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Up and at ’Em By Emmett Riordan
We were over at Jack Pratt’s, John and I, working on arrows, when John suddenly got the idea. He gets them like that—right out of the sky. ‘■’We’ve got to go on a hunt,” he said, “and September 17th is as good as any time. We’ll get Kore up and Frank De Wolf, and go up to see Milt Adams for a few days, what do you think?” That was sort of a silly question. No one ever thinks these things over when the night is full of autumn and you can see your way clear to do a duck for awhile. All there was to do was to phone Kore and Frank and
tell Milt we were coming. Milt Adams owns a logging camp on Quadra Island, where the deer aren’t big (?) but there are lots of them, and a fellow doesn’t have to be dodging bullets all the time, because it’s not much hunted. Milt and his wife, Marion, are famous for their unexcelled hospitality, especially to John and his archer friends. It was here that Howard Hill, Fred Woodley and Bob Fass were taken on their northern trip in 1938. The Island is good sized chunk of moss-covered rock about 22 miles by 4, lying immediately north of the
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Left to right: Jack Pratt, Emmett Riordan, Kore Duryee, John Garrett, Frank De Wolf
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well known Seymour Narrows with guments about equipment to settle. Every archer who has hunted at its treacherous Ripple Rock, over which the tide waters rush at speeds Adams’, and there have been quite a few, has left a broadhead in the to 20 knots, and bear out their au box behind the door, and, of course, thority with a small collection of fine ships, including an American warship John’s into this the minute he enters the room. As an opening shot, we harvested by the three pronged rock pull them to pieces—that long han in the throat of the Narrows. To get there, we ferried Kore’s dled shovel of Frank De Wolf’s now car to Nanaimo, on Vancouver Is —he still uses them. And that tin land, and after driving 98 miles to foil head on this masterpiece—and, Emmett, what on earth were you Campbell River, were met by Milt shooting those broomhandles at? and Marion in their launch. Suddenly there is a bleat from It was too dark to see much on the Kore. One of his bows is missing. He’s trip over, about a forty-minute jaunt, sure he took it out of the car, but it just as it was too dark for us to see the big buck Milt saw in the reflec is definitely not there. Kore was more or less destined to be the center of tion of our lights as we turned down attraction all night, in fact, even to the dock, and which we knew was after we were all asleep. watching us as we loaded our stuff in Have you ever seen those toilet the boat; but it wasn’t too dark to paper rollers with a music box in hear and feel the swirling, angry them? When you unwind the paper waters of the Narrows as we rushed you wind up the box and it tinkles over them in the night. They’re going to blast the pin out with something like “Home Sweet Home”? Well1, naturally you don’t nacles off the Rock one of these days; have been going to for years, but expect one of these machines around, and when about three A. M. we just like that big bruiser that you’re were awakened by a cozy little tune going to sock “someday,” they’ve just of music, it probably would have tak never got around to it. However, now, en iis some time to figure out if Kore with the press of war and the need hadn’t left the door open. of the Inside Passage, the scow to do the job is on the way; the Rock Six o’clock comes early in the morn is doomed, and as we passed, with ing, but on a hunting trip, isn't it power and speed to spare and taunt funny how late 5:30 comes? We were its greatest effort, I think I felt a well on the trail by 6:30, and by 7:00 tinge of sorrow for the great old Kore and Jack had gone to the right trouble-maker beneath us. at the top of the ridge to explore the timbered country. Frank had gone I don’t think anyone else was straight ahead, and John and I to the worrying about such things though. left, heading for an old logged off Jack’s eyes were sticking out so far area where we both felt certain the you could hang your hat on them as deer would be. Milt told of the deer to be seen on the Island. We were right, and as we ap „ ----+1, „ __ ______ proached the rim surrounding the “Why, only yesterday,” he went slash, three deer made a neat geta on, “one of those bucks actually way off to our left, a buck and two challenged my right to use my own does. We watched them out of sight to logging road,” and to John, “Remem accustom our eyes to the color of ber that thirty or so we scared out their coats, and pushed cautiously of that thicket behind the camp two on. years ago? Well, they’re still there, but you can’t scare 'em now. Too big. At the edge of the slash we stopped However we don’t bother them and just out of sight in the timber—and they don’t bother us. Hasn’t been a sized things up. The sun poured down deer shot here this year.” in a large basin of fern and stumps We reached the camp about mid below us, glinting off a small lake night, ready for bed, but with no in the center. It was bright and warm. intention of going there. Not as long The woods and fern were dry. Too as Milt was busy mixing up a tall dry. Your very shadow rustled the hot one, and we had all those ar-- brown leaves, and from across the
