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Testing Arrows for Accuracy

By Donald Cole, Redfield, South Dakota One1 of the most astonishing facts in archery is the number of things that archers know which are not true.

They continue however to labor mightily and with unabated zeal un­ der these handicaps and, I am glad to note, have a good time doing it.

Now there is nothing wrong with a man enjoying a hobby even though his conception concerning it be filled with fallacies, and to use a slang expresion, cock eyed theories. I, my­ self, have been badly bloated with erroneous ideas but I am siphoning off the gas as rapidly as possible.

My forte has been arrows, and if I had taken the time which I have squandered on arrow making and di­ rected it into almost any commercial channel there can be little doubt but that today I would be a rich man with polo ponies and a couple of yachts. One entire year was devoted to contacting archers from coast to coast and trading arrows with them.

I have seen the handiwork of many, many arrow smiths, the excellent,, the mediocre, and the awful. In ac­ quiring this hayrack full of arrows I also acquired several thousand theories which came along with them, and from this pile, which was fully the size of a small hill, I laboriously selected the best. That task perform­ ed, I entered the second phase of my search for the formula which would result in a perfect flying shaft. It was more than interesting. It was a disease. The fever coursed through my veins like an evil virus and gave me no rest, but it was worth it. I emerged at last knowing so many things that the vast compass of my knowledge was a little frightening, even to me. Archers came for advice

and received it, and after sitting half the night left with the feeling that they had been showered with jewels of wisdom, and staggered home under their new burdens sing­ ing praises to my name. It was a ha^v period wherein I simply open­ ed the spigot and filled everybody’s pail and for those who had none I just tossed a few glittering nuggets into a sack so they could carry them home. What I did not know about arrows vou could write on a postage stamp. Weight, length, feather area, straight or spiral vanes, stresses and strains involving deep calculus and 1524 logarithms, cellular struc­ ture of various woods, etc, etc, all were an open book to me. I could present unanswerable questions in defense of my knowledge and when verbally wrestling with an opponent could flatten him so quickly with a flying mare that he never got his wind back to try for a second fall.

I was so stuffed with rubbish at that time that I came close to busting.

The thing that saved me no doubt was watching a former National Champion make a “tournament ar­ row.” This fellow was an uncanny shot and a man who believed that a kind and watchful providence would sustain him at all times. Therefore he never troubled to have a reserve either of this world’s goods or equip­ ment and would blandly enter a con­ test with a borrowed bow and just enough arrows to make up an end.

At the time of which I speak mis­ fortune befell him. He broke an arrow, one of his set of six and the only set he had. The Champion how­ ever was undismayed. He went to the shon of a friend and sawed out

January, 1943 YE SYLVAN ARCHER 2 one Port Orford cedar stick a half you are going to err in vane area do so on the large side for too much inch square. With a plane the corners were knocked off and the piece just cuts down speed and distance rounded somewhat. So help me Han­ while too little means erratic or semi­ That’s all there is nah, he never touched it with sand­ erratic flight. to making a good arrow and also all paper, just cut the nock, set the pile and stuck on three feathers. Now of there is to making a poor one. You course everyone knows that tourna­ can not tell whether an arrow is ment arrows are matched in spine, good or poor by looking at it. The proof of the pudding is in the eating and weight and perhaps even temand here is the eating test. Cut perment and that you could not run yourself a paste board disc 9 inches an old goat like that in -with sheep without having trouble. However in diameter and divide this so that the center is a three inch bull with the fellow gave as fine a performance 2 outer rings each an inch and a half as one could wish to see. Then and there the thought came to me that wide. In designating these areas we will use the letter C for the center perhaps I knew entirely too much, and number the rings 1 and 2, the and succeeding events have convinced inner ring being 1, the outer ring 2. me that such was exactly the case.

Set this up at 20 or 25 yards and Today I frankly admit that every take 6 arrows and number them worthwhile thing I know about from 1 to 6 respectively. Provide arrow smithing could be set down on yourself with a notebook and pencil a postage stamp using bold type. and set down the figures from 1 to The whole thing boils down to this; 6 in a perpendicular line on the left that there is but one test for an arrow. In YOUR hands, does it hit edge of a page. These figures rep­ resent your arrows, and catalog them. the mark? If so, it is a perfect shaft.

If not, give it the following treat­ Now shoot an end and taking the notebook go to the target and make ment regardless of its cost or the a record of what has happened. For time you have expended in making example let us assume that No. 1 it. Present the wretched missile to arrow hit the 3 inch center. We some small boy and make him happy simply mark a C for a center hit. or bust it across the edge of a scrap No. 2 hit the 1 ring and we will barrel and let the splinters fall where they may. borrow the rifleman’s method of re­ cording. Considering the face of the After years of much scientific talk and fiddling with wonderful target to be the face of the clock measuring gadgets my system of pro­ this No. 2 arrow hit at 10 o’clock ducing arrows which will hit the so we mark first the ring number, mark is as follows. I buy the best then the o’clock, thusly 1-10. No. 3 stock possible. Each dowel is straight arrow missed the whole darned thing grained else I break them for kindl­ so we mark an O for out. An arrow that won’t hit a 9 inch mark at 25 ing. Avoid a cross grained shaft. yards is just no good at all, but of It can break when loosed, drive course it is far too early to condemn through your hand and cripple you this shaft. However a spade is a for life. No cross grained arrow is ever worth the risk of shooting. So spade and it shall be so recorded. No. 4 arrow strikes at 5 o’clock in the 2 far as spine is concerned, even the hired girl knows that too weak an ring and we mark it 2-5. Number 5 arrow will wobble and too strong or arrow is out so it gets a zero and thick an arrow shoots like an old post.

