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Author with another blackie, this one taken with one arrow several seasons ago at Shining Tree Lake, Ontario.

The FIRST streaks of dawn were showing in the east as I closed the door on my camper and walked towards the entrance road to the Santanoni Preserve in the Adirondacks High Peaks region.

It was 40 minutes and a mile and a half later be­ fore I decided there was enough light to leave the road and begin the long gradual climb up to the southeast ridge of Baldwin Mountain.

I was deliberately hunting for black bear, not just deer hunting and hoping to encounter a bear.

My son had been reporting all summer that there were more bear being seen in this vicinity than any­ one could remember and I decided to take a couple of days and give them a whirl. I had scouted up the road late the previous afternoon and found one fresh track in the soft dirt.

The area was in the recently acquired track add­ ed to the Adirondack Park to be held in a “forever wild” condition. The road, previously used to reach a private lodge at Newcomb Lake, is closed to all pub­ lic traffic and it will soon be restricted even more.

Always remote, the entire tract promises to be even more isolated from the “conveniences” of man.

At my takeoff point the ridge was only a half mile from the road and, after a brief climb, I was soon among the beech groves where I hoped to find a beeding black bear. The wind was from the west and fairly brisk; the footing was quiet from two days of heavy rain. It was cool and overcast and an occa­ sional spit of misty drizzle hit my face as I began my long slow climb. still Hunting I was planning to still hunt slowly up the ridge in a northwesterly direction, pausing each few steps to look in all directions. Hopefully, I would be able to approach a bear without being heard or winded while the bear was pawing the leaves beneath a beech tree in search of a favorite fall food, fallen beechnuts.

Once before, about twn miles northeast of this very point, I had done this successfully while deer hunt­ ing, only to put the arrow right on the right of the shoulder and have it drop out when the bear ran. The day was very similar and the incident was still in my mind as I moved along slowly.

Deer sign was almost non-existent but I had not gone far before I spotted the footprints of a bear that had crossed the ridge earlier. It always sur-

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prises me how visible such tracks are in wet leaves.

Actually, they are easier to follow than the tracks left by the more pointed hoofs of a deer. I consid­ ered following- them but decided to work higher on the mountain and find a good beech grove in which to sit for an hour or so. After that I’d look for another track to follow.

This particular ridge was a gradual incline with a knoll about every hundred yards or so. Between the knolls were the saddles and in these saddles were scattered beech trees. As I came over each knoll I did so as cautiously as possible. Stopping after each step to look, it seemed an eternity before I reached the bottom of the saddle and started up the next knoll.

I proceeded roughly half a mile in this fashion and consumed almost an hour and a half. The knoll looked like all the others. As I eased over the top I paused on the edge of a long sloping ledge aimed into the next saddle.

I saw nothing moving but I did spot a “bear’s nest” in the broken top of a beech. These “nests” are made during the summer by bears climbing the beeches to gather in the green nuts. As they break off each branch to get the nuts, they appear to stuff the branches under them to form a seat. Some of these accumulations are huge. The one in the imme­ diate scene was not very large and I was looking at the bark where the claw marks were still visible when I became aware of a scratching noise some­ where ahead.

I first thought it was a squirrel, but when a glance nearby revealed nothing, I looked farther ahead. Glory be, there was my bear, only 75 yards ■away and working the beechnuts like crazy. He ob­ viously was unaware of my presence.

Perfect Setup What a setup. The wind was right—the footing was quiet —the bear was well occupied with his search for beechnuts. My first thought was to get in there as close as possible and get my shot before something went wrong. Fortunately, my second thought was to stand still and see what the bear was doing, hoping in the meantime my adrenalin flow would diminish somewhat. So I waited. My watch showed 8:45.

The blackie worked steadily in the fallen leaves, swiping first with one foot and then with the other, pausing to sweep each cleaned swath with his nose looking for nuts. He was moving closer but at a pretty slow rate. The wind coming from his backside ruffled the long glossy coat and he looked big as a house.

Still I waited.

The distance had finally narrowed to about 50 yards when he abruptly shifted course and began to move away from me. Now or never, I thought, so I started after him, moving slowly and cautiously.

I had gone only 10 yards or so when he swapped ends and started back in my direction. Soon he was only 30 yards distance and broadside. When he swung to a position quartering away from me, the arrow flashed out and was in him with a thunk. He tore off, stopped not 35 yards further on, started to lift his forequarters, then slumped into a pile. He never Continued on page 22

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"The terrorist attack was a terrible, shameful and shocking thing. I was within 70 to 80 yards of it all."

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ARCHERY: John, at 19, you came home from the Olympics in Munich with a gold medal in archery, having competed against archers from how many na­ tions?

WILLIAMS: There were 96 archers representing 27 countries, I believe.

ARCHERY: You previously captured the World Arch­ ery Title and every amateur title. Was this the hard­ est competition you’ve encountered, the Olympics?

WILLIAMS: It carries with it a lot more tension be­ cause of the importance and scope of the tournament.

But the rounds are exactly the same.

ARCHERY: Was anyone ever close to you in the shooting?

WILLIAMS: Well, naturally, for the first day every­ one was close. But the more we shot, the wider my lead got, somehow.

ARCHERY: You just picked up steam as you went?

WILLIAMS: Yes, but I lost a little bit on the third day when I hurt my back. Then I regained it on the fourth day.

ARCHERY: Was the back injury something that just came on?

WILLIAMS: I really don’t know exactly what caused it. I fell just the day before the trials for the Olym­ pics here in the states. And they say - the doctors say - that was probably what did it. But why it waited for a whole month to act up, I don’t know.

ARCHERY: Was there any way in which you think your shooting was different from, say, your closest competitor?

WILLIAMS: Well, really I wasn't watching anyone all that close. I had to concentrate 99.9% on what I, myself, was trying to do. My shooting. Whatever the other guy does, or how he does it, I’m sure he is doing the same. Like, for instance, this Jervill. This was the

first I had even heard about him. He won the Euro­ pean Championships in June, so he came on real strong and fast. But as far as my watching him, or trying to pick out anything — well, I had plenty of my own problems to watch.

ARCHERY: Does your style differ in any signifi­ cant way from the other styles you have observed?

WILLIAMS: I don’t know if I can say. There are so many different ways to shoot. You probably noticed the slight crease in my nose and my chin. I keep that string right up in there tight all the time. Look at my right hand. It’s bigger than my left if you measure close. But these things might be true of other archers, too. The only thing you really have to keep in mind is to do the same thing every time. So, you can shoot just about any way you want to and there’s no right and wrong. Because if you do it the same every time, then the arrow will go in the same place every time.

ARCHERY: You don’t have any assistants? You’re on your own at the Olympics, more or less?

WILLIAMS: Right. My parents were standing about 20 or 30 yards behind me all the time, watching, but...

ARCHERY: If anything goes wrong, you have to fix it yourself. Of course, it’s probably unlikely that any­ thing seriously wrong would happen.

WILLIAMS: It wasn't so unlikely for me this year.

Twice my nocking point slid and I had to get time to go on. Another time it slipped on the last arrow, but I fixed that on my own time. When you’re under tight pressure, little things add up.

ARCHERY: You were using two stabilizers?

WILLIAMS: Three this time. I graduated to three.

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ARCHERY: Were you anywhere near the extra­ ordinary, terrorizing events that took place at Olym­ pic Village, the attack on the Israeli team?

WILLIAMS: Yes, I was within 70 to 80 yards of it all.

ARCHERY: What were your thoughts on that?

WILLIAMS: It perturbed me. And everyone. It hap­ pened the day before we were supposed to shoot, so our shooting day was set back 24 hours. I think it was a terrible, shameful and shocking thing. And I was just pretty perturbed about the whole thing.

ARCHERY: Did you know any of the Israeli team personally?

WILLIAMS: Not personally, but of course, we all moved among each other.

ARCHERY: Do you think these events upset youishooting any in the long run?

WILLIAMS: What can I say? A person shoots more or less out of habit. Still, I don’t think any human being can be exposed to such happenings or be so close to such happenings and not have them register in some way on his mind and on his actions - at least for a while. I was, as I said, deeply perturbed and I’m sure everyone felt the same.

ARCHERY: Where you treated cordially in Germany?

Did everything go pretty well that way?

WILLIAMS: Yes. The Germans went out of their way.

There’s a real nice bunch of people over there.

“The only thing you really have to keep in mind is to do the same thing every time..."

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ARCHERY: No language barrier?

WILLIAMS: About 80% of the people in Olympic Village spoke some semblance of English. You get outside the village and you run into a few problems.

Much different outside.

ARCHERY: How was the food? Did they try to con­ vert you to the German food?

WILLIAMS: They may have tried. Well, once you get used to the German food I suppose you can fare okay.

It certainly wasn’t as unfamiliar as what we got into a year or so ago when I accepted an invitation to shoot in Russia. There we got into raw fish and some things it really takes adjusting to.

Of course, in Olympic Village we had some choice, American or German. But a couple of times we ended found a Kentucky Fried Chicken place for one girl on the team who wasn’t able to eat at all hardly. Ger­ man breakfast took some getting used to. A glass of some kind of juice, coffee, hard rolls, all kinds of cheese, jelly, salami, and a meat something like ba­ con but just about uncooked. I did have a birthday cake just before leaving, and that tasted almost like home.

ARCHERY: The equipment you used - was it any different than what other archers had?

WILLIAMS: Not greatly but in some ways, yes. I have a brand new bow. I just got it in June. It was the second model off the production line. Europe had not even seen it yet and there was quite a stir over that. It is a take down type bow — magnesium handle with standard wood and fiberglas limbs.

ARCHERY: After the Olympics you entered a bene­ fit shoot in France?