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bay a huge column of smoke remind ed us that cigarettes were something we had always wanted to quit any way. There was a hundred thousand dollars worth of logging equipment and timber in that column of smoke. John knew this valley, and in a whisper he outlined a plan. “You take to the left here, Em mett,” he said, “follow that draw and —look!” A doe and two fawns picked their way into a hemlock swale two hun dred yards below us. Two more does crossed an old logging road four hundred yards to the left and disap peared. “I think those critters have heard us, even from here. Let’s go. Travel slow and keep in touch!” We hadn’t gone fifty yards when John jumped a buck. Not far ahead of him, he was, but not wasting any time. I heard the twang of John’s bow—that new bow of his was a beautiful job—and got a flash of the buck as he topped a rise. I didn’t see the arrow sticking in, but it was— in a big old stump! We didn’t even bother to dig out the head. It was out of sight in tough old fir. Two grouse burst from the ferns and sailed across a narrow gully. John followed them and they were hanging on his quiver when I met him later. I’m not going to follow from deer to deer. I saw 35 and John saw 37, but there weren’t many shots. John missed one more at about 80 yards, while I missed a beautiful shot at about 60 and as we left the valley for camp at sundown, we were just a little afraid that our bloodless arrows were going to be pretty lonely. Frank, we knew for sure, had been in the same valley, and Kore and Jack should have been on its fringe, but on our arrival at the camp Kore and Jack were waiting and hadn’t seen a thing all day. Frank came in later with a tale of three misses. That evening, after a shower and dinner, we discussed our plans for the morrow. John’s a ranging fellow. He didn’t want to hunt the same country again. He was all for going along the coast about eight miles and heading into a place called Granite Bay where Howard Hill had collected
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his buck. Personally, I wasn’t very keen on that because I wag afraid of running into a hard pack in case we connected. Milt scoffed at that, but I wasn’t much impressed. I recalled that Milt was the fellow who packed a kitchen stove intact, nine miles into camp once, and when rebuked for tackling too heavy a pack, set the stove down, opened the oven door, and disclosed a keg of nails therein. No, Milt and I weren’t talking along the same lines at all, at all! Anyway grey dawn saw us skim ming the waves to Granite Bay, and
John took the glory, Kore took the picture as the sun climbed down the hills, we were a couple of miles from the beach and climbing to meet it. It was a lovely morning, clear and sharp, and the country in which we found ourselves was thickly grown with scrub hemlock, harder hunting, but not nearly so noisy as that of yesterday. We were climbing a ridge, all five abreast and about 100 yards apart. Kore spotted a grouse, got it, and (Continued on page 11)
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Blunts from the Old Stump By the President In this issue you will find the rules governing the play of the NFAA Mail Indoor Field Tournament, fifty six targets to be shot during each of the months of December, January, Feb ruary and March. The tournament is not entended as a substitute for the outdoor NFAA Field Round, but rather to give those archers who are forced to shoot indoors during the winter months, an opportunity to keep up an interest in their field archery. It also gives target clubs an opportunity to try instinc tive shooting at close ranges in an interesting round. If you are fortu nate enough to be able to shoot out doors all year round, you may com pete in this winter tournament by shooting the round out doors. It will also give small groups of archers who have no field courses, an oppor tunity to compete in a national mail tournament on a course that requires little expense of space to lay out. Come on all of you field and target archers, and give this indoor field round a try. We guarantee that you will find it not only interesting but a relief from the monotony of the usual indoor target round. Michigan Archers have just closed their annual bow and arrow deer season. Full reports on the bag are not yet available. Most of the archers hunted in Allegan County where un official reports show twelve bucks and one doe shot with the bow. Jack Yeager of East Lansing, Michigan, shot the prize buck weighing dressed 263 pounds. This a record for rifle or bow in Michigan in many a year. Nels Grunley of Detroit and Vine Martin of Munising, each bagged a buck near Munising. About 35 arch ers hunted at Lake St. Helen Club, but only one buck was shot there. Bert Jones of St. Helen got a shot at a buck facing him at about forty yards. He hit the buck square in the chest, the arrow buried to the feath ers, piercing the heart. Even with this heart shot the buck ran 200 yards. Bert made a perfect shot and at tributed his good shooting to constant
practice at the NFAA Field Round. Bert is a trapper by profession, having trapped about 70 fox last year and about as many so far this year beside other fur bearing animals. This is his second year in archery. Fred Wessendorf of Saginaw is re ported to have shot a 300 pound black bear in Roscommon County, his second in as many years. He must carry a horse-shoe in his pocket, as most hunters rarely even see a bear, much less getting a shot at one. Andy Goodwin of Flint, got a shot at a bear, but from last reports, the bear was headed for the Canadian border and Andy was headed for Florida. Nearly all archers in Michigan had some shooting, but the final count of the bag in Michigan will be about the same as last year, about 18 or 20 deer. We have no report on the Wiscon sin deer hunt. Carl Oelschlager of Cleveland, Ohio is reported to have shot his buck there. Henry Collignon of Arlington Heights, Ill, and other Illinois archers hunted at Crivitz, Wisconsin. Will Wisconsin archers give us the report on their hunt? Utah, with its second year of bow hunting, shows remarkable results for the archers in that state. Seventeen deer are reported shot with the bow in that state. One of the deer is re ported to have been bagged by a wom an. We believe that this is the second deer shot by a woman archer in re cent years. Fred Bear of Detroit hunted for two weeks in Ontario north of Du luth. He shot a deer, altho he was after moose. Fred shot his moose (a big bull) but would not claim it because a guide had shot at the moose with a rifle resulting in a superficial wound in the neck. The moose ran toward Fred and stopped about 20 or 30 yards away. Fred shot him five times with the arrow, two ar rows being shot through the heart. The moose toppled over in his tracks. Tough luck Fred. Bob King, of King-Moore Co., en(Continued on page 7)
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of Ye Sylvan Archer. You will like them.