No. 6 arrow hits at 11 o’clock in the Don’t get excited over spine. Just 1 ring so 1-11 for that. Now let us stick with the least diameter shaft see what we have. The record looks which will stand up in your bow. like this: Don’t get much wrought up over 1. C 2. 1- 10 the straight or spiral vane contro­ 3. 0 versy. This has been going on for 4. 2- 5 some centuries and will no doubt 5. 0 continue. Just put your feathers on 6. 1-11 neatly equi-distant and use whatever style or shape pleases your eye. If Here is a record of the actual per-

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formance. One that cannot be ignored and one that no amount of argument or excuse or theory can change. It consists of pure unadulterated fact.

Shoot 9 more ends and record each successive end in the notebook just to the right of the previous one. This done you will have a record of each of your 6 arrows through a course of io flights. Study this record a bit and note those that have the most outs and those that have the most center hits. Here is where we really begin to know our arrows but the picture is not yet clear. Now with the compass and paper draw 6 miniature targets in the same proportion as the one you have been shooting at.

Number these from 1 to 6 and taking your notebook record the mark on the number one target exactly where each of the 10 shots made by No. 1 arrow landed. Do the same with the remaining 5 minature targets and their respective arrow records. You will have before you a pretty fair index of what you can expect from these shafts. Viewing that picture is like looking at the sun on a lovely October morning and saying, “there she is boys.” No one can deny it. Now some arrows are consistent and some are erratic and some shoot high and some shoot low, and arrows whose vanes are all frayed and look like the old woman who kept the tavern, like h—1, just keep hitting the center.

There is no sense to a badly frayed arrow doing this of course but the

fact remains that the hits are there.

Also some arrows which look good, test perfect in the spine machine and are pronounced perfect by ex­ amining experts continue to shoot all over the place. There is no sense in this either but the record is certainly no hallucination and it says this per­ fect looking arrow is nothing but a heel.

Now if you are going hunting and hope to come back with something with more hair on it than an alibi, and if you are like myself, so poor you must make your own arrows be­ cause you have made so many that you have not had time to earn money with which to buy them, then just make up a batch and put them in the test, and fill your quiver with only those that have good reputation.

Pudding and arrows have much in common. The proof of the first is in the eating, and as for the second, all I know about them is what I read in the papers.

The 1942 J. Maurice Thompson Medal of Honor, an award in re­ cognition of distinguished service rendered to the sport of archery with­ out expectation of award, has been presented to Henry S. C. Cummings, President of the Board of Governors of the N. A. A. The award com­ mittee consisted of Louis C. Smith, Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg and Kore T. Duryee.

NFAA Bulletin OFFICERS

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President—A. J. Michelson 610 F. P. Flint Bldjr.. Flint. Mich.

Vice-President—Jean C. Trittin.

22 W. 2d So. SL. Sa't Lake City. Ut. Secretary-Treasurer—John L. Yount.

Box 383, Redlands. California.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Eastern—R. C. Laizure, 328 Rollins Ave., Clifton. N. J. Mid-Western—Fred Bear.

2611 W. Philadelphia, Detroit, Mich.

Western—A. T. (Bert) Wallis, 214 Summit Ave. North, Seattle. Wn. Southern—Carl Wheeler, 2300 N. Broadway. Albuquerque, New Mexico

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Arrows Miss Westchester Deer From New York Sun If the deer of , Westchester county will just remember to cross streets with and not against traffic lights theirs will be long and care­ free lives. That much seemed evident today as it became known that the results of the first day’s hunting there with bow and arrow resulted in only two of the fleet-footed animals being killed, both of these by auto­ mobiles.

For the first time since 1929, dawn broke yesterday on the opening of a deer season in Westchester, the hunting being limited, however, to the long bow and arrow. As its first rosy rays tinted the treetops of Val­ halla, Armonk and environs, almost 500 bowmen hit the heath, the Westchesterites among them tumbling out of beds, the New Yorkers out of lunch wagons.

Over hill and dale, through forest and underbrush, their shoulder quiv­ ers swinging, their brightly lacquered bows hooking on snags and their tempers keeping pace with the mount­ ing sun, the archers stalked until dwindling enthusiasm sent them home late in the afternoon. Yes, some of them actually spotted deer.

The highest excitement of the day was occasioned when one group of three archers beheld a stalwart buck limned against the sky on a slight rise in the vicinity of Armonk. Ar­ rows were whipped from quivers and set to bowstrings and bows were drawn quickly and released.

As there were three archers so there were three results. One of the hunters became so excited he broke his arrow. Another, wearing heavy gloves to protect his hands from the cold, twanged lustily to see the arrow fall harmlessly to the ground at his feet. The third failed to realize the power of his weapon and the arrow sailed ten feet over the head of the deer, the latter bounding away not to seek more safety—a virtual im­ possibility—but more solitude.

