to do your shooting ability a lot of good and you won’t be so apt to miss your chances in the field.

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Editorial A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year Hugh Slocum is editing an archery column in the Antelope Valley Ledger Gazette of Lancaster, Calif. A fine thing for archery.

We acknowledge with thanks re­ ceipt from Warner Bros, of a set of four stills from their picture “Sword Fishing and Shark Hunting.” These pictures feature Howard Hill in some exciting scenes as he shoots shark and sword fish with bow and arrow.

W. B. Wescott of Dover Mass., broke a record recently by sending us a ten years subscription. Part was for back numbers but nevertheless it stands as a record. Chas. Block of Texas was the former record holder with a five - years - paid - in - advance subscription.

F. A. Kibbe has published a book on “What I Know About Deer Hunt­ ing with Bow and Arrows,” as a re­ sult of “fourteen years of fruitless wandering among the waving white tails.” Mr. Kibbe claims to be “Mich­ igan’s foremost conservationist.” If you wish to profit by his experience we believe you can secure a compli­ mentary copy by writing to F. A. Kibbe, Coldwater, Michigan.

We claim the book is a literary gem.

Chet Stevenson, Eugene, Oregon, is getting cross-eyed and getting kinks in his neck and back working on a bow stave sent him by Fred Bear of Detroit. We doubt if there is any­ thing in wriggles that stick doesn’t have. It should be an education to a hula dancer. Chet figures that if Grover Gouthier will furnish him an arrow to fit the bow he will be able to shoot a deer around any kind of an. obstruction. We suggest that he fit the bow out with a periscope and get Dr. Klopsteg to work him out a range-finding formula.

On account of the war all archery activities of the English Grand Wes­ tern Archery Association have ceased.

Archery has lost another enthus­ iastic supporter in Dr. Heber Butts of San Diego, Calif. Dr. Butts passed away at the U. S. Naval Hospital on November 9, 1939.

Two arrows shot by Lula Belle Crockett and Ruby Akers Garrard of Missouri Valley college met and one pierced the other in mid air. They landed in Ripley’s “Believe it or not” column.

The International Unsettled conditions in Europe re­ sulted in fewer entrants in the Ninth International Archery Tournament at Oslo, Norway. M. Beday won the World Championship for men at com­ bined distances. M. Kurkowska of Poland won the women’s champion­ ship. Poland won the women’s team championship.

Four men’s teams were entered, from Great Britain, France, Norway and Sweden, France winning the championship.

Ohio Rabbit Hunt November 11, 1939, will be recalled as the date of the largest assemblage on record of hunters using only bow and arrow in the search for game.

Backed by the fact that 160 archers partcipated, the fifth annual hunting party conducted by the Ohio ArcheryGolf and Hunting Association, Sat­ urday, November 11, at the state pub­ lic archery shooting grounds, neai4 Norton, Delaware county, Ohio, goes down as the biggest in history. Per­ fect weather added to memories of past hunting parties packed the fields with archers. The results were 72 rabbits taken, two pheasants shot, dozens of pheasants missed and hun­ dreds of rabbits scampered into holes.

Hunting laurels went to Bill Mink, Dayton, who took three rabbits and one pheasant; however, Bill slipped from last year, when he carried off three rabbits and two pheasants.

Twenty-four archers remained for the group dinner after the hunting.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount were rather expensive birds.

Wlhile the Redlands annual turkey Fred Woodley winning his bird shoot, November 19, is not strictly along about sundown and then lend­ speaking a field association event, it ing a lot of support, mostly vocal, to comes so near being one that I feel it Bobb Fass in his futile efforts. quite proper to record a few of the Harold Robinson, Dan Schacht, highlights of the day in this column.

Ruth Davis, and Clem Stadler, help­ To begin with, the day was perfect ing to keep a few turkeys in the old —the weather was not unusual as home town by winning one each.

California weather is so apt to be.

The Grubbs using their usual sys­ There was an attendance of approxi­ tem, which is to bring some one with mately 150 and 36 turkeys bit the them lucky enough to take home a dust. flock of birds. This time it was Bill Now that we are safely by the sta­ Logg who did his stuff by winning tistics let’s see what really happened two, then Earl completely outdid that day. The Redlands Club after himself and put the third in the doing quite a bit of research had Grubbs car. worked out handicaps for most of the contestants. While these handicaps BEE HODGSON BREAKS were far from perfect, they were at least close enough to where they be­ ANOTHER RECORD longed to arouse the old competitive The bi-monthly team and metropol­ instinct. This was shown by the fact itan shoot of the Southern California that there were nearly as many tur­ Archery association was held at the keys shot for in roving rounds as range of the Long Beach archery club there were in the usual turkey shoot­ on November 12. ing events, such as targets of luck, Honors were well distributed among balloons, and what have you. the various clubs, with newer clubs One of the pleasing things about noticeably snagging the blue ribbons. this tournament was the turnout of Redondo Beach ladies’ C team won old timers whose faces have been first place in their division. Long missing from the last few tourna­ Beach men won in both A and B di­ ments. In this game an old timer visions. San Pedro men captured first dates away back about three years in their class. The Los Angeles ladies and things are moving along so rap­ ran off with both A and B honors. idly that if he misses a couple of Bee Hodgson set a new Southern tournaments he is apt to find so many California record by shooting a 120new faces that he will really feel like 928 ladies Metropolitan round. Mar­ an old timer. garet Ogg became a member of the A Few Highlights National Six Golds club by shooting a Bob Morley serving camp breakfast perfect end at 30 yards.