Official Publication of the National Field Archery Association
Reply to the Old Guard By Donald Cole A few weeks back I suggested on these pages a type of bow sight as an aid to better shooting. It was re ceived about as I had expected. Cries of pain and horror now fill the air if I can believe my mail. Among those who have been injured, the slightly wounded imply that to place the hallowed bow in my hands is like casting pearls upon the swine. I am, they state, without esthetic apprecia tions. The stronger voiced yeomen who lost arms or legs, or perhaps their heads, apparently feel that the hog treatment is entirely too mild. They practically put me in the class with sabateurs and 5th columnists. Their opinions are of the same fibre and temper as those of many New Dealers. Since I fail to agree with them I am heretic and dangerous, and out to wreck all the good things which they are protecting with such loving care, and for my benefit. If the addition of a sight to my bow has destroyed some of the charm of that ancient weapon, I have been fully repaid for the loss. Without the sight I shot hopefully but poorly. Game could afford to all but ignore me and ran little risk in my presence. Since employing the sight however there has come a decided change. Rabbits or grouse that find them selves within my orbit of reasonable shooting distance had better depart promptly if they value their skins. My former faith in the simple bow and arrow reminds me of the days of my early boyhood when I believed firmly in Santa Claus. It was a de lightful state of mind and for a small boy a good one. I finally outgrew the lovely old tale and ceased to be a small boy. And I have ceased to be a small boy as far as shooting a sight less bow is concerned. Understand I have no slightest objection to others clinging to the Santa Claus method of securing game (someone else usually supplies it) ; but I don’t think the boys ought to point derisive fin gers at me just because I am no longer able to wear archery short pants.
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Published the twentieth of each month at 505 North 11th Street, Corvallis, Oregon. J. E. Davis____ Editor and Publisher Subscription Price ...... $1.00 per year Foreign Subscription .... $1.25 per yr. Single Copies ............................ 10 cents Advertising Rates on Application Entered as second - class matter June 25, 1942, at the post office at Corvallis, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Editorial We had a pleasant visit with Cor poral Roger Poor of Salem, Massach usetts, who is stationed at Camp Adair, near Corvallis. Corporal Pool* claims to be only a target archer but if he stays in Oregon long enough to get acquainted with a few of our field archers we wager he will be come a field archer, too. Miss Muriel Reichart, freshman at Reed College, Portland, and former Oregon State girl’s champion, re cently won an archery contest held at that college. Miss Reichart also has been appointed editor of the college annual, an unusual honor for a freshman. Muriel is a niece of Miss Natalie Reichart, instructor in arch ery at Oregon State College and lady paramount at the last National Archery Association national tourna ment.
Word has been received that Sonny Johns of Tacoma, Washington, has enlisted in the Navy. He is a former national junior champion and is the son of Harry Johns of the Monte Vista Archery Co. of Tacoma. Bud Johns, brother of Sonny, is in the army at Camp Carson, Colorado. We have several fine stories and articles on hand for coming issues
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NFAA Bulletin OFFICERS President—A. J. Michelson 610 F. P. Flint Bldg.. Flint. Mich Vice-President—Paris B. Stockdale, Univ, of Tenn., Knoxville, Tenn
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Secretary-Treasurer—John L. Yount, Box 383, Redlands. California. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Western—H. C. MacQuarric. 3400 Fruitvale Ave., Oakland, Calif. Mid-Wes estcrn—Fred Bear, 2611 W. 1 Philadelphia, Detroit, Mich.
