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January, 1939 Corvallis, Oregon Vol. 10

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Ye Sylvan Archer No. 9

January, 1939

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

UNDER NORTHERN LIGHTS

By B. G. Thompson

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SHOOTING IN THE LONGBOW From the Gentleman’s Companion

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OHIO ARCHERS IN HUNTING RECORD

By Paris B. Stockdale

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A UTAH ARCHER GETS HIS DEER

By Albert Rosenvall '............ 5 EDITORIAL

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FIELD ARCHERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By John L. Yount

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A POCKET AXE

By B. G. Thompson

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THE EXPOSITION TOURNAMENT

By John P. Cuneo ......................................

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THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCHERY Edited by George Brommers

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FROM FORT RENO

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Under the Northern Lights

By B. G. Thompson, Corvallis, Oregon Not that the trip wasn’t a success: What real archer wouldn’t give his right leg just to be out in country like this with Erie Stanley Gardner, Ed Record and Doc Cathey, not to mention the finest bunch of guides that ever wrangled a dude.

We know that when all is said and done, the real value of such a trip is not measured in the amount of game slain.

If that were so we would all hunt with guns—machine guns maybe. But Doc Cathey and I, having hunted with bow and arrow for many years and not having brought in any game for several years, felt that we were in the dog house, so to speak, with cer­ tain of our associates who measure the success of a hunting trip entirely by the number of trophies obtained.

We felt that this year we just had to bring in a trophy.

As I said, we went to bed that night wondering if this was going to

Yes, its a wild country up under the northern lights, a wild country, wild game and, I might add,—wild stories; but the wildness seemed to be keeping out of bow shot of five weary archers whose happily built air castles began to seem as chimer­ ical as the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.

The first four days were all alike, up at day break, a hunt through the meadows for moose or deer, back to camp at 10:30 for breakfast; then to the jack pine covered benches where the afternoon was spent try­ ing to out wit a bull elk. Back to camp by dark—always the same story.

We heard elk bugle. We got a fleet­ ing glance of a white tailed deer or wolf. Wp saw plenty of bear tracks, but never a shot. It began to look like “just another one of those trips.”

Every one turned in on that 4th night feeling just a little disappointed.

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“There, gentlemen, is the head of a 12W-pound moose”

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He was the first bull be just another trip.

Now Erie Stanley Gardner, in ad­ moose I had ever seen. In the uncer­ dition to being the world’s best mys­ tain morning light he looked as big tery story writer, stump hunter, camp as a mountain—a large mountain.

Apparently he was trying to get the cook, and archer wrangler, is also an scent of something down the river for astronomer. Hardly a night passes but he is out at least once observing his nostrils were dilating and closing the stars. On this above mentioned like a pair of huge camera shutters. night, about the time we were all Whey they were open they looked as sound asleep, he came in with the in­ large as a pair of liberty bells.

As I watched I heard a peculiar formation that all we had to do was to step to the cabin door to see the thumping noise. It sounded like some­ most wonderful display of northern one, wearing over-sized rubber boots, running. I looked around in disgust; lights ever to look down upon a bunch of archers. For once he wasn’t kid­ but saw no one. Finally I discovered it was my heart beating against my ding.

Actually it was a “honey.” First ribs and realized that I was develop­ ing a good case of buck fever. a white, low, flat arc appeared on the I decided that the sooner I got into northern horizon extending from East to West. This gradually changed color action the better. I pulled up the going through all the hues of the 80-lb. yew bow and drew the 600spectrum. Then bright red streamers grain broad arrow to the head, took shot up from one end of the arc to careful aim at a point about a hand’s the other, often reaching the zenith. breadth behind the shoulder and just At the height of the display, there was above the brisket and released.

As often happens with my shoot­ plenty of light for reading a news paper. Some of the guides who had ing the release crept and the arrow been inside the arctic circle said they, seemed to jump about a foot to the had never see its equal. We went right as it left the bow. It struck back to bed feeling that surely such in the fleshy part of the shoulder a phenomenon would bring us luck. and penetrated half its length. The The morning of the fifth day ar­ bull changed ends at the shot and rived along with a cold misty rain, started on a trot up the bank. I con­ and with it came the moose. Erie tinued to shoot as long as he was in was the first up as usual but I was sight. He made a circle to the right a close second, and was fully dressed and came back within 25 yards of when the guide announced that there the spot where he was when the first was a big bull moose “just a step up arrow hit him and there he fell. He the river.” I suggested that we all. had been hit by three arrows. The make a try for him and surely some first penetrated the shoulder, mis­ one would get a shot, but Erie and sing the bone, and cut off the big Doc both insisted that I go alone, vessels just above the heart, causing one would make less noise and would both lungs to collapse. Another ar­ have more chance to get close. I row had penetrate! the hip, cutting didn’t need much urging, but as I the femora artery.