Just outside of North Castle, Al­ fred St. Cyr, who revealed that he

took up archery last summer when he first heard of the special legisla­ tion to allow shooting of deer, also reported a chance at a big buck near his home. Just as he was about to release the arrow, however the plastic nock fell apart in his hands.

Near Cross River another hunter reported missing a shot at the range of fifteen yards. It was things like this had the archers today still arguing over the relative merits of the Mediterranean (three-fingered), the Mongolian (padded thumb) and the Flemish (two fingered) releases and still characterizing deer as “sneaky critters.”

It was estimated that at dawn yes­ terday Westchester’s deer population totaled 20,000. Today you could sub­ tract only the two killed by cars and found lying by the side of the road at Greenburgh and on the Hutchin­ son River Parkway. There were no casualties among the hunters.—New York Sun.

Return to Bow and Arrow From Portland Oregonian The state of New York has fol­ lowed the example of Oregon and set aside an area in which it is unlawful to hunt deer with any other weapon than the bow and arrow. All West­ chester county has been reserved for the archers, and when the season opened a few days ago both longbow and arrows had all but disappeared from the market, so enthusiastic had been the response of those citizens who fancied themselves in the modi­ fied modern role of Robin Hood. In­ deed, the enthusiasm was so contag­ ious that many hunters purchased the gear of the bowman to hunt deer elsewhere than in the designated area. A contributing factor was the difficulty, it must be confessed, of obtaining rifles and ammunition.

To loose a shaft at random, and yet not to be wide of the mark, it may be confidently foretold that few of the archers will return with a deer.

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Uc ^liran Ai'drei* Official Publication of the National Field Archery Association Published the twentieth of each month at 505 North 11th Street, Corvallis, Oregon.

J. E. Davis........ Editor and Publisher Subscription Price ...... $1.00 per year Foreign Subscription .... $1.25 per yr.

Single Copies ........................... 10 cents Advertising Rates on Application Entered as second - class matter June 25, 1942, at the post office at Corvallis, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Editorial Oregon archers have been partic­ ularly fortunate in the understand­ ing attitude of their public press and the citizens of the state in general.

We call attention to the Oregonian editorial reprinted in this issue. This is typical of the support we have had, not only from the larger newspapers but also from the smaller papers throughout the state. A full grown man carrying a bow and a quiver of arrows has ceased to be a curiosity and now is met by interested queries instead of blank wonder or question­ ing tappings of the head. We hope this confidence in archery as a sport may continue to be justified by the sportsmanship of our archers.

Again we make note of our plea­ sure in receiving our annual communication from Miss Stella Ives, Roslindale, Massachusetts. Like all the rest of us Miss Ives has had her archery style cramped by gas ration­ ing and other war conditions but is looking forward to better times ahead.

P. F. C. Frank Garske Jr. says, “Prior to my enlistment I taught the art of shooting and specialized in ex­ hibition shooting. I am director of athletics and recreation in the group.

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We have a very novel roving range in the foothills at the edge of the desert here and have a specialty of hunting jack rabbits from jeeps.”

Willis H. Rich of Stanford Uni­ versity asks, “Have you any know­ ledge of the use of service berry for making bows. A friend has one that seems to me to be excellent. The wood is not unlike lemonwood in color and quality.lt would be interesting to know whether any more experienced archery addict has tried this ma­ terial and with what success.-’ Who has something to offer regarding ser­ vice berry?

Kore Duryee says the Washington State Humane Society has elected new officers who have pledged them­ selves to stop hunting in that state with bow and arrows. Archers must be ever alert with the true facts about archery hunting but we be­ lieve attempts to cover up facts sup-; plies the enemy with ammunition.

Through Oscar Lundberg, Epsom, England and Harold Titcomb of Maine we learn that the Swedish Archery Association tournament was held the 5 and 6 of September, at Stockholm. “Ling won the Swedish championship for the third time, score 1008. I presume it was two long distance ‘international,’ 90, 70 and 50 m. The archers almost ex­ clusively shot -with steel bows and steel arrows. He tells me that the latest type Seefab is excellent.”

To Archery Clubs, Everywhere: Many service men are billeted in Flint for short training periods, too many for us to contact them from this end. If you have any members located here, we would like to get in touch with them, share with them our shooting facilities whenever possible. They will find the writer, or Mr. A. J. Michelson, NFAA President, both listed in the local phone book, glad to contact them.

Have them call us up.

Sincerely yours, T. L. Stalker, Pres.

The Flint Bowmen.

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Utah Deer Hunters Break Records Twenty-nine deer were felled by archers’ broadheads during Utahns 10 day hunting season, October 17-27, 1942, according to a canvass of State Game Commission checking stations and replies to questionaires sent out by the Utah Archery Association.

Reports received by Dean Green, sec­ retary of the association, list twenty deer checked out of the Parleys Can­ yon region, six from the Big Cotton­ wood region, and three from scattered points in central Utah. One woman, Mrs. Verne Trittin, of Salt Lake City, laid claim to an archery hunting award by bagging her deer near Car­ diff Fork in Big Cottonwood Canyon.

