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Deer Hunting Tackle By Jerry Hill

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How ive all may go hunting that gas rationing is in effect. Jerry Hill fa.'imrit.p. snnrf.at his favorite sport—hunting in the ivooded areas of Idaho. I suppose this question of what type of hunting tackle to use will never be settled to the complete satisfaction of everyone. Seems like there are two principle schools of thought on the subject. One group extolls the virtue of great penetra tion as the result of heavy bows, or

heavy arrows, or both. The other group steadfastly maintains that the greater accuracy which is obtainable by using lighter and faster arrows in medium weight bows is more to be desired than is penetration. I insist there is merit in the views of either group and the question is more

June, 1943 2 YE SYLVAN ARCHER for properly one of application. My own “100 grains of arrow weight _ hunting tackle ranges through both every 10 pounds of bow Mini weight” js Arrow hard to imprpve upon. An groups, from 45-pound rabbit bows strength is equally important. Like up to 75-pound Elk bows and from a chain, no arrow is any strongei* 400 grain self Cedar arrows up to than its weakest point. This is 750-grain .beefwood footed shafts. usually where the ferrule of the Each combination was made for use broadhead joins the shaft; 90 per on a specific type of game or for some cent of my breaks have occurred unusual type of hunting condition. here. This is due to the shouldering While I have never loosed any of the wood to receive the ferrule arrows into blocks of paraffin, nor and also because the head exerts a yet at swinging bags of sawdust, and while I am not particularity scien certain leverage on the shaft which is applied at this point. When some tific. it has been my fortune to speed thing solid, like a large shoulder bone, many a goodly shaft at game. Ground is hit squarely the shaft often breaks squirrels, rabbits, game birds, deer, elk, goat, all have been the subject here. T o overcome this tendency, of many trips with the bow. A skill never shoulder down a hunting shaft to receive the broadhead, rather, ed writer could fill a book with the near misses with which I have dis use a ferrule of a size which will just fit snugly over the shaft. Round graced myself. In self defense, will and slightly taper the rear end of state that this seems to be a common the ferrule with a file before fitting fault among hunters with the bow. it to the shaft and no ridge will be The great variation of the terrain noticed when it crosses the fore together with the extreme nervous finger as you come to full draw. strain due to the proximity of game This will give nearly 50 per cent are factors which work to lower the greater strength to your arrow. When average of all but the most skillful hunter. Just for now let us forget used over a hardwood footing, your arrows will withstand great shock the misses and consider the hits. In 1941 and 1942, the NFAA made without breaking. But let us return 27 Art Young awards. Nagler’s to those Art Young awards. moose is in a class by itself. Surety Six of the 27 awards were made for killing animals weighing from heavy tackle is proper for these huge animals. The bow may well be as 200 to 325 pounds, nice buck deer mostly. The fact that without excep strong as you can control to your own complete satisfaction. For me tion, these weights are given to the nearest five pounds would indicate this means not an ounce over 75 that they are probably estimates. pounds. It is impossible for me to kill any animal which I cannot hit. Most of us have enough to carry in If I were hunting seven-ton elephants the way of tacke without packing a it would still be 75 pounds. You alone pair of scales. None of us ever esti can determine what this figure should mate our deer at less than their ac tual weight. Only 3 of the 6 were be. Last fall when I stood facing a larger than 225 pounds. The remain mad bull elk at 10 yards the powerful ing 20 game animals for which tug of my 75 pound osage bow gave awards were made weighed from 41 me a certain feeling of confidence and security. When hunting really pounds to 185 pounds; most young large or dangerous game, the archer and immature bucks. A study of is wise to “trow himself” to his maxi these figures should give the archer mum. To determine your maximum a fair idea of what he should “bow bow, loose six hunting weight ar himself” for. No use building up rows from it in rapid succession at your muscles to use moose tackle if a standard target at 35 yards. Use you are hunting spike bucks. I re a sight, or shoot instinctively as the ceived my award for killing a forked case may be, and be sure your arrows horn buck which weighed 160 pounds. are fully drawn; any arrow less than (Estimated from actual weight with a blue indicates you are over-bowed. entrails removed.) Since 26 of the If I throw very many out of the red 27 hunters killed small, large game, and gold I select a lighter bow. Ar big bucks being the largest, let us rows should be carefully fitted to see what tackle would be best to use. these heavy bows. Fred Bear’s rule, We want to be prepared for a big

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buck although the chances are one to four or more we will get a year ling. We want to be able to hit a small deer at long range, if this is our only chance. I once loosed a dozen broadheads at a small buck at about 100 yards without a hit. He stood very patiently but ran away when I went over to retrieve the arrows. The pattern which they formed did me credit. The spot where the deer stood was the only one without arrows—but sup pose I had hit. No one can predict where his arrows will hit in this type of shooting. No use kidding ourselves either, there is a lot of it goes on. If you are going to indulge in such foolishness, you need a broadhead which is deadly where it may hit. I mean a rather heavy arrow, say 600 grains, with a blade at least IVs to 1U inches wide. A 60 pound bow will give good penetration on deer with such an arrow and the wide head will make a deadly wound wherever it hits. One fall I put such an arrow through both hips of a medium sized deer at 40 yards. He was feeding nearly broadside to me when hit, but

he instantly sprang into full light. I suppose he thought the devil had him sure. As he bounded down the ridge, I could plainly see the arrow protruding from each hip, the head end all red with blood. The grass and under cover were wet from a night of rain and progress in following the trail was very slow. Knowing exactly where the wound was, I had my doubts as to what the outcome would be. There was not much blood com pared with the trails of other wound ed deer, which I had followed, and the water on the grass so diluted it that tracking was quite uncertain. I would proceed from one set of hoof marks to the next looking the inter vening ground over minutely to be sure of the trail. It was while looking ahead for the next set of hoof marks that I saw my deer. He was lying in a heap as he had fallen, legs sprawled in all directions, head doubled under his body, eyes glazed. He had not laid down, but had died while he ran and was dead when he fell. He had not moved as much as an eye lid after the fall. Both ends of the arrow had been broken off as he charged through the brush. He

