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YE SYLVAN ARCHER Vol. 2, No. 6

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Entered as second-class matter November 5, 1927, at the post office at Corvallis, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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Table of Contents ARCHERY PUTS IT OVER THE “SPATTER GUN” By J. H. Inman, Pouchatoula, Louisiana

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A NORTH UMPQUA HUNT WITH BOW AND ARROW By Judge Cummings..................................................................................

ARCHERY IN PANAMA By L. C. Leighton . THE MAGIC OF THE BOW By C. L. Goodman HUNTING BIG GAME IN THE BACK YARD By Chas. W. Trachsel ARCHERY IN FLORIDA By Mrs. Philip Rousevelle KILLING THE KILLER By Harry D. Hobson.................................. Archery has been added as a credit course in physical education at the Oregon State Normal School at Mon mouth. About sixty students are en rolled with Rev. L. L. Daily as in structor. The interest in archery has been so great that the junior class chose Robin Hood as a class play. This was well presented on the evening of March 1.

Miami’s second winter archery golf tournament and target shoot was held in Miami, Florida, February 2224. The target shooting rounds were held at Bayfront Park, Miami. The tournament was national in character,

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attracting entries from all sections of the country and is accepted among sportsmen as one of the outstanding archery events of the year.

The Coquille, Oregon, archers have an old warehouse in which they have been shooting. They have been shoot ing 30 yards. They tried sights for a time but found them not much, if any, advantage over “point of aim” and have discarded the sights. Henry Buir has a record of 814 for ninety arrows at thirty yards, counting hits. Mrs. Perna Harris has a record of over 750 which is an exceptionally good score for a lady.

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Q/Lrchery^ ^Puts It Over^ the Cl

Spatter Gun

<By J. H. Inman, Ponchatoula, Louisiana

In the swamp country about Lakes Ponchartrain and Maurepas, some forty miles north of the City of New Orleans, and ten to thirty miles south of the Town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, we find a Robin Hood haven. Louisiana red deer abound. Rut the land is low and subject to

ing influx of deer hunters from Mississippi and points north of Pon chatoula, all in cars loaded down with modern equipment, shotguns of every description and dogs to match. Long before day light there were parked along the right of way of the Hammond-Orleans Highway

“The deer I had seen in my mind’s eye.”

tidal overflow so that the hunting is hard. The deer season for that portion of Louisiana opens on All Saint’s Day, November the first, a legal holiday under Louisiana law. The day before the opening there was a perfect migration, an astomsh-

built through this swamp something like one hundred automobiles, some of the owners waiting for enough light to enter the woods, some al ready in the woods waiting for enough light to see a deer when the dogs would be unleashed and put into the drive. Across the known run of

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the deer was stretched a cordon of hunters armed with all manner ot shot guns loaded with buck shot, lying in wait with murderous intent. The object of all this was to bag the season’s first deer, and, failing that, then to bag just any deer. But the first was the prize. Pitted against this formidable ar ray were three hardy souls, oh, ever so willing to take a chance. Against the combined efforts of experienced hunters, modem guns and highly bred deei- hounds, three impudent entries sallied forth to greet the opening day^s light, without guns, without dogs and with no weapons save the English long bow and hunt ing arrows. There is located on this highway about thirty miles south of the Town of Ponchatoula a gas filling station and hunting lodge operated by a genial guide named Charlie Windecker. Arrangements had been made with him to boat these three archers to a place along the shores of Lake Maurepas where one might have solid dirt to walk on instead of the prevailing mud; they' Were to arrive at five a. m. and Windecker to proceed with them to a point known as Shell Bank Bayou. The archers arrived and the guide was ready, but just at this point let us advert a moment to the time when this diabolical plot to pit the bow against the shot gun was formed. These archers had been seen at practice with the bow during the Summer and Fall. Impudent and c. itieal curiosity prompted inquiry concerning the object and purpose of this lapse into boyhood days of the “bow and arrer” eliciting the infor mation that the purpose was to go deer hunting, whereupon that deprt catory look of kindly indulgence which says “rave on” registered like

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a flash. They didn’t believe it ana couldn't be made fools of. Truth is they didn’t i eally know what a dead ly weapon the English long bow was; how much of our history we owed that bow; didn’t know the makers of armor had not been able to make a steel suit strong enough to resist the arrow. Truth is he didn’t know his own origin, for had he merely indulged himself in a feel of the bov.. he would have drawn the string and felt the strength of the bow with a certain savage delight in speculating on what damage might be done with it Anyway, weeks of practice, broken a.rro’ws, blistered fingers, sore shoul ders and our archers work up from the use of thirty and forty pound bows to the deadly 65s, 75s and 80s, and, albeit, in proficiency so that from a certain miss they had come to a certain hit of the target, in practice at least. Now let us get back to where we left our guide. We loaded into th., small boat with outboard motor when the guide informed us he had en gaged to take in tow the boats of a party of some 12 or 14 hunters from Livingston Parish and to place them in the same swamp before he reached cur Shell Bank Bayou. We ran the boat some few hundred yards nortn along a canal leading to Lake Maurepas to the hut of a moss picker. As we diew up and stopped in front there stood the invading army armed with shot guns, with them a small boy who in the elation of youth and out of a desire to grab the spot light, upon discovering our bows and arrows, derisively cried out to his elders: “Wow! look!, bowanarrer! Shoot me in the back pocket and let’s see if it will hurt me”, to which none of the advocates of Robin Hood deigned a reply. The army loadea into its transports and was taken in

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tow, taken some mile or so and dis charged, dogs, guns and men, all in one murde.ous mess on the south shore of Lake Maurepas, when Win decker backed out and headed far ther west with his crew of archers. Conversation picked up when Archer Sutton, eyeing a band of south bound pin tail ducks with some indication of watery mouth, mused: “Well, the ducks are coming in for Thanks giving and this is All Saint’s Day,

the deer would move about at all but Guide Windecker was quick to info, m us he had “killed a hundred deer between this and those twin cypress tiees you see on that point down the Lake”, and we all took L. the woods and water. Windecker placed Archer Cutrer, a 250 pounder armed with an 85 pound bow, destructive disposition and deadly intent, the bow a product of the Archeis Company, of Pine-

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and, by the way, we are going to Xunt in Saint John Parish, You know, I believe I shall adopt St. John as my patron saint and we’ll see what good he made out for us on this hunt.” The wind was bearing from the southeast and the tide from the Gulf of Mexico was borne through the various lakes into the woods we were to hunt with the result that there was twelve or fourteen inches of water over the woods. This brought expressions of doubt that

hurst, North Carolina, operated by Rounsevelles, friends of Archer Cutrer. On the next stand he placed Archer Sutton, cool calculating financier, armed with Yeoman Broadjiead ar rows and a bow made by “himself”, a work of combined art and love.

