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Ye Sylvan Archer Official Publication of the National Field Archery Association

Vol. 13

June, 1941

No. 2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PLENTY HITS, PLENTY MISSES 1 By Dave Cartwright -....................... 2 BLUNTS FROM THE OLD STUMP A BEARLY MISS 4 By Kore T. Duryee 5 THE OLD TIMER ......................... 6 EDITORIAL ...................................................... SOLDIERS TRAINED IN BOW AND 6 ARROW ART -................... THE ILLUMINATING POINT-OF-AIM 6 By V. D. McCauley THE NATIONAL AT PORTLAND 7 By George Brommers 7 AN OPEN LETTER BEAR MOUNTAIN MEET IN 8, 9 PICTURES NFAA BULLETIN 10 By John L. Yount FIRST OHIO NFAA TOURNAMENT .... 12

MAY NFAA TOURNAMENT REPORT By Karl E. Palmatier LETTER BOX

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Plenty Hits, Plenty Misses

By Dave Cartwright At our last roving meet, which by and it was pretty cold, so most of the way was the only one that was the party turned in. A few of us, rained out in spite of what a certain however, were anxious to try this Wenatchee archer would like to be spot-light hunting, so we bundled up lieve, Damon Ho watt and his wife and set out over the old dirt roads from Yakima suggested that we come with the car and an old headlight over and try their jack-rabbit hunt rigged to the battery for a spot. We ing. We field archers here in Seattle hunters would all ride on the running had been looking for just such a place board and when the spotter would catch a jack in his light we would and this seemed perfect. So Kore Duryee organized a party consisting jump off and start shooting. Maybe of Earl Stamps, Art Partee, Dave this sounds easy. Well, it isn’t, Cartwright and himself. But, alas, ’specially the part where you look for poor Art; his boss called him at the your lost arrows. Anyway, we all had a swell hunt, and by early last minute to fill a rush order, so he missed the trip. morning we had helped the annual As soon as we crossed the moun roundup of these pests by the score of thirty-five or forty. tains we left the California dew that I guess Kore was irked quite some had settled on Seattle and, although by his ill luck the day before, be it was pretty windy, we thought that cause he got up about four-thirty it would be fine for rabbits. We and actually killed a rabbit. Later in stopped in Yakima and picked up the day the rest of the “Pure and the Damon and the George Howatts Innocent” club were disqualified. Mrs. and their friend, Harvey Wilson. Da Damon Howatt made a beautiful mon led the way up the valley to Han running shot at about forty-five ford, crossed the Columbia there, and yards, and Mrs. George Howatt a followed the road about ten miles up hard-to-get sitting shot. Damon How the river to our camp site. att, who was the high man the first We were all anxious to start hunt day with a score of five, gave way ing so without wasting much time to Kore the second day, who finally we organized a party and started to also nailed five. comb the side of a dune. Well, the About noon of the second day four Howatts had said there were plenty more Yakima archers came out to of rabbits, but we were a bit skepti join us. I’m sorry that we couldn’t cal, that is, until we hit this dune, stay longer and get to know them. when it seemed as if all hell had They were Ed Carrick, Roy Crewdon, turned bushels of the jacks out at us. Marie Miller and Ted Donaldson. We were all, as you can guess, ex Most of the fellows agreed that a tremely busy the rest of the after noon. There were plenty of rabbits, fairly heavy bow and concave blunts were the “cool ticket,” although, as but there were also plenty of misses. one fellow put it, “It doesn’t make However, all of us except Kore, Mrs. much difference what you hit them George and Mrs. Damon Howatt had with as long as you hit ’um.” at least one by the end of the first As is invariably the case, we arch day. Well, Kore and the girls took quite a lot of ribbing until they or ers had a grand weekend — in fact, ganized the “Pure and Innocent” everyone was so enthusiastic that Damon plans to make this hunt an club. That made them feel better. After supper and some of the How- annual affair. How would you like to join us next year? att’s welcome black coffee, we sat around the fire and told tall archery tales until some friends of the How atts, Lloyd Dopps and Fred Anderson, arrived. As soon as it was dark we decided to try some spot-light hunting. By now the wind had really whipped up

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Blunts from the Old Stump After reading the instructions on how “Class A” is to figure its handi caps, you probably think that you will need a couple of Philadelphia lawyers and a dozen government ex perts to figure it out, but it really is simple if you work out the illustra tions. Anyway, let your club secre tary do the worrying about the han dicaps, and if he has difficulty Palmatier will help him work it out. When field archers shoot scores over 500, like Willard Bacon, 553; Delmer F. Pletcher, 569; Merle Hath away, 584; Roland Quayle, 540; and Dr. Delmer Pletcher, 538; you can’t tell us that a high degree of accuracy cannot be developed in field shooting. Congratulations to these archers, and we are looking for many more to join their ranks soon. Those Bakers field, California, boys really can shoot. But don’t forget the ladies who are shooting “Class A” men’s scores, with Gene Bacon shooting a remarkable score of 485. Pat Chambers of Oregon—a target and field champ—made this observa tion on target and field shooting. He said, “A target archer counts his misses and a field archer counts his hits.” Perhaps that explains why some target archers suffer a nervous breakdown when they miss the tar get, and why the average field archer gets a big kick out of making a hit on a long, difficult shot. For those who think field archery isn’t really taking hold in all parts of the country, note this: On May 18 at Redlands, California, the Redlands Club held its annual field tournament with an attendance of 80. On the same day the Michigan Archers As sociation held its opening field meet at Fenton, Michigan, with an attend ance of 99. 97 archers shot in the instinctive class, and only 2 in the free style class. The free style class, however, will be continued in Mich igan to take care of new archers who prefer that type of shooting. On the same date, the Columbus Archery Club put on a field tournament for the Ohio Field Archery Association at Columbus with an attendance of 75, and with instinctive and free style archers pretty well divided. To the surprise of all, the instinctive