“One of those ‘ten-pointers’ that didn’t get away. I shot him on my archery hunt in 1940.”

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had run full tilt down hill for about 300 yards. I am sure he was dead within two minutes after being hit. When I opened him up the body cavity was full of blood. The wound through the fore part of the hips had opened a channel into the stomach cavity and here the blood had gone. It seemed incredable that a wound so far removed from the vitals could be so quickly fatal. The very next day I watched a huge 10 point (on both sides) bucK grazing in the bottom of a draw where he had gone to escape the fury of a gale which had blown all night. My companion, enthused by my success of the day before, was making the stalk while I signalled to him any change in the buck’s movements, from my place of con cealment, behind a pile of fallen tree trunks. “Smithy” had been out of sight for some minutes when at last I saw him raise up slowly behind a rotten stump and draw his 60 pound bow. Forty yards away the buck nibbled grass. That first arrow was just high and stuck in the hillside ten feet beyond its mark. The great deer turned slowly and looked, not at the archer but at the arrow. The wind had effectively muffled the sound of the bow and six times my friend drew and loosed while the buck mov ed with increasing alarm and un certainty directly toward my hiding place. When but 50 yards seperated us he stopped, head high, trying to locate the source of danger. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw “Smithy” come to a full draw and I concentra ted my gaze on the towny side of the deer. I did not see the arrow fly, but suddenly as if by magic there it was protruding from his flank. The deer did not run as mine had done, but rather, pulled his hind leg up to his belly and hobbled rather slowly up the draw. We watched while he lay down in plain sight on the open hill side. For twenty minutes we were as still as the proverbial mice. Now he stumbled to his feet and moved painfully around the hill a short dis tance where he again lay down. I crawled to where “Smithy” was crouched behind his stump. By a mutual movement we clasped hands, a silent way of expressing our ela tion. We watched through the glasses

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for a time—the buck showed every indication of distress. He would kick with his hind legs and lay his head out on the ground as though in pain. Soon he got up again and hobbled over a little ridge out of sight. First we gathered up the arrows, three were broken, three were undamaged and one was in the deer. Next we seperated and moved to come up on the deer from two sides. He was lying in a little basin just over the ridge and I saw my friend raise on one knee and draw his bow at 40 yards. For the first time the buck understood the situation, he saw and identified man as his tormentor. He sprang to his feet and dashed down the hill by me as though unharmed and I followed the course of his flight over open ground for nearly half a mile. Then he stopped, turned slowly and went out of sight behind a rim of rocks. We found him there a little later, dead. His final run had pumped the blood out of him till he could go no farther. The arrow had entered the right hip just back of the flank and ranged forward into the pounch. We found the head with about a foot of shaft still attached, in the stomach when we were clean ing him out. It had continued to cut all the while he was running. He was a fine large buck. We guessed his weight at 250 pounds or more. I sub mit these two cases as evidence in favor of a wide cutting blade. While hunting elk last fall I spied a large buck deer in a thicket 75 yards away. I loosed three arrows at him from my 75 pound elk bow. The shafts were heavy and designed for penetration. The blades were only 7/8 inches wide. After my third arrow he seemed to get his bearings and disappeared in the buck brush. I saw him go over a ridge a short distance beyond walking with his head down and back strangely hump ed up. While gathering up the arrows and to my complete surprise I saw that one had passed completly through his digestive apparatus. Blood and stomach intestinal matter covered the shaft and feathers from one end to the other. It was sticking firmly in the ground, bearing mute evidence of the penetration it had achieved. I followed him for at least three miles. There was some blood

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all the way. I came up with him twice and each time he gave every indication of being hard hit,—I lost his trail at dusk. That he died I have no doubt. How I wish that on that particular occasion the hit could have been made with a deer arrow, a wider blade, maybe a little less pene tration so the head could have been cutting during the several hours that I followed him. While on the same trip my com panion, Dr. Kenagy of Rupert, Idaho, hit a medium sized deer fairly in the shoulder with an arrow from a 65 pound bow. It didn’t break the leg bone, it cut it in two as neatly as a saw could have done, sliced the heart and penetrated the shoulder on the other side. The wound was as severe as a 30-30 would have made. Nothing rnjore could possibly have been desired from any weight bow. As Doc put it, “for once I hit right where I was aiming.” Now for fear the points I have been trying to emphasize are not clear let me summerize: 1. It is not possibe to kill any animal large or small unless you can hit it. Therefore the first considera tion is properly proportioned tackle for you. 2. When hunting really large or dangerous game use your maximum tackle, but never beyond this. 3. Generally speaking, deer are not very difficult to kill with what might be called medium weight tackle. 4. Strongly made, medium weight arrows with wide cutting blades will account for more deer under all con ditions than heavier arrows built for great penetration. 5. If asked to state what I con sider perfect (for me) deer tackle it would be as follows: Bow—62 pounds osage or yew back ed, fast but safe. Arrow—600 grains, 11-32 cedar barreled to 5-16 at each end and foot ed with a light strong wood such as Ninebark. Ferrule—A 35 calibre bullet jacket just fits over a 5-16 inch shaftment without shouldering. Blade—i 3-16 inch wide tempered steel, sharp. Feathers—Spiraled enough to stear such a wide blade properly. 6. No one can tell you what tackle

