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1942 Mol. 13, ■No. U ■

Ye Sylvan Archer Official Publication of the National Field Archcry Association

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March, 1942

Vol. 13

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page WILD INDIAN DAYS By F. H. Zimbeaux

BLUNTS FROM THE OLD STUMP By the President SMALL GAME HUNTING IN OHIO By C. B. “Chuck” Young AT LAST! FIELD ARCHERY HANDBOOK! EDITORIAL ARIZONA BIG GAME HUNTER ARCHERS DEFEAT PISTOL EXPERTS THE LIFE OF A SECRETARY By Geo. Brommers THE COMPLETE ARCHER By J. M. Howard HUNTER KILLS DEER WITH BOW AND ARROW

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Wild Indian Days By F. H. Zimbeaux Days with the bow and broadheads; days we love to live, to breathe; days in the open fields beneath the blue skies. Like wild Indians we forgot our selves as we roamed the hills for a week, finding only wind and rain, sunshine and deer tracks, and great peace of mind. Then one morning Ray and I, as we crept around a hill side, saw below us among the pines a buck with an inverted hay rake on his head. We stalked a little closer. At sixty yards he turned and faced us. We shot one, two, three four, five arrows each, some almost grazing his sides, and then a broadhead hit a tree limb just behind him. Bang! He was gone, running toward a saddle a hundred yards away. Frank was there waiting and watching, and as the deer passed him on the dead run, he placed a broadhead high in the neck. The wound was not fatal, left no blood; and the buck ran away, leaving us cussing. After that we had dozens of shots. We emptied our quivers at deer at a hundred to a hundred and twentyfive yards. Shooting downhill, at a hundred and twenty yards, I hit one in the shoulder. He jerked half way around when the arrow hit. I sat and watched him walk right up and over the mountain, expecting him to drop. He never did, and we found no blood. Several mornings, Jean Trittin went down to the creek with his bow and brought back fish for breakfast. If he couldn’t hit them with broadheads he’d wade in and catch them with his hands. ^.i One eventful day when the clouds were rolling up the canyon, we found a cave high on the mountain side, with a nice flat floor and a great rock reaching out over our heads above the entrance. We soon had a fire blazing brightly. Clouds had covered the mountains below and a mystic sea spread out before us, shutting out the modern world and seemingly carrying us back to primi tive ages. The walls of the cave were black with the fires of the past. No

one had been in this cave for years, I am sure. Had Indians rested here before us? Did they have bows and arrows, too? It was strangely silent up there in our Indian cave — far from the world of noise and people. Had we had venison to broil over the fire we would have stayed there all night; but finally we made our way down the darkening mountain side, carrying a beautiful memory with us — a memory of wild Indian days. As Indian summer lingers on its last goodby, A cold hunter’s moon hangs up in the sky. Dry yellow leaves tinkle down through the trees, And good autumn smells waft down on the breeze. There’s a campfire bright on the edge of a stream, And by its hot embers I’m con tent to dream; To dream of the hills, the deer and the bear— (Continued on page 11)

Left, to right: F. H. Zimbeaux, Frank Davis, Jean Trittin.