archers outshot the free style arch ers. The Columbus shoot was well publicized and representative field archers from all over the state at tended. The Columbus Archery Club is to be congratulated for its efforts in staging such a successful shoot. On the same date, May 18, the Pittsburgh Archery Club held a field tournament for the Pennsylvania archers in the North Park range. We do not have the report on the attend ance or the scores. The Pittsburgh Archery Club is sponsoring the NFAA field tournaments at their North Park range on June 8, July 20, August 10 and September 28. Pennsylvania archers and those in nearby states who have not tried the NFAA field round will be welcome in these tour naments. Franklin L. Davis of Forham Park, New Jersey, Chairman of the New Jersey Field Archery Committee, has designed a practice field course which covers all the standard NFAA dis tances and targets for use where only a limited field is available. This is not intended to take the place of the standard NFAA course, and cannot be used in the monthly mail tourna ments. Details of the layout of this practice course will be published in Ye Sylvan Archer. Some archers have commented that a 56 target tournament in one day is too strenuous, and takes too long to shoot. If the tournament is well planned, and conducted smoothly with no bottle necks this should not be so. 28 targets should be shot in not more than two to two and one-half hours. This can be accomplished, if: (1) Targets are so placed as to have a natural back stop, free from tall grass or weeds, so that a minimum of time is used in hunting for arrows: (2) Not too great a distance between targets: (3) If archers are assigned in groups to different targets and shooting starts simultaneously on time: (4) If shooting positions are so arranged that two archers can shoot at the same time. We, personally, find a 56 target NFAA tournament shot with a 60 pound bow less fa tiguing than the York round shot with a 45 pound bow—perhaps be cause less concentration and tension

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is involved in shooting the field round. We regret to learn that the Calif ornia archers were not successful in getting special reservations for bow and arrow hunting. This was largely due to the opposition of well-meaning, but grossly misinformed members of various humane societies. The pub lic needs to be educated to know that the bow is as humane as a shot gun or rifle, and under reasonable reg ulations is suitable for hunting of all game on the American continents. The NFAA is sponsoring this much needed educational program, and will soon be in a position to render valu able assistance to archers in all states interested in archery legislation. The NFAA 56 target course and an archery-golf course will be avail able at the National Archery Associ ation national tournament at Port land, under the direction of Dr. H. H. Hewitt. Field archers who are planning to attend the NAA tourna ment should bring their field equip ment along, and show the target arch ers the degree of accuracy that can be developed in field shooting. You have all heard of “buck fever” among rifle hunters — where the hunter stands and looks at a fine specimen with mouth wide open and forgets to shoot — or stands and pumps the shells out of his gun with out firing a shot — or closes his eyes and shoots all his shots in the air. What are the archer’s reactions in a case of “buck fever.” Here is one from a novice archer who used to be a rifle hunter. A group of archers were driving to their hunting grounds when a nice buck was spied near the road. The car was stopped and this archer was the first to tumble out. He strung his bow, drew a full ar row, and then froze. His compan ions kept urging him to shoot, but he couldn’t. He advanced slowly, his drawing fingers twitching on the string as if trying to pull the trigger on a gun. The buck, unafraid, watched the performance with curi osity, and then leisurely loped off. The arrow was never released. Paul L. Henderson of Houston, Texas, P. O. Box 3128, is chairman of a committee to revitalize the Texas State Archery Association. If a state association is to really represent all the archers, an adequate program for field archery must be provided. If

this is done the state association pro vides a diversified program which not only promotes harmony and good will among the archers, but increases archery interest as well as member ship. The NFAA extends to Texas its best wishes, and offers it all as sistance needed. Some archers have expressed the opinion that there are too many long shots in the NFAA field round. The field round was devised to provide not only recreation and fun, but to give the bow hunters something to practice on. The round expresses as nearly as possible the wishes of all the field archers from the gulf to the Great Lakes, and from the At lantic to the Pacific.. The big game hunters need the long shots, and there are plenty of shots under 30 yards for the small game hunters. Statis tics in Michigan show that in deer hunting one-third of the shots are under thirty yards, and one-half of the shots are over fifty yards. We ask you to be patient and give the field round a fair trial. If experience shows that the field round needs changes, these can be easily made. The Secjuoia Club of Berkeley, Cal ifornia, writes: “Our first shoot of the year held at the beautiful new Sequoia range had an attendance of 82, which is the best we have had as yet. *** The Mill Valley archers have got a course going in connection with the country club over there, and every one is looking forward to shooting over it in a couple of weeks.” How many thousands of archers in the United States are there like J. C. Franklin, 164 Robie Street, St. Paul, Minnesota, who writes, “For quite a while we have been trying to find out about field archery clubs, their aims and purposes. In the Twin Cities we have many archers that would like to join an archery club that is not governed by traditions and custom. Your definition of the NFAA seems to be just what we wanted. ♦♦♦ After talking your ar ticle over with several of the regular archers we feel that your organiza tion is the kind of club we want to belong to.” The NFAA is helping the Twin Cities field archers to organize. Let us hear from other unorganized field archers. The NFAA is for you, too. (Continued on page 15)