is best for you. That is why there are so many different kinds. If it suits you it is just right. If you are made happy by packing a type of tackle that I may believe to be foolish, by all means pack it. After all, it’s fun we are after. If it was getting game that made our trips successful, we would all be using guns.

Seattle Archers Meet Seattle archers held their June meet on the newly constructed course in the Montlake district on Sunday, June 13. Eleven archers participated. The course is unique in that it is one of the smallest 14-target courses yet to be reported. Uphill and downhill as well as criss-cross and eye-level shots are all included in an area of approximately sixty to seventy yards by two hundred yards, and all shots may be made in perfect safety to spectators and participants. All but three targets as well as shooting posts are visible from the spectators’ stand near the numbei* one target. An excellent grass-covered park is included where archers may enjoy their lunch and visit socially. Use of the grounds is by permis sion of J. W. Wheeler of the Wheeler Real Estate Company, who plans to construct tables on the picnic grounds for those taking lunches. The Michigan Archers Association holds its District Field Archery Tournament at Flint, Michigan, May 23 with an anticipated record at tendance. Last year the first NFAA Mail tournament was attended by 81 archers. The attendance at the initial tournament this year was 35.3% larger than that of last year, an in dication of a marked increase in archery.—Michigan A. A. Bulletin.

Mrs. Mabel Tatro wishes to remind Oregon archers of the Oregon State Archery Tournament to be held in Portland July 4th and 5th. Mrs. Tatro is president of the Ore gon State A. A., and advises the tournament committee is urging vet erans as well as newcomers to at tend, as an interesting program of events is scheduled.

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June, 1943

Blunts from the Old Stump By The President

The 1943 edition of the NFA A Field Archery Handbook is out and is being distributed to our members. It will receive an enthusiastic wel come from field archers everywhere. The Handbook is bigger and better in every way. To the contributors and advertisers we extend our sincere thanks for making it an outstanding success. To John and Vera Yount must go the big credit for their un selfish and untiring efforts in com piling, editing and distributing the Handbook. Members should send in their two bits to the Secretary at once to save extra work bookkeeping and letter-writing. Delay in publi cation was due to delay in getting the book printed, but we are sure all archers will agree the book was well worth waiting for. Preserve your copy of the Handbook. It may be the last edition until after the war. If you still have your old Handbook you can do an advertising service for field archery by giving your old book to some field archer not a member of the NF A A and checking later for a membership. We have been skeptical about arch ery attendance during the war period. The Michigan Archers Association held its first District Field Tourna ment in Flint on May 23rd. Eightyone archers attended from various parts of the state. Six came from Ft. Wayne, Indiana to the meet. Class A Men was won by Nelson Grumley, of Detroit, with a score of 462; Class B Men was won by Ken Schindler, Highland Park, with score of 330; Class C Men, Ronald Stork of Linden, score 191. Class A Women was won by Bea Anderson, Trenton, score 306; Class B Women, Donna Diehl, Flint, score 195. The Junior winner was Bruce Meyer, Jr., with a score of 351. Charles DeWitt of Detroit, shot a perfect 20, on an 18 inch target, and will be awarded the NFAA “Perfect 20” pin. A Michigan State Field meet will be held once a month, the next being at Trenton on June 27. The turnout at this meet was very encouraging and shows that archers keep up their field arch ery interest in spite of the war, and

somehow will manage to attend State Field Tournaments if held at reasonable periods in convenient places. J. F. Marshall, of 9 S. Drive, Larchmont, N. Y., the only archer to bag a buck during the special bow season in Westchester County, New York, is an engineer, and has been an archery enthusiast for more than 16 years. He helped reorganize the Eastern Archery and the Metro politan Archers’ Association. It was largely through his efforts and that of the Scarsdale Archers that the special area was secured for the arch ers in Westchester County. Forty-one archers participated in the hunt in Westchester County last fall. This county has 124 lakes and about 280,000 acres of excellent deer coun try with a deer population of approxi mately 1800. The County Recreation Commission has promised them two fine sites for field courses. New York State is developing a lot of fine field archers, like Marshall, and we can look for more field archery activity in that state. The Watchung Bowmen, of New Jersey, have adopted, or should we say, been adopted, by a “Paul Bun yan” type of mythical character known as “Granpa Mooseface.” Larry Heath (known as Flickershart), President of the club, explains: “It appears to me that you may be somewhat bewildered by the char acter, “Granpa Mooseface.” In ex planation, let me say that the man is a legend of the Heath Tribe—created on the spur of the moment, as most legends are not, to bring a bit of hu morous background to some tall tales which the writer indulged in at the banquet of the New Jersey Archery Association a couple of years ago. Since that time, “Moseface” has en tered into the life of the Watchung Bowmen in all sorts of ways. He is the practical joker who sends to our most personable young swain a ladies silk stocking made up as a quiver, or to the inveterate “arrow spinner” an arrow which defies being spinned, or to the whole club a trophy to end all trophies: a nearly full sized “Chic