WILLIAMS: Well, I’d been to Italy, the World Field Championships there. And I was going to take some leave and go to London — I’m engaged to a girl there - but I got a call from France. The man wanted me

You don’t just practice on the fine, sunny days...you go out every day.”

to be in Paris on that Friday evening. I told him I wasn’t going to because I was going to London to visit my fiancee. He said, why not bring her along?

So she and her sister went with me to this benefit tournament and we spent the weekend just outside of Paris. Sponsored by the Benedictine Co. ARCHERY: Was this an exhibition or a competition?

WILLIAMS: Oh, it was a competition. Though not as heated as the Olympics.

ARCHERY: John, you mentioned your parents watching you at the Olympics. They introduced you to archery when you were quite young, right?

WILLIAMS: I was 9, yes, when they gave me a bow.

They both shoot, and they used to take me along to the matches. I had a 5, then a 10, then a 30 lb. bow.

There’s this field across the street from our place in Cranesville, Pa., and every single day — when the weather wasn’t freezing — I’d go over there between the sumacs and fire off as many arrows as I could.

ARCHERY: Then your first championship was at 13, the National Junior Boys’ Championship?

WILLIAMS: Right. And getting back to practise. If you really want to advance in tournament shooting, you have to practise. I always wanted to, so I did.

You don’t just practise on the fine, sunny days, or the good days. But you go out every day you can get out to do it. You can always find half a dozen excuses for not practising but this isn't the way to bring your­ self up into shape. When the weather is real bad, I still go into the indoor range in Erie, Pa. nearby to shoot practise rounds.

ARCHERY: The records show you practise what you preach, John. Back at age 15, in the Pennsylvania State Shoot, you shot 858 points out of 864 possible.

And in the Erie City Tourney, 60 arrows out of 60 in the disc. A perfect round. Did you establish any new records with your shooting in Italy at the World, or at the Olympics?

WILLIAMS: At the Olympics. They tell me I set a new world record for one FITA round, 1268. And broke the 30 meter score, 350. Also a two FITA rounds record score, 2528.

ARCHERY: You’re in the army now. Were they glad to let you go to the Olympics and have all the time you needed?

WILLIAMS: Oh, yes, they were very good about it.

I went from Germany to Italy to London to France, to London and back to the states again.

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A SURPRISING number of bowhunters prefer to pass up shots at does, especially early in the season, usually in hopes of ar­ rowing a prize buck - or at least an antlered deer of some kind.

Many are veteran hunters who have already proven they can take a doe, and they now prefer to fill an empty spot on their den wall as well as fill their freezer with choice venison. Other “bucks only” hunters are relative newcomers and have never killed a deer of any king. They simply find the idea of downing a trophy buck more challenging and, therefore, more attractive.

Many archers do take to the woods and proceed to bag a buck at first opportunity. Unfortunate­ ly, a great many more buck hunt­ ers fail to arrow their prize. Why? Ironically, it’s often because they aren’t really hunting bucks. In­ stead, they are only “deer hunt­ ing,” hoping an unwary buck will venture within bow range. Most of the time that’s not good enough, and the hunter comes home emp­ ty-handed.

Some luck, of course, is involved in any hunter’s success, regardless of what he hunts or how he hunts it. But the bowhunter who limits himself to bucks can, without too much trouble, greatly increase his chances of bagging a fine tro­ phy.

How? By carefully tailoring his hunting techniques to suit only bucks. It’s usually the hunter who is really “buck hunting” that ul­ timately scores, and for him, very little “luck” is involved.

How do you consistently bring home antlered game instead of coming home skunked, or having to settle for a doe? There’s some extra effort involved, but it’s prob­ ably easier than you think: you need only approach buck hunting systematically, acknowledging that a successful trophy hunt is the result of good planning and hard work.

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Would you pass up this shot?

If your answer is yes, this article has some answers for you. ing bucks are good — this is the key to any successful trophy hunt.

This point may seem too funda­ mental to mention, but “bucks only” hunters often make the mis­ take of continuing to hunt exactly the same areas — even the same stands — where they’ve always killed does.

Such hunters might arrow a buck this way, but more often than not they are wasting their time.

The main problem is, trophy bucks don’t often stray into or habitual­ ly frequent such areas —especial­ ly not during daylight shooting hours. Instead, they remain in re­ mote areas, far removed from the regular haunts of does and young bucks. Old bucks carrying heavy racks are considerably more cau­ tious — that’s how they get to be old bucks.

If the buck hunter doesn’t take steps to compensate for this extra measure of caution, he’s already halved — before he starts — his chances of a shot at something with a healthy spread of antlers.

What kinds of areas should you concentrate on? First, outline where you should not be hunting.

You'll want to hunt an area with a heavy concentration of deer, but you should avoid like the plague any area that receives ter­ rific hunting pressure. If you’re geographically limited and have to hunt such an area, however, don’t be dismayed; just get as far­ away from other hunters as you possibly can. Wily old bucks, re­ member, are going to be doing the same thing, and you won’t stand much chance of scoring on one un­ less you follow along.

Stay clear of roads and easy-access areas where hunters invari­ ably tend to congregate, because these are the areas where trophy bucks will almost never appear—

at least not during shooting hours.

Instead, search out the thickest, most inaccessable spots in the woods — thickets, the brushy ends of hollows and creeks, tangled swamps, steep ridges. These are the kinds of places, because of their remoteness and inaccess­ ability, that nearly always escape heavy hunting pressure, even in the most heavily-hunted areas.

In these “hard-to-hunt” places you’re most likely to cross paths with a real whopper. If you al­ ready know your deer woods well, you can locate such remote areas quickly.

If you’re not familiar with the area you plan to hunt, you can pre­ determine likely spots for bucks by studying topographical maps of the area. You can get them for al­ most any section of the country, and with them you can isolate scores of nooks and crannies that might naturally harbor a buck who’s trying to hide.

Such maps reveal every rise and fall of the terrain, every ridge, hollow and piece of bottom ground, every creek, gully and ravine. You might be surprised how many po­ tentially excellent deer crossings, trails, and remote bedding areas you find — before you get into the woods.

One such crossing I located this way in Missouri’s Ozarks paid off with three deer in three years, al­ though admittedly not all were trophy bucks. The point is, I lo­ cated the crossing while sitting in my living room looking at a topo map —over a hundred miles away from the deei- woods.

Once you’ve pinned down your best probably buck-hunting area, closely investigate for deer sign.

Keep an eye peeled for sign that distinctly belongs to buck deer.

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Learn, for example, to tell the dif­ ference between a buck’s tracks and those made by does. If he’s a trophy animal, a buck’s tracks will invariably be much larger.

His greater weight will spread his tracks wider, and they will be farther apart.

A doe’s tracks, on the other hand, are more dainty and tippy­ toed, as well as smaller and closer together. In snow, which often dis­ torts the size of tracks, a buck will usually make faint drag marks between places where he’s putting his feet down. A doe, unless she’s wounded, will almost never make drag marks.

Watch for “buck rubs” — sap­ ling's or brush where a buck has polished the velvet from his horns.

The saplings will have bark hang­ ing in shreds, and the white of the newly-exposed wood makes a fresh rub easily visible for a consider­ able distance. Especially watch for “scrapes,” those spots four or five feet square crated by bucks during the rut; leaves are scraped away and the soil is literally plowed up.

Often such scrapes are marked by the strong smell of urine if they are really fresh. Bucks (along with does) will often return to scrapes several times, although there is some debate among veteran hunt­ ers as to whether or not a buck will use the same rub more than once. In any case, if you see num­ erous rubs or scrapes, you can be sure that bucks are using the area you’ve found.

If the area is remote, as it should be, and suffers from little hunting pressure, you have every reason to believe trophy deer will con­ tinue to use the area after season opens. Deer, old bucks included, are very much creatures of habit, and if not pressured, they are re­ luctant to break an established routine.

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where you should still-hunt in the middle of the day.

Watch for areas where deer have been feeding. Frequently used feeding spots will show up quickly if you know what to look for. Watch for the nipped ends of low growing branches where deer have browsed — spruce, cedar, hemlock, for example. And keep an eye peeled for berry bushes, sumac, and wild oats that show evidence of deer having fed on them.

Around water, see if deer have been feeding on water plants such as lilies and tender water grasses.

If there is an old apple orchard in the area, check it out: these are favorite hang-outs for deer, and apples are a delicacy most bucks can’t resist.

Once you’ve located a prime buck area on the basis of its re­ moteness and visible sign, begin “prehunting” religiously. Get into the woods at every opportunity.

When? Long before the first frost and chilly weather, a considerable number of weeks before the leaves start to turn. And get there early in the day, as if you were really hunting, staying as late as pos­ sible. The most successful trophy hunters are always those who spend considerable preseason time in the woods, studying exactly where they plan to hunt at the same hours they plant to hunt.

The importance of extensive preseason hunting can’t be over­ stressed. Time spent in the area you plan to hunt —before season opens —also helps determine the “routine” of area bucks, even in­ dividual trophies. You’ll learn where they are feeding, bedding, and what routes they usually fol­ low between one activity and an­ other. And when you know the

routine of the bucks in an area, you can begin to predict what they are going to be doing, as well as where they are going to be doing it — at nearly any given time of day. When you can do this, you’re closer to a trophy buck than 99% of the hunters in the woods. Most trophy hunters fail because their preseason hunting amounts to little more than a few afternoon’s preliminary scouting for sign. The trophy hunter must work much harder.

Preseason hunting supplies you with the knowledge you need to locate your stand exactly where it should be, and by the time sea­ son opens, you’ll know the area you’re hunting as well as the palm of your hand. If other hunters in a congested area pressure deer into the remote area where you are hunting, all the better: you’ll stand an excellent chance of know­ ing what escape routes the deer will be following. Effective pre­ hunting takes most of the “luck” out of being at the right place at the right time.