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A Bearly Miss By Kore T. Duryee “Now, kiddies, I will tell you a “bear” story.” On my recent bear hunting _ trip Ii ieii left Seattle seattie Thursday inursday morning, arar riving in Vancouver about 2:30 P. M., where I met John Garrett and we drove to Harrison Lake, a distance of about ninety miles. A speedboat was waiting for us at 7 o’clock, taking us thirty miles up the lake to a log ging camp. This lake is about forty

miles long, and while ninety miles from Vancouver, is only thirty feet above sea level. It is believed to be the largest glacial lake in the world. The steep hillsides come straight down to the water’s edge. Mountains border the lake, and I would say that they are four or five thousand feet high. Snow covers the tops of them. Most of the time we were there the weather was not good for photog raphy, but one day cleared up and I was able to get a few fair pictures. Arriving at the camp we were put up in the guest rooms adjacent to the office. The logging is all done by logging trucks and they have con structed very fine graveled roads, with very few places where the grade is higher than ten per cent. They use big Mack trucks and haul from eighty to ninety thousand pounds at a load, and also haul logs as long as one hundred and two feet. After they have delivered their logs in the lake they unhook the four wheel trailer, lift it by crane, and set it on top of the truck with the long tongue

resting on top of the cab, and sticking out in front about fifteen feet. This is modern logging, entirely different to what experience I had thirty years ago. Friday morning we climbed to about two thousand feet elevation but saw no signs of bear or deer. Of course, bear was the only game that was in season. One of the truck drivers said he had seen a black bear two days before near the garbage dump, which was along the road a half mile up the mountain from the camp. We hunted all around there several times in the morning and afternoon but failed to see any signs of bear. We had planned on leaving this logging camp Friday afternoon and going ten miles further north to the head of the lake. The same company has a new camp there and, we understood, much better prospects for bear. How ever, the owner did not arrive until Saturday morning, and he wanted to stay over until Sunday. We spent another day scouting around without any luck. That evening after supper Mr. Rogers, one of the partners, wanted to go up to the end of the road and look at some timber. John Garrett was going along, so I de cided to go, and took my B. & A., of course. None of us expected to see any bear along the garbage dump, but as we were passing it, a big black bear ran down the steep ravine and out of sight. ,They stopped the truck at once. I told them they could go on, that I was sticking around, and I took a position about fifty feet above, where I had a log to sit on and was hidden by some brush. I sat there very patiently for about forty-five minutes but no bear came back. Thought I heard the truck returning down the mountain, so dropped down the mountain about fifty yards to where I was about fifty feet below the dump. The ravine was still steep and very brushy, and there was a clump of small trees blown down about fifteen feet from me and about ten feet below me. I had my back to this, facing the dump and standing behind a bush. It was rather cold, so I had my right hand

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three of us. We hopped a logging in my pocket to keep the fingers truck and went up to the end of the warm, holding the B. A. in my left road. The driver of the bulldozer hand. I had only been there about remarked that one hundred feet fur five minutes when I thought I heard ther up he had seen a good sized a sound nearly behind me. I turned grizzly the day before. Grizzly wasn’t my head to the left just as this big anything I was hunting for, but John black bear jumped on top of two logs. Holding himself there with his front said he would shoot if he had a chance. Whether I would, I do not know; paws, his rear feet off the ground, conditions would have to be very and the upper half of his body clearly exposed to me. He held this position,' favorable. We spent four or five hours with the owner looking through as he was just as surprised to see some of the finest timber I have ever me as I was to see him. He was just seen. Eighty per cent fir, ran three fifteen feet away. As quickly as possible I got my right hand out of (Continued on page 12) my pocket and onto the bow string, turned and started to draw the arrow back. Before I could get it drawn back, the bear dropped back on the ground and turned and ran down the steep ravine. So much brush was between that I could not shoot. He had the blackest and shiniest coat you ever saw, and would weigh be tween three and four hundred pounds. This estimate was also made by the others in the truck when we first The Old Timer saw him. I think that I have learned one little lesson. That is, if you hear There have been a number of in a noise in back of you, get all ready quiries as to how the stripes are ap to shoot before turning and looking. plied to arrow crests. There are many I don’t believe it would have been pos kinds of jigs with which this can eas sible for me to have missed this shot. ily be accomplished, but I have at I was at about a forty-five degree tempted to illustrate a very simple angle and could see the full upper arrangement with which I have done half of his body. The shot ranged a great many very satisfactory jobs. from the right shoulder towards the The old skate wheel in the right end hips. It was as close as I had ever centers the nock nicely and allows it been to a bear in the woods, and I to be turned very easily and evenly sure got a kick out of it. with the left hand as the brush is The next morning we went in a held in the right. A ruler attached to speedboat to the other camp, and the the base underneath the arrow is owner had lunches packed for the convenient to duplicate the stripes.