Either would began stalking the big fellow I felt have been sufficient to cause a quick a little ashamed that I hadn’t in­ death. sisted upon their accompanying me.

From the time the moose fell until The moose was on the east side of well into the night I hardly know the river, our camp on the west side. what happened. I was excited. I Our side of the river was lined with admit it. Maybe as Erie says, I did clumps of short scrubby willows which shoot 5 arrows in less than a min­ made stalking easy. ute; maybe I did miss the foot bridge; I crept up through the willows until but what of it? Frankly, fellow ar­ I was directly opposite the spot where chers, didn’t I have a perfect right the guide had seen the big bull. I to be excited? slowly raised to a shooting position After the kill, pictures were taken and peered over the top of a 4-foot by the dozen and movies by the reel. bush. There stood the bull, not 40 The bull was butchered and the head yards away! He was standing broad carefully skinned out. It now hangs side and headed down stream, ap­ above the fire place in my den. From parently watching something down at now on all my hunting trips will be

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ment to understand the Distance of ground; to take the true advantage of a side wind, and to know in what Compas his Arrow must fly; and a quick Dexterity to give his Shaft a strong, sharp, and Sudden Loose. He must in the action its self stand fair, comely, and upright with his Body, his left foot a convenient stride be­ fore his right, both his hands stiff, his Left-arm holding his bow in the Midst stretched straight out and his Right-arm, with his three first Fing­ ers and his Thumb, drawing the String to his Right-ear, the neck of . his Arrow resting between his Fore­ Shooting in the Longbow fingers and Long-finger of his Right­ (From the Gentlemen's Companion hand, and the Steel of his Arrow be­ vol. II, pp. 61-62, 1753.) low the Feathers upon the middle Knuckle of his Fore-finger on his “There be many other particularLeft-hand; he shall draw his Arrow Recreations necessary for the Know­ up close unto the Head, and deliver ledge and Practice of our Husband­ it on the Instant, without hanging man; as first, shooting in the Longon the String. The best Bow is either Bow, which is both healthful for the Body and necessary for the Common- Spanish or English Few and the worst of witchen or Elmn: the best Shaft Wealth ; the first extending the Limbs is of Birch, Sugar-Chest, or Brazil; and making them pliant; the other and the best Feather grey or white.” an able Strength, fit to preserve and defend his Country, and first, for shooting in the Long-Bow, a man Controversy is going on in England must observe these few rules; First over the round or rounds to be shot that he have a good eye to behold and to determine the ladies’ championship discern his Mark; a knowing Judgeat the Grand National.

a glorious success, whether or not game is bagged, and if any of my blood thirsty friends want to know what success I have had I will lead them into my den and say, “There, gentlemen, is the head of a 1200 pound moose I killed with my bow and ar­ rows, while hunting with Erie Stanley Gardner, Doc Cathey, his son, Bob, and Ed Record, up in the wild country of the Canadian Rockies under the northern lights.” I think that will hold them.

Cartoon No. 2 by Cosner

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Ohio Archers in Hunting Record

By Paris B. Stockdale, Columbus, Ohio California may have its wild boars, Oregon and Michigan their deer, and Ontario its moose, but Ohio has its cunning rabbits and a band of keen­ eyed, sharp-shooting archery-hunters who can hit small game. No testimony could be stronger than at the recent fourth annual archery-hunting party, November 19, 1938, sponsored by the Ohio Archery-golf and Hunting As­ sociation. One hundred ten archers, a record breaking hunting crowd, participated and brought the day to an end with a bag of 71 cottontails and two pheasants—all of this in spite of heavy rain and storms during the early morning and night preceding.

(Yes, Californians may have better archery weather, but Ohio produces the osage to give record shots in their climate.) William Mink, of Dayton, was the hunting champion with three rabbits and two pheasants. Expert form turned women’s honors to Mrs. Howard Stanley, also from Dayton (Curt and Millie Hill’s home town), who took two rabbits on the run.