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Blunts from the Old Stump By the President The National Field Archery As sociation Handbook on field archery is published and is now being dis tributed. As Jimmie Durante might say, “It’s tremendous I It’s stupen dous! It’s colossal!” Here are all the answers to the thousand and one questions you want to know about field archery. The Secretary is now mailing a copy to all NF A A mem bers. We are depending on you to re mit your 25c to cover packing and mailing. Send your names and re mittances through group or club sec retaries if possible. Your prompt re mittance will be appreciated. This book may also be obtained by archers who are not members of the NFAA. Elsewhere in this issue of Ye Sylvan Archer there is more about the NFAA Handbook and how to get it. The NFAA Handbook was conceived by John Yount, the Secretary, who has spent many months of his time in gathering the information and in compiling and editing it. We are sure that archers everywhere will be most appreciative of his work, and on their behalf we extend to him our sincere congratulations and thanks for this splendid contribution to arch ery. To the contributors of articles for the Handbook and the manufac turers and dealers who supported us with their advertising, we are indeed grateful. Few appreciate what a tremendous job it is to be the secretary of the NFAA. Every day brings letters from Alaska to Cape Horn, with some from other parts of the world, be sides—with all kinds of questions. He has to be a walking encyclopedia to answer them. Aside from ordinary routine mail, he has to write on an average of fifty letters every week, or more than twenty-five hundred a year. He could not do this without the willing and able assistance of his good wife, Vera. They get no pay for their work, and it is because of their love of archery and their de sire to promote this oldest and finest of all sports that they give so gener ously of their time and effort. In one week (March 1 to 7, inclusive), there were thirty new memberships

from Kansas, Oregon, Illinois, Ne vada, Arizona, Idaho, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Virginia, Michigan, Ken tucky, Connecticut, West Virginia, and Oklahoma. So if you don’t hear from the Secretary as promptly or in the length of time that you think you should, we know you will be pa tient and considerate when you ap preciate that he has a real man-sized job on his hands The “Framingham Archers” (Mass achusetts), Arnold D. Pugsley, Secre tary, 104 Dennison Avenue, Framing ham, Massachusetts, have a very beautiful permanent NF A A field ideally situated on the banks of the town reservoir, just off Winter Street, equipped with all the facilities. Mass achusetts and other New England archers are invited to shoot this course and learn about field archery. They plan nine field tournaments in 1942, as follows: May 23-24; June 2728; July 12; July 25-26; August 1516; August 30; September 6; Octo ber 25; November 22. Come on, you New England archers, and get ac quainted with a fine group of field archers! The Seattle, Washington Archers are going along just as if there were no war. They have just lost their 550 acre field course which they have used for seven years. The United States Navy leased the park and are building a lot of small hospital build ings. But the Seattle Archers are not discouraged. They have found other ^rounds and are now completing a 14-target unit and will complete the second unit this fall. , The “Muskegon Archers Associa tion,” Alfred A. Snurgat, Secretary, 539 Marquette Avenue, Muskegon, Michigan, are expanding their club activities and taking on field arch ery. Information has been sent to them on how to build a field course and the rules of play. We congratu late this target club on providing more archerv for its members. F. H. Zimbeaux, 362 University Street. Salt Lake City, Utah, of the “Buckskin Bowman,” writes: “Utah Archers are rallying around the cause of field archery. We of the ranks

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of Robin Hood this past winter and fall have taken every possible occasion to get off to the mountains or fields or the lake shores, and we have had some great hunts; a week of deer hunting, one killed, many missed; several trips to the ponds where we hunt carp; rabbit hunting trips; and we were Indians for a day on the shores of Utah Lake hunting birds and rabbits, bobcats and Indian arrow heads.” The “Black Hawk Bowmen,” Bert Hilton, Secretary, 712 Riverside Drivee, Waterloo, Iowa, advertised in their local paper that they would offer a prize for the largest number of rabbits shot by an archer. There was a large and enthusiastic response. The leading contender has ten rabbits to his credit so far. He further says: “We had the opportunity of displaying field archery at the State Tournament for the first time last fall. Our club took the liberty of displaying a life-size NFAA emblem with our archery and conservation display at the Dairy Cattle Congress last fall. The stump and arrow were actual and the lettered ring was of plywood, making a striking pic ture.” With guns and ammunition going on the priorities list and the activities of skeet and gun clubs being curtailed for lack of ammunition, here’s how one gun club is going to solve the problem. Henry L. Collignon, 119 West Campbell Street, Arlington Heights, Illinois, who is forming a field archery club writes: “One fel low owns the Skyline Gun Club and has closed it for the duration of the war. He has asked me for more mem bership blanks. Will you please send me about forty more blanks? We have the Gun Club grounds for our field of shooting. Our field will be located on the Main Highway, Route 14, which is the center location of most of the Northwest towns. It looks like we have a good start at last.” This is a good idea to pass on to gun clubs in your own community who may be looking for an outlet as their activities are cut down or eliminated. We are all sportsmen, whether we hunt with gun or bow, and we have much in common. Thousands of gun hunters will be taking up the bow in hunting this year, if you will only tell them about the thrills of bow