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Editorial The Editor of Ye Sylvan Archer is looking forward to the pleasure of meeting many friends at the National tournament, many of whom we have met in former years but still more of whom we have known only through correspondence. With the President of the NFAA in attendance it seems a good time to get the members pres ent together for a meeting to talk over plans and to hold a general gabfest. We recently learned that Capt. Styles has been in the hospital but we heard from him a few days ago and he is out and rapidly improving in health.

While the NFAA Mail Tournament is in progress, Ye Sylvan Archer will be issued a little late each month in order that the results of the previous month’s shooting may be published. We shall appreciate your getting in your scores as promptly as possible so that Mr. Palmatier may be able to get his copy to us promptly.

The Southern Oregon Archery As sociation tournament will be held at Umpqua Park, Roseburg, June 22. Earl Ullrich says all archers are in vited to go and shoot but only South ern Oregon archers are eligible for prizes. The Editor was reminded a day or two ago that it might be a good plan for him to get his arrows ready for the Pope-Young tournament right away and not wait, as he usually does, until a day or two before the tourna ment and then hope to get a friend to paint them the morning of the shoot. Of course, few archers are so dilatory (?) but it might be well to pass the information on to others who intend to be at Canyon Creek this fall. The Eastern Oregon boys are promising us the biggest tourna ment ever. Each year has seen a larger registration, and you will miss something if you are not there. Re member September 18 and 19 at the Williams Ranch, in the Archery Re serve.

The 15th Annual Oregon State Archery Association tournament will be held at Cottage Grove on July 4, 5, and 6. The NFAA field round will be shot the morning of July 4 and archery-golf will be the event of the afternoon of the 4th. The morn ing of the 5th (Saturday) the clout event will be held. The York and American rounds and National and Columbia, the championship events, will be on the program Saturday af ternoon and Sunday morning. At 7:00 A. M. the flight shoot will be held. A souvenir program, giving a resume of the activities of the as sociation from 1927 to date, will be issued.

SOLDIERS TRAINED IN BOW AND ARROW ART Any soldier at the Everett air base who waxes poetic and quotes he shot an arow into the air and it came to earth he knows not where, has a good opportunity to find out, or at least to exercise some control over the flight of the arrow. The men are to receive instruction in the arts of the bow and arrow through the cooperation of the WPA recreation program. Franklin Jones, WPA senior recre ation leader, inaugurated instruction at Forest park to a group of men from the base on Tuesday evening. As the class develops, it was stated, the men will be taught the skill of making their own equipment under the direction of Mr. Jones. There is no indication, however, that the bow and arrow will supplant the rifle as regular equipment in the army. —Press Dispatch.

The Illuminating Point-of-Aim By V. D. McCauley I have read about a lot of archery gadgets, so will add my own to the list in the hope that it will help some “Lower Bracketeer” to increase his target score as it has me. I read in a mechanical magazine one time that a very nice table favor could be made by building an arti ficial flower around a flashlight bat tery with a globe attached by means (Continued on page 12)

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The National at Portland By George Brammers The field archers of the Northwest face an unusual opportunity this year. For the first time in NA A history, a national tournament will be held at Portland. It goes without saying that Port land and the NAA will need all the support we can give. The attendance from the East will be cut down by curtailed vacations and the national emergency. However, if we can bring out the field archers, who do not nor mally take in any target tournaments, we will go a long way towards off setting geographical and other disad vantages. Dr. Hewitt has already announced the field events which will take place, so I will not go into that phase of it, though these events alone will give you your money’s worth. To my mind there is an equally, if not more important angle, the so cial side of any tournament, let alone a national. Only a very small per centage attend because they expect to place or win prizes, the majority go to have a good time. The average field archer may—and usually does—shoot a poor American, and a worse York. Does it really matter? Most of us go to meet old friends and to make new ones; I know I do. Is there anything in life that is more worth-while in the long run, anything that can give more lasting satisfaction? I, for one, ought to know — friends have meant a great deal to me lately. But, you say, you won’t know any body there. Don’t let that bother you, it will be your own fault if you do not get acquainted. Walk up to Major Williams, the president, Mr. Smith, the secretary, or Mr. Michelson, the Chairman of the NFAA, who will be there to represent the field archers. Introduce yourself, tell them that it is your first tournament. They will find somebody to take you around, you may be sure. I, for one, will, certainly volunteer for this kind of service. I will point out to you the champions, the big game hunters, the old timers and the lower bracketeers, and, when they are not shoot

ing, I will be glad to introduce you to anybody you want to meet. It will be my idea of having a good time, too. We have gone a long way towards humanizing tournaments, lately. I hope you can come, even if only for a few hours. Shoot, if you pos sibly can, even for a single day or half day, your target fee will help a lot this year. But whether you shoot or not, remember that national tournaments are few and far between in our sparsely populated section. Every archer who has ever attended one of them has stored up some treas ured memories for life. See you in Portland, I hope.