When season finally opens, how should you begin hunting? Once again, you tailor your hunting methods specifically to bucks. All deer are partially nocturnal, but bucks are much more so than does, especially when the woods is full of hunters. It makes good sense for them not to be running around the woods at midday exposing themselves. Your chances, accord­ ingly, are going to be best at the extreme ends of the daylight hours - either very early in the morning, or very late in the after­ noon, when bucks are coming out to feed or going to bed down in cover.

During the middle part of the day, you’re probably wasting your time if you stick on a tree stand.

That’s the time to be still-hunting.

If you’ve carefully located bedding areas, your chances of walking up on a bedded buck are good, especially if you make a habit of

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always hunting upwind.

Still-hunting works best when you move very slowly, stopping frequently to look around. Most midday hunters move far too fast, and the majority of the trophy animals either sit tight and let the fast-moving hunter go by, or they move out ahead before the hunter ever gets there. If you’re hunting slowly and really survey­ ing the what’s around you, the chances of you seeing a bedded buck before he sees you are ex­ cellent.

In hilly country, stick to the rides; during the middle of the day bucks often like to bed down on a sunny ridge, so they can watch the surrounding countryside. In flat country, stick to the most inaccessable parts of the bottoms — the thickets of scrub oak, pine, and heavy brush. If you’re in really swampy country, such as many Southern and Midwestern archers enjoy, use your topo maps to find the “high spots.” Bedded down on these are often going to be the big­ gest trophy bucks in the area — deer who may not leave such hav­ ens until after dark.

If you are limited in the number of days you can budget for hunt­ ing, try to get out as much as pos­ sible during the rutting season.

This period varies some from one locale to another, but in most areas it roughly coincides with gun-hunting season. If you’re not sure when it is, check with local conservation authorities; they will be happy to tell you. During the rut, bucks are less wary than at any other time of the year. Some­ what preoccupied, trophy bucks lose much of their caution as they pursue their affairs-of-the-heart, and they constantly move from

one group of does to another. It’s not uncommon for a single buck to serve as a suitor for a dozen or more does during this period. And he’s going to move around quite a bit, all day, while search for his mates. The hunter who concen­ trates his hunting efforts during the rutting season will vastly in­ crease his chances for a trophy head.

If it’s indeed a trophy buck you’re after, don’t be too eager to shoot. Remember, bucks are hard­ ly gentlemanly, and it’s quite com­ mon for them to “follow" behind does. When you see one or more does, especially during the rut, just sit tight and wait: chances are good if there’s a buck in the area, he’s not far behind. It’s a sad state of affairs when you loose a shaft at a doe out of desperation, then see a real trophy rack bound away from behind some nearby brush — a trophy that could have been yours had you waited. Don’t rush things and spoil your chances of scoring.

Not only should the rutting sea­ son signal you to concentrate your hunting efforts, you should also keep a keen eye on the weather, especially abrupt changes. A cold­ snap will invariably increase ac­ tivity among all deer to a great extent, and this is particularly true if a snowstorm is on its way.

Prior to snow or any major change in weather, deer seem to try to get out and feed enough to “hold them through.” Often, this means feed­ ing all day.

If it does snow, you have the added advantage of being able to see deer much more easily, and it becomes a simple chore to trail one. All sign is fresh right after a snow, and you can trail a trophy

buck as fast as the snow will per­ mit you to walk. You might want to pick up a set of tracks and “walk down” your deer, a technique em­ ployed by many trophy hunters when snow allows. Just get on a track and stay with it until you get a clear shot.

When the opportunity for a shot does present itself, don’t muff it.

After all, a considerable amount of time, effort, and expense have gone into making such a thrilling experience possible. Unfortunate­ ly, more bowhunters lose their trophies at this moment of the hunt than at any other. Many things are going against you. With your weapon, you must allow a deer to come as close as possible before you shoot. When he gets this close, he’s more likely to scent you or see you.

The main thing to remember is, don’t be in a hurry. As a deer ap­ proaches, the main problem you face is keeping from being seen.

Camo clothing, grease paint or a face net, a camo bow sleeve, dullpainted arrows — all these les­ sen your chances of being spotted before you have a chance to shoot.

Omitting even one of these might cost you your buck.

If your buck is looking your way as he approaches, don’t move!

The camo should break up your outline sufficiently and disguise your gear, so if you don’t move, you probably won’t be spotted. If you’re in a tree stand, and have been for some time, chances are good your scent has evaporated enough that most of the man smell will be gone. Just in case, though, it’s a good idea to sprinkle a few droplets of commercial buck scent around the base of your tree when you get in.

Note the speed and direction of the approaching animal. Decide when you are going to shoot, wait until the buck turns his head away, then simply pick a spot on the deer and follow through. If he doesn’t look away, let him pass completely under the stand be­ fore you move; a side shot as he’s quartering away is certainly bet­ ter than spooking him and getting no shot at all. Besides, many vet­ eran bowhunters prefer- this going-away shot to all others.

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“Way OUT West they got a name/ For wind and rain and fire/ The rain is Tess, the fire is Joe/ And they call the wind___ ” Quoting lyrics to a song, howev­ er inaccurately, may seem an un­ likely way to report on an archery event. But the Hawaiian Open was an unusual archery tournament.

It took place about as “way out West” as you can go in these Unit­ ed States — on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in­ side an extinct volcano called Dia­ mond Head.

It was a beautiful setting. The rain held off for the tournament, the fire was what you felt on your face, arms and legs after two days in the crater under the big Hawaii­ an sun. As for the wind, there must be a Hawaiian word for what blew around inside Diamond Head.

Not that the Mainland archers were at a loss for words; they called the wind by a number of colorful, if unprintable, names.

There were big name shooters among the 93 archers assembled in that crater to compete for over $10,000 in cash and merchandise.

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places like Las Vegas and the NFAA Nationals. They were the archers to beat, people who rarely shoot a bad arrow.

But there was one competitor that no one expected. “If the wind had registered, someone remarked, “it might have won.” As it was, the wind beat a lot of archers. It was on the shooting line, blowing in one direction, and down at the targets, blowing the other way.

During the rare moments when it didn’t blow, it remained a psycho­ logical presence in the minds of many archers. It caused the lead to see-saw back and forth and made the Hawaiian Open a wide open affair.

In short, the wind was a factor, but we do not mention it to de­ tract from the performances of the winners or from the over­ whelming success of the entire Hawaiian Open tournament and vacation package. On the contra­ ry, Jack Lancaster’s winning high score of 1083 out of a possible 1120 is testimony to his tremend­ ous shooting skill. Jack beat the wind because Jack is a pro, and Four of the best shots at the tour­ nament all shot perfects on this twenty-yarder. Standing are Bill Shain and Mike Stratman; kneel­ ing are Wally Nagao - Hawaii’s State Open Champion - and Dave Ponder.

that is what the Hawaiian Open was all about, an NFAA profes­ sional money shoot.

That brings us to promotor Pat Norris. If everyone talked about the wind, no one, of course, could do anything except take it in stride. But Norris had all the oth­ er elements of the tour under control. A lot of people may also have talked about an NFAA pro tour, but it took guts and drive to make it reality.

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Putting on a $10,000 tourna­ ment takes planning. Getting a planeload of well over a hundred people, including non-shooters, to and from Hawaii, and making sure they enjoy themselves for five days in the Islands, requires real organization. Coordinating the arrangements over two thou­ sand miles of ocean presents a monumental task. Yet the whole tour came off with relatively few wrinkles, and Norris already has plans to iron those out next time.

He and his associates, Lou Mont­ gomery of Western Air Lines, and John Lirou of Leonard Hicks In­ ternational Hotel Representa­ tives, are to be commended. Just the logistics of handling the lug­ gage, which consisted of suit­ cases, bowcases, tackle boxes, merchandise prizes, pineapples and other souvenirs that nearly filled the Waikiki Resort Hotel lobby, was enough to make a bell captain cry — that is, if it weren’t for the tips, also included in the tournament package.

Inside the crater, the range was set up on a V format. More pre­ cisely, the targets are set up in­ line, and the archers form the “V”, starting on the birdie targets at the ends and working back to the 80 yarder in the middle of the field. Most archers reacted favor­ ably to the format, and Bob Ves­ pa’s comments seemed represen­ tative: “I really love to shoot the

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The competition seemed less a grind at times than a game of musical chairs. At the end of the first day, John Williamson took the lead in the Open Men’s Cash Division by posting a wind-resis­ tant 546, followed by Gary Lyman (544), Bob Vespa (538), Jack Lan­ caster and Dave Ponder (537’s), Bill Shain (535), Mike Stratman (533), Walter Nagao (532), Don Collier (530), and Gene Lueck (529) to round out the top ten.

First day leader Sherry Patton topped the Open Women’s Cash Division with her 502, closely fol­ lowed by Anita Vespa (497), Dar­ lene Collier and Eva Troncoso (492’s), Amateur Woman Phyllis Long opened a wide lead with her 453 over Jewel Hamilton, who shot a 356, while Robert Nishihama’s 497 set the pace for Amateur Men Don Horlacher (491), Martin Copenhaffter (489) and Jim Archuletta (487).

With a day’s shooting behind them, the archers watched their scores go up in the lobby of the Waikiki Resort Hotel, and then made their way to the penthouse where a surprise 50th Wedding Anniversary party was held for two young-at-heart members of the archery entourage, Roy and Frieda Hoff. To the bellboy who brought more glasses, it probably looked like a party for happy new­ lyweds. (See Roy’s impressions in this month’s Tales of the Feathered Shaft.)