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a motion in arrest of any deer that should chance along. At this point it becomes obviously necessary to drop the narrative form and take up the .great first personal pronoun, known as big “I” for there were now no witnesses and no conversation. Three archers separated by about one hundred yards but connected in spirit and hope. The writer, Archer Inman, ■was assigned his stand in a rather thick swamp with open aisles straight ahead and to the left. I took a seat on the gnarled root of a gum tree just behind a rotting cypress stump out of which grew a clump of palmetto, just thick enough, to hide behind and just open enough to shoot through. The water was about a foot deep everywhere so that I sat with my feet in the water. I smoked a cigarette to find the windward and the leeward, The wind was from the front and left and in this direction I watched for the quarry. Hardly had the ciga rette been smoked and thrown in the water than straight ahead through rather thick bushes moved a whitish small object. I thought it some such small animal not thinking it possible that so large a thing as a deer could have come through that much water to within thirty yards of me without being heard. I watched that spot carefully and it seemed merely to fade out. However, I kept silent and still, when lo! moving like a red phantom, silent and graceful, I saw out of the corner of my eye to the left of that whitish spot, a spike buck. The blood coursed madly, the pulse picked up, widened, filled out and settled to a peculiar, subdued calm. There was the deer I had seen in my mind’s eye when at target practice. There was the thing the critics said I should not be able to take down with the bow. My hand

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was called and I stood challenged. Did I have the self control necessary to launch an arrow with all the technique the game so exactingly de mands? Would I fail to observe some point of f01 m and make a mess of it? >Would I line the shot but misjudge the distance? Would a thousand things. The spike buck moved on a few feet and was hidden from view. I took advantage of this to arise from a sitting to a standing position. As I arose slowly from behind the stump, there emerged from the point where the buck had stopped, a deer. It shot its head gracefully forward and anchored the head behind a tree, where it stood with its body, except the neck and a part of the shoulder, protected by other trees. I knew if it moved from that position it would come to a clear opening from which it might see me and run when I should have poor chance of taking it down, so I decided to accept the challenge at that moment, and, with something mighty close kin to a prayer, fell in stinctively into proper position, drew the long bqw across my chest as required by form, hesitated to aim, loosed the arrow. Straight down that aisle between the trees it flew, a low whispering messenger of death, toward that neck. The snap of the string was heard and just as the arrow reached the deer it jumped violently backward to the point where it was temporarily hidden when I had arisen from the sitting position. There was a mighty splash of water and I saw a deer get away like a flash waving a hasty but hearty farewell with that white tail. Imagine the chagrin! I thought the deer had heard the snap of the string and had jumped just before the arrow had reached its mark. I then i esolved that I should get a (Continued on page 20)

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A Nor A Umpqua Hunt Wifli dBow and Arrow By Judfce Cummings (CONTINUED FROM LAST ISSUE)

We started shortly after sun up and the dogs lagged behind and seemed content to follow us. Finally the hound ranged out in the brush several times and then across the trail in front of us. Soon he was t.aveling faster and .gave a couple of

bays and we told the other dog to go find it and away she went. Soon she was on a hot trail and we after them. They barked “ti eed” in less time than it takes to tell it, and as we came up the animel broke tree and ran, but the dogs had it up another in a hun dred yards or so, and when we gov

there saw a Lynx sitting next the trunk of the tree on the first big limb, calmly sizing up the dogs. When T say first limb don’t compare it to the first limb of an apple tree. It was a pine tree and fully seventyfive feet to that first limb. My bow was strung and I nocked an arrow and released it at him. It cut the hide on his front leg, parted his whiskers and distuibed him enough that he started to back down the tree and on the opposite side from me, so Perry walked around on his side and he came to where I could get another shot at him. He had come down per haps ten feet when I loosed my sec ond a’row and it caught him just be low the ribs and ranged upward and out his light shoulder, passing thru his chest cavity. Down he came and the dogs closed with him. He soon fought them off and started for the brush but got only twenty-five or thirty yards when he quit. The loss of blood was terrific. He was dead in less than three minutes after being hit. We carried him out to the trail and sat down on a log to look him over. He was wonderfully marked and would weigh perhaps forty pounds. I packed him back to camp and we were back before the other boys came in, so waited to skin him. Pictures were taken and we loafed the rest of the day. That night we heard the horses go thru camp so thought we would have no trouble in locating them but when we started to find them, it was quite

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different. By noon no trace of them had been found, but by four o’clock Perry located them and we started out. It’s a six mile peck from Oak Flats to Ill-I-Hee and we got going just before dark, and by the time we crossed the flats it was night. Here the dogs, who had been running loose, picked up a bear trail and were in hot pursuit, trailing off over the moun tains. They failed to return so Perry once more left us to our own re sources. We soon came to where the bear had crossed our trail and here the horses put on a show and only l.z the best of luck we kept them to gether. The going was good, but s<. dark we couldn’t see the trail and it was left to the horses to follow down as best they could. After crossing the bridge below Eagle Mountair. the moon had come up and cast a mellow radiance over all the hills.

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We could still hear the dogs at inter vals, leading Perry a merry chase and we were glad that we were rather than chasing dogs, packing out‘ 1stayed at Wright’s that night We t._. ;i_d up on Mrs. Wright’s hoc and filled before packing out cakes and honey — to Steamboat the next forenoon. We found the car as we had left it, not overly anxious to start, as usual, but after a fluent cussing and some gas in its pet cocks it got first one and then another lung working and finally purred all the way home. Needless to say, we were a happy bunch as we rolled into Roseburg. Three cougars and a Lynx cat with bows and arrows are to be envied even by the scatter gun boys, and another season will find us trying our luck again.