AN OPEN LETTER Mrs. Target Archer, Anywhere, World. Dear Friend: If I were a poet, I’d love to describe the joy of a trek through the trees on a beautiful morn, of a day newly born, with wild flowers scenting the. breeze. In fancy I’d take you a bit out of town, to a wood we might dub “Archer’s Trail;” and here we would find well-worn paths as they wind ’cross bridged creek and o’er hill and dale. As you stand at the top of a brush covered hill and view its undisciplined beauty, you’re just glad you were born, petty troubles you scorn, and life promises Fun ’long with Duty! And there at the end of each newlyfound path, a target is waiting to greet you. Up comes your bow — maybe hit? — maybe no? Takes more than a miss to defeat you. If you find it a joy to loose arrows, yet never have shot in the field, just try it some day and I’ll bet you will say: “Why has this fun so long been concealed?” Yes, were I but a poet, I’d write and I’d write of the sport, of the thrills, of the view; and, between you and me, try it — EARLY — and see if you don’t try to write poetry, too. Sincerely yours, A. Devotee.

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NFAA Bulletin OFFICERS

President—A. J. Michelson 610 F. P. Flint Bldg., Flint. Mich.

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Vice-President—Paris B. Stockdale, Geology Dept., OSU, Columbus, Ohio.

Secretary-Treasurer—John L. Yount, Box 383, Redlands. California. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Western—H. C. MacQuarrie. 3400 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland, Calif. Mid-Western—Fred Bear, ladelphia, Detroit, Mich. 2611 W. Philadelphia,

Eastern—T. C. Davidson, 53 Mountain Ave., Springfield, N. J.

--By John L. Yount The NFAA is rapidly becoming a power in arch ery. Our mem bership has now passed the five hundred mark and the speed of its growth is increas ing each month. Best of all, our events are no longer looked on simply as the _ _ ___side of archery. „ Some lighter Some ex cellent archers archers have have had hadto toadmit admit that while their ability to shoot a 700 American wasn’t exactly a handi cap, it still didn’t make them a field champion and that possibly there was something to this field shooting bus iness, after all. This admission usually comes after some archer, who couldn’t shoot a 500 American if his life depended on it, has pinned their ears back in nice shape on a field course, and usually leads to some serious practice on the part of the expert target man. For this practice there are a steadily in creasing number of permanent roving courses scattered from coast to coast. Now for a little of the darker side. Some of our most important com mittees are doing a fine job of thumb twirling while there is so very much that needs doing. For example, we need every item of archery hunting

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news, favorable or otherwise, also a record of every game law that affects the archer wherever he may be. We also need some planned pub licity. What we usually get is worse than nothing. That we need this publicity has just been demonstrated here in California, where the humane society has once again convinced the legislature that the bow is not a fit weapon for deer hunting. The archers in a number of other states are faring just as badly. Won’t you get behind your presi dent in his plans to make field arch ery a major sport and to educate the public to the bow’s value as a humane hunting weapon. He has taken great care to plan his committees so as to get the job done without working a hardship on anyone. All that is necessary is that each of us remember that this is our association, and be willing to do our small share. If the game is worth playing it is worth just a little time and work, so if you are on a committee or have any in formation that might be of value, won’t you write the chairman of the proper committee and thereby help start the ball rolling. If you happen to be a chairman and are a little in doubt as to your duties, please write President Michelson at once. FROM FLINT BOWMEN As secretary-treasurer of the first and only archery club I ever belonged to, I wonder if you would bear with

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me if I do a bit of boasting about the Flint Bowmen. In common with many archery clubs throughout the nation, Flint archers suddenly deserted the traditional target forms of archery, American, Columbia, and York, and went in for roving in a big way. While many of us hated to see the precision and form of target shooting give place entirely to the more in stinctive type, our policy is—let the majority rule. Consequently, our permanent target butts stand practi cally abandoned while the thud of roving arrows makes merry the area about the twenty-eight field targets. Rather as an experiment, our first fourteen targets were laid out in the fall of ’39, as practice for the deer season coming up. So popular did this type of archery prove that the club voted to maintain a permanent field course in connection with our regular range, making field shooting available throughout the entire sum mer. Last spring when the range was again put into shape for use, many improvements were made, but still fourteen targets seemed adequate. Then along came the National Field Archery Association’s series of mail tournaments. Our members were urged to get into this, and twelve were finally persuaded to enter a score for the second tournament. When the results were received, in terest was greatly increased, com parative scores showing that our archers were not so bad I With the increasing popularity, more targets seemed called for, so a “working weekend” was designated, providing us with fourteen more tar gets. This required considerable hard labor, mowing, brushing out, build ing bridges, etc., but the membership turned out fine (was it due to the potluck the ladies provided?) and soon we had a regulation twenty eight target range with many natural “hazards” to maintain interest. For the second NFAA match, we put on an invitational tournament, sending cards to every small archery club or unaffiliated archer we could locate in adjoining towns. Ribbons and medals were presented in two classes, both men and ladies, and even the Juniors were not forgotten. Fifty-one archers turned out for this meet, thirty-one outsiders, and shot twenty-eight targets in a steady rain