On Sunday the winds of change were to blow quite literally in Diamond Head. Plagued by some broken strands of his bowstringconcealed by the serving, John Williamson unknowingly attribut­ ed some bad arrows to the wind and watched his lead dissolve be­ fore he pinpointed his problems.

Then the wind blew his bow over and broke his sight. Gary Lyman saw a rare sight as one of his first arrows went off the paper, and while Gary kept a firm hold

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on second place with a 535, the top spot eluded him. Williamson dropped to 7th place with a 514.

Another 514 score, Dave Ponder’s, dropped him from 5th to 8th. Bob Vespa slipped from 3rd to 5th place with a 527 for the day.

In a see-saw battle, of course, some fall while others rise. Bill Shain, NFAA director from faroff South Carolina, and Mike Stratman, sponsored by the Ca­ terpillar Tractor Co. out of Oak­ land, California, turned in fine scores of 532 and 534 to rise from 6th and 7th places, respectively, into a tie for the third spot. Jack Lancaster’s outstanding 546 cap­ tured top honors, while George Miller rose five places into 6th with 537, and Howard Moore’s 535 brought him from 15th into the ninth slot.

Despite their lighter bows, all four women on the top cash target held tight throughout the round, with the lead shifting arrow by ar­ row. When it was over, it wasn’t quite over for Anita Vespa and Darlene Collier with their 972 totals, and a shoot-off was held.

The better half of the Vespa con­ tingent from Novato, California won it, and second place went to the current NFAA Freestyle Champion from Moab, Utah. First day leader Sherry Patton of Lodi,

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California, captured third with her 970, and Eva Troncoso, of Monter­ ey Park, California, was right up there with a 968 for fourth place.

The flight system seemed to function well. One shooter in flight 1 shot eight points over the average of Sunday's champion­ ship line and was moved up into the money division. Eight archers were moved up from flight 2 into flight 1 as a result of their fine shooting on Sunday because their scores were above the average of flight 1. The net effect was to open up flight 2 and increase the com­ petition in flight 1 with the addi­ tion of more good shooters.

The prize distribution indicates that archers of varied abilities can win in this flight system. Low­ est winning score for the 56 field targets was Marilyn Jensen’s 187, for fifth place in women’s flight 2, and she received a Camsite bow sight and two pewter tankards.

To illustrate the competition in the flights, consider the plight of one shooter who remarked with just four targets to go, “I think I can win this flight. My main com­ petition just mis-set his sight.”

On the next two targets in a row, that same archer felt the pressure and mis-set his own sight, not once but twice.

The barebow shooters fared well, but perhaps their finest moment came when the capricious breeze lifted Hawaiian shooter Herbert Abe’s hat and rolled it down range.

Barebow shooter Larry Busby snapped off a quick one-for-twenty to save and air-condition Abe’s hat, which probably resides now in Herb’s trophy case, Busby’s arrow still in place. Busby noted that not one freestyler ventured a shot at the moving target. Back at the regulation targets, Busby’s 731 total netted him fourth place in flight 5 for which he was award­ ed a digital AM/FM clock radio and, ironically, a Miletron Scope Sight.

Top: Herbert Abe found a way to hide from the sun, but the wind soon stole his hat. Center: Roy and Frieda Hoff enjoy a quiet moment and a view of Waikiki from their balcony in the Waikiki Resort Ho­ tel. Bottom: Scoring a perfect tar­ get are Anita Vespa, first place winner; Sherry Patton, third; and Darlene Collier, second.

Top: Jimmie Lee, outstanding Ha­ waiian archery personality, poses with. Jim Easton, of Easton Alum­ inum, and Freddie Troncoso, Arch­ ery staff writer, in front of the headquarters hotel. Center: Com­ pound bow shooters were there in force, and Team Bear made a fine showing. Right center: Hawaiian archers Robert Nishihama and Jim Archuletta, who placed first and second in the amateur division, look intently at targets. Archuletta is former president of the Hawaii State Archery Association; Nishi­ hama is vice-president elect, and both are top freestylers. Below: Top men’s target on Sunday in­ cluded Jack Lancaster, John Wil­ liamson, Gary Lyman and Bob Vespa.

People shooting with their fin­ gers also won prizes. In fact, the sight of all the merchandise prizes stacked high and deep at the awards banquet led us to believe that everyone won something. As NFAA President Pat Wingfield announced the winners and Pat Norris awarded the prizes, we were almost convinced. Nor were Bear Bow shooters overlooked.

Team Bear, sponsored by Bear Archery Company, was well run by the original Team Bear man, Bob Blair, who awarded over $800.00 to participants, bringing the tournament total to over $11,000.00.

Indeed, everyone returned home a winner because they found in Honolulu what they traveled over 700,000 total miles for - a fine pro­ fessional tournament and an exot­ ic vacation. Bob Harper, for one, came all the way from Illinois to “meet these people, see the top shooters I have been curious about and take my vacation.” That he did, winning fourth place in flight 4 besides.

John Chesnick, inventor of the Tel Tale nocking point, wrote from Colorado after the tourna­ ment, “the Hawaiian Open was the ultimate. It was a huge success and the first time archers were treated as celebrities by everyone.”

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As an amateur barebow shooter, he won at the NFAA Nationals in 1966. His next big win was top money at the U.S. Open in Las Ve­ gas in 1971. The interim years were spent overseas on a tour of duty with the Air Force, and it was during that period that the re­ lease began catching on back home. When Lancaster was as­ signed to the Air Force Academy, he became a freestyler and began competing in the open division just three months before his first ma­ jor money shoot-Las Vegas.

At the Academy, Jack is involved as an assistant to the Cadet Bowmen, hoping that they will form a collegiate team which he’d like to join as an instructor. As for competitive shooting, Jack finds that as a member of Big Horn Bowhunters, “a great club with at least six guys who can win any of our shoots. Those archers have forced me to be consistent.

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Lancaster demonstrated his brand of consistency at the Hawaiian Open, but it wasn’t all easy going. “I had trouble with the wind; the scores indicate that we all did. I just tried to sit back and wait for a calm spell.”

Lancaster feels that the type of release he used — a JC rope re­ lease - plus his background as a barebow shooter may have given him a slight advantage. “As an old barebow shooter, I never seemed to have problems with freezing because I never used to be involved with real tight scores.

So shooting when I wanted to has been natural for me all along,” he points out.

“As for my release, it is not a surprise release. You pull with your back and let go with the thumb, letting go at will without having to jerk it or squeeze it off.

At times with that release, I’d say got off off ^ three 1I gOt ree,arrows in 25 or 30 seconds. Then I may have had to wait another two or three minutes to get off that last arrow.

Did he have any special way of gauging the wind? “I really had no way. On the first day I thought I was shooting* as well as anyone

else, although my score (537) dropped me well down in the pack.”

Lancaster recalled one arrow par­ ticularly disturbing: “I usually pick up an arrow in my peripher­ al vision and follow it although I keep on aiming. On an 80 yard shot, the arrow looked great when it was 50 yards out and I knew it was there when all of a sudden it went right off the side of the bale.

I thought I was shooting in a calm.”

On the second day, Lancaster began watching the drift of other shooters’ arrows. “I aimed accordingly to one side of the five ring or the other-but I never aimed outside of the five ring.”

Was the wind a significant psy­ chological factor for Lancaster?

“I could have been very discour­ aged if the other scores had been high,” he admits. “Before I came to the tournament, I thought that if you missed the bale once you were out of it. But as it turned out, there were quite a few zips out there.”

Because of his come-from-behind win, Lancaster considers the Hawaiian Open performance oneof his best. He is characterist-

ically modest in speaking about his competition: “Under normal cir­ cumstances you can never give great shooters like John William­ son and Gary Lyman a nine point lead and ever catch them, so I had some luck with the wind. We shot together on the second day.

Gary missed the first target and that had to affect him, and John had his bow problems.”

The Colorado shooter’s tackle includes a Jennings Compound Bow which peaks at 39 lb. and holds at 33 lb.; 29"/2 in. 1716 X7 shafts with Profletch and Plastinocks; a JC rope release; Tel Tale nocking points; Aero Space rest; and a Williamson sight. He uses a 0.75 strength scope sight made by an optometrist and distributed

by Don Bostrom in Greeley, Colo­ rado.

Lancaster noted that scores were much higher in the hunter round this year at the NFAA Na­ tionals, and reasoned that shoot­ ers can’t see the five ring and aim at the spot. “But sometimes the dot in a scope sight will complete­ ly obliterate the spot and you look around,” he points out. “So about a week before we left for Hawaii, I scraped the dot out of the sight and glued in a quarter-inch 0ring. I can see the spot through the ring, and I think it helps.”

Lancaster considers the Hawaii­ an Open the best shoot he has ever attended. “The tournament had things going for it that I hadn’t seen before. Two days after the shooting and awards banquet end­ ed, archers were still associating, going all over the island together, still meeting other archers. The tournament had no sense of let­ down after the last arrow was shot. It wasn’t over yet because everybody relaxed and had a ball, plus we were treated super by the hotel and the airlines.”

Asked about his thoughts re­ garding a pro division, Lancaster commented, “One shoot doesn’t make a pro division, but this was a great start. I have never seen people with so much energy to get something started. Everybody was charged up about our first shoot with an international flavor in the NFAA.” And no shoot could have had a more gracious and de­ serving winner.