An Archer’s Outing (By Maurice Thompson

(Continued from last issue) One morning, feeling the need of a squirrels hard to hit, so nimble and fresh viand or the like, I took my clever were they in dodging my tackle and went up along the fell heavy missies, which whacked reso above my camp, where I had heard nantly against the boughs, making young grey squirrels barking in some white spots where they bruised off the bark. I was not to be beaten, black-jack trees. however, for, aside from the exciting Squirrel shooting is one of my tid trial of skill, I had a gourmet’s vi bits of sylvan archery, and it had sion of broiled squirrel saddles to always been the favorite sport of make me persevere. mountain riflemen. In those Chero kee fastnesses the ancient flint-lock When three plump little victims gun is still used. Trussler had one were safe in the bag, and I, camp with a barrel nearly four feet long, ward bound, had my thoughts of and a wooden stock extending under broiling them to occupy my mind the barrel to its fore-end, where it withal, some glint or movement on a was tipped with brass. These crude ledge of the rocky escarpment near looking pieces usually shot a very which I was passing caught my eye. small bullet with surprising accuracy. A second glance took in a monster But to my archery. I found the (Continued on page 19)

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CArchery in ^Panama <By L. C. Leighton, Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone

(It will be of interest to our readers to know that this article was carried by Col. Lindbergh on his flight with the first air mail from Panama.—Ed.) I have read with interest a num ber of your short articles, and it is with pleasure that I spent an hour or so on each issue getting the “othei fellow’s” viewpoint. We do very little “Archery” as it is known in the States here, but we do manage to have quite considerable fun and exercise with bow and ari OW.

Our shooting grounds are located on the Naval Radio Station grounds in Colon with the Carribean on two sides, and New Cristobal to the rear. The cocoanut groves are beautiful to the eye, but hard to pick stray arrows from. Occasionally a big lizard (Iguana) from 4 to 6 feet in length starts across the course, and a bar rage is immediately laid down; ordinarily he does not survive, anu some native has an excellent meat too, and they are like chicken. Ordinarily we walk around the Station for an hour at dusk, shooting at the ever-present land crab, about the size of a coffeecup, slightly flattened, and a hard target to hit; Again we place cocanuts and play “Archery Golf.” During the dry season conditions are ideal, but late, in the year the bows are put awaj carefully in the Dry Closet, until the weather abates. We have some thing like 39 inches of rain in two days, at a time, so we do really see some bad weather some times. I have made up bows from all the

native woods that the Indians us< as well as from the various other Tropical and States’ woods. At present I am somewhat short in stock, but as I have about 50 select Osage staves seasoning I hope to be able to get a good collecton at hand. A “Duff” 70 pound 6 foot lemon wood bow is the smallest in the col lection; it has been shot two years and still is in excellent condition. Next comes a beautiful two-piece "Shep” bow, with the best yew I have ever seen, pulling a neat 75 pound and snappy as can be. The jewel of the collection is my 90 pound “Pope”, which is made up of a perfect Osage stave, and has in it possibilities of a hundred years of use. It is amusing to see the usual scoffers try and handle it. It’s a REAL bit of wood and workmanship. The rest of the collection consists of t six or eight bows pulling from 75 pounds to 125 pounds, mostly of Osage. A few others have been made up of Guayabo, and Guayabo del Monte, but they haven't the “kick” of the Osage. This fall while on a four month’s vacation in the States, I cut an Osage tree over 100 years old, measuring about 34 inches at the butt, and about 24 at the end of an eight foot log. It split beau tifully, and I have, from that log, about 50 staves of the conventional “cupids bow” shape slowly seasoning. It was two days’ work sawing it down, and splitting it. I expect that it will supply me with bows for the rest of my life. None of the woods native to t,he Tropics seem to be of the right typx.

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to make up a real bow; it is quite possible to make up a lengthy, slen der type of a bow with a lazy cast and light pulling weight, suitable for use in fishing, for decorative purposes, or to sell to Tourists, but for actual use the local woods are a failure. British Guianan Indians use Washiba for bows; this is a dark brown clear grained dense wood, similar tv beefwood in appearance, and with a nice cast; but when made up for a heavy bow it will chrysal and fret and finally break unexpectedly. Straw targets such as used in the States will sprout whiskers and grow within a week or so here; or else, in the rainy season will fall away in pieces, so we use a wooden skeleton frame covered with 3 thicknesses of laminated canvas-rubber c o n v e y e > belting, each an inch thick. This will stop all a: rows all right, but will fracture any light arrow driven by a heavy bow, hence % shafts aia standard, and mostly made up of hard wood. Quite a bit of small game has been shot with bow and arrow here, with an occasional arrow shot into “crcc” to see him sta.t for points unknown; with a 90 pound bow a broadhead can be driven through the thinner plates on his side or back, but as far as hurting him very much is concerned, I am afraid that it only wounds his dignity. The tougi. plates stop the shaft at the base of the broadhead through friction, so no deep wound results. Returning to the subject of Osage, while on my recent vacation to the States I drove a few hundred miles through the Corn Belt in Illinois to see if I might find the right sort of “Hedge Apple” as it is locally called to stock me up with Osage. I finally found an old hedge, one log of which furnished sufficient wonderfully