Exponents of hunting with the bow and arrow hail this record as the best in the nation, and predict a great boost in field archery in Utah as a result of this acheivement. Parts of the Parleys-Big Cottonwood game preserve were opened to hunting for the first time in many years, contri­ buting heavily to the successful sea­ son. Archers of the state, are taking steps to have pa*rt of this region set aside as an exclusive archery hunting ground. Many archers hunted this season under their regular hunting license, but 75 special bow and arrow permits were issued for the ParleysCottonwood preserve.

Hunting Notes from Utah

By Dean Green Twenty-nine Utah Archers, in­ cluding the first woman to claim an Art Young Award, reported success during the 1942 deer season in track­ ing down the wily forest creatures.

This is a record beyond compare with any previous year, or from any other state. It places Utah in the vanguard as an archery-hunting re­ gion, and should give the strongest impetus to the sport of Archery we have had in many a moon. The trend in Utah is definitely toward field shooting, but formal target practice will likewise gain from the refresh­ ing growth in interest.

Although its against the law to use dogs on a deer hunt in Utah, E. H. Isenberg used his son Ralph and

daughter Janice to good advantage in tracking down and scaring out his spike buck. It was felled with only one trusty arrow, loosed in the Par­ ley’s Canyon area near the close of the opening day.

Lieutenant Delmar Pletcher, an archer of national renown in Field Archery circles, and Utah’s new tar­ get champion as well, collaborated with Bill Grote in liquidating one big buck in the Twin Lakes region of Big Cottonwood Canyon. The Lieutenant had spotted deer in this region during a summer hike, so patiently waited beside a trail while Bill worked over the higher levels. Suddenly Bill spot­ ted the big fellow and knocked him over, stunned with a high neck shot.

When Del, hearing the commotion, approached the fallen monarch, up he jumped and sped away, but not fast enough to escape Delmar’s fatal shaft.

Just over the ridge near little Lake Solitude, Norman Smith was startled during his quiet stalking by a wild Indian warwhoop as George Grote came charging down the hillside, hot after a deer he had wounded. Norm didn’t even know until then that Duke was in the vicinity, but they were soon following the tell-tale stains that led to the second trophy to fall that day to the Grote clan.

Farther down the Canyon, Warren “Bob” Robinson was soon to undergo the memorable experience of bringing down his deer with his first shot on his first deer hunt. “Shucks,” says he, “nothing to it! But I was sur­ prised by the devastating force and penetrating power of the sharp broadhead.”

A bunch of the boys one day liter­ ally surrounded a herd of about 30 deer in the Lamb’s Canyon region. As they approached their quarry, Hu­ bert Zimbeaux was the first lucky archer to have one run his way, makin<r his first kill in three seasons of intensive deer-hunting with the bow and arrow. Later in the fray, Fred Woodley and Arthur Taylor knocked off a pair of fine bucks.

Fred, just uu from the hills of Calif-

1 January, 1943 YE SYLVAN ARCHER plentiful, and they are skilled bow­ ornia, is a veteran of this game, but men, but the aggregate kill wouldn’t it was the first archery-hunting ex­ tally much more than twenty or so. perience for Art. The first season of opening the On an earlier hunt, Gus Demas archers brought back a noble kill, proved his ancient lineage to Apollo as they esteemed it, of nine deer. of the Silver Bow, and Dale Conway But at that time the reserve had not showed that you didn’t need a 100been hunted by rifle, and the deer pound bow to bring in your meat. were comparatively easy of approach.

Details have not yet been received Since then, say the bowmen, poachers on the successful efforts of Francis —resenting the privilege of archery— Bromley, Edward D. Hays, Tom Lin­ have descended upon the reserve often dley, Robert D. Heath or Bert At­ water, Jr., but needless to say, these enough to teach the deer caution. hunters are the envy of less fortunate In 1941 the season closed with per­ bowmen. The high percentage of haps a couple of bucks having been kills this season was undoubtedly due brought down. We may be doing some to the opening of an area free from fortunate archer a gross injustice, riflemen, good weather conditions, though this seems unlikely, when we and some darn good shooters. Field say that this season we have not seen Archery in Utah has come of age. a single report of a deer killed by the Perhaps we can now speak with broadhead arrow. greater authority in matters of Fifty yards is a good range for a shooting privileges and conservation deer with the longbow, a standing shot, and even at sixty or seventy policies.

Last, but by no means least, Mrs. yards an expert bowman would loose the arrow. But beyond that he Verne Trittin takes her place as would not bother to nock the shaft.

Utah’s first succesful feminine ex­ There is no wish among these sports­ ponent of hunting with the bow and men to wound the target— they arrow, and the first woman claim­ ant of the National Archery Asso­ shoot for the kill, and with an ac­ ciation's hunting emblem, the Art curacy approximating that of a Young Award. Her big moment hap­ pistol in competent hands. Indeed, pened near Cardiff Fork in Big within reasonable range, the effec­ Cottonwood Canyon. Our congratula­ tiveness of the broadhead arrow is such that it has been known to pass tions to her, to the bow and arrow entirely through the deer. “I saw wizards mentioned above, and others seven buck deer this season, at any whose prowess may have escaped our of which I should have fired had my attention. May your success en­ weapon been a rifle,” said one of courage other archers to take to the our Oregon bowmen, “but I didn’t field and help raise Utah to its right­ loose an arrow. Had I done so I pro­ ful place in the archery world. bably would have lost my arrow, and almost certainly I should have lost Return to Bow and Arrow the deer. We don’t hunt that way.”