HAWAIIAN OPEN SCORES OPEN MEN CASH DIVISION 1. Jack Lancaster 537/546-1083 $1,00000 2. Gary Lyman 544/535-1079 600.00 3. Bill Shain 535/532-1067 387.50 4. Mike Stratman 533/534-1067 387.50 5. Bob Vespa 538/527-1065 300.00 6. George Miller 527/537-1064 250.00 7. John Williamson 546/514-1060 175.00 8. Dave Ponder 537/514-1051 135.00 9. Howard Moore 515/535-1050 75.00 10 Walter Nagao 532/518-1050 75.00 *11. Rod Schooler 509/530-1039 12. Gene Lueck 529/504-1034 13. Don Collier 530/502-1032 14. Gary Henspeter 521/511-1032 15. Terry Knight 523/507-1030 16. Blair Peterson 520/501-1021 17. Jim Easton Inc. *Moved up from Flight I to Championship Division for Sunday score higher than Championship average MEN FLIGHT I (Total Merchandise Value- $1,486.50) 1. BobAustin 504/513-1017 2. Rich McClintock 502/514-1016 505/510-1015 3. Roger Slagle 4 Duane Chaney 502/510-1012 5. Bill Kittredge 502/509-1011 6. Elmer Little 502/506-1008 7. Eddie Bain 507/500-1007 8. Larry Mathews 509/494-1003 ** 9. Thomas Ballock 499/503- 1002 10. L D. Molder 506/490-996 11. Bill Wilkerson 506/488-994 **12. Richard Gangloff 491/502-993 **13. Warren Quiroga 491/498-989 **14. Walter Patton 488/499-987 15. Daniel Addy 505/464-969 **Moved from Flight II to Flight I for Sunday score higher than Sunday average of Flight I

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MEN FLIGHT II (Total Merchandise Value - $624.00) 1. Lee Whiteside 486/491-977 2. NormEkdahl 486/416-902 MEN FLIGHT III (Total Merchandise Value - $759.00) 1 Wayne Norton 481/489-970 479/474-953 2. Charles Martin 3 Robert Stedman 464/486-950 474/472-946 4 Sam LaGore 450/493-943 5. Pat Norris 6. Glen Goddard 453/476-929 7. Mike Monter 471/441-912 8. Richard MacDonald 452/427-879 9 Michael Laity 450/420-870 10. Jim Carroll 464/lnc—464

MEN FLIGHT IV (Total Merchandise Value - $730.00) 1. Erwin Dumancas 440/435-875 2. Gary Booker 430/438-868 3. Clyde Kimball 423/415-838 4. Robert Harper 414/424-838 5. John Chesnick 419/419-838 6. Pete Thome 410/396-806 7. Richard Gillespie 431/373-804 8. Bob Jensen 415/380-795 9. Roy Hoff 423/lnc — 423 MEN FLIGHT V (Total Merchandise Value - $677.00) 1. Earl Good 399/389-788 2. Jimmie Lee 379/376-755 3. Donald Beech 349/384-733 4. Larry Busby 374/357-731 5. Bill Hyde 341/356-697 6. Harold Jensen 318/361-679 7. Herbert Abe 370/257-627 OPEN LADIES CASH DIVISION 1. Anita Vespa 497/475-972 $450.00 2. Darlene Collier 492/480-972 300.00 3. Sherry Patton 200.00 502/468-970 4. Eva Troncoso 492/476-968 100.00 5. Florence Goddard 441/434-875 50.00 6. Mary Lynn Snyder 438/417-855 7 Nancy Lancaster 438/406-844 LADIES FLIGHT I (Total Merchandise Value — $714.00) 1. Gwen Carroll 419/427-846 2. Ann Schooler 417/405-822 3. Sheila Stedman 404/382-786 4. Ramona Norton 380/400-780 5 Collette Bates 299/277-576 LADIES FLIGHT II (Total Merchandise Value - $590 00) 1. Fern Epperly 264/309-573 2. Orrie Geier 251/267-518 3. Ginger McClintock 218/234-452 4 Edith Beech 112/182-294 5. Marilyn Jensen 107/ 80-187 AMATEUR LADIES 1. Phyllis Long 453/422-875 2. Jewel Hamilton 356/315-671 3. Dona Good 287/283-570 4 Darrylm Partin 221/206-427 5. Corky McGIade 132/146-278 AMATEUR MEN 1. Robert Nishihama 497/504-1001 2. Jim Archuletta 487/502-989 3. Don Horlacher 491/477-968 4. Martin Copenhafter 489/467-956 5. Steve Mulkey 438/427-865 6. Leo Kaya 426/402-828 7. Dr. R.E. Szelvassy 324/356-680 8. John Graham 331/330-661 9. Glenn Hirata 126/194-320

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SIGNS of the Tines Continued from page 1 5

It’s a good idea to be in your stand at least an hour and a half before daylight, probably sooner.

That way, your scent has time to fade away before a deer happens down the trail you’re watching.

It’s also a good idea to approach your stand from the side or rear, staying completely off the trail your stand is over. In the after­ noons, hunt from your stand from about mid-afternoon until legal shooting hours are completely over, not nearly over.

I’d venture saying at least half of all the real trophies taken are arrowed in the final five minutes of shooting light. Staying this late is no problem if you will carry a good light to help you trail your trophy, then find your way out of the woods.

If you have practiced shooting out of your stand (preseason hunt­ ing allows for lots of this), odds are you’ll already know where the best spots for shooting are going to be before your buck reaches them. If you’ve rehearsed such a moment, there’s no decision left to make.

The final movement of raising your bow and releasing the arrow is the most critical. Position your­ self to shooting with an absolute minimum of movement, holding your bow in approximate shooting­ position at all times. Sometimes the slight movement of getting it into shooting position from your lap is all it takes to give away your presence. Avoid this mis­ take before it happens, and make a point of not getting too comfort­ able on your stand. That kind of comfort can cancel out weeks and

months of preparation, robbing you of your trophy at the final moment.

When you do arrow your buck, chances are pretty good he’ll not fall within sight of your stand.

Even the novice bowhunter knows that he usually must rely on hem­ orrhage to actually bring down his trophy. If your buck crumples in a heap at your feet, you’re lucky; the job for you — except for clean­ ing — is finished. If he doesn’t, watch him as far as you can see him after you’ve shot. Note the exact direction he takes. Then what?

Wait! Resist the urge, however strong, to jump out of your stand and race after your trophy. Give him at least a half hour to stiffen up, bleed out, and lie down. If re­ maining daylight permits, give him a full hour. Then go to the spot where he was standing when you shot.

Inspect the ground for hair and blood, and see if you can find your arrow. If you can’t find it, assume automatically that you hit your deer — even if you believe you didn’t If you hit him, chances are good he’ll be dead within 200 yards of your stand. Had you gone crash­ ing after him, though, you might have pushed him several miles before he dropped... and you might have lost him.

If there is a blood trail, begin to follow your wounded deer. If there isn’t a sign of blood, go to the last spot where you actually saw him.

Then diligently begin to look for even the slightest trace of blood.

Inspect each leaf individually if you have to. Nearly always there

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moved again.

I could hardly believe the entire event. My watch showed 9:00. Over 15 minutes had elapsed since I first spotted him and in that time he had never been out of my sight. The arrow had penetrated behind the rib cage, quartered forward through the liver and diaphragm and lodged in his front shoulder. I quietly moved closer and hardly believing it could be over so rapidly, slipped another shaft through his rib cage from 25 yards. It was not needed.

The rest was anticlimatic. I dressed her out (it proved to be a 3 ¥2 year-old female going about 125 lb.) and prepared a harness to drag her to the road.

With my topo map and compass I plotted a course that was all downhill and I reached the road just be­ fore 10:00. Shortly thereafter I bummed a ride with a passing forestry truck that conveyed me and the ARCHERY, DECEMBER 1972 / 22

will be a blood trail sufficiently clear for trailing; but often you’ve got to look closely to find it.

If there is absolutely no blood at all, begin searching in ever­ widening arcs of 180 degrees or more in the direction of the buck’s flight. More often than not, you’ll start seeing blood within a few yards. Remember, though, a deer might run as much as 50 to 100 yards before he starts to bleed.

And sometimes, though rarely, he might “bleed out” internally, leaving no blood trail at all. I re­ member painstakingly search for a blood trail on a buck for nearly three hours. When I finally found him, he was in a windfall about 200 yards from where I had shot —and he hadn’t bled a drop.

Finally coming onto the buck you’ve been trailing is indeed a thrilling experience for all hunt­ ers, but it’s an experience too many never get to enjoy. To vastly increase your chances of having it happen, you must plan for it to happen. You can do this by ap­ proaching buck hunting with a tried-and-true system: carefully select your hunting area, staying clear of areas that receive heavy hunting pressure; recognize and correctly read buck sign; prehunt as much as possible; locating your stand carefully and exactly; hunt your stand very early, staying very late; still-hunt during the middle of the day; hunt as much ' as possible during the rut; keep an eye on the weather.

When the opportunity finally does come, take your time; if you do, chances are excellent you’ll also take a trophy buck.

bear to my parked camper.

I’ve always maintained that the excitement from hunting is a major function of the hunting­ method plus the difficulty in securing the quarry.

Stalking is the most challenging and certainly stalk­ ing the elusive black bear is a particular challenge.

Many times I’ve gone “bear hunting,” but haven’t really expected to see a bear. Yet I’ve kept trying and, as usual, perserverance pays off. Hunting with the bow is difficult enough but when you add in a trophy as tough to come by as a bear and then do it by stalking — well, they just don’t come much hap­ pier than I was that damp morning on the ridge of Baldwin Mountain.

For the technically inclined, the bow was a Jen­ nings Compound peaking at 55 lb., shooting No. 10 microflites tipped with Bowlos with glued-in razor inserts.

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U.S. OPEN UPDATE In keeping with the “something for everybody” format of the 1973 U.S. Open Indoor Archery Cham­ pionships in Las Vegas, National Field Archery Association mem­ bers will be able to compete for an additional $1,000.00 in prize mon­ ey.