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shaped and straight grained wood to supply me for the rest of my natural life. As I have broken 4 bows with in. an hour in one day, that means 1 might treed plenty. We have never broken an Osage bow, although len. onwood (Degamme) and the rest of them have failed us. The Black Palm, used by the natives for bows for fishing, works up into a beautiful appearing stave, but upon steady use it will always split longitudinally, if made up very stiff in pull. While wishing for some seasoned Osage to work up this t. ip North I found that my cousin had about 5,000 ten foot Osage posts, air seasoned for from 5 to 6 years. A power planer was used for the roughing out, but hours of work with a black smith’s rasp was the final solution for working down; one bow made required the united efforts of three healthy specimens, to string the first time. These heavy bows cannot b-. strung in the conventional way; the lower nock is slipped over the left in step; the right thigh rests and presses against the belly below the grip, the right hand presses against the back of the upper nock and the left hand slips up the string at the critical instant. P.operly done it will injure no bow. Strings laid in glue are not so satisfactory as those laid out between two nails, twice and a half a bows length apart; twenty-five strands of Barbours num ber 12 linep thread are laid this way, one end is loosened after waxing, twisted tightly, and then laid back to the other end; natural twisting of the double strand is emphasized Ly additional twisting, the two-strand string is well waxed, and an eye splice is made in one end. The string is then snugly twisted again, meas ured to a point about 5 inches below (Continued on page 21)

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Q^VLa^ic of the QBow (By C. L. Goodman, ^Phoenix, Arizona

more, like an echo of ancient days. The .grey morning mist had passed I entered the forest and began away and all of nature’s moodiness quietly to pick my way among the had vanished before the smiling sun light, which was changing the dew labyrinth of trees where the needle strewn ground deadened the approach drops on the grass and the pine needles into millions of scintillating of my foot steps. My senses were keenly alert for the slightest move diamonds, while a soft breeze fra grant and delicious, stole up from the ment that might betray some blue jay or squirrel among the branches, lowlands below. From in back of the cabin, where All nature seemed in tune, the fresh morning the mountains air was redolent gradually slope upward and with the smell where the pine of spicy foliage, trees form an the sun had now endless maize of mounted the east sylvan glades ern skies and its with whispering warm rays were aisles and lofty slanting through the thickets halls, came the where moist fra distant chatter of grant ferns nest blue jays, like a led among the challenge (lung to all the bi.d-dom. rocks and where For several a few wild flow days without succis offered their cess, I nectar to a gay had tramped ly colored butter the mountain fly. side and sped many I also was in harmony with its a futile shaft after moods and seem th e wily ed enchanted rogues , sometimes with the beauty clipping of my surround the bark of a “Surely the Goddess of Chance had smiled upon me” ings, when sudlimb an inch to one denly to my side and senses came the sound of noisy chat then again having an arrow pass so closely that it seemed to melt like a ter near at hand. Quickly I slipped among the trees shadow, with the object of my desire. in the direction fiom whence the I glanced at the wall where hung my trusty bow and quiver of arrows sound came. Finally, I halted behind while in my breast there swelled an some small pines at the edge of a grass-covered clearing not daring to answer to that challenge, so with my bow strung taut and my quiver fast expose myself. I waited while I care ened to my belt, I salied forth once fully studied the trees on the opposite

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side and presently I became aware of the larger trees directly across from me, and there, sitting on a low er limb, was a blue jay. What a glorious weapon a long bow is! The most fascinating and delightful of all sporting implements. There I was, fifty or sixty yards away, contemplating the possibility, of scoiing a hit. I knew to try for a doser shot would be fallacy, as there would be a chance of detection and I did not want this opportunity to be lost. So quickly selecting a light shaft from my quiver and deftly fitting it to the linen string, I raised my bow, and with perfect muscular and mental tention diew the arrow with confidence to its fullest, my eyes fixed on the bird. I loosed; my arrow darted away like a ray of light and with a menacing whisper it sped towards the mark, while I remained tense as a statue, not daring to breathe as I saw it being drawn to the goal like magic. A fleeting mo ment of suspense, then a dead, solid blow, a “chuck” once heard never forgotten. I uttered an exclamation of pent up energy, for the spell had been

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broken, and with a feeling of mingled surprise, delight and satisfaction I hurriedly ran across the dealing where I found the bird spitted on the shaft. Surely, the Goddess of Chase had smiled upon me. It all happened so quickly, yet there seemed to have been so many situations crowded into those moments in which the whole proceeding occurred, that one cannot help but marvel. Truly, Ai chery is the king of sports! With buoyant step and a heart full of song, I returned to the cabin, where I posed for a picture and re lated the prowness of my hunt. That night we sat around a camp fire in front of the cabin, and spun yarns of past experiences, while the stars came out one by one. The pine embers gradually died down and a lazy half moon like a huge pendulum, swung low over the ridge. A chill breeze crept up from the canyon, re minding us that it was late, so we retired to a peaceful sleep—while the tall pines, dark and silent, like brooding sentinels of the night, stood watch ovei- our cabin.

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Hunting Big Game in the dBack Yard By Chas. W. Trachsel, Sweet Home, Oregon “What I’d like to do it to take a trip thru Eastern Oregon and try out my new hunting bow on jack rabbits. Say, do you know in what part of Eastern Oregon one can find lots of them?” To which Ben lb plied, “Sure, but if I were to go over there with a bow I’d go after bobcats.

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There are lots of them in the rimrocks near Madras.” “That sounds interesting! Why not cats and jacks both?” This is a portion of a conversation which occurred between one of the boys and the high school principal in the back seat of a dilapitated < Eord car as they were returning from a basket ball game with a neighboring town. The next night at our gymnasium before basket ball practice the conversation was con tinued.

“Say, Ben, do you remember the cats we were talking about last night?” “Uh huh.” “Well, I won’t need to go to East ern Oregon to get my bobcat. I got him in my back yard after school this, evening.” “Aw! Honest?” “I sure did! You know last week I got a couple of ducks up at the . shootin’ match? Well I had ’em in the chicken house until today to get them used to the place. Today I let them out into the yard and when I got home from school I went out to see that they got into the chicken At first I couldn’t bouse again. find them but shortly I thot I saw them in the back corner of the yard. When I got near, however, a cat which was chewing upon the neck of one of the ducks showed its teeth and spit at me, then jumped into the fence corner. I had never seen a bobcat out wild but this cat didn’t look and act like any nice house cat that I ever saw. First I thot 01 picking it up before it could .get thru the fence but I’m sure glad that I didn’t try it. Instead, I ran to the house and returned with my heavy lemonwood bow, a broad head and some target arrows. The cat was still there when I got back but it had gotten thru or over the fence by that time and was trying to con ceal itself in the bushes just outside the fence. “At six or seven yards I drew the broad head, released, and felt satis fied that it melted into the cat. How ever, it just crouched a little closer to the ground and kept looking at me so I released a target arrow at it with the same results. Finally, I