(Continued from page 4) No, our western experience teaches Yet if they are bowmen of the true that those Westchester county arch­ breed this won’t discourage them; ers probably returned witfSut veni­ it hasn’t discouraged our Oregon son, most of them— but no whit archers. But it must be remembered disheartened, if they were bowmen.— that unless one is a qualified archer Editorial — Portland Oregonian. one’s chances of getting a deer are very remote. A great many of those Pvt. Geo. Golden of Eugene, Ore­ New York sportsmen who rushed into gon, is now with the 462nd B. Hg. Westchester county probably hadn’t and A. B. Squad, at Marfa, Texas. had a bow in their hands since they Mrs. Golden is in the WAACs at fashioned one of a barrel stave. Our Jacksonville, Florida. Both like army archers of Oregon have one half the life. George says that missing his Canyon creek reserve, in Grant archery friends “is the only thing county, set aside for them, and for several years they have hunted it that I don’t like about being in the army.” faithfully each season.

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Blunts from the Old Stump By the President Hundreds of our archers are in the war service. Scores of them are now overseas. A letter just received from Sergeant Brousseau, now at the fighting front in Africa, causes us to pause and reflect whether we are doing our full part to boost the morale of our archers in the service and overseas. We quote Sergeant Brousseau’s letter in full: “I just received your “Ye Sylvan Archer” magazine for September, and I have read it through five times already, that’s how much I miss my old bow; but we are in Africa now fighting this war and hoping it will be over with very soon. When I was reading ‘Ye Sylvan Archer,’ I just remem­ bered that my subscription will run out in November, and I have no way to send money to renew it, and was wondering if there is any possible way I could have it renewed and pay for it when I get back to the States, because I love the sport, and your little pamphlets every month is the one way I can keep in touch with the highlights; and I sure would hate to lose it.

“We landed here on November 8th, a surprise attack, and we had to fight for a few days, and I thought of my old bow and broadheads, and could have used them much better than my gun, especially against patrols at night, because a bow won’t give away a position, and it is more accurate than a gun at night.

“I would give a hundred dollars for my bow and a quiver full of roving arrows right now because at the place where we are camped it is all rolling grassy hills with big cork trees growing here and there'to make perfect targets.

“I sure wish I had a cork grove at home, so I wouldn’t have to shoot at hard nine stumps.

Well, I guess I have taken up too much of your time already, so I’ll close, in hope that my subscription to ‘Ye Sylvan Archer’ will be re­ newed, and I’ll be able to pay you double when this war is over.” We have renewed Sgt. Brousseau’s mem­ bership so that he will not miss a single copy of “Ye Sylvan Archer”

and we will send him a copy of the new Field Archery Handbook just as soon as it is published.

Sergeant Brousseau’s letter un­ doubtedly expresses the sentiments of hundreds of archers in the service.

Archers overseas cannot send money back into the States to renew their memberships in the NFAA and sub­ scriptions to YSA. It would be a splendid guesture from our archers at home who know of archers in camps or overseas, to send a dollar and a quarter to renew a fighting archer’s membership, and be sure that he gets the magazine and the new Handbook. They don’t have the opportunity of shooting the bow, but they are hungry for archery news and want to keep in touch with our archery activities. Send us the names and addresses of archers you know in camps or overseas with a check for one, or more memberships, if you wish. If you don’t know of archers who are in the service, and want to contribute one or more memberships, send your checks to the Secretary.

We will see that memberships with YSA and the Handbook are sent to archers in the service with your good wishes. You will be advised to whom your subscription is mailed.

This is just one more small way that we can contribute to the morale of our armed forces. How about it?

Our congratulations to Ken Moore of Los Angeles, the men’s 1942 NFAA Mail Tournament champion, and Ruth Hathaway, of Los Angeles, the women’s champion, and the run­ ners-up. Ken Moore’s average of the best four monthly tournaments was 682, with two scores of over 700, 707 and 711. Ruth’s average was 381, with one score over 400, 406.

When you consider that the shooting was done instinctively, the accuracy of these champions is amazing. In the new 1943 NFAA Fieldbook, Ken Moore will tell you how he does it.

Alfonso Gonzales, of Bakersfield, California, was second, with an av­ erage of 630, and Emery Watts of Los Angeles was third, with a score of 616. Of the women, Frieda Hoff of Los Angeles, placed second with an

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average of 343, and Lulu Starker third, with an average score of 291.

Among the men, 7 shot scores of over 600, and 12 shot scores of over 500.

Some shooting!

Kore Duryee, of Seattle, writes: “We have one roving course about four miles north of the city limits.

Some of the archers in the southwest part of the city soon hope to have a new 14-target course laid out in their part of the city. Have been helping them to find the ground for it.

“We hope to have a monthly shoot and take as few cars as possible. Our town is so hilly that we use more gas than most cities do but we get no more on account of it.

“We are keeping our indoor range and hope to be able to do so. Have had continuous indoor range the year round for over 17 years now.”

Gilbert Sanborn, of Eagle River, Wisconsin, writes as follows: “The Eagle River Archery Club has been very active during the past several years in target shooting.