hunting and make archery available to them. Lyle Seymour, 302 West Second Street, Wayne, Nebraska, writes: “While there is very little game here, most of the fellows are more inter ested in field archery and hunting than in target archery. We were very happy when we found out about the organization of the NFAA. It offers those who are interested in field archery a chance if they weren’t as enthusiastic about target archery.” Here is an honest to goodness bow hunters club who have been organized for a long time, but have just heard of the NFAA. The “Bow and Broad head Club,” John Stevens, Secretary, 1402 North Western Avenue, Okla homa City, Oklahoma. He writes: “We are also trying to establish a separate deer season for archers in Oklahoma. If you should have a list of hunting clubs within a fivehundred mile radius of Oklahoma City, we would appreciate having same. Anyhow, let us hear from you about the Association, as we have a special fondness for anything con nected with field archery.” The NFAA will give all information and assistance possible. Oklahoma arch ers, please contact at once. You can get better hunting conditions if you cooperate and pull together. The com pilation of bow and arrow hunting laws of the United States and Canada in the NFAA field archery Handbook will show you what archers in other states have done and are doing to get earlier seasons, special areas, and better hunting conditions for bow hunters. The NFAA mail matches have started in March, and most of the southern states are participating. The northern states will start participat ing about April. This is the time to plan and build or rebuild your field courses. The Government is stressing the need for physical fitness and na tional morale. Everybody is working harder and longer hours. Because you come home from your work all tired out and think that you haven’t the time for diversion, it is all the more reason why you should get out into the woods and fields and relax your mind and body with archery. Let’s all get in on the monthly mail (Continued on page 8)

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Small Game Hunting in Ohio By C. B. “Chuck” Young After returning from deer hunting the car. I was anxious to see the varying expressions on the faces of in Michigan, and missing deer like I the incoming archers, to try and guess did up there, I wasn’t very anxious what luck they had had. This was about trying my hand at rabbits and very hard to do, as the archer who pheasants in Ohio; for the law of proportion would be working in the gets the least game is usually having wrong direction. If I couldn’t hit the most fun — very few sorrowful looks among unsuccessful archers. a deer standing broadside at forty Numerous rabbits were taken by yards, what business did I have hunt the forty-seven archers who were ing cottontails? there, but no pheasants. Usually But there is an institution, you there are a few pheasants taken each might say, among Ohio archers, to year. be at the archery game preserve at Louis Chmura of Cleveland got his Norton, Ohio, for the first Saturday limit of four rabbits, the only archer of open hunting season. This day has annually attracted large numbers to do so. Larry returned with one rabbit, of archers from all over the state to this 400-odd-acre archery hunting enough to allow him to quit, although he didn’t seem to want to give up. preserve. This year the season opened on Most of the archers seemed satis Saturday, November 15, and, as in fied with the amount of game they saw, although several were shooting Ohio we do not hunt till noon on the opening day, this made an ideal set like I was, and didn’t seem very well up for me. I didn’t have to be there pleased with their own performance. On the following Saturday I was until 12:00 but, as usual, I was late supposed to go to South Salem, which and didn’t get there until 1:00 P. M. I was surprised to find I wasn’t is in the southwestern part of the the last one to arrive, for several state, near Chillicothe, on a private others drifted in after I did. Larry hunting party. Staton, for one, a member of the I was supposed to be there at 8:00 Longbow Archery Club of Newark, A. M. I dropped the alarm clock on Ohio, of which club I am a very lowly the way to bed, and the darn thing esteemed member. Now, Larry is a didn’t go off in the morning. I fi very ardent hunter, and never re nally woke up around 10:00 A. M., turns from the field without game, and by the time I got to South Salem so when I started out to hunt with it was 1:00 P. M.,- it being around him I knew I was in for it, unless I ninety miles from home. could ditch him somewhere in the Maybe it was just as well I was field. I did this later, and managed late, for this party was to make a to beat most of the hunters back to favorable impression on the farmers, the cars. . and I have heard it said that the I got several shots at rabbits and less seen of me, the better impression shot under all of them. I was ob I make. served by an archer philosopher when There were twelve archers in the I missed one rabbit twice. His com party, and most of them saw game. ment was. “It is easy, when you hit This party was to make the ac them.” Which still makes it a tough quaintance of a group of farmers game for me. who are considering making an I missed a nice ringnecked cock there, archery hunting preserve of their pheasant in the same manner—boy, If everything works out well, they are beautiful. I really enjoy farms. there will be in the neighborhood of seeing them in the field, but I never twelve hundred acres turned over to have been able to get one of them to the archers alone. go anywhere else with me. The conservation department of Shortly after missing this pheasant, I decided that as far as I was con Ohio has promised to stock the land cerned it was hopeless, and left for (Continued on page 8)