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tried a third shot and this time the target shaft struck the cat right be tween the eyes. When I got it out of the bushes I found that the feath ers of the broad head were just touching its back while the second arrow had struck the fence wire and was broken and deflected downward. The growth of brush and ferns and the approach of darkness prevented me from seeing what my first ar-

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rows had done before the cat was killed.” The bobcat was about half grown and measured eighteen inches from the tip of his nose to the end of his two inch tail. The arrow, an ordi nary footed target arrow with a bullet point, had gone into the cat until just a bit of the footing wings showed, making practically six inches of penetration thru both front and back parts of the skull and down the neck into the chest cavity. I was

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surprised that the penetration was no greater for 1 was using an 80 pound bow but I am sure that a sharp broad head would do consider ably more damage.

Archery Club Organized At Rochester, N. Y. By S. W. Worthington, Rochester,

A call having been issued to the archers of Rochester to meet to con sider the formation of a club, such a meeting took place on the afternoon of November 10, 1928 on the fourth floor of the Exchange Street store of the James Field Company. A proposed constitution, based on that of the National Archery Associ ation of the United States, but mod ified to suit local conditions, was read to those present by S. W. Worthington and was adopted as read. The following officers were elected: President, Charles S. Speidel; Vice-President, Clifford N. Hayner; Secretary-Treasurer, Stanley W. Worthington. Through the courtesy of the James Field Company, an indoor 20 yard range was provided in its store for the use of the Club. During the win ter months meets are held there each Saturday afternoon. As soon as weather permits, a series of outdoor matches will be conducted at the standard ranges. At the organization meeting 11 charter members were registered. Interest in the Club has increased rapidly and at the present time there are 31 members; 22 men and 9 wom en. An average of 15 archers take advantage of the weekly shoots. Two targets are . provided and three or four rounds of 30 arrows each are usually shot. During the course of

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CArcheryr in Florida By Mrs. (Philip cRounsevelle

When Will and Maurice Thompson came to Florida in years gone by to. puisue their hunting activities with bows and arrows they planted the seed of Archery which lived and de veloped until today most resorts 11. this famous playground of the world include Archery as one of its most popular and interesting sports.

Ormond Beach, Orlando, Palm Beach, Miami, Opa Locka, St. Peters burg and St. Cloud, all have their well organized clubs which stage many inteiesting Tournaments and Novelty Shoots monthly. Many o.f the members of the clubs have acquired a high degree of skill and some of the best of them partic-

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The ridicule which greeted the Thompsons has changed to admira tion and acclaim, and every day many noted and famous people arrive at the different Florida resorts with bow and arrow boxes in their hands, to be greeted with open arms by the a: my of brother archers who com prise the membership in the numer ous Archery clubs which are located all over the state.

ipate in the National and Eastern McLean, Tournaments. Mr. E. D. founder of the Orlando Archery Club, made a very creditable showing in the i ecent National Tournament, held at Rye, N. Y., and Howard Hill, President of the Opa Locka Club, established a new flight record of 325 yards at the same meet. Both these men have done many things to further the sport of Archery for

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which they deserve boundless credit. Here at Ormond Beach it one of the most picturesque Archery Ranges in the South, It is situated in the spacious grounds of the Hotel in beauty Ormond, and is VniLVllU, cmv*supreme •**•’ -—r---------of setting and eminently satisfactoi y in every particular for the man., events that are held throughout the seasons. The following tournaments were held this season: February 15th-16th. Team Shoot, Men and Women. February 24th. Archery Golf, Man and Woman Archers and Man and Worn an Golfers. March 3rd. Single York Round for men. Single National Round for Women. March 7th. Novelty Shoot for Men and Women. March 10th. Long Bow Club Championship. March 14th. Florida Archery Championship. The State Title event which is the climax of the season will draw the most famous and skillful of Florida’s Archers as well as the luminaries in this sport from other states.

A California Archer Makes Record Score By Beatrice Hodgson, San <Pedro, Calif. All existing archery records were smashed at the Terminal Island playground rrange —~~ on " December 27, 1928, when Clinton Douglas __ J of Los Angeles shot a r ___ of 704 7;^ in the score American round. Never --before ____ e in the history of archery has a ------- reached anyone the 700 mark even in practive while

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Mr. Douglas’s score was shot under regulation tournament conditions and was therefore a truly remarkable feat. His complete score follows: AT 60 yards: 9-9-7-7-7-7 hits 6 score 46 9-9-7-7-7-5 hits 6 score 44 9-9-7-7-5-5 hits 6 score 42 9_7.7-7.7_5 hits 6 score 42 9-9-9-9-9-7 hits 6 score 52 Total hits 30 score 226 At 50 yards: 9-9-9-7-7-5 hits 6 score 46 9-9-9-7-7-5 hits 6 score 46 9-9-7-7-7-7 hits 6 score 46 9-9.7.7.7.5 hits 6 score 44 9_9.9_9.9_7 hits 6 score 52 Total hits 30 score 234 At 40 yards: 9-9-9-9-7-7 hits 6 score 50 9-9-9-9-7-7 hits 6 score 50 9-9-9-7-7-7 hits 6 score 48 9-9-9-9-7-7 hits 6 score 50 9-9-7-7-7-7 hits 6 score 46 Total hits 30 score 244 Grand total hits 90 score 704 The playground range has long been considered an ideal place for good shooting and many fine scores shot there recently have proved it to be one of the finest in the country. The juniors, not to be outdone by their elders, turned in some very fine scores in the afternoon. Richard Beeson topped the list with a total of 418 for the Columbia round. This is the highest scoie yet obtained by a junior at the playground range for this round. A special event for the juniors was a “rabbit hunt” at the island, One hundred toy balloons were hidden under bushes and behind hummocks and as soon as the eagle ej'e of a hunter spies “game” all halt and be gin shooting. The boys were divided into two teams and a piize was given to the team which bagged the great est number of “rabbits.”