Since the incident of Pearl Harbor many of the active members have left for employment in the city, as there are no defense plants in this area, and others have been inducted into the army, which has left the club with very little to look forward to for the duration. It also meant the cancellation last fall of their annual archery tournament which is held on Labor Day week end. Last spring, with the membership of the club and the activities decreasing, my wife and I decided to build a field range at our cottage, which is about nine miles north of Eagle River. We are both very much in­ terested in hunting with the bow and thought this would be a good way to improve our shooting. Did anyone ever say that it was no work to build an official range? It was sport, though, figuring out the shots and distances and building the targets.

We completed a fourteen target range about the first of June, and immediately had visitors. We then decided to invite groups out to spend a week end or Sunday with us, and I don’t believe we ever put in a more enjoyable summer. We must have had at least fifty archers try the range and some of them, that lived close by, returned five or six times.

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end among the archers present, which gave us plenty of competition.

Several shots are from the top of small hills, one off a large rock, one across the neck of a narrow swamp and a couple are shooting up hill.

All are in the woods and the course was laid out so that the start and finish is at the cottage with ample room left for another 14 target course to complete the official round, also ending up at the cottage. We have already started work on the targets for the new course and expect to have it ready as soon as the snow leaves in the spring. This will give us a complete 28 target official round.

Enough interest was aroused last summer with our field course that I believe that we can start a Field Archery Club now and continue with plenty of interest, tournaments, etc., especially after the war when other members return to this section and when gas rationing is abolished.”

H. C. Reuter, Secretary of La Crosse Archery Club, 452 S. 20th St., La Crosse, Wisconsin, says: “All our male members are hunt­ ers. We expect to improve our hunt­ ing technique by holding regular tournaments on our field range. We have a 14-post course, and may en­ large it to 28 this year.”

There are 24 NF A A members from Wisconsin. Wisconsin is a great hunt­ ing state, with more big game bow and arrow hunters than any other state. They should have a NFAA State Field Association. The Wiscon­ sin Bow Hunters’ Club, or the Wis­ consin Archery Assocition is the logical sponsor for field archery in that state. Organized field archery will hold your field archers together all the year round instead of only during the hunting season. Come on you Wisconsin archers, let’s get organized.

Harlan C. Metcalf, Senior Consul­ tant, Physical Fitness, of the Federal Security Administration, is one of our new members. Mr. Metcalf says: “I should have joined this organiza­ tion long ago but never got around to it. A recent visit in the home of William Folberth, Sr., got me all steamed up to join, I expect. I have been a member of the N. A. A. for a great many years but have only participated in one national archery tournament (Storrs, Conn., 1934.) I

January, 1943 YE SYLVAN ARCHER Barnes, Bear Products, M. L. Mc­ have always been a field archer, how­ Kinney, Middleton Mid Nox, Monte ever. Have shot a great many rabbits Vista, Ben Pearson. Advertizers at one time or another, and two wild should contact the Secretary at once, boars in the Cherokee National Forest in the foothills of the great so that there will be no delay in get­ Smokey Mountains of Tennessee. In ting out the new Field Archery Hand­ book. We have on hand hundreds fact I shot the first wild boar shot with the bow and arrow, and re­ of requests for this book, which we peated the next year. The wild boar are unable to fill, as we ran out of the ’42 Handbook during the first of Tennessee, as you probably know, six months. are of two varieties, a Prussian We were very agreeably surprised species and an African species im­ ported some 50 years ago by a sports­ on receiving a letter from Forrest Nagler, enclosing a check for $50.00 man in North Carolina for sport purposes. They were able to dig their to be used for the good of the NF A A. Mr. Nagler had received a check from way out from under the inclosure one of the magazines for an article built for them and escaped into the he had written. The NFA A operates mountains of North Carolina and on a non-profit basis, and a check of Tennessee. this size is more than welcome. The “I had the fun years ago assisting Executive Committee has not deter­ with the organization of the Ohio mined how it will be used, but we will Archery Golf and Hunting Associa­ be guided by Mr. Nagler’s wishes. tion and was its first president. In We have had numerous requests for this capacity I helped to get Ohio’s films on field shooting technique, first archery game preserve. In con­ field courses, and how to build them, nection with these organizations I hunting pictures, etc., which local had my first contacts with Bill Fol­ clubs would like to rent for a nominal berth, and we have been good friends sum, and show for education and ever since . entertainment of their members.

“Incidently you will find an article Perhaps making such films available I wrote entitled “Archery Golf” in to our members would be as fine a use an issue of the Journal of Health and as any we could find for this con­ Physical Education either in 1936 Many thanks, Forrest. or 1937. I have taught archery among tribution.

Henry L. Collignon has been ap­ other sports in colleges for sixteen pointed Chairman of the Member­ years. My favorite sport is field ship Committee of the NFAA for archery in some one or more of its the state of Illinois. He is a member phases and the making of archery of the “Chicagon Illini” Club. Chris tackle (in a very modest home shop).