There will be two NFAA flights at the Open, with 60% of the cash award to be distributed in the first flight, and the remaining 40% diQueen of the U.S. Open, Joan Skoofey, will shoot at a special target on Friday and Saturday to determine bonzis awards winners among tour­ nament entrants. In background is the tournament headquarters hotel.

vided among top scorers in the second flight.

Shooters must register at the tournament site with the NFAA representatives in order to com­ pete in this special event. NFAA handicap cards will be required to register, and there will be an entry fee of $10.

Elsewhere at the Vegas Open there will be many novel ways to win. The Best-Dressed Man on Saturday will receive $25 in chips.

The top man and woman LeftHanded Shooter will be awarded $25 in chips, based on total score in the Friday and Saturday com­ petition. The top scoring man and

At Las Vegas, a special NFAA Bonus will be one of the many tournament highlights woman Senior Archer (over 60 years old) based on total score from the Friday and Saturday rounds, will each receive $25 in chips. Finally, the first Robin Hood shooter of each round will win $25 in chips.

The regular registration dead­ line for the Vegas Open is Janu­ ary 5, 1973, and the tournament will be held January 19, 20 and 21, so make plans now to attend. For more information, as well as de­ tails on the co-sponsor Desert Inn’s “Archer’s Special” package, contact: U.S. Open Tournament Director, P.O. Box 501, Millbrae, CA 94030.

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Ramsey Cutshall 1000 E. Church St. Greenville, Tennessee 37743 Mid-Western: Bennie Mooer 2600 Williams Great Bend, Kansas 67530 Great Lakes Roland Mantzke 1260 Constellation Drive Aurora, Illinois 60505 Southern: Gene Colteaux Rt. 4, Box 86 Longview, Texas 75601 Northwestern: Jerry L. Brabec 4548 Stone Ave. Billings, Montana 59101 Southwestern George Chraft 6113 Fairwood Cr. Las Vegas, Nevada 89107 Mid-Atlantic: William E. Boyle Ontario St. Extension Canadaigua, New York 14424

New range opens Bowhunters and other archers can now “sharpen their eye” at the new field archery range in TVA’s Land Between the Lakes. The 14 target range, which opened Sunday, October 1, is locat­ ed just off U.S. Highway 68 one mile east of the Golden Pond Head­ quarters.

The challenging course stretch­ es along brush covered fields and a rugged wooded hillside with tar­ get distances ranging from 10 to 80 yards. In addition to the 14 target field range there are three prac­ tice targets located near the en­ trance to the field course. Picnic tables and parking facilities are also available at the range.

The field archery range will be open from sunrise to sunset. All users must have an annual Land Between the Lakes permit, which can be obtained at no charge at the information office in Golden Pond.

Those 14 years of age and under must be accompanied by an adult.

Broadheads and firearms are pro­ hibited. Additional regulations are posted on the bulletin board near the entrance to the range.

The range will also be available to archery and hunting- clubs and other organizations for tourna­ ments and other special events.

For arrangements contact the Golden Pond Information Office at Land Between the Lakes, Gol­ den Pond. Kentucky 42231, phone (502) 924-5602.

NFAA Bowhunter Membership Presently this membership stands at 236, not as many as had been hoped for, but a good start.

Our total mid-year membership of

18,087 is still down 2,000 from last year’s mid-year count.

As you all know, archery is a big­ sport in this country still, and there are many organizations that oppose us in all of our aims. There are many who feel that bowhunt­ ing-is cruel and heartless and some would halt us because of the ac­ tions of a few. Unless we band to­ gether into a strong organization, our sport may one day die forever.

Those who enjoy archery, but will not supportour National Asso­ ciation because they see no per­ sonal gain, will some day awaken when it is too late. If archery is to survive, all archers must make some extra effort to aid our sport.

This must be impressed upon ev­ ery archer. Of what value is his bow if there are no field courses to shoot on, or no laws allowing- him to hunt?

Diamond Buck Award Before completing your entry this year for the Diamond Buck Award be sure that you are using a current Pope and Young Club form. The forms used last yeaiwere NFAA forms (yellow in color) and are now obsolete. So if you plan to enter complete the proper entry form for your category; whitetail, mule, or blacktail deer.

On the blacktail-mule application, be sure to specify which type of deer. Entry form must be verified by an official Pope & Young meas­ urer. For the measurer in your area contact Doug Walker, Box #1, Squaw Valley, CA 93646. En­ tries must be mailed by June 30th.

If possible please enclose a black and white glossy picture of the entry.

seiiTitim, on est Archers, also Oscar- Warehime and Carroll Yingling of Mayberry Archers. Bob Harts should take some kind of record, it was 10 point With New Year’s Eve just and 170 lb. field dressed.

Several clubs have started in­ around the corner, this is the time to make your resolutions. Remem­ door leagues — Cumberland Bow­ ber those perfect scores shot at the men, Eutaw Forest Archers, May­ Nationals this year? Well, promise berry Archers, Vingt Neuf Bow­ yourself more time to practice this men, Free State Bowmen, Creek coming year and maybe you will Waltonian Archers and Pikesville Sportsman Club. Indoor Cham­ read your name on the perfect list.

Congratulations to several per­ pionship will be in March at Vingt fect score shooters here in the Neuf Bowmen.

Results of Maryland Broadhead Mid-Atlantic states. In Maryland, Dave Jackson shot a perfect hunt­ Championship: Freestyle winners er round, and Charlie Therit, a were Charles Therit of Gunpowder perfect animal round at the state Bowmen and Mary Leiter of Har­ championship. In Virginia, Gene ford Bowmen. Men Barebow was Haydel and Lucian Butler shot Mike Cosey of Creek Waltonian perfect animal rounds in their Archers; Women Barebow was Vi state championship, and Mark Jindra of Baltimore Bowmen. Men Lawrence shot a perfect animal Bowhunter was David Furrow of Baltimore Bowmen. Youth FS round at Prince William Archers. was Michael Leiter of Harford Bowmen. Host Club was Mayberry Delaware Archers and attendance was 61 shooters.

The New Castle Hundred Rod Results of the Target Champion­ & Gun has scheduled two holiday ship were: Men AA — Larry Worshoots, International Round on rill of Eutaw Forest Archers, 2nd December 24 and a New Year’s — George West of Potomac Arch­ shoot on December 31. Here are ers, 3rd - Bill Sexton of Eutaw the winners of the State Field Forest Archers; Women A-ChrisChampionship with 51 shooters. tine Quigley of Potomac Archers.

Men Open FS — Pete Goffinet Youth Intermediate - Derek Dowith a new hunters record of 552 brzanski of Hagerstown; Junior and aggregate of 1617; Men Ama­ — Billy Sexton of Eutaw Forest teur FS — Stanley Schafffer; Men Archers; Cadet - Alleyn Davis of Barebow — George Ludden; Men Free State Bowmen; Professional Bowhunter — Russ Fulton; Men Men - Don Chapman of B&O Bow­ Amateur Barebow — Allen Man­ men, 2nd - Jerry Ebert of Eutaw eval, and Bowhunter was Bill Forest Archers, 3rd - Dave JackBass. Women Open FS — Kay son of Cecil County Bowmen; Pro­ Mullen; Amateur - Rusty Morse; fessional Women - Pam La Mar­ Women Barebow — Marilyn Lud­ che of White Marsh. den, and 55-and-over - Del Dra­ per. Boys Youth FS — Gary FutchNew Jersey er, and for the girls it was Beth Teed. Senior Cubs - Joe Clauges, Dick Sage reports that Wat­ and Junior Cubs — Gail Futcher. chung Bowmen will host the 1973 Host Club was New Castle Rod & New Jersey Bowhunters Cham­ Gun. pionship on September 16. They Maryland expect upward of 500 shooters.

The Black Knight Bowmen were Results of the deer season are hosts this year to 385 shooters. starting to roll in. Congratula­ Bill Bori is in charge, and he has tions to Burkey Boggs, Bob Hart Continued on page 26 and Larry Williams of Eutaw ForMID ATLANTIC

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Harry Kuhles of Bergen Bow­ men is Bowhunter Safety Instruc­ tor. Among the man prospective bowhunters to qualify was the club champ, Jim Wejsa.

Virginia

The VBA State Championship is now history. President Harold Street advises clubs to seek park land from the cities. The host club, Warwick Bowmen, is on Newport News Park land and is just beauti­ ful. The big guns were: Men FS — Jim Quarles of Richmond with a 1670 aggregate, followed by Gene Haydel of Richmond and James Mitchell of Flat Top. Women FSAnn Boyd of Broken Arrow, 1286, followed by Ellen Shamblin and Darlene Frye of Loudoun. Men BB — Emo Moore of Warlick with a 1524, followed by Bob Moore of Prince William and Bill Wilfong of Augusta. Women BB — Vickie Moore of Prince William, 1350, Diane Hattie of Prince William and Madeline Selby of Northern Virginia Archers. Bowhunter Men were Tom Frye of Loudoun with a 1419 followed by Bob Clark­ son of Prince Anne and Jack Mid­ kiff of Northern Virginia Arch­ ers. Bowhunter Women was Peggy Ward of Warwick with a 577. Ama­ teur BB Men was Ray Stone of Cub Run with 1517. Young Adult FS — for the boys it was M. Van Hutton of Lunga with 1596; girls - Donna Cowles of Cub Run with

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1272. Barebow Boys was Steve McGuire of Warwick with 1378.

Youth was G. Bradford of Prince William with 1059, and girls champ was Jan Thornes of Manahoac with 618.

The Algonquin Bowmen of Cul­ pepper held their grand opening in September. Their range is lo­ cated 7 miles south of Culpepper towards Orange on Route 15 South, turn right at Proctor’s Service Station. Welcome to VBA and the Mid Atlantic Region.