The hunting party was held at the 500-acre central Ohio archery shoot­ ing grounds near Norton, Delaware County—a public game “preserve” set aside by the Division of Conserva-

tion for the use of bow and arrow hunting only. This tract is one of four such archery hunting grounds in the state.

Approximately 500 hunters in Ohio are now using bow and arrow exclusively for the taking of game.

After the days hunt, a banquet was enjoyed at Bun’s Restaurant, in Delaware. Seveny-one archers par­ ticipated.

On November 26, two district hunt­ ing parties were held in Ohio. One served to dedicate a new archery­ hunting grounds at Taylorville in western Ohio, in the Miami Valley conservancy district. The second was conducted at Suawa, in the Grand River archery preserve, Ashtabula County, northeastern Ohio. Good at­ tendance marked both of these shoots in spite of blizzards with cold and snow. (Oh, for some California or Florida weather, minus the rain!)

Activities of the Ohio Archery­ golf and Hunting Association are next directed toward winter play in archery-golf, culminating in the fifth state championship tournament to be held next spring on the new course at the Ohio State University Country Club, Columbus, Ohio.

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Part of noonday crowd of Ohio archery hunters. Photo by Moiurey

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A Utah Archer Gets His Deer

By Albert Rosenvall Ever since I took up archery, about six years ago, some of my friends have politely scoffed at the idea of a full grown man playing around with bows and arrows. So in order to get them to “see the light,” I decided I would have to do some big game hunting to convince them that bows and arrows are not children’s toys —hence: On October 19th I went deer hunt­ ing with a group of riflemen in ihe Fish Lake National Forest in the southern part of the State of Utah.

I had a bow and two dozen broadhead arrows.

The country there is partially cov­ ered with cedars, mountain mahogany and scrub oak, making it a very good place to hunt with a bow.

The following morning we were out at dawn, scattered over the hills in search of game. About 10:30 a.m.

I was creeping up wind over a ridge when I heard the “thump, thump, thump” of running deer!

Immed­ iately I “froze,” and within a few seconds I saw three deer running toward me, frightened by some other hunter. Two of them were does but the last was a four point buck. At about 50 yds. distance I loosed an arrow at him. lit struck him in the left hip, disabling the hind leg.

He was still able to travel faster than I. However, I followed him for about half a mile when he tried to hide in a grove of Aspen. I approached to within about 30 or 40 feet of him and shot an arrow at his neck, think­ ing to cut the vertebrae. It missed the vertebrae about an inch, but cut the jugular vein, and passing com­ pletely through his neck struck some rocks several yards beyond him. That was the end for Mr. Deer. But just to make sure, and by way of experi­ ment (for I had never shot large game with a bow before) I shot two more arrows at him. One passed through his ribs cutting two of then and lodged in an Aspen tree, penetrating about three-fourths of an inch. The next arrow entered the right flank, cut through the intestines, liver, and lungs and came out through the left

shoulder, the point protruding about five inches.

He was a four point buck weighing 150 pounds.

I shoot a yew bow with a 70-lb. draw. It is made semi-flat with re-

The scoffers arc convinced flexed tips. I have found that by re­ flexing the tips of heavy hunting bows, the draw is made more even and smooth, hence, greater accuracy in shooting. I made my arrow shafts of Douglas fir. The broadheads are of saw steel one and one-fourth by two and three-fourths inches. The whole arrow weighs 34 grams.

Kore Duryee reports the largest number of entries in the history of the Olympic Bowmen League. The 12th annual meet starts the week of January 15, 1939, and lasts 10 weeks.

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Editorial We wish all our readers an abun­ dance of health, happiness and pros­ perity in the coming year.

The editor of Ye Sylvan Archer feels a distinct personal loss in the death of C. C. Hall, who was a true sportsman, a fellow member of the “Lower Brackets” at the archery tournaments and always the fairest and squarest competitor.

Dr. C. H. Bullock of South Croyden, England, in a recent letter, points out the need for a book of instruc­ tive articles on field archery. He suggests Howard Hill, the Wilhelms or other prominent field archers as authors. Dr. Bullock is right. We have not had a book on field archery since the classical “Hunting with the Bow and Arrow” by Saxton Pope.