East< tern—T. C. Davidson, 63 Mountain Ave., Springfield, N. J. South*lern—J. C. Trittin, 150 S. Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The “20 Pin” By John L. Yount
The “20 Pin” has not so far re ceived the attention to which it is entitled. Those of us who have seen it and also know that here is a pin that we all have a chance to win even though we know quite definitely that we are not championship stock. I can probably best explain what I mean by comparing a 20 score with the hole in one that we hear so much about in golf. Any player may make one while the Champ may never quite do the trick. Page 32 of the NFAA handbook
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will tell you just how to go about winning one of these pins, but you’ll probably be too busy doing nothing to look it up just at present and may forget about it before the next tour nament. So I am going to give you the basic rules right now. You must shoot a 20 score on an 18 or 24 inch target; and you must shoot it in an official tournament. This can be any kind of an official tournament, Club, State Assn., or National mail, but the course must be a regulation NFAA course. There are some minor rules such as fees in the case of local or state shoots, but I am going to refer you back to the handbook for this. The Honor Role to Date: Roy Hoff, Malibu Club. 4 Position. 45, 40, 35, and 30 Yards. 18 inch target. Carl Seastrom, Malibu Club. 40 yards. 18 inch target. Russell Keppen, Detroit. 35 yards. 18 inch target. Ken Moore, Malibu. 50 yards. 18 inch target. Emery Watts, Malibu. 45 yards. 18 inch target. Merle Hathaway, Malibu. 40 yards. 18 inch target. Gentlemen tip your hats when you meet them. About the time you get this issue the long awaited gas rationing will be with us. Then what is going to hap pen to field archery? That all de-
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pends on the archers involved. I know that New Jersey has had gas ration ing for some months, but in spite of this there were more members from that state last month than from any other two states. In fact most of our October membership came from the East coast and October was one of the biggest months the NFAA has had so far. Nearly all the Eastern states were well represented by new members during each of the past several months. Whether this growth is because of or in spite of the gas rationing makes no difference. What does make a difference is that the boys in the East didn’t stop field shooting when they had their gas rationed and so enstead of folding our hands let’s make plans. If our course is too far out let’s build a small simple one close in. Then pool our transportation so that the same car won’t need to be driven to the course more often than once in each five or six weeks. Let’s conserve gasoline and tires by spending our entire day off in this one spot get ting some real relaxation and putting ourselves in shape for another week of hard work.
BIG GAME There will be plenty to report along this line next month. The big news just at present is that Mrs. Jean C. Trittin of Salt Lake City brought in a deer. This overshadows the fact that something like 17 deer were kill ed in Utah this year and that we have other applications from Wash ington, California, and Kansas. Game taken so far includes deer, mountain lion, and wild boar. Blunts from the Old Stump (Continued from page 4) listed four months ago in the Coast Guard and is stationed at Lake Ozett, Callum Bay, Washington. He says that there is plenty of game, such as bear, deer and four foot salmon in the streams. He says that it is an Archer’s Paradise, and has sent for his hunting tackle. He expects to do some hunting in season. Ray B. Hilton and a group of Minneapolis archers hunted in Saw yer County, Wis. Ray got a 60 yard
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shot at a buck but only has some buck hair for a souvenir. However they got some splendid colored movies of deer herds. Ray and Roy Payne were the orginal organizers of the “Targeteers” one of Iowa’s out standing archery organizations. He also helped organize the “Blackhawk Bowman” of Waterloo, Iowa, one of our leading field clubs. He is now located in Minneapolis, and we can look for a real field organization in Minnesota. After the first of the year, the Fort Wayne, Indiana Club will pay the NFAA membership fee of all the archers joining their city club. The Georgia Field Archers organized on September 1st, with 17 charter mem bers. The membership is now 26. Membership in the Georgia Field Archer’s Ass’n will include mem bership in the NFAA. Hugh C. Thompson is president, Harvey E. Bethea is vice-president and T. H. Atkinson, 763 Highland Terrace R. E., Atlanta, Georgia is secretary treasurer. An NFAA State Tourna ment was held near North Fulton Park, Atlanta, on October 18th. The New Jersey Field championship was also shot on October 18 at Spring field New Jersey with an attendance of 96. “Davy” Davidson says that they would have had at least 50 more if it had not been for gas rationing, members in service and engaged in defense work. We are extremely pleased at the development of field archery in the east, and to see how field archery is not only holding up but increasing in spite of gas ra tioning and war work. The Watchung Bowman of Union County, Larry Heath, president, P. O. Box 231, Elizabeth, New Jersey have just sent in 31 memberships, 27 new and 4 renewals. This really is a club that is going places. Look what little New Jersey is doing in field archery. Come you New York and Pennsylvania field archers. Let’s get together. M. C. Staddon, Squadron Leader with the Royal Canadian Air Force at Mountain View Ontario is an American enrolled for the past two and a half years with the Canadian Air Force. He has sent in his mem bership to the NFAA and is active in