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June, 1943 YE SYLVAN ARCHER 7 Sale” whose seat cover rises as the Bakersfield archers are pretty well door swings, and displays a target scattered, and they have had to give painted thereon. Granpa’s vital stat up their fine field course because of istics are hard to come upon, but he its distance and gas rationing. They has been connected with a tribe liv are considering building one nearer ing on an island in the river near to town. We hope they do, for we Orono, Maine, and apparently makes would miss them in the mail tourna a sort of living making birch bark ments. “Osage Jim” says he is “at canoes. His Totem, incidentally, is a least three generations away from Bull Moose running rampant through the ’a’uld sod’ but not quite so far a field of Cow Moose. Altogether, away from the tomahawk and scalp “Mooseface” is a lusty godfather for ing knife.” He expects to retire in a couple of years, and “intends to get a young and energetic band of Bow men.” caught up with my bow hunting and Our good friend, Harold “Hat” Tit fishing. I sure want to give Arizona comb, of Farmington, Me., has again and New Mexico the once over.” On sent twenty copies of the new Hand April 18th about 25 L. A. archers book to archery friends in England. went up to Bakersfield on a rabbit Copies were sent to prominent Eng hunt. Everybody got a lot of shoot lish bowmen, nearly all of them in ing and had a swell time, and some service at the present time, and also rabbits were bagged also. Among the new members we have to the Surrey Bowmen, Royal Toxoa “seagoing” archer, Elmer G. Bjorkphilite Society and the Archery News. There is no finer way that he could lund, stationed at Great Lakes, Ill. Also a “Donald Duck” (Donald A. help maintain the friendly archery relations between the two countries Duckering) in Seattle, Wash., aged than by keeping them informed of 13, who is now a full-fledged mem new developments in American arch ber of the NFAA. Pvt. Edward C. ery, especially field archery. It is a Keefer, U. S. A., at Baytown, Texas, long time since Robin Hood poached sent in memberships for his niece, Paula Jones, aged six, and his nephew on the King’s Deer and there may Carl Franz Keefer, aged four months, be little game hunting left for the bow in England, but we are sure of Wheeling, W. Va. He says, “I that they are interested in what we realize they are both rather young to are doing over here, and in our hand belong to an organization like ours, book they may find some morale but I want to instill in them the love building dreams that may come true of the bow at the earliest possible for them when the war is over. year in their life.” How many of us who took up archery in our later “Uncle Hat” enclosed his check for $20.00 and said, “If there is any sur years have many times wished that plus over put that in your treasury someone had taught us the sport as a small donation from your when we were younger? Ken L. Fury, Secretary of the Fort Yankee friend.” Thanks, “Hat”! The surplus will be put to work for your Worth Archery Club, Fort Worth, beloved hobby of archery. Ind., and Art Coe, are planning some Dr. John Smalley, of Stockton, trips into Central and Southern In Calif., one of the contributors to the diana to get the stump shooters or ganized and put on field meets. Handbook, in reviewing it, says, “Handbook improving every year. Capt. Otto C. Steinberger, (Capt. U. S. A. retired) of Richland, Mich., The article on 40 years of deer-hunt renewed the membership of his son, ing is truly a masterpiece.” Robert F. Kendig is the head of a William C. Steinberger, with the Corps of Engineers, A. U. S., and small group of new field archers at Lebanon, Pa. They do a lot of wood says “His work with the sport of chuck shooting, and they say they are archery has apparently benefitted hard to get a shot at and hit. “Osage muscular and mental coordination as Jim” Murphy, of Bakersfield, Calif., he has qualified with all small arms says, “Ken Jones, President of the to and including the heavy 30 calibre club, is now in the Yukon, and al machine guns.” though he has his bow with him, he Maj. A. McKoy describes an in may get very little hunting, as a teresting novelty shoot on the stand hunting license costs $100.00.” The ard field range as shot at Lemoore,

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STATISTICS FROM 1942 B NAME AND ADDRESS

BIG GAME & WEIGHT

Male Lion Gil Bartlett 152 lbs. Wichita, Kansas Buck Wesley Blundell Muskegon. Mich. Spike Horn Buck Perry Childs Black Tail Oakland. Calif. Deer J. F. Garrett Vancouver, B. C. Spike Deer Nelson Grumley 106 lbs. Detroit, Mich. Javalina Estam I ml er Phoenix, Ariz. Buck: Deer E. H. Isenberg 1 Salt Lake City, Ut 175 lbs. Buckc Deer Wm. P. Jeter Oakland, Calif. Wild Boar Wm. P. Jeter Oakland, Calif. Buck Deer Bert Jones St. Helen, Mich. 160 lbs. Deer Jeano Orlando -10 lbs. Salt Lake City, Ut 12( Delmar Pletcher Deer Salt Lake City, Ut 185 lbs. L. B. Ribble Jr. Buck Deer Norfolk, Va. 175 lbs. Glen St Charles Deer Seattle, Wash. 150 lbs. Mrs. J. C. Trittin Doe Salt Lake City. Ut 75 lbs. H. F. Woodley Buck Deer Salt Lake City. Ut 85 lbs. Jack F. Yaeger Buck Deer E. Lansing, Meh. 325 lbs.