After a bitter argument between F. G. Archer and James B. Murray the name of the Polecat Archers was selected for a new Long Beach, Calif., club. The choice was Mr. Archer’s.

Mr. Murray loyally stood out to the last for the appellation of Loggers’ and Associated Timber-beasts’ club.

Mr. Murray, formerly manager of the Baxter Pole Co. at Everett, Wash., is now filling the same position at Long Beach. Other charter members are Willard Bacon, Charles Bast and Ted Rowan. We hope the new club raises a lot of stink.

Cartoon Contest No. 2 In this issue will be found the sec­ ond cartoon in the series of twelve drawn by A. J. Cosner, Phoenix, Ariz­ ona, for publication in Ye Sylvan Archer. A photographic reproductiontion 8 by 10 inches suitable for framing, will be given as a prize for each of the three best titles for this cartoon that are received by March 1, 1939. There is still time to get in your title for cartoon No. 1, print­ ed in the December issue. We hope to have a good list of names from which to choose. Mail your selection, right away, please.

C. C. HALL Mr. C. C. Hall, editor of the American Bowman-Review, of Albany, Oregon, died at Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, Jan­ uary 7th, 1939, following a major operation.

Mr. Hall was supervisor of the Cascade national forest for many years, retiring from the forest service nine years ago. In 1935 Mr. Hall, with Mr. Frank Taylor, founded the American Bowman and has made a host of friends throughout the coun­ try both through the medium of the Bowman and at the archery tournaments which he attended.

Mr. Hall is survived by his widow, three sons, Jack, Kendall and Chad, and a daughter, Mrs. L. G. De Haven.

Bud Pierson has a brilliant idea— if it works. He has sent Ken Wil­ helm a foot bow as well as a hand bow to season and to try out in the desert. Then Bud hopes that .his son Charles and Curt Hill will both beat the pants off Ken next summer at St. Paul, and do it with a bow that Ken has nicely broken in for them.

Ken is more than willing to play the game any way his Eastern friends want it played. He thinks the world of Bud and of Curt, both of whom have helped him every way they could, and he isn’t forgetting the part Bud’s arrows have played in his out­ standing flight shots. Ken also says that they will have to shoot to trim him, and he will do his best to beat them. Visitors at the National will see something worth going a long wav to see next year. We will have all the stars in fancy and regulation style eagerly working with and against each other. That’s sports­ manship, in case anybody should hap­ pen to be curious.—Contributed.

Greetings from C. Plattsburg, N. Y.

L.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount, Secretary On Our Way to Yermo Well, folks, we have managed to work our way through a lot of more or less minor tournaments and here we are back to the time and the place again.

The time is January 22, 1939, and the place is Yermo, California. This is all the information necessary for those who were present at either of the two meets the boys out that way have put on for us. To our new members, who have missed these events of events, all I can say is that there are some things that when missed are just plain missed and cannot be made up. So far, you have missed two major events, but you can­ not afford to miss this one, which, judging from promises, is to be the greatest of their tournaments. No fooling! When that bunch out around Barstow and Yermo puts on a meet, it really is something. They know just what we valley and city dwellers want when we get out into the great open spaces and make arrangements accordingly.

Archery Reserve Bill The die has been cast! The bill for an archery hunting reserve for South­ ern California archers is now before the legislature, so now it is up to each one of us to bring enough pressure to bear and manage to keep any black cats from crossing our paths for the next couple of months. If we do this, we may have a real place in which to hunt this next year.

You may not know any members of the State Legislature, but you surely must know someone who does know one, so please work on him.

If you have friends in the north, won’t you get in touch with them? You know California goes clear up to the Oregon state line and a legislator in the north is just as important as one in the.south. A vote is a vote, and for our sake, it must be cast our way.

It is positively up to each of you. A small handful cannot do it alone.

On the other hand, the northern archers may want a reserve up their way and will undoubtedly need our

help in getting it. Just remind your northern friends that we think since we started the whole thing two years ago by introducing a bill in the legis­ lature, which was later dropped on account of not feeling the time was yet ripe to put it over and get the proper backing, we deserve the first help, and that we will then give them all the support possible.

The reserve we are working on now, and the most favorable to the legis­ lators so far contacted, and to the forestry department, is to be located in the San Gorgonio “Primitive Area”.