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November, 1942 YE SYLVAN ARCHER Henry HazeltonJr., 46 Railroad Ave., of Yonkers, New York says: “Your hand book is just what I have wanted for years. I am looking forward to receiving Ye Sylvan Archer.” Bob Hoover of Ocean Beach, Calif., now stationed at Fort Worth, Texas writes: “I’ve found the hand book very handy for finding who in the neighborhood is interested in the bow and tonight am writing to John Quilici of the Dallas Club to learn whether there is a Field Archery Club here in Fort Worth. Then may be I can get a bit of shooting off my chest and try to crawl into the 500 class sometime in the future.” We have received a very interest ing letter from a real old time field archer, Jim Ramsey of Lincoln, New Mexico, from which we quote: “I have been a maker of bows and a hunter with them for over 40 years, starting out by making sassafras and hickory bows when I was a kid in Ohio, with which I hunted rabbits and groundhogs and squirrels. I first began hunting deer, coyotes, bobcats and other big game in New Mexico about 1913 or 1914 with the bow, and have been . at it ever since. At one time I earned the greater part of my living by hunting rabbits for the market, in the Pecos Valley Mesquite County, with my bow. The biggest deer I have yet shot with the bow was a 12 point buck, and the arrow went through and was on the ground on the opposite side. Almost from the first I have used flint points on my arrows as well as metal ones, and for most of that time I have been a maker of the most perfect flint and glass arrow points. From 1924 on for many years I was Indiancraft and archery instructor in various boy scout camps of New Mexico and Texas. Right now I am getting ready to take off hunting with my bow during the present New Mexico Bear and Deer season.” Jim Ramsey is one of the newest members of the NFAA, but probably is the oldest active field archer in America. Forty years of continuous bow hunting has given him worlds of experience, and and we hope very shortly to have for Y. S. A. some interesting stories and advice from this old time bow hunter. Good Hunting, to you Jim, for many years to come.
.developing field archery in the R. C. A. F. Stations. He expects to go hunting with John Mitchele of Toronto in the wilds of the Gaspe Peninsula. He is sure they will bring home the “bacon.” The Cincinnati Field Archers have for their emblem a target with a )>rown rabbit superimposed. At^ a field meet held on September 27th at Middleton, Ohio, 71 attended of which 20 were from this club. A field meet was held at Terrace Park, Ohio on October 25th and another is planned for November. An archer joining this club automatically be comes a member of the NFAA. Eugene Grill, president, 3519 Madi son Park Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio, writes: “Our Club was one year old the 31st of October this year. We have four members in the service at this writing. We have been taking turns writing to them each week but now we have the novel idea of a round robin written at each meeting to each of them.” We think this is a splendid idea that other clubs can follow. Archers in service are hungry for archery news from their friends and they will appreciate you keeping them posted. Help keep up their archery interest, and you can rest as sured that they are looking forward to the day when they can be back shooting again with the old crowd. We receive many, many letters from our archers in service. They still love the bow, and shoot whenever and wherever they have the oppor tunity. Don’t forget our boys in the service. The Sec has received the following letter from Charles C. Niehuis, Di rector of Information, Arizona Game and Fish Commission: “I was told that you had all the information re garding archery. Would you be kind enough to supply me with such in formation. I have in mind conducting a little program of my own to popu larize the sport here. My attention was drawn to the archery by a dis play in the window of Drew’s Sport ing Goods in Flagstaff, Arizona. He has played up the hunting possibil ities in a very good manner.” The Secretary has supplied the requested information. Field archers still appreciate the NFAA hand book on Field Archery.
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8th NF A A Tournament Report By Karl E. Palmaticr
EXPERT BOWMAN CLASS— Leo Sipe, Los Angeles C. W. Seastrom, West Hollywood.... E. L. Kallander, Framingham, Mass. Arthur Hoffman, Bakersfield, Calif. Roland Rexroads, Los Angeles Kenneth Moore, Los Angeles Dwight Sherrill, Malibu Mt. Club,Cal. Alfonso Gonzales, Bakersfield, Calif. Carl Seastrom, West Hollywood, Cal Tiny Munson, Malibu Mt. Club, Cal. Kenneth Jones, Bakersfield, Cal Emery Watts, Los Angeles Roy Hoff, Los Angeles Merle Hathaway, Los Angeles Earl Grubbs, Los Angeles Perzey High. Los Angeles Stanley Slazinski Dearborn Mich Henry Bitzenberger, Los Angeles .. . BOWMAN CLASS— Arthur Slazinski Dearborn Mich Loren Hilderbrand, Detroit, Mich. ... Vince Ruk, Malibu Mt. Club, Cal. .. Harvey Hicks, Malibu Mt. Club, Cal Louie Krutak, Malibu Mt. Club Jim Murphy, Bakersfield, Cal Al Leman, Malibu Mt. Club Walter Walton, Hopkinton, Mass T. Thorsen, Malibu Mt. Club Charley Howe, Malibu Mt. Club G. F. Hendricks, Malibu Mt. Club . .. Robert Baugh, Dearborn, Mich Dick Hendershot, Los Angeles NOVICE CLASS— Jim Knittie, Malibu Mt. Club Er win Connor, Malibu Mt. Club George Rommel, Los Angeles J. R. Colburn, Malibu Mt. Club Harold Pugsley, Farmingham, Mass. Harry Von Bergen, Malibu Mt. Club Wellington Lewis, Hopkinton, Mass.