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At Last! Field Archery Handbook! One of the fastest growing sports today is field archery. It is growing by leaps and bounds. But there has been very little published information on the subject of field archery. Arch ers have been asking: What is field archery? What is the best tech nique of field shooting? What weights of bows and arrows should I use? Who are the best field shots of the United States and how do they shoot? Where can I hunt with the bow and arrow and what kind of game? How can we get better hunting conditions in our state? Who are back of or ganized field archery? How can we build a field course and organize a field club? What are the rules for playing the various field games? Who are the leading bow and arrow hunt ers of America and how do they do it? How about some tips on big game hunting with the bow? And a thou sand other questions have been asked. What are the answers? For years there has been a growing and insistent demand for some au thoritative book on American field archery. The National Field Archery Association has undertaken to com pile and publish a National Field Archery Handbook. It is now ready for distribution. The leading field archers and bow and arrow hunters of America have generously contrib uted articles on various subjects. The Executive Committee, and especially John Yount, the efficient and ener getic Secretary of the National Field Archery Association—to whom must be given the major credit—have for months given of their time and effort in making the National Field Archery Handbook the most outstanding con tribution to archery in years. The % services of all were willingly donated.' Tackle manufacturers and dealers have wholeheartedly helped finance the publication of this book by their advertisements. They have made pos sible the distribution of this valuable book to archers everywhere at a nom inal cost to them. The National Field Archery As sociation Handbook on field archery is pocket size, contains 120 pages with a 12-inch by 16-inch compiled chart of the bow and arrow hunting

laws of the United States and Canada. The topics covered in the book are: 1. What is the National Field Archery Association (NFAA)? By the President. 2. Officers of the NFAA. 3. Constitution and By-Laws of the NFAA. 4. Rules of play on all NFAA field games. 5. Rules governing the Art Young Big Game Award and “Perfect 20” pin award. 6. Match play and inter-club and team matches. 7. The Big Game Award. By Dr. Paul Klopsteo-. 8. How to lay out a field course. By John Yount. 9. Mail tournament rules and how to conduct a field tournament. By Karl Palmatier. 10. Archerv golf and rules. By Professor Paris Stockdale. 11. Technique Techniqueofoffield fieldshooting. shooting. By nun —---- 1 i1941 n.1 1 Field r'l -------Phil Conrad, Champion. 12. The use of sights in bow and arrow hunting. By Forrest Nagler. 13. Field and hunting tackle. By Walt Wilhelm, Kore Duryee and For rest Nagler. 14. Hints on big game hunting with the bow. By the 1941 Art Young Big Game Award Winners. 15. Camouflage in bow hunting. By Tom Imler. 16. Javalina hunting. By Joe Cosner. 17.Moose hunting. By By Forrest Forrest Nagler. 18. Deer hunting. By Jerry Hill. 19. Organizing a field club and model constitution. 20. 1941 NFAA mail tournament winners and big game award winners. 21. 1942 NFAA tournament plans. 22. Archery field clubs of America. 23. Compilation of the bow and ar row hunting laws of the United States of America. 24. The National Archery Associa tion. By Henry S. C. Cummings. 25. The human side of archery. By George Brommers. 26. Why all archers should belong to the NFAA. By the President. Here’s how to get the National (Continued on page 6)