It is a very beautiful location to hunt in. It is sufficiently high to insure cool weather, has plenty of cold springs and good streams, contains much fine forest land, mostly pine and fir, and is rugged and not rugged.

This section has been a reserve for many years and the hunting should be the equal of that in any other part of the country.

Remember, it is strictly up to each of us, both men and women, whether or not we get a reserve this year. So do your darndest!

New Addresses Are Important AMhen you change your address, won’t you please notify your secre­ tary in Redlands? Also, Mr. Davis, editor of this magazine, would ap­ preciate your new mailing address, as you know magazines are not for­ warded, owing to their mailing classi­ fication. Some of our members are not getting either their tournament notices and letters, or their magazine — and we are mighty poor mind readers.

The Marines believe in prepared­ ness. Nothing like having a friend in court this time of the year, and Col. Pierce has enrolled Mr. W. H. Grist, Collector of internal Revenue for the district, in the San Diego Club. The Coronado club, also organied and sponsored by the colonel, is doing quite nicely, thank you! Ar­ chery in San Diego is decidedly look­ ing up.

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January, 1939

A Pocket Axe

By B. G. Thompson, Corvallis, Oregon You who hunt with broadheads know that the “misses” often lodge in a stump or log. The writer has had such experiences all too often.

He has also found that unless the lodged arrow is chopped out, it is usually extracted at the expense of the head, so on most of our hunting expeditions a belt axe is carried.

Even though a belt axe is small and of light weight, added to the weight of the bow, quiver, lunch, cam­ era, etc. it soon takes on the aspect of excess luggage. Some of us con­ ceived the idea of making a baby edition, one that would be about half the weight of the ordinary belt axe and small enough to be carried in the pocket. We have found these axes, although quite small and light in weight, quite satisfactory for chop­ ping out lodged arrows, splitting kindling, cutting tent poles, etc.

They are made as follows. A piece of broken truck spring is cut out roughly to the shape of the axe with an acetylene torch. (fig. A) It is

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A washer is welded onto the handle, near the middle. It is then ground down to shape on an emery wheel and polished. A grinder of a 120 grit was used in polishing. After polishing they were heated to a bright cherry red and submerged in oil.

This gives just the right temper; then blued with liquid gun barrel blu­ ing and deer horn handle was fitted on. The horn handle is held in place by a countersunk nut, the end of the handle having been threaded.

The overall length averages about 9.5 inches. The width of the blade is about 1.75 inches.

The Exposition Tournament The dates for the Golden Gate In­ ternational Exposition championship archery tournament have been set for Saturday and Sunday, July 8 and 9, 1939.

Treasure Island will have national and international sports events dur­ ing the Fair as part of an extensive sports program which includes track and field under the sponsorship of the Amateur Athletic Union, and Pacific Athletic Association, Western Bowl­ ing Congress, national fencing cham­ pionships, collegiate crew, tennis, soccer, rifle and pistol, and other sports.

Athletic facilities on the Fair site include a turf field, an 8000 seating capacity Coliseum, and an Exposition stadium for 10,000. A substantial appropriation of funds for archery has been approved by the Exposition thereby making it possible for the committee in charge to arrange an in­ teresting archery program.

One of the main objectives of the archery committee will be to acquaint the large attendance of visitors to Treasure Island with our fine sport.

The Exposition has set up machinery to draw worldwide attention to the events scheduled and this should re­ sult in extensive newspaper and radio publicity for archery.

—John P. Cuneo.

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The Lighter Side of Archery

By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS THE OREGON MONSTER To the Editor: You ask me to give you an account of the slaying of the Oregon Monster.

This is something I would hesitate to undertake if it were not for the host of witnesses who are willing to vouch for the truth of the occurrence, sup­ ported by the photograph. Every­ body knows that photographs do not lie, though archers may, occasionally.

The first inkling we had that there was something decidedly ‘screwey’ in the Oregon woods was then Earl Ullrich reported that he had come across the tracks of a baby dinosaur while going after yew wood. Nobody took him seriously but when George Miles, returned from a hunting ex­ pedition and immediately applied for membership in the local temperance society his friends realized that some strange horror must be at large in the woods. It got so that only the boldest archers dared to penetrate the thickets.

Walt Wilhelm, the poet, and his brother, Longshot Ken, decided to put an end to that intolerable condition.