despite slippery clay hill steps, all hoping for a break in the weather. Since noon brought no promise of sunshine, we called it a day and pre sented the medals. Those competing for NFAA scores completed them the following day. Somehow, a meet with outsiders appealed to our membership—and our budget—so a repeat performance was requested for the following month. This time sixty-six archers enjoyed a perfect fall day, shooting fifty-six targets, stopping at the halfway mark for picnic dinners. A number of in cidental prizes, many made by one of our members, contributed to the interest of the awards. The social side of our club has not been neglected and this, too, has helped to swell our attendance. A roast of some kind, or a potluck, has been planned at least monthly, with each time a different committee pro viding, at club expense, coffee and fixings at the close of the evening’s shoot. An indoor range for the winter months was secured and not only served to hold the club together until spring, but greatly increased our membership. Here many novelty shoots for instinctive archers not only proved highly entertaining, but the early outdoor scores showed the bene fit of the winter’s practice. In less than three years the Flint Bowmen membership has increased from thirteen families to eighty-three, with additional recruits constantly being added. Monthly meets are planned for this year which, as here tofore, are treated as local tourna ments, medals and ribbons being awarded. The scores of the NFAA members, who request it before the shooting, are then entered in the monthly mail meets where additional honors may or may not be acquired. Wc do feel that the progress of the National Field Archery Association has been surprisingly reflected in the growth of our club, which now boasts thirty-five NFAA member ships. The popularity of competing nationally is stimulating our archers to more concerted efforts toward score improvement as well as pro moting a more discernible club spirit. Keep the good work up! George Calvert, Sec.-Treas. Flint Bowmen.

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First Ohio NFAA Tournament The first NFAA roving round tournament of the 1941 season in Ohio was conducted by the Columbus Archery Club, on an especially-laid 28-target course at Camp Mary Or ton, on Sunday, May 18. A majority of the 75 participants came from well-scattered archery centers from throughout the state. Other archery clubs in Ohio plan similar roving round tournaments during the sum mer months to follow. A feature of the Columbus tourna ment was the dual classification of the registrants: (a) one group ad hering to the official shooting style of the National Field Archery Associ ation; (b) the others shooting “free style” with the use of any sort of sights. The two highest tournament scores were made by NFAA style shooters. Awards were made in both classes, as follows: NFAA Regulation Style—Men 1. Paris B. Stockdale, Columbus. 2. Phil Cozad, Columbus. 3. Sam Cureton, Mt. Vernon. NFAA Regulation Style—Women 1. Frances Wallingford, Chillicothe. 2. Pauline Benner, Newark. 3. Adelade Neil, Columbus. “Free Style”—Men 1. M. L. McCammon, Ashland. 2. Norman Isabel, Columbus. 3. Tom Lewis, Columbus. “Free Style”—Women 1. Helen Isabel, Columbus. 2. Merda Nussdorfer, Columbus. 3. Irene Shea, Chillicothe. Juniors 1. Ted Sharenberg, Columbus. 2. Alan Kilbourn, Columbus.

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the other end of the lake to take us back, so we spent most of Monday roving around near the camp. Tried a little fishing without any luck, as it wes too early. It is always interesting to me to see new country, and archers always have a good time whether they get any was too early.

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(Continued from page 6) of a wire wrapped a couple of turns around the globe and slid down the side of the battery inside the paper covering so as to make contact. Somehow I have never forgotten the idea and I now have a good use for the principle. I tried many points of aim in our indoor range; a golf ball on a spike, a black spot on a white background, a section of broom handle painted with alternate rings of black and white, small reflectors of the type used for fastening car licenses to their brackets, a nail run at right angles to the black cap of a wine bottle, etc. They were all hard to see, the range not being very well lighted between the shooting line and the target, and they did not present a small enough spot for me to concentrate on, especially after I drank the wine in order to get the cap. (Me being a Scotchman.) The reflector idea brought to mind the battery and globe. I tried that but there was too much light, so I bored a block of wood to hold the battery and fitted a piece of plywood to one end and bored a small hole in it opposite the globe. It still gave off too many rays of light, so I rigged up the globe in the reflector of an A BEARLY MISS old flashlight and covered the hole (Continued from page 5) in the plyboard with black paper, to four feet in diameter, and reached then punched a small hole in it, ar a height of one hundred feet before ranging the reflector back of the there were any branches. In fact, hole. I painted the whole thing black no . underbrush and exceptionally and by adjusting it properly I have level country, moss all over, and small a very fine spot to hold on. and one creeks every hundred yards or so. I can see. With a little patience any We had lunch beside one of these one who shoots on a range lighted in little streams. There were plenty of such a way as to make a point of aim broken, rotten stumps to shoot at, hard to see can make shooting more and we spent four or five hours in enjoyable by rigging up a similar roving, but saw no sign of game. outfit. There is only one handicap We had planned on coming home and that is you have to keep an eye Sunday but the owner wished to'stay on the “Blunt Boys” for they delight over until Monday afternoon. He had in taking potshots at such strange a special speedboat coming up from gadgets if left unprotected.