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by DORIS McGOWAN

Iowa

Fran Philips has been appointed the new state secretary, and her husband Phil is the newly elected state president. Their address is 1132 E. 15th Street, Davenport, Iowa, 52803.

Ed Marten released a list of the top ten amateur archers in Iowa state shoots this year. Rick Grooms, Bloomfield, and Carol Green, Des Moines, were the top freestylers; Red Ramsey, Daven­ port, and Patti Henson, Ames, the highest barebow shooters.

Anything in this column on our own Gold Medal winner, Doreen Wilber, would be a feeble attempt to add something not already said about this great lady in archery.

Our hearts burst with pride and joy when we heard the news. Do­ reen was unable to participate in all state shoots, preparing for the Olympics. How proud archers in this country must be for what she did for us all!

The State Field was held at Wa­ verly over Labor Day weekend, their first time to host this shoot.

In the open division, Larry King and Kathryn Jennings were free­ style winners. Max and Dorothy Sheeler were barebow champs.

Amateurs winning the division were Chuck Hawkins and Jerry Wells, freestyle; Dick Stream and Patti Henson, barebow. Gary Riley was young adult winner; Jerry Nowadsky and Lorraine Anhalt, youth freestyle; Dave Gerk and Diane Mason, barebow. Cub win­ ners were Lisa Mason and David Tobin, barebow and Michael An­ thony, freestyle.

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Third City Archers of Grand Is­ land hosted the 56 animal in July, with 81 archers on the lines. Du­ ane Bower had the highest score of 1044 and Darlene Wells, shot the highest women’s score, 978.

This same club hosted the State Field over Labor Day weekend.

Forty-ywo field and 28 hunter were shot to determine these champions: freestyle, Jim Schwei­ ger, 1286 and Darlene Wells, 1190; barebow, Wes Klein, 1090 and Don­ na Cargill, 995; unlimited, Dallas Matthies, 1295; amateur, J. Lee Pereksta, 1312 (highest score shot) and Dixie Stevens, 981; bowhunt­ er, Wayne Wiley, 625. Youth win­ ners were Chris Beardslee, 1168 and Nancy Bartunek, 865, free­ style; J. D. Flohr, 1050 and Vicki Matthies, 426, barebow.

Another state sponsored shoot, the Bowhunters Jamboree, was hosted by the Ahamo Field Arch­ ers of Omaha. Animal targets, only of those animals hunted in the state, are used and shot at unmarked distances. Alan Pinker­ ton was the barebow winner and Dan Hagadorn won freestyle for the trophies. Others shooting had their names drawn for many merchandise'prizes.

barebow winner and Bob the top freestyler at the Deer Shoot on September 17. Bob also holds the freestyle club championship for 1972, and Bill the bowhunters.

Duane Line is the barebow champ.

Bill Fleet is the newly elected president of the Santa Fe Archers.

Bill also won the club champion bowl and high animal trophy. In­ door shooting will again be held at Hodgsons shooting range in Mis­ sion. Tri-County had the two state cub champions, Pat Enloe and Rick Meyer.

David Stevenson is the newly elected president of Northwest Archery Association. The club had a Golfers versus Archers event.

After nip and tuck all the way, the archers won, 114-111.

Kansas

Missouri

Tri-County hosted the two-day State Championship for 90 shoot­ ers. A new group of archers, the cub division, numbered 27. Cham­ pions of the state are now Bob Yotter and Carol Anderson, un­ limited; Jim Morgan and Elaine Hughey, limited; Chuck Grey and Muriel Elchuk, barebow; Charles Bishette, bowhunter and JerryShaw, amateur.

Thirty-six shooters showed up at Salina for the State Target, which was more than usual. B.ill Shirkey shot the highest score, 1440, using a release.

Wichita will have the annual Turkey Shoot Nov. 19th.

Bill Mallean will be the 1973 president of the Blue Valley Bow­ men, Washington; Bob Funke, secretary-treasurer. Bill was the

The best yet was the Bowhunt­ er’s Jamboree this year. One ar­ row was shot at each target, a hit being three or a complete miss.

John Street from St. Louis had the high score of 107 for the men. Ro­ sie Pridg-en was awarded the wom­ en’s trophy.

It paid to look at your watch when you shot a deer on opening day. Loyd Street, St. Charles, got his ten minutes before Elmer Hale of St. Joseph to be the prize winner of the first deer.

Lois Hood and Silas Trussell were the winners of the deer tag­ shoot on September 9, hosted by the Independence Bowhunters.

Wacace Bowhunters held a deer shoot in observation of National Hunting and Fishing Day. A mov­ ing deer target was the main at-

Winner of the Maryland State Tar­ get Championship Larry Worrill (left) receives a silver bowl from Target Division Director Mark McCloy as Tournament Chairman Larry Williams looks on. traction as the Bowmen of Spring­ field put on an all deer target shoot September 24. R. Posten had the high score of 952.

Jack Long will be the new pres­ ident of the Lawson Bowbenders.

South County Archers, St. Louis, had 245 registered shooters from four states for the annual Deer Silo September 24. There was over $700 in prizes to choose from.

Minnesota

On August 27, 206 archers shot the State Broadhead at Coon Rap­ ids. Winner of the best target of the thirty Styrofoam targets went to the Chilakoot Bowmen. Open winners were Bill Himmelwright and Cathy Charest. Top scoring­ amateurs were Bob Cerney and Pearl Jester.

Mart Lind and Vern Bozen each filled their Colorado tag with a two-year-old bull elk. Out of their camp of 15 there were 6 elk and 7 mule deer taken.

This year’s State Field Cham­ pionship was held at Park Rapids.

Bob Rhode and La Vonne Hagemeyer are freestyle champs; Jerry Anderson and Lois Dickinson, barebow. Amateur champs are Bob Cernej' and Lenore Himmel­ wright and barebow top shooter is Clancy Lindvall. Ron Carlson shot the highest score of the state archers, 1109, in the unlimited.

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Linda Becker was the high scorer of this division for the ladies.

Intermediate champs are Lee Mitchell and Terri Hagemeyer; Junior is Ken Deckinson and cub, Mitchell Laven.

SOUTHEASTERN

by ADELAIDE WISE

Happy New Year to archers everywhere! May this be the year your arrows always find their mark and your favorite bowstring never breaks.

If you are disappointed because your state is not well represented in this column, I am sorry. One must receive news before it can be passed on, and sometimes there is no word from anyone. Please!

Each state try to get someone to pass on news — scores, kills, pho­ tos, ideas of any kind which might be of some interest to other arch­ ers. Then we can truly have a col­ umn for all archers. Many thanks also to those who do send in the news. Without you, there would be nothing at all!

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Mississippi MSAA officers for the coming year are: president — Ernest Herrington, Jackson; vice-presi­ dent — Claude James, Ripley; secretary/treasurer — Stewart Bak­ er, Vicksburg; directors — Wayne Fugitt, Jackson; Al Dowdy, India­ nola; J. C. Guntharp, Fulton; NFAA director - Alton Dunaway, 5127 Mattox St., Jackson, 39209.

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Vicksburg Archery Club pre­ sented the MSAA Necedah Tour­ nament. Necedah is an Indian word meaning “prepare for the hunt” and there were many arch­ ers present doing just that. Win­ ners were: AA/FS — Al Cundiff, 766; A/FS — Everett Roberts, 702; A/BH - Randy Crist, 496; Women A/FS - Vi Cundiff, 576; A/BB Helen Coonfield, 320; Youth Boys, A/FS - Tommy Allen, Jr., 426; A/BB — Kent Johnson, 336.

Two pod arrows were donated

by King Archery for the high bow­ hunter, and were won by Randy Crist. A drawing for a Wing tour­ nament bow was held by the Vicks­ burg Archery Club and the winner was J. C. Newman, Valley Park.

The following handicap chart will be used at all MSAA Cham­ pionship Shoots: Men FS/AA - 0 - 28; A - 29 - 88; B - 89 - 208; C - 209 up.

Women FS/AA - 0 - 68; A - 69 168; B -169 - 248; C-249 up.

Men BB/AA - 0 - 68; A - 69 - 128; B - 129 - 208; C - 209 - 288; D - 289 up Women BB/AA - 0 - 88; A - 89 188; B - 189 - 248; C - 249 - 348; D 349 up.

Men BH/AA - 0 - 108; A - 109 188; B -189 - 288; C-289 up.

Women BH/A - 0 - 268; B - 269 348; C - 349 up.

Alabama Alabama Archery Association has held its annual banquet and meeting in Birmingham. Officers elected were: president — Dee Thompson, Florence; vice-presi-

dent - John Broadbent, Florence; secretary/treasurer — Sherry Mize, Birmingham; NFAA repre­ sentative - Paul Murphy, Besse­ mer; publicity chairman - Ray Mize, 611 Hoadley Dr., Birming­ ham, 35213.

Champions of the AAA Field Championships are: FS/Men — Don Pledger, 1545; BB Men — Wade Adkins, 1287; BH Men - Henry Parker, 1143; FS Women - Pat Funk, 878; BB Women — Maggie Adkins, 1259; YA Boy — Dudley Feazell, 1464; YA Girl — Johnnie Tidd, 965.

Montgomery Field Archers host­ ed the Alabama Broadhead Cham­ pionship tournament with a slate of 57 archers competing for awards of the state plaque and re­ volving trophy. Top shooter for the men was Jerry Montgomery and Sherry Mize led the women.

Division winners were: FS/Men — Jerry Montgomery; BB/Men — Wayne Smith; BB/Women — Sher­ ry Mize; BH/Men - Clinton Gil­ bert; BH/Women — Iris Hills; Youth - Chip Taylor; Cub —Creed Hoyle.