DATE AND PLACE SHOT

DIST. OF SHOT

Magdalena, N. M. 7-6-42 Allegan Co., Mich.

37 yds.

Tuolumne Co., Cal. 1- 35 yds. 9-16-42 2- 30 yds. Quadra Island, B. C. 9- 19-42 Alger Co., Mich. Nov. 1942 Cochise Co., Ariz. 25 yds. Aug. 2-27-42 Salt Lake Co., Ut. 43 yds. 10- 17-42 Mendocino, Calif. Rt. shldr. 10 yds. 9-2-42 Near Ft. Bragg, Cal 20 yds. 1- lung evty. 9- 11-42 2- spine Roscommon Co., Front of 40 yds. Michigan chest Salt Lake Co., Ut. 20 yds. Neck 10- 25-42 Salt _____ _. Lake Co., Ut. 1- 40 yds. s. 1-chest evty. 10- 17-42 2- 20 yds.i. 2-chest evty. Fannin Co., Ga. 50 yds. Behind right 11- 15-42 foreleg Chelan Co., Wash. 25 yds. Middle rt. side Salt Lake Co., Ut •10 yds. Rear flank 10-22-42 below spine Salt Lake Co., Ut. 40 yds. Loin shot & 10- 25-42 throat shot Allegan Co., Mich. 35 yds. Back of rt. 11- 4-42 shoulder

Calif. Their archers are interested in deer hunting and instead of the standard target faces, they use a target at all distances roughly the size and shape of the body of the average buck. This is made by draw ing two 12 inch circles touching, and then connecting the diameters at full width. A heart or four inch circle is located and distinctly shows. Four arrows may be shot at each target, but when a hit is made, shooting stops. Heart shots count 20 if made with the first arrow, 15 with the sec ond, 10 with the third, and 5 with the fourth arrow. Body shots count 12 with the first arrow, 9 with the second, 6 with the third, and 3 with the fourth arrow. Maj. McKoy says “This seems to be more like the real thing, and all that have shot it agree that more concentration is put in the first arrow in an effort to get the maximum score.” “The ideal course for buck hunting would be life-sized

PENETRATION

GAME HIT

Left side Rib section Brisket at base of neck 1- rt rump 2- rt. shldr Front 1ft. hip Behind rt. shoulder 1- over rt. eye 2- spine Under loins

Cracked 2 ribs & out shldr. blade 12 in. thru lungs emerg. bk. rt frleg. 1-1— 1- thru lung to nk. 2- lungs & ribs comp. 2-0 Comp, behind rt. shoulder Comp, thru chest evty. 1- 9 in. into neck 2- spine svrd. 70 Comp, under spine 12 Comp, thru heart Cir<= 1- thru lungs acre 2- in spine 200 26 in. thru heart !■ Complete

inches

Comp, thru iru lungs & heart Comp. cutting ribs 21 in. grzg vertebrae Back bone severed Comp, thru lungs & ribs

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silhouettes of the critters with areas marked off for scoring purposes.” Gil Bartlett, director of the State National Health Program of Wichita, Kas., organized the “8 Arrows” club, whose emblem is a large black figure 8 with a gold arrow through the lower loop. The club, originally or ganized with 8 members, now num bers 23. Harry Glover is no longer a mem ber of the NFAA Rules Committee, but still continues to receive a lot of mail. All inquiries should be address ed to the Secretary of the NFAA, P. O. Box 383, Redlands, Calif. The new officers of the Washing ton State Field Archery Association are President, H. L. Michael, of Ta coma; Vice President, J. W. McFar lane, Pasco; Sec.-Treas., Kore T. Duryee, 4403 White Building, Seat tle, Wash. The Cincinnati Field Archers held a field meet on April 11th, which proved a very successful shoot, with

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AIM. METH BOW

s. Alnst, i.

Inst.

Inst. Inst. Inst. Inst. Inst. in Inst. S8.

Inst. Inst. Inst. Inst. Inst,

Inst. Inst. Inst.

USED

TYPE OF BOW USED

Straight

3 in. 5 ft 65 Ibi 4 ft. 10% in. 55 lbs. 5 ft. 3 in. 90 lbs. 5 ft 2 in. 76 lbs. 5 ft. 73 lbs. 5 ft. 4 in. 65 lbs. 5 ft. 11 in. 75 lbs. 62 lbs.

Straight

62 lbs.

Straight

ft. 4 in. Ibs. 5 ft 3 in. 85 Ibt 5 ft. 10% in. 65 lbs. 5 ft. 3 in. 65 lbs. 5 ft. 4% in. 60 lbs. 5 ft. 7 in. 35 lbs. 5 ft. 6 in. 75 lbs. 5 ft. 8 in. 60 lbs.