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May NFA A Tournament Report By Karl E. Palmaticr

CLASS “A”—MEN Robert Hoover, San Diego, Calif. Elmer Bedwell, San Bernardino, Calif. Delmer Pletcher, Bakersfield, Calif. K. L. Jones, Bakersfield, Calif. Alfonso Gonzales, Bakersfield, Calif. Jim Murphy, Bakersfield, Calif. Fred Gadberry, Bakersfield, Calif. William Horr, San Diego, Calif. Bernie Ahman, Bryn Mawr, Calif. E. J. Woodward, Redlands, Calif. George Calvert, Flint, Mich. Irving Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif. John Yount, Redlands, Calif. John Scott, Detroit, Mich. Jack Peters, Oakland, Calif. Irl Stamps, Seattle, Wash. Leo Cornell, Oakland, Calif. M. E. Spansell, Oakland, Calif. Kore Duryee, Seattle, Wash. Jack Young, Oakland, Calif. Paris B. Stockdale, Columbus, Ohio Phil Cozad, Columbus, Ohio Charles Ratcliff, Highland Park, Mich. Leo Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich. CLASS “A”—LADIES Bessie Stephenson, Flint, Mich. Mary Calvert, Flint, Mich. Eva Bedwell, San Bernardino, Calif. June Franklin, San Bernardino, Calif. Ruth Davis, Bryn Mawr, Calif, Bertha Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich. Margaret King, Redlands, Calif.

CLASS uBn-MEN Franklin Jones, Everett, Wash. Tracy Stalker, Flint, Mich. William Smith, Flint, Mich. Jim Hendrickson, Detroit, Mich. Harvey Franklin. No City, Calif. C. M. McGillivray, Flint, Mich. George Hamaker, Flint, Mich. Russell DeForest, Flint, Mich. George Overfield, Columbus, Ohio J. H. Strandwold, Tacoma, Wash. Meryl Graham, Flint, Mich. L. J. Markham, Durand, Mich. Angus Bruce, Redlands, Calif. Fred Brockway, Tacoma, Wash. Walter Knoblock, Flint, Mich.

Actual Actual 28 28 Target Target Score Score 57-215 65-241 48- 182 43-159 70-275 79-305 54-204 73-275 57-221 59-226 52-187 52-194 61- 230 57-230 57- 230 45- 171 47- 175 45-171 46-174 49-191 25-229 48-184 48- 184 49- 177 49- 169 49-177 44-170 46-168 46- 168 48- 168 35-133 57-217 69-259 62- 236 58-224 58- 224 50- 196 61-241 59-214 57-213 50-182 55-218 52-203 46-180 59-232 39-149

41-161 33-131

47-173 40-140

Actual 56 HanTarget dicap Score Score 122-456 586 91-341 581 149-580 580 127-479 559 116-447 547 104-381 541 118-460 540 .97-346 536 95-365 515 103-413 493 98-346 466 90-338 458 83-301 441 126-476 120-460 111-437 116-427 105-401 98-383 98-381 91- 368 92- 358 88-334 73-271

38-130 42-140 40-140 31-117 37-139 40-146 20-85

39-147 43-145 51-199 32- 120 25-85 22-82 33- 117

77-277 85-283 91-339 63-237 62-227 62-228 53-202

28 Target Score 47-185 37- 149 39- 133 44-164 40- 152 35-129 38- 138 40-148

28 Target Score 35- 131 40- 154 45-167 37-133 32-144 41- 149 36- 136 29-109

31- 117 39-137 35-135 32- 120 29-99 28-93

36-132 30- 112 31- 107 28-104 31-123 35-127

357 333 309 307 254

Total 82-316 77-303 84-300 81-297 72-292 76-278 74-274 69-257 71-249 67-249 69-249 66-242 60-224 60-222 63-220

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H. Strandwold, Shelton, Wash. Bill Wallis, Seattle, Wash.

CLASS “C"—MEN Bert Wallis, Seattle, Wash. Sam Hobbs, Flint, Mich. Fred Brockhoff, Seattle, Wash. Kilbourne Anderson, Trenton, Mich. D. S. Cartwright, Seattle, Wash. W. C. Woolnough, Trenton, Mich. Harold Lusk, Seattle. Wash. Jimmy Ratcliff, Detroit, Mich. Herbert Halberg, Tacoma, Wash. A. J. Michelson, Flint, Mich. Robert Green, Springfield, Ohio W. Harmon, Langley, Wash. Joe Monroe, Redlands, Calif. Karl Palmatier, Kalamazoo, Mich. Robert Kumpula, Detroit, Mich. R. G. Smith, Newark, Ohio William Irvin, Seattle, Wash. CLASS “B”—.LADIES Lulu Stalker, Flint, Mich. Kay Ratcliff, Highland Park, Mich. Donna Diehl, Flint, Mich. Phyllis Diehl, Flint, Mich. Irene Wierzbicki, Flint, Mich. Blanche Wallis, Seattle, Wash. Ina Woolnough, Trenton, Mich.