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Editorial What! No Tax? Major Williams of Glens Falls, New York, wants to know “What tackle makers think of the omission of archery equipment in the new Ex cise Tax law?” He proceeds, “To my way of thinking, I resent the over sight, and have no hesitancy in telling the world so! I doubt if the tax will affect archery business material ly, hence there is no point in tackle makers congratulating themselves over this gross oversight on the part of the committee which drafted the law. The law, as it now stands, prac tically excludes archery from the field of sports; for every other con ceivable sport, even croquet, is in cluded. Hence, if Mr. A. enters a sports shop and buys some golf clubs, a football, a tennis racquet and a bow, he pays the ten per cent tax on all of them except the bow!” Personally, we think it is a seven years wonder to find someone ob jecting to not being taxed.

score of 168, shooting at 25-yard pistol target at a distance of 30 yards, and Forest Lemley, another archer, outshot his opponent, Everett Powell, making a score of 158 to 151 for that of his opponent. Both Stewart and Lemley made scores of 46 out of a possible 50. Another match will be held here soon, between the archers and prob ably members of the city police de partment, it was announced. — News Item.

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(Continued from page 5) Field Archery Association Handbook on field archery: to save correspond ence and delay, the Secretary of the NFAA will mail a copy of the Hand book to all NFAA members in good standing with a bill for 25 cents to cover packing and mailing. This does not represent even one-tenth of the value of the book, so please remit promptly. If you are not a member of the NFAA or if your membership Arizona Big Game Hunter has expired, and if you wish to join Our cover photo this month is of the NFAA or renew your member Tom Imler of Phoenix, Arizona, with ship, you can mail in your member the bear he killed with bow and ar ship dollar to the Secretary, plus 25 row. This was the only big game cents and get the Handbook at the bagged by Arizona archers last fall. member’s price. Remember your dol Mr. Imler took no chances and shot lar for NFAA membership not only three arrows, altogether. The first covers your dues in the NFAA for was just behind the shoulder. All one year, but you also get a year’s three arrows went almost 200 yards subscription to the NFAA official down into a canyon after clipping a monthly magazine. Archers who are couple of ribs on the way in and also not members of the NFAA may get on the way out. a copy of the NFAA Handbook by The extreme penetration Mr. Imler enclosing 50 cents with their name lays to the fact that the 1100 grain and address. Send your orders to: Port Orford cedar arrows with 1% John Yount, Secretary NFAA, inch wide heads he was shooting out , P.O. Box 383, of a hundred pound bow is a power ’ Redlands, California. ful combination. The NFAA is very proud to pre sent this up-to-the-minute book on Archers Defeat Pistol Experts field archery to the archers of Amer ica. It will be the field archers’ In a grudge match staged at Cot “Bible.” Every field archer will want tage Grove, Oregon, recently, two his copy. If you are a target archer, Cottage Grove archers defeated two revolver shooters in a match held at the Handbook is for you, too. Here’s a new and thrilling branch of archery the rifle grounds of the Cottage Grove that you cannot afford to overlook. Rod and Gun Club. Get your orders in early—the supply William Collins, archer, tied with his opponent, Earl Stewart, with a is limited.