Rawhide Rec. tips osage bk. Osage Rec. tips silk bk. Straight Osage bamboo bk. Osage-bk. Rec. reflexed silk X rawhide slightly Osage-bk. Straight silk & rawhide brush nocks Yew bk. Straight with silk set bk. Lemonwood Straight

Osage bk. rawhide Osage bk. rawhide Yew with hickory Yew with sinew Yew

WT. LNGTH. ARROWS & WEIGHT OF BOW

Curved tips Straight

Osage bk. lemonwood Osage fibre bk. Yew

Straight

Bamboo fibre bk. Yew rawhide

Straight

Straight Curved tips

Curved tips

Cedar 27 in 450 gr. Fir 26 in. 520 gr. Cedar 27% in. 450 gr. Birch 26 in. 680 gr. Fir 27 in. 610 gr. Yellow Ced. 25 in. 500 gr. Pine 28 in. 550 gr. White Cod. 27 in. 330 gr. White Ced. 27 in. 330 gr. P. O. Ced. 28 in. 560 | P. O. Ced. 27 in. 750 gr. Birch 28 in. 550 gr. Pine 26 in. 372 Fir 25 in. 440 gr. P. O. Ced. 25 in. 350 gr. P. O. Ced. 27% in. 450 gr. Birch 27 in. 625 gr.

good attendance in spite of gas ra tioning. Rosemary Clapper says, “Our President, Edward Clapper, se cured for the club a large write-up in the three leading papers here; this publicity acquainted us with a number of archers in Greater Cin cinnati, who before, were unknown to our club and archery acquaint ances. They were very happy to know that their sport in the future could be exercised with our organized group of archers. Our club is growing with a great rapidity. War workers are among the large number of new sport lovers, due to our publicity and the fact that we have acquainted the pub lic with the idea of archery as a re laxing and healthy sport, out in the air and sunshine, after a tiring day at the mills and factories.” Charles P. Sohngen is the archery instructor at the hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, Nevada. Of field archery he says, “This is virgin territory (Continued on page 13, Col. 1)

WT. OF HEAD

SIZE OF HEAD

WO UN DED

160 gr.

1 % wide

150 gr.

2%xl

1-16

Yes

130 gr.

1 1-8x2 3-4

107 gr.

2%xl

160 gr.

2 3-4x1 3-8

150 gr.

115 gr.

2%xl%

210 gr.

l’/i

210 gr.

1*4

107 gr.

2*4x1 1-1

114 gr. 130 gr.

1-8x2%

Yes

200 gr.

1 1-32x2 3-8

Yes

100 gr.

2%xl

100 gr.

2%xl

Yes

150 gr.

3x1 1-8

154 gr.

2 1-8x1 1-8

Yes

Utah Field Archery Schedule July 11—Indian Hunt. August 28—Target and Field Events at Salt Lake County Fair. Sept. 26—Annual State Field Cham pionship Tournament.

Oct. 10—N. A. A. Flight Mail Match. Oct. 20-30—Deer Hunting Season.

NFAA Roving Rounds will be held at least twice a month, on special Saturdayweek-day occasions, or Sunday when tournaments are not scheduled.—Utah Shafts and Broad heads. Hubert Zimbeau of Utah is now with the Army Air Corps, taking ;n, Fla. Ji' lit. basic training at Miami Beach, Last month’s Ye Sylvan Archer stated he was inducted.

June, 1943 YE SYLVAN ARCHER judgment and we all can be justly proud of those “building” qualities. The increase in archery interest and activity is deeply gratifying. It Official Publication of the National is an indication the present genera Field Archery Association tion is becoming more cognizant of a “responsibility to look to the future” Published the twentieth of each rather than letting tomorrow take month at 505 North 11th Street, care of itself. Corvallis, Oregon. The coming winter may bring an J. E. Davis........ Editor and Publisher urgent need for meat, hides and A. T. Wallis For the Duration other materials which the game ani mals of this country can supply in Subscription Price ...... $1.00 per year a limited amount. Shortage of am Foreign Subscription .... $1.25 per yr. munition is not going to keep sports Single Copies ........................... 10 cents men at home this fall, many hunters Advertising Rates on Application having closeted their rifles for the Entered as second - class matter duration and taken to the bow. Scores June 25, 1942, at the post office at of these will remain to enjoy archery Corvallis, Oregon, under the Act of after the war. March 3, 1879.

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Editorial Archery throughout the United States is increasing at a startling rate. Witness the reported increase in archery tackle sales by dealers and manufacturers throughout the country this year. These agencies have been taxed to the utmost to supply the ever-increasing demand for equipment, both target and field. Nor are sales the only indication of archery’s increasing popularity. On target ranges and roving courses new faces appear weekly, and the neophytes remain to become a per manent part of enthusiastic groups. The steady influx of recruits has included many service men who have become interested through buddies or members of their contingents. Our sport is well represented in the ser vices of Uncle Sam and the Allies, and every effort should be made to welcome these men who are members of our fighting forces. Archery tackle, both used and new, is much in demand by recreation centers of the Army and Navy and every archer is urged to add their extra, seldom-used tackle to the equipment of the boys in camp. Some of the finest rifle shots in the Armed Forces come from the ranks of hunting, field and target archers. Our sport is one of the finest for the building of character, keeness of perception and sound

Around the Course For several months members of the Seattle Archers have been looking for a roving course location which could be reached without the use of suburban buses or automobiles. The seeming impossible was acheived re cently when Kore Duryee received permission from J. W. Wheeler, a prominent Seattle real estate man, to use several acres of ground within four blocks of the Montlake target range. The 14-target course was constructed and initiated the same day—a double round being shot in the afternoon by Duryee and Mr. and Mrs. Wallis. The field course and target range are so conveniently located that a target and field tourna ment could be held the same day with out any means of transporation from one field- to the other. Seattle is favored by having wooded areas with in the heart of the city, and its arch ers are fortunate in being able to ob tain such areas for recreation.