28 Target Score 29-103 21-71

28 Target Score 31-105 21-103

31-123 33-133 21-71 30-110 24-92 28-94 23- 89 22- 80 24- 86 23- 93

30-108 28- 94 35-127 24- 88 27-105 25- 97 29- 93 27-99 26-92 23-83

19-65 21-71 21-83 19-71

24-86 17-77 19-63 19-71

18-64

11-41

61-231 61-227 56-198 54-198 51- 197 53-191 52- 182 49- 179 50- 178 46-176 45-171 43-150 38-148 40-146 38- 142 39- 137 29-105

29-107 22-82 22-74 23- 79 19-69 17-59 14-52

41-153 25- 93 26- 98 23-89 22-84 19-65 19-67

70-260 47- 175 48- 172 46-168 41-153 26-124 33-119

Total 60-208 50-174

CLASS “C”—LADIES 21-77 10-34 Vira Anderson, Trenton, Mich. 11-43 13-47 5-17 8-30 Vai Irvin, Seattle, Wash. 13-45 Bessalee Jones, Everett, Wash. 8-26 5-19 The Ohio archers did not report the scores for each 28 targets so only the total could be reported. The first score you send in classifies you. After that you remain in your class until after the next tournament has been shot. If your score at the last tournament is large enough to place you in a higher class you are class ified in the higher class for the NEXT tournament. Bert Wallis and Sam Hobbs shot scores that will place them in Class “B” for the next tournament. Lulu Stalker shot a score that will place her in Class “A” for the next tournament. Regardless of what score you shoot, you may not shoot in a lower class. Many of the archers have not sent in their four 28 target scores used to figure the handicap in Class “A”. This applies to new groups in general. As soon as they have sent me sufficient scores they will be given a handicap. HANDICAPS Robert Hoover ...... 110 Elmer Bedwell .... 210 June Franklin .... 80 Emery Watts ........ 110 Earl Grubbs ........ 200 Bessie Stephenson.. 70 Alfonso Gonzales .. 100 William Horr ...... 180 Mary Calvert ........ 60 E. Woodward ..... 80 Jim Murphy ........ 160 Margaret Quayle .. 60 Fred Gadberry .... 80 Roy Hoff .............. 160 Babe Bitzenberger 50 70 K. Jones .............. Bernie Ahman ...... 150 Ruth Davis .......... 50 John Yount .......... 150 Merle Hathaway .. -10 Eva Bedwell .......... -30

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Irving Davis ........ 130 Delmar Pletcher .. -10 Gene Bacon, Mrs. -90 Roland Quayle .... -40 George Calvert .... 130 The above handicaps are for 56 targets. The Mid-Western Archery Association arranged for Friday for a full day’s tournament of field archers. The equipment of the Michigan Archers Association was used. Fred Bear was in charge. Be sure to read the account of the field tournament held by the club at Co lumbus, Ohio. Be sure to indicate whether or not the person is a man or woman. GO archers shot in the first mail tournament — 75 in this one.

fetter Arrow Suggestions Fresno, Calif. 5-24-41. Dear Mr. Davis: The purpose of this note is to pass on some information that might be of interest to some of our archer friends who like to hunt small game. It is prompted by reading Donald M. Cole’s article, “The Proof of the Pudding,” to be found in “Ye Sylvan Archer” of May, 1941. While Howard Hill, Bob Faas, Johnny Garret, Frank De Wolf, Ernie Antle and I were hunting with bow and arrows in the Caribou district of British Columbia, and on an island east of Seymour Narrows, along the Inside Passage to Alaska, we were offered many shots at grouse. We were using blunts on these birds. Our shafts were fitted tightly into .38 caliber revolver shell cases, from which the cap had been removed. A number 28 or 9/64" hole was drilled through where the cap had been, and a 6x9.1" round head brass screw was screwed into the tip end of the shaft. This made what we thought was a very satisfactory arrow, as we were able to bag all the grouse we could use. But we were sick when we thought of the number that got away, not through faulty shooting, but through the inability of the arrow to STOP the game. To those who might be skeptical, would you consider it poor shooting if, upon driving a blunt up to the feathers through a grouse, the bird would “take off’ and glid^ down the

side of a mountain, sometimes catch ing the protruding arrow on the trunk or branches of a tree, to land in the almost impenetrable underbrush? Before going North the following year, I had some washers made of duralium, 9/16" in diameter and 1/16" in thickness. The round head wood screw was removed, and put through the number 28 hole in the washer, then replaced in the end of the shaft. Evidently the grouse did not re ceive sufficient SHOCK from the first blunt, as the penetration was more than ample. On the second trip, for every grouse I hit with the IMPROVED BLUNT, it was “cur tains.” The “Frontal Area” was greatly increased and the shocking power, in proportion. The slight overhang of the washer (1/16") does not prevent its being a good brush arrow, as was satisfactorily proven. There is no question in my mind about archers being glad to learn of ways of improving their tackle, so I am attempting to do my part to contribute to the success and pleasure of my fellow archers. Hoping that some others try, and have good luck with this improved blunt (I believe it to be worth a try, at least), I am, Yours ar-cheerily, H. F. Woodley.

Blunts from the Old Stump (Continued from page 3) DON’T forget the NAA tourna ment at Portland. We are planning to attend this tournament and will be happy to renew old acquaintances and meet in person our many new field archer friends. We’ll be seeing you at Portland.

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