28' Target Score 75-291 73-278 64-246 69-259 32-198 82-319 50-204 80-286 66-256 58-226 73- 273 74- 286 68-264 74-292 53-197 57- 219 58- 224 57-203
28’ Han- Han 56 Target Target di dicap Score Score cap Score 874 79-313 154-604 270 75-283 148-561 310 871 62-236 126-482 380 862 65-257 134-516 330 846 55- 189 107-387 430 817 81- 319 163-638 170 808 51-189 101-393 410 803 82- 314 162-600 200 800 56- 204 122-460 340 800 59-241 117-467 330 797 72-282 145-555 240 795 77-307 151-593 200 793 68-264 136-528 250 778 71-271 145-563' 200 763 42-156 95-353 390 743 71-245 128-464 220 684 55-223 113- 447 57- 221 114- 424
53-201 46-170 46-170 38- 136 35-127 39- 145 34- 128 31- 109 33-123 48-189 41-149 32- 118 35- 131
62-236 115-437 53-191 99-361 44- 158 90-328 34-124 72-260 32-113 67-240 56-212 95-357 38-132 72-260 45- 167 76-276 30-112 63-235 44-172 92-361 38-150 79-299 38-162 70-280 37-149 72-280
38-148 29-111 35-125 25- 93 25- 91 21- 71 29-103
40-156 78-304 33-127 62- 238 28-108 63- 233 37-139 62-232 28- 96 53-187 26- 90 47-161 14- 54 43-157
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Eighth Tournament Notes Arthur Slazinski will be in the Expert Bowman Class for the next tournament. Jim Knittie will be in the Bowman Class for the next tournament. The next report will be that of the ninth mail tournament and champion ship standing. To date five deer have been killed with the bow and arrow in Michigan. (Nov. 11) Read the program for indoor field archery which appears in this issue.
RULES FOR THE NFAA INDOOR TOURNAMENT There will be a tournament for the months of December, January, Feb ruary, and March. The classification system used for the outdoor mail tournaments during the past season shall be used. The handicap system used for the outdoor mail tournaments during the past season shall be used. The winner of the Indoor Mail Tournaments shall be the archer who has the highest average actual score based on three tournaments. The rules for the tournaments are to be found in the official Handbook of the N. F. A. A., page 51, known as the Flint Bowman Indoor Round. All scores must be in the hands of the tournament secretary by the seventh of the month following the tournament. Each archer is to pay a 15c target fee to cover the cost of mailing, ribbons, scorecards, etc. Scores received late shall be con sidered when figuring the cham pionship averages. They shall not be considered in any mail tournament. At least three archers must be shooting in the tournament to qualify any archer’s scores. The reports of each tournament are to be published in the Ye Sylvan Archer, the official N. F. A. A. magazine. The medal and ribbon awards shall be the same as those for the outdoor mail tournaments during the past season. The local secretary shall be re sponsible for the accuracy of the scores, the spelling of the names, and
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the mailing of the scores to the tournament secretary. This round is to be shot on a 30 yard range with shooting lines mark ed at 20, 30, 45, 60, 75, and 90 feet. Starting at the 90 foot line, shoot ing lines are to be numbered 3, 1, 5, 4, 6, and 2. The targets are standard six inch and twelve inch field target faces. The targets are to be placed in two rows across the backstop. The center of the upper row is to be forty-eight inches from the floor. The center of the lower row is to be thirty inches from the floor. Number One, being the 75 foot distance, has a twelve inch target face. At this four arrows are shot and scoring is done the same as in field archery. The second end is shot at a six inch face, distance is 20 feet, the shortest distance used in the regular outdoor round; and so until seven ends have been shot. The first six ends are to be four shots at a single target. The seventh end is to be a single shot at each of the four targets placed at 90, 75, 60, and 45 feet. If a shooter starts out on a high target, he shoots his second end at a low one, etc. When starting on the second seven targets, shooter should start at a different height than he started the first seven ends. To explain: The archer always shoots at the same size target for a given distance. 75 feet takes a twelve inch target, 20 a 6, 90 a 12, 45 a 6, 60 a 12, 30 a 6, 90, 75, 60, 45, a 12 inch target. On each target place two target faces of the same size. One to be 48 inches from the center to the floor. The other to be 30 inches from the center to the floor. If you start the first seven targets by shooting on the top target you will start the second seven targets by shooting on the lower target. If many are shooting, it is a good plan to count off and have half the contestants start on the high targets and the other half on the lower ones. It is not necessary to shoot all 56 targets at one time. Only the scores made on previously selected nights are to be considered.