Encouraging returns are coming in to the Western representative on a questionaire sent to field archers. Innumerable inquiries have been made as to the method of construct ing a roving course. An article in this year’s handbook covers the question thoroughly. The handbook may be obtained from John L. Yount, Secretary of the NFAA, Box 383, Redlands, California, for fifty cents.

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Second 1943 Mail Tournament By Karl E. Palmatier

28 Target Score

56 Target Score

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EXPERT BOWMAN CLASS— Carl Seastrom. Malibu Mt. Club .... William Duckenfield, Malibu Mt. club Frank Eicholtz, San Diego, Cal E. L. Kallander, Framingham, Mass. Tiny Munson, Malibu Mt. Club Howard Noble, Malibu Mt. Club .. . C. W. Seastrom, Malibu Mt. Club .... Eugene Lecoq, San Diego, Calif Ken Moore, Malibu Mt. Club Roy Hoff, Malibu Mt. Club S. Foster, Pasedena, Calif Emery Watts, Malibu Mt. Club Korc T. Duryee, Seattle, Cliff Ravencraft, Los Angeles Victor Jensen, Malibu Mt. Club

80-310 66-254 80-324 53-211 59-245 67- 271 68- 256 53- 201 75-287 61-221 54- 200 69- 265 45-157 53-207 52-206

75-291 65-251 63-243 61-231 67-265 59-227 60-224 50-192 75-299 65-247 49-175 65-243 54-250 57-219 52-198

155-601 131-505 143-567 114-442 126-510 126-498 128-480 103-393 150-586 126-468 103-375 134-508 99-357 110-426 104- 404

290 330 260 380 290 290 290 370 160 270 360 200 320

BOWMAN CLASS— Roland Rexroad, Malibu Mt. Club .... G. T. Hendricks, Malibu Mt. Club .... Jim Hicks, Malibu Mt. Club James Dundas, Flint, Mich Dick Hendershot, Malibu Mt. Club.... Bob Green, San Diego, Calif Tracy Stalker, Flint, Mich T. Thorsen, Malibu Mt. Club Glenn Smith, Los Angeles, Calif Paul Bledsoe, Malibu Mt. Club Max Stemple, Malibu Mt. Club James Millard, Flint, Mich W. Walton, Hopkinton, Mass Franklin Jones, Everett, Wash. ..... Lewis Richardson, Flint, Mich T. A. Richey, Malibu Mt. Club Bert Wallis, Seattle, Wash Kilbourne Anderson, Trenton, Mich. .. Charles Howe, Malibu Mt. Club Vince Ruh, Malibu Mt. Club Earl Grubbs, Malibu Mt. Club Jim Mavis, San Diego, Calif Dwight Sherrill, Malibu Mt. Club .... Leo Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich .... Paul Ludwig, Malibu Mt. Club Al Biordi, Los Angeles, Calif Art Schampel, Malibu Mt. Club E. L. Holston, San Diego, Calif Karl Palmatier, Kalamazoo, Mich Glenn St. Charles, Seattle, Wash Archie Powell, Seattle, Wash G. S. Wagner, Flint, Mich

54-212 47- 179 37- 133 50- 192 45-167 41- 153 48- 172 27- 95 51- 201 53- 201 44-160 54- 202 34- 118 40- 136 47-177 42- 144 31-117 36-142 41- 149 29-109 43- 155 28- 106 38- 148 35- 137 44- 144 38- 122 39- 144 23- 75 24- 84 54-200 50-182 38-136

59-213 113-425 28-182 75- 361 36-126 73-259 44- 162 94- 354 38- 134 83- 301 39- 147 80-300 40- 150 80-322 40-156 67-251 54-198 105-399 45- 175 98-376 40- 144 84- 304 41- 147 95- 349 42- 148 76- 266 33-127 73- 263 43-159 90-336 41-147 83-291 45-171 76- 288 33-121 69-263 38- 140 79-289 39-146 68- 255 41-157 84- 312 33-125 61-223 45-163 83-311 48- 172 83-309 30-104 74- 248 49- 177 87-299 77- 284 38- 140 28- 96 51-171 39-139 15- 54 53-203 107-403 39- 149 89-331 44- 170 82-306

891 835 827 822 800 788 770 763 746 738 735 708 677

70 495 80-44 441 180 439 80 436 120 421 120 420 412 90 160 411 10 409 30 406 100 404 50 399 396 130 130 393 50 386 90 381 90 378 110 373 80 369 110 365 50 362 130 353 40 351 349 40 100 348 30 329 40 324 140 311 130 269