Aler is Secretary, 8452 Carpenter St., I recite these facts only in the hope Chicago, Ill. Illinois has 37 NFAA that you will consider me qualified members, more than enough for rep­ for membership in your fine organ­ resentation on the Board of Field ization, not because I want to parade Governors of the NFAA. Illinois them.” archers should organize a State One hundred seventeen member­ Field Association so that you can ships in November and December, have representation on the National of which 31 were renewals, 25 more Board of the NFAA. Illinois archers in the first ten days of January, with please contact Henry L. Collignon, requests for about 75 application 119 W. Campbell St., Arlington Hts., blanks. As field archers gradually Illinois. learn about the NFAA they are anx­ Carl L. Wheeler, 2300 N. Broadway ious to join this oldest and finest- of of Albuquerque, New Mexico, re­ all sports. Tell your archer friends ports on field archery in that state: about the NFAA, so they won’t miss “I really believe there are more out on the 1943 edition of the Field people interested in archery here Archery Handbook. How about check­ than ever. I am doing a little work ing the expiration date of your own now to see if we can’t get our Field membership?

Archery Association organized again.

Advertizers who have already con­ We fell out of the picture a year ago tracted for space in the new Field this last summer. So many of the Archery Handbook are Willis H. (Continued on page 12) 10

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1943 Indoor NF A A Tournament

By Karl E. Palmaticr EXPERT BOWMAN CLASS:

28 Target Score

28 Target Score

W. H. Walters, Seattle, Wash.

Van Stover, Ft Wayne, Ind Lou Stalker, Flint, Mich Art Coe, Ft. Wayne, Ind Ken Furry, Ft. Wayne, Ind. ......

58-222 60-220 62-226 55-217

62-238 65-235 58-226 56-210

66-272 60-232 64-234 57-221 70-274 57- 227 58- 210

69- 255 53-205 70- 270 61-225 58-224 56-204 64-227

47-180 41-145 40-150 40-130

49-197 42-162 34-130 41-131

56 Target Score 148-596 120-460 125-455 120-452 111-427

Han- Han­ di­ dicap cap Score

149-585 135-527 113-437 134-504 118-446 128-498 113-431 122-437 102-382 96-377 83-307 74-280 81-261

50 80 170 40 90 30 80 60 90

635 607 607 544 536 528 511 497 472

230 150 180

512 406 398

BOWMAN CLASS:

Kore T. Duryee, Seattle, Wash.

C. Buck, Flint, Mich A. J. Michelson, Flint, Mich ...

Leo Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich. ...

Meryl Graham, Flint, Mich. ...

James Dundas, Flint, Mich Tracy Stalker, Flint, Mich Lewis Richardson, Flint, Mich.

A. T. Wallis, Seattle G. S. Wagner, Flint, Mich.

B. Boughton, Flint, Mich Harold Houser, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Charles Stuck, Ft. Wayne, Ind.

NOVICE CLASS: 62-220

Chester Babcock, Seattle, Wash.

BOWMAN CLASS: Betty Richardson, Flint, Mich Bertha Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich Donna Diehl, Flint, Mich Rosemary Furry, Ft. Wayne, Ind

40-152 38-130 42-148 30-108 37-141. 23- 77 26- 80 29-123

78-282 72-256 60-218 55-203

22- 70

41-135

NOVICE CLASS: Elaine Mentzer, Ft. Wayne, Ind Any man whose actual score is more than 400 will be in the Expert Bowman Class for the next tourna­ ment.

Any lady whose actual score is more than 280 will be in the Expert Bowman Class for the next tourna­ ment.

Archers not having a handicap should send in two extra 28 target scores so that a handicap may be figured for their next report.

While all scores are reported, only those that have a handicap are to be considered in the monthly tourna­ ments. For computation of the in­

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door champion the actual score will be used.

Ken Furry of Fort Wayne, Ind., writes, “Field archery is going to town in Fort Wayne this year I be­ lieve.” The NFAA extends a hearty welcome to the new archers from Indiana.

Some of the November issue of YSA apparently went astray in the rush of Christmas. We shall be glad to send additional copies as long as our supply lasts. Let us know if you miss an issue.

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Safety Code for Archers Paul H. Gordon of Beacon, New York, has prepared a safety code for archers which should be adopted by all archery clubs and by individ­ ual archers as well. In our sport, as well as in any of our regular daily activities, accidents will hap­ pen; but every precaution should be taken to prevent them. Gordon’s code is as follows: “I shall always remember that bows and arrows are not toys, but weapons capable of inflicting serious injury and death.

“I shall never point an arrow (in a bow) at another person even in sport.

“I shall never attempt to demon­ strate my skill by using a person as a target , or by permitting another to hold the object at which I shoot.

“I shall never stand farther away from the target than others, so that I have to shoot over or past them, and I shall do all I can to prevent another archer from doing so.

“I shall faithfully obey the start­ ing and stopping signals when I shoot with others.

“I shall never attempt to recover my own or another’s arrows while some one is shooting, and I shall try to restrain others from doing* so.

“I shall call out, ‘Fast,’ before I loose on the field course, so that peo­ ple about me may be warned.

“I shall never leave my bows and arrows about unguarded where young or careless people can get their hands on them.

“I shall never shoot unless I am certain that my target or its back­ stop will stop my arrow, and that there is no road in use or unpoliced area back of the target.

“I shall never try to shoot far, ex­ cept on a safe flight range, and I shall never shoot straight up into the air under any circumstances.

“I shall warn others when I am about to test or demonstate a bow; I shall draw with an unnocked ar-

row of safe length toward a solid wall.

“I shall never shoot, or permit others to shoot, with a splintered arrow or one that I think unsafe, or with a bow badly out of balance^ or with a bowstring unserved.