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The Life of a Secretary By Geo. Brommers

For two weeks, as the guest of John and Vera Yount, I have watched the wheels of the NF A A revolve. I think you members will be interested. “We can’t entertain you,” Vera tells me, “because we work every day. And we can’t entertain you in the evening, because that’s when we work for the NFAA. If you stick around long enough we will put you to work, too.” I was more than willing to help, but soon learned that amateur as sistance could be more trouble than it was worth. This is what the late Mr. Shakespeare called “one hell of a mess.” There were files, and cross files and card systems, and book keeping and most everything else un der the sun. Vera, you see, has had a lot of office experience, and likes to see everything shipshape. Vera at one time was private secre tary to the head of the Mutual Orange Distributors, as well as the editor of their publication, “Citrus Leaves.” So she knows a thing or two, which is all to the good for the NFAA. Every night it is the same thing. I suggest a show. Yes, they would like to go, but there were 37 new members last week, and all of them aren’t cleaned up yet. Then there are applications for membership blanks and always correspondence — what a corespondence! John is sitting at one typewriter tonight answering letters. I sit at the other, and Vera is working on the books. The radio is silent and the only interruption is John’s cussing some particularly provoking inquiry. “I’ll be glad when we get that hand book ready,” says John. “It will save me half this letter writing. I can’t take much more of it, and that’s a fact.” “How is the handbook coming along?” I ask. “Fine,” says John, “we are printing twice what we need right now to take care of the present members. The best part of it is that the whole thing has just about paid its own way through advertising. It will save me a lot in wear and tear, too, when all I have to do is to send out one of

them instead of having to answer every letter in detail. Saves postage, too, and that counts.” “What will you do with the sur plus?” I ask. “Sell ’em,” says John. “How much?” “Damfino,” grouses John. “Two bits or so, we need the money, and it will be clear money. We sure don’t get rich on the dollar membership fee, what with a magazine subscription and everything thrown in.” “Couldn’t we raise the membership fee?” I ask. “We are nuts if we do,” argues John. “It is just because we are giving the members their full dollar’s worth that we have grown the way we have. We can’t afford any rackets, you know. But I do wish we had the mon ey to hire such work done as an out sider can do.” „ “Yes,” I concede, “I think you are right about the membership fee. The lower we keep it and the more we give for the money the more members we will have. But more members mean more work.” “You are telling me!” agrees John, unhappily. “Now then,” I proceed, “we don’t raise the fees, we are agreed on that. But why do we not raise the price of the handbook to fifty cents? Seems to me a good many archers would buy these extra copies to give to friends. It is easier than to answer a hundred questions. Also, since there is no compulsion to buy, and no real necessity for it, even, every member will consider his four bits a free will contribution. He will be delighted to find this donation used for promotion work instead of paying for a dead horse.” “I don’t know,” says John, “I’ll put it up to the board, but offhand I’d say we will make more profit at two bits than we will at double the price. We will sell that many more, and it is the profit we are after, you know.” “Are you making anything on the felt emblems,” I ask, “and how much?” “Can’t tell exactly,” answers John. “They cost us around ten cents laid