Dr. R. Kelso took both the B and A at the course to E. J. Woodward, Mrs. Yount and myself. How that man, class honors in the men’s Metropolitan round. Chas. Best was C winner. can cook!

Bee Hodgson’s record score gave her Ed Record winning two turkeys A honors. Neenah Moreton shot high and his wife one. They must be ex­ score in class B and Margaret Ogg pecting company for dinner.

Don Huntington showing his utter was C winner. lack of chivalry by winning a turkey from three ladies in a roving round.

We quote the following from the Still having shot against those ladies Archery News (England) : “It may with some very disastrous results as be of interest to hear that Goering is far as I am concerned, he is not only an archer! The editor has a big photo entitled to that turkey but should of him taken at Berchlesgaden, show­ have a medal as well. ing him with his bow fully drawn up, The two Morrows each winning a not bad form, either, and close by is turkey. From the amount of shoot­ Hitler watching him, his hand shad­ ing his eyes from the sun. ing they were doing I suspect they

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Dear Sir: I’m afraid we of the extreme South­ west have been careless in not in­ forming you of the formation of the “Old Mission Field Archers” here in San Diego, Calif. Our club, which consists of some twenty dyed-in-thewool field archers was organized some time ago, due in most part to the ef­ forts of one C. W-. McNatt, wellknown and much liked San Diego archer. The officers at the present time are: Lafayette (Lafe) Kemp, president; Fred Tiffany, vice-presi­ dent; Bob Hoover, secretary and treasurer.

Since its birth, December 18, 1938, this club has held regular “third Sun­ day of the month” shoots in addition to participating in various of the field shoots held in the nearby cities.

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Originally, the tackle used consist­ ed of hunting bows and broadhead arrows, but since that time (and since participating in some of the Northern shoots, we have slipped into the use of lighter tackle. This not because we preferred the light tackle but because the use of heavy tackle only made the shoots open to a rela­ tively few archers. So now we con­ sist of a “semi-field” archery club, and use the lighter tackle used else­ where. However, the increase in at­ tendance at our affairs seems to war­ rant the change and our heavy tackle activities fall in the informal gath­ erings frequently indulged in for the purpose of harrassing the small game in these parts.

On Sunday, November 19, 1939, the club sponsored a turkey shoot, and twenty-one archers responded.

After riddling the animal silhouettes which comprised our targets, the feathers cleared to reveal the top winners to be: Lafe Kemp, first; Burge Wallace, second; Bob Hoover, third.

And these archers became the proud (Continued on page 9)

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Christmas morning in an archer's home

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An Old English Broadhead

By Eugene Robinson, Los Angeles, California

Field archers will no doubt be in­ terested in the appended drawing of a genuine old English broadhead, or “swallow-tail” as Ascham called them. The specimen (fig 1, shown actual size) is preserved in the Royal Museum at Toronto, where Director C. T. Currelly kindly furnished de­ tails, and it is the only English broadsead of which I know that has sur­ vived in really good condition. It was found a long time ago in Saxton Field, near Towton, County of York,

length 3.6 inches, diameter of socket 0.4 inch. The much-corroded broad­ head of figure 3 must originally have been about four inches in length but unfortunately the fore part of the blade has corroded off; width 1 inch, diameter of socket 0.4.

Note the long, raking barbs.

Let the drawings speak foi* them­ selves, but in this Lower Bracket Boy’s opinion they show that modern broadheads haven’t improved much, since the days when the hum of the bowstring made music in the forests of Merry Old England.

Letter Box (Continued from page 8) possessors of three luscious and re­ bellious gobblers.

As a consolation, a fourth turkey was awarded by means of a chance target, and was claimed by W. R. Lumlev The turnout showed that an in­ crease in membership can be expected soon—and of course that will even­ tually mean our ability to play host here for some future archery event.

In the future I shall attempt to keep you informed of our doings, and re­ quest your forgiveness for past sil­ ence.

—R. R. Hoover, secretary.

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one of the battlefields of the War of the Roses, and dates about 1461. The point is very well designed in cast or forged iron; length 1 13-16 inches, width, 13-16 inch, diameter of ferrule 7-16 inch, weight 150 grains. Note the neat design of the blade and barbs, and the large diameter of the ferrule which certainly indicates the use of a heavy shaft, thus bearing out many of the old illustrations.