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Killing the KillerBy Harry D. Hobson, Lyons, Oregon

I know places where great snow capped peaks rear their hoary heads far beyond the highest hills, luring one to climb to their very tops. For twenty-five years I tramped through the vast yew forests of Oregon. T have fished, trapped and hunted and

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there is not a game animal in the Cascade mountains that I have not watched at play. The deer, the great black bear and the beautiful otter I have come to know and love. Mem ory is a wonderful thing and I am never happier than when I am re-liv-

ing the years I spent in the forestry service, again enjoying the beautiful things I have seen and heard. But there is one incident that stands out from it all and that was the murder of a labbit by a weasel. I was at the end of the cabin cut ting green alder wood for the smudge under the fish in the smoke house when straight down the trail came a little cotton tail. We all know how fast a rabbit can run and this one was doing his best. He seemed surprised when he saw me and stopped dead in his tracks. I did not move a muscle and thus we looked at each other for possibly a minute. Then my eye caught a flash of red and down the trail came a wea sel. Bunny saw him too, and started to run but the weasel gave a shrill squeal and I stood petrified for the rabbit dropped as if he were shot and convulsions passed over his body from head to foot. The weasel ran up and before I could stop him he made one quick thrust. I stepped over and picked up Bunny. He seemed as much alive as ever but a single drop of blood stood out on his glossy neck and he died in my hand. The weasel snarled and stood his ground. I picked up my gun but the heavy glove I was wearing was too big for the trigger guard and the weapon exploded as I thrust my finger in the guard. The weasel moved about three feet and snarled again. I worked the slide, the finger still in the guard

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but the glove still pressed the trigger and the gun went off again. I then threw off the glove but the weasel had slipped away, no doubt fright ened by the two terrific reports with in four feet of him. How I legretted the accident that let him escape! Last summer I was at the end of my shop working on a bow when down a byroad came a rabbit, He hesitated at the main highway, gave a mighty bound, crawled under a gate within ten feet of me and disap peared down the lane like a streak. Within five minutes a full grown weasel came down the road sniffing the ground like a trailing hound. I watched him hesitate at the highway and I thought of the little rabbit that had died years before. Stepping into the shop I grabbed the first bow that came to my hand and a single hunting arrow. When 1 came out of the shop the weasel had crossed the highway and was trailing down the lane about thirty yards away, I whistled and it stopped, turned squarely around and faced me. It was only a small blot in the middle of the lane, an impossible shot for me, but I quickly raised the bow and drew the heavy hunting arrow to the head. How I wished for a rifle! Never in my whole life did I so want to make a kill! Never in my whole life did I shoot more carefully! The arrow whistled through the air and, wonders of wonders, though the wea sel made a spot no bigger than a half dollar, it struck him just above the eye and came out at his shoulder. An accident? No doubt of it, but some of my ancestors must have been mighty bowmen. RANDOM SHOTS By Dr. J. V. Cole, Seattle, Wash. Often have I wondered why me chanical means for the improvement of bow and arrow shooting have

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been frowned upon by many of our archery writers. Why should a sight on the string or bow be criticised as unfair? What other sport but Archery keeps strictly to the primitive? In Scotland a steel shaft for a golf club was unthinkable for years, and is still looked upon with suspicion by the old school of golfers. Walter- Hagen plays as ;good a game with wooden shafts as; others who use the steel, yet there was end less discussion before metal clubs were allowed in tournaments. If a man prefers a steel bow to one made of wood, why not? If one chooses to shoot with an artificial point of aim, should he be barred from a contest ? One of our oldest writers on Arch ery boldly affirmed that the object of shooting was “To hyt the marke,” atrd in the spelling of his day, told how to do it. He said nothing about a point of aim however-, yet I think he used it consciously as all bowmen do. In trap-shooting it is necesary to pick out a place in the air where the shot will cluster on the bird, that be ing the point of aim, the trapshooter calling it a “lead.” The rifleman will not deny the fact that an arrow with a triangular, sharp steel head will kill, but his argument is that we cannot hit any thing with it. No rifle shooter would think of deliberately removing his expensive up-to-date sights, telescopic or other wise, because he knows better. What kind of a score would he make at a thousand yards or even a hundred without his precious mechanical means of precision? Even a strap to hold the gun steady is fair in military shooting, yet we hold up our hands in horror at some progressive genius who tries to improve his bow

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scores by a sight, or some device that might help or not. Anything that will improve acculacy in the archery game should be openly encouraged, so when we can hit the mark steadily day by day under all conditions, by foul or fail means, then, and then only, can we gain the respect of persons who scoff at the bow and arrow. In Oakland several years ago, I was beaten in a pistol match by an old hunter, who was close to eighty years of a.ge. He used a globe and peep sight on a ten inch barrel, Steven’s .22. Instead of holding the weapon at arms length, he rested the barrel in the crook of his left elbow with the left hand grasping his right forearm. He shot a wonderful score on a small rifle target which I later showed to the American pistol cham pion, who marveled and could not be lieve, although I explained how it was done. If a globe sight on a pistol will help hit the mark, why not use it? In hunting, the smokeless, noise less bow and arrow is ideal, but the diawback of too many misses is dis couraging and I would gladly welcome any invention that would insure a few more golds, or a flying duck or two. Roger Ascharii was right when his Toxophilus said, “To hyt the marke, when Philologus asked, “What is the chief poynte in shootynge?” From the number who felt them selves “hit” in the short item in the last issue regarding unthinking peo ple who pull and break unfinished bows it seems that such practice is very common, We did not and do not ____ who was referred to in the know communication sent us but we believe that the item was timely from tne fact that persons in various parts oi the country seemed to suffer 110 guilty consciences.

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Promptly on the fifth returned to lead me bamountain. My time was romance must give place rent realities. I was re for the change, and went insistent regret, knowing if my life should last, m sylvan outing would foil course. Even while the was dryly commenting u] cess I was doing up nv condescended to carry mj but he was “kinder o’ th er gi own-up man see quare a shootin’ eroun’ a wi’ sich fixin’s ez them then I looked him over f foot, and was content wit

Yes, I shall go again days. In fact, the mo< coming on me for a week preparing surreptitiouslj are oiled, my strings wh sheaf of hunting arrows a se’nnight in a delight! side the Kankakee; and, ] how should you like goir Never mind; the archer species.