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down here, and we sell them for But—by twenty-five cents. ----- the time (Continued from page 3) we pay more postage and answer a lot matches. It’s good for you and good of inquiries I do not suppose there is for archery! much profit in them. Stationery and Pass on the word about the NFAA postage are our biggest expense, you Handbook to all archers that you know.” know so that they, too, may get their “How about raising the price to copies of this new book on field arch fifty cents?” I ask. “That way you ery. The Handbook is only one of will be sure of a profit and the buyer the many ways that the NFAA is will know that he is making a worth promoting field archery. We are while donation.” proud of our wonderful sport. Let’s “Too deep for me,” groans John, all tell the world about it. Now is “but since you are so interested in the the time to check the expiration date profit angle, why don’t you sound out on your membership. If it is about the ultimate consumer?” to expire, send in your renewal dollar This article is doing that very with that twenty-five cents to cover thing. This can’t go on forever. The the packing and mailing on your bigger the NFAA gets, the more the Handbook. work accumulates. Some of it has to be hired, that’s sure. The Younts, SMALL GAME HUNTING as well as Louis Smith of the NA A, (Continued from page 4) can’t go on being goats forever. I have known the Younts for a with game and post it, if the farmers long time. For five years, now, they are agreeable. have been working like dogs to pro Bob Hahn of Columbus, who hasn’t mote field archery. Lately, of course, been shooting for very long, and it Michelson and Palmatier have taken was his first hunting trip, bagged a terrific load off their shoulders. two rabbits. But the secretaryship is, and is going George Harvey of Middletown, to remain, the big. time consuming who is an archer in my class—you job . in any organization. We must know the kind; one who goes to all do something to help out. the hunts and tournaments and gets The best way I see is to have some nowhere — got himself a pheasant. profitable side line, such as the two (George does win trophies, though— suggested, and on a strictly donation for three years straight he has held basis. In other words, it must be the consolation award ogiven away w ... at something that the archer does not the Ohio State Archery Tournament). ha've to buy. What can you suggest *■ :w: — T * -*■ — He shot the bird sitting. It started along these lines, provided you are to run away, and George took his bow in favor of it at all? And if not in and clubbed it. It was his first favor of it, you should say so. The pheasant in I don’t know how many NFAA is going to be just what you years of hunting with the bow. He make it be. surely was proud of himself and The promotion work so far done throughout the rest of the afternoon has been stupendous, and I am im he certainly did admire himself as a mensely impressed with the progress hunter. I don’t think that anything made. All of it has been volunteer short of a three column spread in the and unpaid work. It has been very Middletown newspaper would have much worth while, and neither the satisfied his ego, nor mine, either, if Younts nor the other workers grudge I had gotten it. the effort. But in the very success Two more hunts with the same of their undertaking so far lies the score. Someday I am going to quit very real danger of somebody having being just a hunter, and start being to drop out because the burden will a game getter. be heavier than they can carry. Somehow we must find the means The Plattsburg (New York) Press to give our secretaries some paid was much surprised to learn that of assistance. Think it over! the first one hundred and fifteen ap plicants for special archery deer li censes in New Mexico, only three Now is the time to look over your were Indians. tournament archery tackle.