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R. J. Modrell, Seattle, eubvie, Wash T. L. Johnson, Seattle, Wash A. B. Coe, Ft. Wayne, Ind W. A. Gillam, Seattle, Wash Robert Blackmore, Marysville, Wash. NOVICE CLASS— Harry VonBergen, Malibu Mt. Club Walter Steele, Los Angeles, Calif Jack Colburn, Malibu Mt. Club, Cal. Tom Schulze, Los Angeles, Calif Van Stover, Ft. Wayne Ind A. J. Michelson Flint Mich. W. I. Harmon Langley, Wash Carl Bjorkman, Pinehurst, Wash Wellington Lewis, Hopkinton, Mass. W. B. Blackmore, Marysville, Wash. Cal Fanders, Seattle, Wash R. DeGallier, Seattle, Wash Ben Bredimus, Seattle, Wash R. Pontine, Los Angeles, Calif David Kellogg, Naches, Wash WOMEN—Expert Bowman Class— Babe Bitzenberger, Malibu Mt. Club Lulu Stalker, Flint, Mich ......... Frieda Hoff, Los Angeles, Calif BOWMAN CLASS— Bea Anderson, Trenton, Mich Betty Richardson, Flint, Mich Donna Diehl, Flint, Mich Minerva Gandy, Malibu Mt. Club .... Marie Seastrom, Malibu Mt. Club .... Bertha Hoffmeyer, Flint, Mich Marjorie Egeler, Flint, Mich Marie Jensen, Los Angeles, Calif NOVICE CLASS— Mary Bledose, Malibu Mt. Club Silvia Noble, Malibu Mt. Club Dorothy Dukenfield, Malibu Mt. Club Patricia Ryan, Seattle, Wash Mrs. W. A. Gillam, Seattle. Wash Besselee Jones, Everett, Wash

Notes on 2nd Mail Match By Karl Palmatier Mary Bledose and Silvia Noble will be in the Bowman Class for their next tournament. Bea Anderson Glenn St. Charles and Roland Rexroad will be in the Expert Bowman Class for their next tournament. Eighty-four archers took part in this tournament. This is an increase of 64.7 per cent over last year and a 25 per cent increase over last month.

Han- Han di dicap cap Score

28 Target Score 36- 136 33- 129 32-114 37- 137 34- 128

28 Target Score ~ 40-139 36-140 42-154 28-102 27-103

56 Target Score 76-275 69-269 74-268 65-239 61-231

34- 126 35- 121 29-100 40-148 25- 91 28-100 25- 91 25- 91 27- 97 23- 87 24- 86 14- 48 21- 75 17- 65 10- 34

36-122 35-125 38- 140 22- 78 39- 133 33-121 30-110 29-100 23- 75 22- 78 22- 76 25- 93 15- 57 15- 53 4- 16

70-248 70-246 67-240 62-226 64-224 61-221 55-201 53-191 50-172 45- 165 46- 162 39-141 36-132 32-118 14- 50

49-185 39-137 42-146

39-139 39-147 37-133

88-324 78- 284 79- 279

70 110 80

394 394 359

38-136 22- 86 28- 96 31-113 26- 97 26- 96 35-121 28- 94

43-171 26- 94 27- 97 28- 96 25- 92 30- 110 31- 111 24- 88

81-307 48-180 55- 193 59-209 51- 189 56- 206 66-232 52- 182

150 200 180 160 180 150

457 380 373 369 369 356

26- 92 27- 99 22- 77 23- 93 24- 84 12- 24

33-116 26- 94 24- 94 20- 68 18- 60 7- 23

59-208 53-193 46-171 43-161 42-144 19- 47

We received two scores from the archers of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. It rained twenty days in May. The courses at Flint, Detroit and Tren ton were partially under water most of the month. The ribbons have been received for the Indoor tournaments and will be mailed out within the week. Please read page 40 of the 1943 Handbook to see how awards are made. Ribbons are not awarded to the same persons as are medals.

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Blunts from the Old Stump (Continued from page 9) here, as there is no organized club, but plenty of enthusiasm. With the proper encouragement the hotel would cooperate to make this a re gional center for archery, as they are very progressive.” He is planning a new field course to be used by guests of the hotel as well as enthusiasts from Las Vegas. Non-members of the NFAA can get the Field Archery Handbook by send ing a quarter with their dollar mem bership application. Every field archer should belong to the NFAA and every field archer should have the Field Archery Handbook. Now Is the time for all club secretaries to canvass their membership and enroll new NFAA members.

TO ATTEND TOURNAMENT NFAA President A. J. Michelson is expected to attend the District Tournament at Flint, Michigan on Sunday, May 23. and will reveal latest developments on Michigan deer season for 1943.—Michigan A. A.

Zoning System Adopted The zoning method has been adopt ed by many cities throughout the United States. All archers are urged to cooperate with postal authorities by making special mention of the zone to which their mail is to be sent in cities which are using the zoning system. Mail sent to YE SYLVAN ARCHER should be addressed — Ye Sylvan Archer, 214 Summit Ave. N., Seattle 2, Wash.

THE FIELD ARCHERS SONG By Harold E. Cady Modern, ah yes, indeed, but still, it’s the song of the ages that I heed, When I take my tackle and go on my quest, For that longing that won’t let man’s heart rest. Is it the wind that whispers softly, with it’s breath of spring? Or is it this bow, in my hand, held taut by string? Is it the birds with their colors, in flight so fine? Or is it this arrow so straight and round, marked with this crest of mine? Is it the song of the birds, the brooks and breeze? Or is it the song of an arrow, sped at a target, on which my eyes freeze? Is it the mountains, majestic, marked with trails like straps upon it’s back? Or is it my head held high, made jaunty by an archer’s cap? Is it the trail through dale, and o’er hill, quiet, yet all its markings tell a tale? Or is it my quiver, well stocked, made from the hide of a deer I’d shot? One is nature, man’s birthright, a gift of GOD, as is day and night. The other is archey, the longbow, that made the Yeoman free, and gave us the poor men all our rights.

It is not essential that a range be constructed in wooded or hilly areas. Construction of any course should be based on the demands of actual hunting conditions.

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