They loaded up the “Desert Prowler” with their toughest bows and arrows and headed north west. The third day they came across the tracks of an unknown creature. Ken examined the foot prints with a reducing glass that he had inadvertently put in his pocket for a magnifying glass. What was his amazement to see that the footprints were undoubtedly the tracks of a rodent. He had hardly come to that conclusion when the woods were shaken by a roar. They hurried to the top of the rise and there, at a distance of exactly seven hundred and fifty yards, they saw a squirrel. He was sitting on his haunches and beating his breast, Tarzan fashion.

Ken picked up his heaviest bow and started filling the air with arrows but in his excitement he kept over shooting.

The monster immediately stopped beating his breast and scanned the woods ahead of him. As soon as his eye caught the desert boys he emitted what sounded like a “Give-them-the axe” college yell and bounded forward.

The boys made for the “Prowler” without delay and gave her the gun.

Ajs they crashed through the under­ brush on their way out they passed

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Grover skins it out Chet Stevenson and Grover Gouthier who were also tracking the rodent.

It seems they each possessed a good two hundred pound hunting bow. By a happy chance the bows were of identical dimensions.

They simply lashed the two bows together and be­ hold a good four hundred pounder.

With one man on each side, one shooting left handed, the other right handed, they practiced till they were able to drive an arrow through a six inch thick oak post at sixty yards.

The arrow was a kind of feathered Javelin, one inch in diameter. The point was made from a spear off an old iron fence that the boys had salvaged from a neglected cemetery and ground down to a harpoon edge.

When the Wilhelm boys passed Chet and Grover in the woods they yelled “Run for your lives or the souirrel will get you.” Chet and Grover mistook the warning for an

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insult, but soon the roaring of the monster took their minds off that grievance.

They immediately took their shooting stance and fitted their super arrow to the bow. They barely had time for a full draw when the beast was upon them. There was no thought of aiming. They just re­ leased in unis’on and the monster fell dead at their feet with a severed spine.

The skeleton has been shipped to the Metropolitan Museum in New York where it is on view during visit­ ing hours but through some mistake it has been labeled “Giant Sloth, now extinct.” No doubt that error will be rectified as soon as Chet and Grover get in touch with the authorities.

All archers who are fond of hunting • oin me in paying homage to the val­ ient men who risked so much to make the woods safe for nuts.

Sincerely, Reed Williams.

Miss Stella M. Ives wonders what George Brommers ever did with all the arrows he has collected at tour­ naments. We can’t help her clear up the mystery as no one ever heard of him shooting them. Miss Ives enjoys the memories of her friends of her tournament days and is always hope­ ful that “tomorrow I’ll get in a bit of shooting.”

According to press reports, Dr. Harlan G. Metcalf, Tom McNish and Ed McNish, archers of Nashville, Tennesee, have convinced their friends that a hunting arrow will stop a wild boar as quickly as a rifle. They killed one of the descendants of a herd of Prussian boars which escaped in the Cherokee national forest many dec­ ades ago.

From Fort Reno The following is from “FORT RENO,” “A Story of Oklahoma-, or Picturesque Cheyenne and Arapahoe Army Life,” by Mrs. D. B. Dyer, NY 1896.

“I had a fine specimen of a panther’s-skin quiver that had been made to show to good advantage the sav­ age claws of the beast. It had be­ longed to ‘Little Raven’ who in years past, had been a great war­ chief of the Arapahoes, and all pow-

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erful with his people. It had been a receptacle used by him when with ‘Satana’ and war party of Kiowas he went to the assistance of the Cheyen­ nes at the battle of the ‘Washita.’ I had it hanging on the veranda in the sun one day when one of the head Cheyenne men asked permission to examine it. It was filled with doz­ ens of steel-barbed arrows, intended ed for war, intermingled with the blunt three-cornered heiroglyphically-painted practice and medicine points.

“After pulling out several, and commenting upon them all, each one having a particular history and val­ ue, his exclamations and Indian ar­ ticulations of surprise and great awe were inspiring as he reverently laid two of the number aside, leaving no doubt in my mind of his sincerity in believing they had pierced the heart of an enemy. They were short, sharp iron barbs like a lancet, and were very lightly attached to the wood, as it was intended that the head should remain in the wound, and kill eventually, if not immediately. There was a tiny groove that ran in a zig­ zag line down the entire length of the shaft, to allow the blood to flow from the wound, while the stain of a coagulated reddish-black substance was very perceptible.