11 YE SYLVAN ARCHER More shouting. All shooting is to be done instinc “Where are the deer?” asked Kore. tively. No marks or sights of any “Gone,—where’s John?” kind are to be used. More shouting. This tournament may be shot either “John’s got one,” said Kore. “He’s indoor or out of doors if the archer not hurt. He’s afraid we’ll leave him is where the climate permits. with it.” Karl E. Palmatier “Maybe we should,” I replied, “It’s a long way home.” “No, I want to get a picture.” Up and At ’Em We looked down in the valley and (Continued from page 3) there was John. He was running up Frank tied another on his belt, but and down like his pants were on fire. Still shouting. He had one all right. there were no signs of deer, and when I reached the top of the hill and A spike buck that he got from about 55 yards going down the side hill. looked down the other side, my heart The arrow caught him just in front dropped. of the right flank, angled through I was looking into a narrow, but deep, valley—as dry as powder, with the body and came out behind the neither food nor water for a canary, left shoulder. John, Kore and I shook hands and let alone a deer. Kore hove into congratulations were very much in sight on my left and I walked to meet him, expressing my disapproval of order, but each eyed the other. I took out my knife and handed it the country ahead. to Kore. Kore took out his knife and We were sitting on a log talking handed it to me. We all shouted for it over, when all of a sudden every Jack and Frank, but no luck. Kore thing happened. A buck and two does and John handed their knives to me appeared, running up the opposite and took my bow and quiver. So I side of the valley. Then another buck took the job of dressing, John took and another doe. Someone shouted the glory, and Kore took his pictures. in the valley and I ran to the rim. We hid the deer in a hemlock A big pair of antlers were coming thicket and moved on up the valley straight for us up our side of the one hundred yards. We stopped to valley. Kore was right behind me. look down on the same valley John “Get down!” I said, dropping to and I had hunted the day before. my knee. Frank and Jack were ahead of us, “No, stand up!” said Kore, “and we knew. you’ll get a shot.” A big buck appeared in the bush So I stood up and he got down. one hundred yards away and van Then I got down and he got up. ished to Kore and me. John shot, and Someone shouted down below. I got missed by inches. Two grouse got up • up in front of Kore. The deer got and Kore and I went for them. One up in front of me. of them took his place on my quiver. . He wheeled. The other got away. Kore spotted a I wheeled. third and nailed him with a broad Kore wheeled. head Another buck came over the rim As before, the place was full of behind me. deer, but too noisy. We saw probably I wheeled again. thirty apiece and were within twenty He wheeled. yards of does many times, but no Someone shouted below. shots at buck; so meeting by a We all wheeled. stream for lunch, we lay down for There were no more bucks; only a fawn, watching us and wondering a slice of snooze. Jack and Frank, meanwhile, were what the h--l was going on. covering the valley from end to end. Someone shouted below. Frank had a couple of dandy shots It was John. and tough misses; so did Jack, but Kore said, “John’s got one.” I said, “Sounds like he’s in a bear you can’t eat misses. Each, however, collected a couple of grouse, while trap.” November, 1942
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Kore, John and I slept, until a buck jumped by Frank, almost ran over us and woke us up. Frank and I surrounded one big buck. I missed a running shot on his neck by inches and Frank stuck a broadhead in a handy spruce be tween him and the buck, which pass ed him about ten yards away. Jack had the good fortune of knicking another on the foreleg as it cleared a fallen log, but didn’t even slow him down. That night after dinner, we dis cussed our plans again. We had to leave at noon to catch our boat from Nanaimo. John and Kore had a good idea. They were going to sleep in. Jack was “rarin” to go, and Frank wasn’t saying much (out loud, that is), but he had a funny look in his eye, so when dawn came along, and Frank and Jack were up and about, I was there, too, to see what was doing. We were away before daylight, and it was not until well up the trail that the full truth broke upon me. Frank was carrying a rifle! He had borrowed it from Milt and was out for blood, no fooling. At that it was a hard grind. It took him half an hour to bring down a two spike. A half an hour, and when he started shooting, it sounded like the Fourth of July. Jack lost a dandy by a stroke of bad luck. In order to keep his broad heads sharp, he had several of them wrapped in cloth in his quiver, and when his big moment really came, and he needed an arrow in a hurry, he got four instead and missed his chance. That’s a good caper not to do, I would say. We won’t dwell much on the gun shot deer, or even on the second buck Frank shot about fifty yards from home. Of course, we don’t blame Frank. We all prbably felt like tak ing a rifle to them, after missing so many with the bow. We covered the four miles or so home with the deer in about ten minutes flat, and there our hunt ended. Milt has bought a bay on Vancou ver Island where, within the next five years or so he intends to build a resort. We dropped around to see it on our way back and we certainly
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aren’t forgetting it. He’s got fishing as good as anywhere on the coast there, and anything you want from rabbits to grizzly bear is within 40 minutes by launch. Claims he’s even going to put in a swimming pool and a golf course on the place, and be cause they have a lot of fun and never seem to hurt much, he is espe cially welcoming archers. I sort of think we will be there. Even our trip home was interest ing and educational. Interesting to note how each of those arrows that missed came closer with every telling, and educational to hear Kore talk his way out of a pinch for speeding. “Fifty-five,” said the officer. “I’ve been following you from Courtenay three miles back and had to do sev enty to catch you.” Kore was certain he wasn’t going over twenty—“but, of course, officer you know best.” And so it ends. There are another dozen or so ar rows sticking in stumps on Quadra Island, another dozen or so deer tell ing their friends, “He never even touched me”—but we’ll be back, and next time; boy, look out!