“I shall never brace another’s bow without his permission, and I shall never draw it under any circum­ stances.

“I shall respect all bows and ar­ rows, and I shall give my own care­ ful treatment at all times.

“In short—I shall never take chances or skylark with a bow and arrow.

“I shall seek to make known the safety rules of archery, and I shall work for archery safety in every way I can.

“I shall be a good sport, and I shall obey promptly if I am told to stop shooting for the infraction of any of these rules.”

Blunts from the Old Stump (Continued from page 10) boys went to the army and nobody had time to help maintain our roving course, that we just let it go. How­ ever, the local air base is becoming interested now. I sold them twelve targets and bows and arrows to go with them the other day. Also there are a couple of other groups such as the U. S. Engineers and the Railway Postal Clerks here that are shooting the bow a good deal. I have talked to some of them, and they are interested in the NFAA and by spring I hope to have a growing club started here again.”

Let’s all get in on the winter In­ door Mail Tournaments. You can shoot it outdoors, if your weather permits.

HUNTING IN MICHIGAN

BY Noel W. Spore, Fort Wayne, Indiana The long-waited for and much talked of date finally arrived on Friday, October 30, 1942. It was to

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The next morning Mr. Dixon took be a hunting trip in Montmerency us out, placed us on runways, and in­ County, Michigan. structed us to sit still, while he would Our party consisted of Andy and make a drive for us. In fact, he Anita Mertz, Art and Ceil Coe, Mrs. Spore and myself, all members of the nearly drove two nice bucks right over my wife, who, of course, was Fort Wayne Archery Club.

We finished packing the trailer watching the other way. When she and left Fort Wayne at 8:30 P. M. tried to turn around, she said her There started one of the longest rides bow caught in the brush. Well! It I have ever taken. All night at 35 could be!

The next day we decided on another M. P. H. With the blood pressure at drive in the Luden Game Reserve. I the popping point from expectations, it didn’t seem as if we would ever had a bad cold and coughed a lot, and could not keep quiet, so I said I get there; but we did.

We reached Grayling at 7:30 A. M. would drive. Mrs. Spore said she would help drive, so we dropped off, and had breakfast. Daylight arrived and gave the rest of the party time about that time, so from Grayling to Lewistone it was different, as we to get set. We drove slowly, figuring on about half a mile drive; but I were busy watching for deer. We saw about 30 along the road and I thought miscalculated the distance and it for awhile we would have to tie Andy turned out to be a mile and a half.

We saw only two does in the woods. down. But we kept on going as the season didn’t open until the next When we reached the road no one was in sight, so we started down the morning.

We arrived at Lewiston at 10:00 road toward the car. Pretty soon we heard a big commotion. There A. M., and after an hour’s search was Anita yelling and waving her we located a very nice cottage on West Twin Lake. It took about ten arms. minutes to unpack, move in, change Being one of the best field archers in our club, we thought she had her clothes, load the movie camera and buck; but on hearing her story we warm up the bows. Here we were, bows strung at 12:00, noon, and the found out differently. season not open until the next day.

There she was, her knees like rub­ For once we were on time. We ber, so excited she could hardly talk.

“He was the most beautiful animal finished the day riding around the I ever saw,” she said. “Such nice county, looking for the most likely horns, and only ten yards away, but spot, and we found it right at the edge of town. It was a turnip patch of I missed him.” about ten acres. Bordered on two Well, Andy didn’t like that so well, and told her so, which didn’t go so sides by roads, one side by open field and the other by woods. The deer good; but something else happened were all coming out of the woods. to square accounts for Anita.

It was just about dark, and that A day or so after, while we were turnip patch was alive with deer, still hunting, Andy drove the car and they were still coming. around the side of the woods to park We were satisfied we had the best it. There stood a big buck, looking at spot in the state right then, so we him. He very quickly got his bow returned to the cottage for supper, strung, with the buck snorting at with our hopes soaring. After a long him but still standing at about 30 discussion on the plan of attack on yards; but, low and behold, his ar­ the turnip patch, we called Dixon’s rows were locked up in the trunk of Tavern and then and there our bal­ the car. Before he could get the loon bursted. About an hour before trunk open the buck walked into the someone had shot a button buck at woods; so Andy and Anita came out the turnip patch, just took the hind even. None of the rest of us got a quarters, and let the rest lie. The shot. owner was at this minute posting My part of this story is that after the best spot in the state. four days, I had my cold about licked.

The opening morning we started I thought I was ready to start hunt­ hunting, and that is all we did. Only ing for keeps, but on awakening on saw a few does all day.

Thursday morning I had a stiff neck,

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so bad I couldn’t even string my bow. I took my camera and shot about 30 deer, a lot of woods, and a couple of lakes.

The sad part is that every even­ ing on the way in, we would pass the turnip patch, and there was always a large herd of deer there. One night we counted 75 deer feeding at one time; and all protected by a lot of “No Hunting” signs.

During the week we saw and count­ ed about 600 deer.

After a week of swell weather, a lot of hunting, and an all-around good time, we packed up and started for home. On the way, we stopped at Spikehorns Bear Den and took the usual pictures of the gals feeding candy to the bears. Mrs. Spore said she was very glad she didn’t meet one of those things in the woods.

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