“Wild turkey feathers smoothly wound with sinew were used for orn­ ament and to direct the flight. To me many of them were apparently aBke, but by certain marks, either a groove along the shaft or the ar­ rangement of the feathers, at a mere glance this man told from what part of the country each weapon came.

He begged me to exchange the two for a dozen of his own make, assur­ ing me if he could possess so sacred a treasure the ‘Bad God* would have no power over him, and he would be able to radiate streams of beneficient influence over his tribe.

“The interpreter explained that the medicine chief most renowned for his power over the ‘Bad God’ was the Cheyenne ‘Medicine Arrow.’ He had gained his reputation by his marvelous escape from apparently certain death, and he ascribed this wonderful immunity to his discov­ ery of the secret of making an arrow so potent in its charms against the

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'evil one’ that no warrior who car­ ried one could ever be hurt in any way. The fame of his arrows extend­ ed to all the plains Indians. These two special ones, it seems, had been used by the Pawnees, an exceedingly warlike race, and at one time one of the most powerful tribes in the ter­ ritory of the United States, who vied with all the wild tribes in courting the danger of the war-path, and winning the scalps of their enemies.

This explained the savage desire to possess my two lifepreserving ar­ rows. Not satisfied at my acceding ing to his heart’s desire, he wanted to try the strength of the bow, that was probably a hundred years old, and the speed of all the death-dealing weapons. He was certainly an ex­ pert, and gave a beautiful exhibition of arrow-th rowing, for he would take a bunch of arrows in his left hand, and discharge them so rapidly that the last would be on its flight before the first had touched the ground, and with such destructive force that I had all human and animal life put out of the way, for fear everything on the place would be found mor­ tally wounded.”

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ARCHERY TACKLE BROADITEADS—Make them your­ self. Select from 4 Swedish clock spring blades by Case, the Broadhead Specialist since 1927. Write for cir­ cular. Roy Case, S. Main St., Racine, Wisconsin.

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MATCHED ARROWS—Not merely sanded to weight, but matched spine, weight and dimension. Built only as Hobson can build them. Self arrows $2.50 a set. Footed $4.40.

Sample arrow 25c. Pair Yew billets, $2.50.—Harry D. Hobson, Salem, Oregon.

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YEW BILLETS —$2.50 and $3.50.

Staves $3.50 and $5.00. Postpaid.

High altitude yew, well seasoned.

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Pl ease send your special 15 months’ offer—$1.00 enclosed. Please print.

BROADHEADS —$1.75 and $2.00 a dozen. ” Formerly $3.00 and $3.60 a dozen, Paul Leyda, Archery Supplies, South Oil City, Pa.

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SELECT FEATHERS— $1.75 per gross, 1-3 dyed, 2-3 barred, post­ paid.

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BOWS, ARROWS, raw materials, Lloyd Morrison, Lowest prices.

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from the Heart of the Yew Country

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L. L. “Flight” DAILY offers you “Tackle That Talks” Dry Cedar and Yew Catalogue Free 245 Pearl, Eugene, Oregon

January, 1939

Just A Word About

BOWS Our bows are built by Bruce Robertson. He made the Osage bow Ken Wilhelm used for his now famous flight shot. Our bows all have the four necessary qualifications for A-l rating, maximum cast, smooth action, long life and they are all built of selected seasoned wood.

Yew Wood Bows Osage Orange Bows Lem on wood Bows Write for a Catalogue Today

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Willis H. Barnes

Master Fletcher

4333 Cole Ave.

DALLAS, TEXAS

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601 N. 4th Street : Michigan

Bowyer and Fletcher

(Tackle Built to Please) Now located in Dallas, Texas and equipped to supply fine ar­ rows and arrow materials for all purposes at a most reason­ able price.

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As the new archery season is on its way, archers will need a new bow, or a dozen arrows, a new target, shooting gloves and many other items which go . with the glorious game of ar­ chery.

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— ULLRICH WOOD — The Choice of Champions Why handicap yourself at the coming meets?

Use the best materials available in making up your tackle.

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W. A. COCHRAN Archery Equipment High Elevation Yew Wood Port Orford Cedar Osage Orange Air Seasoned 10,000 Billets and Staves in Stock Eugene, Ore. Route 2

Cassias Hayward Styles

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