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the arrow faster than the sound heavier bow, one that would drive traveled. I sat a bit and thought about it when anon I heard a rythmic splash, splosh of water at about the spot where I had shot the deer. I looked up and blessed sight! that Arthur Young arrow, crest up, was waving to and fro in time with the splash, splosh of the water and I could see waves made by something in the water. I pulled up a bit and looked over the stump and before my pop-eyed sight there in the water was the deer. It flashed over me there were two deer and I had seen them one at a time. I went over slowly and looked at it. It was a big doe, not the spike buck. No, and not the big buck I had hoped for, but a deer and taken with the first arrow I had ever shot at game in my life. The broadhead was imbedded in her neck. The shock had dropped her with that one jump backward where she no doubt fell beside the spike buck and he ran. As I walked up, the doe tried to arise, feebly it is true, but I knew much of the reputed vitality of deer and did not care to take a chance, so I loosed another broadhead which struck her just at

the edge of the left shoulder and came out below the ribs on the other side. As the arrow was loosed the stiing made the same noise it had made before and not more than twenty yards from me there was a splash of water and the spike buck which had returned to see what was the trouble with the doe, vanished in a spray of water and parting palmetto. Had I waited just five minutes he would have been beside that doe inquiring what the trouble might be and I should have had just any shot I desired. At this point Archer Sutton, in response to my call, had come up and be it said to the credit of the true sport, was getting nearly as much kick out of the kill as I was. And on this point of “kick”, let me tell you Brother Critic, Brother Doubter. Quit doubting, quit criticising. Get a bow and try it yourself. If you succeed, you have the supreme ultra of subdued excitement. Boring for oil and hitting the biggest gusher in the world would be like the kick of a lame .grasshopper compared with the hoofed thrust of a mad zebra.

Forget the entertainment of gos sip, of news, or scandal, of the bright lights. Get the bow and learn to lis ten to and love the music of the low whispering arrow.

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the afternoon instruction is given to beginners desiring same. While the range is short, it affords an excellent opportunity to perfect “form” and scores during the winter months when outdoor shooting is an impos sibility in this part of the country. C. J. Speidel, President of the Club, who has been shooting only about a year, won the 50 yard Range Medal at the National Archery As sociation’s Tournament at Rye, N. Y. last summer. His score for a single American Round was higher than that of any other archer. In the Double American he made 176-1184 which placed him next to Will H. Palmer, Jr., the winner. He was awarded the Duff Arrow (awarded to the man who in his fiist National Tournament makes the greatest score in the Double American Round). He also won the men’s Championship at the tournament held by the Onondaga Archery Club at Syracuse on October 13, 1928. His score for the Double American was 177-1185. During an afte. noon’s meet, recently, on the Rochester Club Range, he made a score of 30-262 (30 arrows at 20 yards) which is only 6 points less than the record set by Will H. Thompson, only 4 of Spiedel’s arrows being out of the gold.

In January the Executive Com mittee decided to award ribbons for the indoor shooting on the following basis: Men Women Score 225 Gold 200 (30 arrows 200 Red 175 at 20 yds) 175 Blue 150 Green ribbons are worn on the bows until awards are made, The awarding and winning of the ribbons has stimulated great interest and

scores have rapidly improved. At the last weekly shoot February 16, a team of four men made the fol lowing scores, shooting- 30 arrows at 20 yards: 30-258 C. J. Speidel 30-230 Francis Meyvis 30-224 S. (W. Worthington 30-224 Lawrence Sterling consider The Club would like to this a challenge to any Club in the country to better these scores, shoot ing under the same conditions. Kind ly mail scores to S. W. Worthington, Sec’y, Rochester Archery Club, 37 Exchange Street, Rochester, N. Y.

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the other nock (after the eye-splice is slipped over one nock, and string lies along the belly of the bow) and a second eye-splice is made. If string is too loose, a slight twisting of the strands will tighten it, and vice versa. The life of such a string appeals to be from 5 to 25 times aa. long in constant usage as the best “laid in glue” string purchasable Of course the turned ends of the eye splice, and the portion of the string upon which the nock fits is wouncx with wax thread. One stretch, at the first stringing up, and the string will last for years, without further at It tention than occasional waxing, can be made in ten minutes and seems unbeatable. Finished bows are .given from three to ten coats of Valspar, sand ing down between coats, to preserve them against moisture. This ap pears to be effectual.

Upon rereading, this appears to be long d.awn out. If there is anything of interest to Archers at large I am well pleased.

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It is our intention to make this col umn available to those who have some article of archery tackle to sell or exchange the value of which would not justify a display advertisement. We have therefore cut our price for this column to 5c per word; minimum charge 50 cents.

ARCHERY SCORE CARDS—$2.50 per hundred, 75 cents for 25. Frank Taylor & Son, Albany, Oregon. YEW BQWS: Practically new, at $8.50 up. Not merely serviceable, but really good. Write T. A. Berry, 244 31st St., Corvallis, Oregon. A GOOD YEW BOW for $15.00. Any weight desired. Satisfaction guaranteed. William Doughty, Aums ville, Oregon. A FINE 6 ft. 65 pound, Hickory backed, Osage Bow, a beauty for only $35.00. The first money gets it. J. M. Morgan 4016 No. 27th St. Tacoma, Washington.

YEW AND OSAGE BOWS. Plain and footed arrows. Seasoned yew staves. Fine grained and high alti tude. Eagle feathers 10c. Write us. R. W. Denton, Tacoma, Washington. PERFECT cut turkey feathers, ready to glue, 60c per dogen pairs. Special Handmade Leather Quivers— Unexcelled—with tooled initials and . crest in colors. Donald McKeever 425 Glass Block, Marion Indiana.