Figures 2 and 3 show two muchcorroded iron points found in London and now in the British Museum. Fig­ ure 2 is of the bodkin type, the head of which is square in cross-section;

P. S.—Would appreciate your men­ tion of the shoot to be held at Alisa Canyon, Laguna Beach, Calif., on December 17, 1939. This shoot is, in our opinion, the tenth anniversary of the first formal field shoot using animal silhouettes on rough terrain, and we invite correction on this score provided proof is available.

At that first of all shoots the en­ tries included “Chief” Compton, Art Young, Stan Spencer and several other well-known archers, and the tackle used was real, heavy hunting equipment.

At any rate, we’d like to have a few of our Northern and Eastern friends join us if possible.

Yours, R. R. Hoover.

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The Boys in the Lower Brackets By the Retired Basement Champion “They had hunted the Boh from the hills to the plains; He doubled and broke for the hills again.”

“Till in pldace of the ‘Kalends of Greece’ men said, When Crook and his darlings come home with the head.” —Kipling.

The president of the Lower Brack­ ets is a proud guy today. One of his boys has distinguished himself.

John Davis, as he has taken some pains to point out, brought home his head.

Never was a head more worthily bestowed or harder to earn. After thirteen long years, or fifteen, or thirty, it was high time something happened. The Lower Brackets just had to produce this year, and its out­ standing candidate was none other than John E. Davis.

C. H. Styles and his four pointer was hardly news. John’s forked horn should have had Associated Press service. It should have made all the pictorial magazines.

It was that kind of a head—and that kind of a head-hunter. But publicity was poor­ ly handled and the world-shaking significance of the hunt was lost.

In Oregon, of course, the head is appreciated at its full value. In Ore­ gon John is known as an institution.

At a tournament you never inquire who shot the lowest score; that place is preempted. You ask who shot next to Davis. Now B. G., Dr. Thompson to you, Dr. Cathey, Cooter, Cham­ bers, Stevenson and some of the other high-binders can’t high-hat John any more.

John got his head, and most of his betters (on the range) got left. No wonder the Lower Brackets are proud of the feat. If John Davis can get a buck there is no excuse for any arch­ er in the country — ten years or older-—either sex—not getting two. older Now there will be envious and lowminded persons who will insinuate that the buck committed suicide. We bracketeers scorn such implications.

It is probably true enough that deer mamas tell their fawns that safety in the hunting season is best to be

had in the immediate vicinity of and within range of John’s long bow. It is possible that the forker, having met John before, just wanted to show off. But never mind the detractors— John has the head.

Other bracketeers have more or less run true to form this year. Erie Stanley Gardner, Paul Klopsteg and Walther Buchen missed enough game in Wyoming to start a game preserve.

They should have taken John along.

Without any joking now, we are all mighty pleased. A bow and arrow hunter is not vitally interested in heads—if he were he would use the rifle. Just the same one does not go hundreds or even thousands of miles with the intention of missing game.

The hunter goes for the hunt, and when he really gets a hit the thrill repays him for years of misses.

The future of field archery de­ pends largely on the interest that the poor shot takes in it. The excuse for organized field archery lies in the training the prospective hunter gets in its competitive events. Oregon’s system of field archery must be mighty good, because — John Davis got his head.

The Mayflower Prize The Mayflower prize has been es­ tablished in England and a consider­ able sum of money deposited in a London bank for the purpose of send­ ing an English archer to the National Archery Association tournament in the United States.

Recent York round scores shot by English archers, allowing for the difference in shoot­ ing rules, may rank these archers among the best in the United States.

Olympic Bowmen League The thirteenth Olympic Bowmen League tournament will start the week of January 14, 1940 and last for ten weeks. Entry fees are $4.00 and entry applications must be in by Jan­ uary 1. The league round is 90 ar­ rows at 30 yards, at a standard 48 inch target. Send entries to Kore T. Duryee, 301 White Bldg., Seattle,

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Ohio archers will play archery­ golf on the new 18-target course at the University country club at Colum­ bus on December 17.

THE OLD TIMER (Continued from page 2) using the same process. When the second loop is completed, straighten out the strands again, twist to the de­ sired length and brace the bow. Wax again thoroughly and rub down with a scrap of leather, rubbing vigor­ ously to melt the wax and seal the strands into a smooth serviceable string. Serve with linen thread to prevent wear from the arrow and your string is complete. A bit of talcum applied to the loops will pre­ vent thn shrincr from ndhprinr* the string adhering1 tn to the* the bow, making it easier to brace. For wax use two parts of beeswax to one part of rosin, melting them together and pouring into small nut cups to harden until ready to use. Some archers add a few short strands at the loops as they are twisted as a reinforcement, but I have never found it necessary, never having had a string break at the nocks. Keeping the bow strung fairly high will also cause less string breakage according to the experience of the Old Timer.

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