Wo-Pe-No Archers Sponsor New Jersey State Field Meet Promptly at 9:00 A. M. on the rain and dew drenched green of Weasel Park, Clifton, New Jersey, Sunday, October 18th, under leaden gray, overcast skies, the first group of archers participating in the An nual New Jersey State Field Meet started out on what was unanimously agreed, when the last weary archer had released his final shaft at the 56th target, as one of the most scien tifically, yet toughest course ever de vised. By noon time, faithful old sol had dispersed the dark clouds and was beaming down on a galaxy of arch ers; ninety in number, wearing all the colors of the rainbow and draw ing practically all the better-known woods of Yew, Osage-Orange, Lem onwood, Ash and a new-comer, Toxhorn, sending shaft after shaft of sleek, gleaming steel and tough, straight, smartly crested cedars into
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the animal-picture-faced targets. Four targets which took a terrific beating were three rats labeled Hit ler, Musolini and Hirohito, and a bull named Goering. Mother nature, employing her talented painters Jack Frost and Fall, lavishly dressed her trees and shrubbery in deep brown, flaming red and golden yellow for the occasion. The course was a standard 28target run: Once around in the morn ing and repeat in the afternoon. Shots ranged from 20 feet to 80 yards—all angles—up hill and down dale. It was not uncommon to see a confident archer standing on the top of a rise release an arrow down a grassy slope a matter of an innocent 20 yards and have a look of startled surprise appear on his face as the shot completely missed the mark, due to the very deceptive slopes. There were two long flights over water; one of thm 80 yards, and since no arrows were equipped with waterwings, a good many archers shot high for fear their bolts would drop in the drink, although it was made cer tain there was plenty of tolerance for low shots to safely make shore. Attesting to the strategical layout of the course, for which Ray Laizure deserves the lion’s share of credit, there were no accidents of any kind, and practically all arrows reported lost were turned in to the registra tion desk before the day was over. It was a tired but happy group of archers that gathered ’round WOPE-NA’s president, Ray Laizure, to applaud and congratulate the win ners. Partial results were as fol lows: Score Men N. J. . 523 Dutch Weese ... ... 461 Tom Coultas .... .. 446 Ed. Weiszmuller Ray Laizure ..... . ... 352 Bill Jackson ...... ... 338 J. McIlwain ...... ... 333 R. Brown .......... ... 300 H. Levi .............. ... 247 E. Frelin ............ ... 237 L. Corby ............ ... 233 Walt Johnson .... ... 221 Men—Open F. E. Wood ...... 339 Stan Fisher ...... 285 H. L. Bennett .. 242
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Junior Boys 210 R. Reynolds ......... J. Griffin ............. 151 G. Latza ............... 115 Women N. J. Ann Weber ......... 384 Dot Jackson ......... 353 Dot Van Splinter 134 M. Knowlan ......... 106 E. Gates ............... 100 Women—Open H. Vanderkogel ... 266 C. Cashner ........... 194 D. Dugan ............. 143 Junior Girls J. Pistor ............................................. 54 M. Tacq ............................................... 27 WO-PE-NO Archers wish to thank the Passaic County Park Commis sion for their splendid coperation and enthusiasm for the meet, the two park policemen who kept law and order, and Smith’s Dairy for use of straw bales for target backing. November 17, 1942 H. J. Dugdale, Sec’y. Latest address we have for V. D. McCauley, secretary of the Oregon State Archery Association, is C. M. 2/c, 31 Batt. Co. B. Plat. 2., Camp Endicott, N. C. T. C., Davisville, R. I. We are sure Mac would be pleased to hear from archers and we hope some of the New England archers can look Mac up and meet a swell fellow, one of the world’s most per sistent and effective tinkerers.
Miss Pauline Putnam of Corvallis, freshman at Oregon State college, won the Keasey Arrow, highest award for beginning archers in the Women’s Physical Education Depart ment at O.S.C.
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