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FEATHER SPECIAL: 14 to 17 inch grey turkey wing feathers. Fine for fletching hunting arrows; 20c per dozen. Regular greys 10c; whites 25c. The Specialty Shop, Sweetwater, Texas. TWO HICKORY backed, red cedar, 30 pound bows 6 ft.; one 5 ft. 9 in.; $10.00 each. First come, first served. J. M. Morgan 4016 No. 27th St. Tacoma, Washington. IMPROVE YOUR RELEASE with Thurlows shooting or archer’s glove, colt or dog skin, smoothest release known for target or field work. $1.50 each; $3.00 per pair. Thurlow Glove Company, Portland, Oregon.

OSAGE WOOD: I am selling my choice collection of Osage staves and billets at reasonable prices. Some of this has been seasoned eleven years. Money back if not satisfied. Write for prices. William Gere, 221 Doro thy St., Syracuse, New York. ADD GRACE AND BEAUTY to your bow with our polished cow horn Bow Tips. Neatest Tips on the market. Colors, brown or black. Sizes % and % inch holes. Per pair $1.25 and $2.00, delivered. The LeBaron Arch ery Co., Box 192, Ortega, Florida.

MANUFACTURER OF THE finest Archery Targets. Maker for the Na tional, Eastern and Metropolitan tour naments, also for Mr. James Duff of Jersey City. Wholesale and Retail. John Smith, 33 Thorne St., Jersey City, New Jersey. CAN YOU FEATHER an arrow in One Minute ? You can ■with the Bull’s Eye Feathering Clamp. Automatic ally locates and holds each feather in exact position. No Pins, No Strings, No Profanity are necessary. Price Three Dollars each delivered. Return clamp and get your money back if not satisfied. Made and sold by Geo. W. Blodgett, 387 E. Washington St., Portland, Ore.

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“Arrow MAKING, our instruction booklet and the Case “Feathering Fixture” both for $1.00. 3 for $2.00. In use nine years. We feather all arrows of our manufacture with it. A trial will prove its worth. Money back if you are not satisfied. “Bow strings.” Can you make a double loop bowstring in 30 minutes? You can with our Whirlwind .Whipper and our new system described in our booklet “Bowstrings.” $1.00 for both. “Kiska” that’s the name of the lightest, sharp est and cheapest broadhead on the market. 5/16” or 3/8”. 30c each, 4 for $1.00 or $2.75 per dozen. Roy Case & Son, 18th and Main St. Ra cine, Wis. See our ad elsewhere in this issue.

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!; Hunting flight or target bows, finger tabs, arm guards, quivers or made 1 to order arrow boxes, a beautiful cedar chest of many different wood cbm; binations—price $25.00. Beginner’s complete outfit, consisting of a fine <’ hardwood bow with horn knocks, leather arm guard, finger tabs and six J mated Port Orford cedar arrows, beautifully finished. Wowan’s complete i outfit $10.50, man’s $11.50. If you make your own arrows you will be inI terested in our Port Orford cedar Douglas fir or Oregon pine 3/8 arrow J; squares especially the Oregon pine as these were taken from the great «. timbers of old deserted saw mills, they are perfectly seasoned and for the II most part in the dark, this seasoning has gone on from 9 to 30 years. First <! they were cut into 32 inch lengths, split by hand and then carefully sawed '• with the grain, the grain of every square runs the full length of the I; square. The cedar comes from the standing fire killed forest where it has <- been air seasoning for nearly 100 years; cut at this time of the year it is , damp, but not green, as we are selling it just as fast as we can .cut it. It should be stacked to prevent warping and thoroughly dried out, this takes ; only a very short time. Select squares of either wood thirty inches long, ( until next Archer is issued, $1.00 the dozen. Several eagle wings musty ' but the feathers are in excellent condition, besides about fifty feathers suitable for fletching each wing has many beautiful feathers for ornamental purposes, $1.25 each while they last. «, Our master mechanic who is also a gunsmith of exceptional ability has just completed a machine for accurately measuring the spine of arrows— J dowels and arrow squares, thus it is not only possible to match and weigh arrows but to also measure their spine, thereby enabling us to mate any arrow. He has also developed a machine for making tapered dowels to mate bows from 20 to 90 pounds pull, depending upon the taper with this machine. It is also possible to accurately measure and duplicate any kind of a level or tapered arrow. If you have lost part of your favorite arrow let us mate the rest of them. Regular run Port Orford cedar sticker dowels 5/16, 35 cents the dozen; bullet target point per box of 25 for 55 cents; 2 oz. ball select bow linen, 45 cents. Oregon Cascade mountain Yew bow staves and billets, green or seasoned. Write for list We are expert' menting with the short Indian type hunting bow and believe we have just about produced the ideal bow, unbreakable, moderately priced, very handy In the woods and a hard shooter. We have pulled such a yew bow slightly over four feet thirty inches repeadedly without damage. HARRY D. HOBSON WONS, OREGON

ARCHERY* SUPPLIES—Y e wu Lemonwood, Walnut, Hickory and | Ash Staves. Laminated Staves and! Strips. Douglas Fir, Port Orford, | Spruce and Birch Dowels. Beef-! wood. ■ GEO. BROMMERS ; 4010 Pacific

San Pedro, Calif. '

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Seasoned Staves for making bows that do not break WRITE FOR PRICES

R. G. B. Marsh or Dr. S. J. Rubley TECUMSEH, MICH.

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Full-sized staves, seasoned 5 months, $3.75 each. Billets, $3.00 per pair. High altitude wood, of nice quality. Footed shafts, Sitka spruce and russet Phillipine hardwood (Apitong), with parallel points, matched in weight—$4.50 per 7. Nicely made. Prices F. O. B. Corvallis

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MY BOWS ARE MADE WITH AN ACTION

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Every aicher wants a Meyer take down bow. It is the only bow for real comfort, to carry in your car and take to tournaments. ,wbo wish to make their own bows, I can furnish the steel grip, highly finished with instructions for making the joints. Price of erip $5.00 delivered. Price of Yew, Osage and Lemonwood bows, made to your order, range from $10., $15., $20., up to $75. Specializing in Osage Staves and Billets. Fibre Write for prices. footed arrows $1.00 each.

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