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The Complete Archer By J. M. Howard Archery seems to provide an ideal ever their business may be, archery antidote to many of the nerve-stresses reestablishes direct contact with na to which our civilization is heir. For ture. the M. D., such as Pope and Elmer, One point I wish to emphasize is it is, I imagine, much like a burst that the full pursuit of archery pro of fresh air after a room made cloying vides more than mere sport. This is with lysol and ether. Here is no apparent from the fact that it exerts weak, harrassed or pained patient de such a deep and unwaning fascina manding the greatest nervous effort tion over men of wide learning and of thought and skill even to be started marked talent in a variety of fields. on the precarious road to recovery, It is not, for instance, on the level of but a responsive, volatile companion, golf, though the comradeship inci adaptable to every whim. There are dental to the playing of golf enters certain rules of construction and use, into archery. One does not make of course, but once mastered the his own golf clubs and balls; he plays craftsman-archer is his own doctor. on an elaborate and carefully tended course; he follows a certain arbitrary He may make several varieties of path from beginning to end, and once flatbow or longbow, styling them with having finished it his game is done some freedom; his arrows may be and his clubs put away until another barreled, chested or streamlined; they . day. If an archer wants that sort of may have any shape of feathers or amusement he can shoot at a target color scheme in cresting and a choice or over a roving range or play arch of points for every purpose. As archer, he may stand at a fixed dis ery golf. But he is not limited to these. He may shoot in his back tance from a target and concentrate upon the minutiae of coordination yard or his basement. When he goes for a walk in the country, whatever which will enable him to group a series of arrows in the smallest pos the terrain may be, his bow is an ea ger companion as much in use as he sible ring; or he may rove through fields and woods, loosing a shaft at chooses. If he wishes to get far away from cities for a vacation his tackle any mark that catches his eye; and becomes a weapon capable of killing he may hunt, stalking small game or anything on four legs. large, or even bothering the fish in sea, lake or stream; he can pot shoot, But the complete archer is also a clout shoot, flight shoot, shoot the craftsman. If he neglects this side popinjay — he can and probably will, of the pursuit he deprives himself of in fact, shoot anything from a tin half (and I mean this literally) of can to an elephant (assuming there its pleasure. In our so-called tem are elephants around). perate climes there will he weeks, per haps months, when outdoor shooting For the Ph. D., like Klopsteg and will not be attractive: it will be Hickman, here are phenomena with sloppy, snowy or cold. Then the con the most exciting vagaries of action, almost mocking scientific calculation, firmed archer turns to the fine pleas ure of the books past and present, thus providing a stimulating field of inquiry and experiment. Writers lovingly written by his brother toxophiles. But vicarious activity is not like Mr. Gardner and Mr. Willard enough. He buys the rough bow wood are, without much prying, separated and works it into a bow. He must from their desks and sent gamboling have several bows for several pur over green pastures in exuberant for poses; he must master all the designs getfulness. For the office worker he has read about and seen; he must who but seldom uses his muscles with use each of the noble woods. Work any gratifying result, the making and enough there is for the bowyer! shooting of bows and arrows gives a As to shafts, they must be fine sense of constructing something deli and straight, suited to the bow and cate and dynamic for a joyous end. And for all men and women, what the purpose in spine and weight and

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wood. Target arrows are footed and reinforced at the nocks; roving ar rows are of tougher wood, they have larger feathers and are capped with blunt heads; hunting shafts must have broadhead blades — yes, these, too, can be made by the home craftsman. He also weaves his strings, works leather for bow handles, quivers and armguards, makes tools of various sorts — bendmeters, spine testers, feather clamps and dies. His activ ities are limited only by his time and love of the bow. That is another big point—anyone can be his own craftsman as well as learning to shoot. He may never become a great artisan any more than a champion marksman, but he can know the thrill, as Mr. L. E. Stemm ier says, of seeing “a shaft made by your own hands, speed from a bow fashioned on your own work bench.” Certainly, someone else will be able to make better tackle, but the main thing is that you yourself are able to make tackle that works, and to make it better each time you try. Aristotle spoke of Catharsis to be gained for the surcharged emotions by witnessing dramatic tragedy and comedy. On a lower plane, that of the nerves, Catharsis is equally neces sary, and in these days is adequately to be had by the complete archer. In making and using his equipment he expresses himself and is happy in what he does. There is no nerve tonic like happy activity.

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HUNTER KILLS DEER WITH BOW AND ARROW Wisconsin’s bow and arrow hunting for deer has reached a nejv height of popularity this year. The arch ers are afield in a special deer season of their own that started on October 4. Final conservation department records are expected to show that more than fifteen hundred archers have permits to hunt deer this year, at least four hundred more than took part in the hunt last year. There is a possibility that the record season take of a half dozen animals may be exceeded this year. Street Commissioner Arthur Korff of Koh ler, Monday exhibited a buck he shot with a bow and arrow eight miles west of Portage. The deer weighed one hundred and twenty-two pounds dressed and was the first shot by a bow and arrow hunter in this section of the state. —Mauston Star.

(Editor’s Note): This article is a little late, but as it pertains to the subject nearest the heart of the true bow and arrow hunter, the killing of big game with archery tackle, we are reprinting it.

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