Cullman Archery Club raffled a bow and gave AAA a portion of the proceeds. Drawing was held at the State Championship and win­ ner of the bow was Paul Ross.

New officers for Vulcan Arch­ ery Club in Birmingham are: president — Wade Adkins; vicepresident — Mike Murray; secre­ tary — Guin Murray; treasurer — Maggie Adkins; field captain Ray Mize.

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Silver Arrow Tournament host­ ed by Kick A Poo Bowmen of Man­ chester was a success with 126 archers participating. Top win­ ners were Men FS/AA Jim Thur­ man, 1110; FS/A - Al Wilson, 1076; Men BH/A — Jerry Morris, 858; Men BB/AA — Mays Stin­ son, 956; BB/A — Sidney Clemmer, 972. Women FS/AA — Freida Far­ mer, 849; FS/A - Sharon Thur­ man, 935. Women BB/A — Anette House, 829. Five states were rep­ resented at this annual tourna­ ment.

The dates and place for the 27th annual convention of the Ten­ nessee Conservation League has been set by the Board of Direc­ tors. The convention will be held at the Hilton Airport Inn of Nash­ ville on April 19-21, 1973. All clubs in the state should be represented at this important convention.

New historian for TAA is Dick Sanders, 3545 Fountain Park Blvd.

Knoxville. All news articles, fea­ tures and pictures regarding arch­ ery activities should be sent to him in order to preserve as much history of archery in Tennessee as possible.

NEW ENGLAND

by PHYLLIS BUTTERS

Connecticut The Connecticut Archery Asso­ ciation will present an archery demonstration at the annual ban­ quet of the State Rifle and Pistol Association in December. A pre­ vious demonstration held at the Blast and Cast Club on National Hunting and Fishing Day this fall was very successful in presenting archery to the public. Mike Gareta will be master of ceremonies while Mike Fedora, Dale Brodeur, and Bill Cisek illustrate barebow, free­ style, and bowhunting division styles of shooting and equipment.

The program will also include some trick shooting.

The Great River Bowmen host­ ed a Broadhead Shoot on October 1 to kick off the 1972 hunting sea­ son. The round consisted of animal round targets, shooting one arrow per target, and scoring 20 points for a hit in the vital area and 10 points for a non-vital hit. The

archers had to go around the field course four times, each time shoot­ ing from a different set of un­ marked stakes. The winners were as follows: 400 and up - 1st, Dale Brodeur, 740; 2nd, Silvio Francischiello, 650; 3rd, Mike Fedora, 640; 300-399 —1st, Bernie Lynch, 780; 2nd, C. Herndon, 640; 3rd, Bob Patria, 620; 200-299—1st, Charlie Turchi, 640; 2nd, Pete Luban, 540; 100-199 —1st, Mark Reveaux, 490; 2nd, John Turchi, 340.

Sandy Sullivan was the Women’s division winner with a score of 310.

Another Broadhead Shoot was held on October 8, this time host­ ed by the Enfield Archery Club.

Deer targets at unmarked hunting distances provided the marks for this event, and the equipment rules were “shoot with what you hunt with.” The archers went three times around the course, shooting one arrow per target.

Twenty-nine archers participated, and the winners were: Men —1st, Silvio Francischiello, 650; 2nd, Jerry Brown, 620; 3rd, Manny Mello, 600; Women — Carol Sulli­ van, 270; and Youth - Brian Mello 290.

Some 116 archers and golfers participated in the C.A.A. Archery-Golf Tournament held at the Blackledge Country Club in He­ bron on October 29. Despite the rain which came down all day, all Continued

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Indoor Archery Range. This sea­ son’s event will be held on Febru­ ary 17 and 18 in Manchester, Con­ of the archers and golfers alike necticut. The round will be a sin­ thoroughly enjoyed themselves gle PAA Indoor Round, and since and are already talking about next the tournament is sanctioned by year’s event. Two archers who the PAA, AAC equipment rules drove all the way from Ohio to Wjll be in effect.

Four shooting times are avail­ compete in the tournament were rewarded when they received able: 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Saturtheir trophies for top archery hon- day, February 17, or 10 a.m. and ors, Charles Minnick with a gross 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 18. score of 51 for the eighteen holes The pre-reg'istration fee for open and D. Potter with a net score of shooters is $20.00, and the ama­ 53. teur pre-registration fee is set at A special award was given to $7.00. The tournament guarantees the archer and golfer who came $2,000.00 to the top 25 men and closest to the pin on the seven­ women scratch shooters, while teenth hole, and this was won by $1,500.00 in trophies and merchan­ Eileen Waite, who came within dise has been earmarked for the two feet of the pin with her bow top handicap and amateur win­ and arrow, and M. Degnan, who ners. For additional information drove a golfball to within 24 feet and pre-registration forms, write of the pin. Our enthusiastic thanks to: Hall’s Arrow, Inc., Route #6, go to Nelson Fries of the Black­ Columbia, Connecticut 06237. ledge Country Club and Chuck Make your plans now to attend the Thomas of the CAA, who were re­ biggest indoor archery event on sponsible for conducting Connec­ the east coast! ticut’s first archery-golf tourna­ ment.

The date was recently set for Vermont the 1973 New England Indoor Open, a $3,500.00 money tourna­ The 1973 officers of the Ver­ ment sponsored by Hall’s Arrow mont Bowmen, Inc., are as folSECTIONAL REPORT Continued

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lows: president, Edward Fenton; vice-president, Edward Smith; secretary-treasurer, Isaac Dessaint; classification officer, Isaac Dessaint; NFAA Director, Mike Slivchak; 20-Pin Chairman, Mike Slivchak; Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs representative, Alden Jackman; and newsletter editors, Henry and Beatrice Palm­ er.

On September 23, National Hunting and Fishing Day, the new archery range of the Abanaki Archers was dedicated. It will be known as the Alden Jackman Range, a result of the incorpora­ tion of the former all-archery group known as the Abanaki Arch­ ers into a larger sportsmen’s club.

The VBI membership wishes the best of luck to a group of archers in Rutland, Vermont who plan to form a new club in that area. The Rutland Archers plan to hold a tournament in the fall of 1973 if everything works out for them be­ tween now and then.

The Lake Region Bowmen held a tournament this past season at their field course in Barton, with about thirty archers in atten­ dance. Although this may not seem like many, all who partici­ pated enjoyed shooting over the fine course which was in topnotch condition. The winners and their scores were: FS Men Scratch - Ed Whelan, 482; Handicap — Robert Swayer, 569; BB Men Scratch - Albert Phillips, 385; Hdcap - Ernbst Lavigne, 514; FS Women Scratch - Hallie Johnson, 365; BB Women Scratch - Edith Fenton, 254; Youth Boys - Har­ old Smith, 441; Youth Girls-Terry Rule, 433.

The Vermont Bowmen, Inc., held their 1972 State Championship Tournament on August 19 and 20 at the Otter Valley Bowmen’s Club. The tournament included field, hunter and animal rounds.

The winners and new state cham­ pions are: FS Men - Elton Kins­ man; BB Men - Steve Phillips; FS Women - M. Taylor; BB Wom­ en — Ruth Butler; Bowhunter — Mike Slivchak; FS Youth - H. Smith; BB Youth - Bradford Steinka; and BB Youth Girls Terry Rule.

A release of the Vermont Fish and Game Department dated Oc-

tober 25, 1972, indicates that as of that date, 291 deer have been taken by archers in Vermont. The top three counties are Orange with 48, Windsor with 46, and Rutland with 37. The report also included a note on bear hunting, and as of October 25, 42 bear have been taken in that state, the largest being a male at 325 pounds actual weight, which was taken in Mont­ gomery by Wellington Churchill.

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The Massachusetts Field Arch­ ery Association held its pre-annual meeting which included a re­ view of resolutions submitted by clubs to be voted on by the mem­ bership in a mail ballot prior to the annual meeting in February. The nominating committee announced the following candidates for of­ fice in the annual elections: NFAA Director, Bob Tate, unop­ posed; 2nd vice-president, Cliff Flanders, unopposed; secretary­ treasurer, Dolores Williamson, unopposed; Director, southern section, George Pierce, Russ Reyn­ olds, and Dotty Richards, ail from Nipmuc Rod and Gun Club; Direc­ tor, central section, George Ak­ royd and Al Mitchell, Northboro Fish and Game Club, and Paul McCulley, Marlboro Fish and Game Club; Director, north sec­ tion, Dan Charbonnet, Woburn

Sportsmen’s Club.

MFAA president appointed a committee for the 1973 Indoor State Championship Tournament consisting of Bob Denoncourt, George Akroyd, Dan Charbonnet and Guido DiTomasso. The new Olympic Committee will be head­ ed by Joe Berube of Northboro.

Joe’s purpose in forming this com­ mittee is to keep MFAA members well informed regarding equip­ ment and shooting rules for ama­ teur and Olympic competition as set down in the NAA and FITA handbooks.

A new club is growing in Little­ ton, Massachusetts. Bob Fedro and a few other hard-workingarchers have completed 14 tar­ gets of their proposed 28-target field course in time to schedule a last-minute .tournament for the 1972 season. The Littleton Archers held their first tournament on No­ vember 5, and with the New Eng­ land hunting season already well under way, the unmarked distance animal round was most appropri­ ate.

Speaking of the New England hunting season, Charlie Medeiros of Danvers Fish and Game Club proved there are some deer up in this area if you’re just willing to look hard enough and wait longenough. Charlie bagged a 110 lb. doe in Groton, Vermont on October 21, on his eighth day out.

GREAT LAKES

by ROLLIE MANTZKE

Illinois Congratulations to Herb Tison.

While hunting in British Colum­ bia, he shot a Grizzly bear weigh­ ing over 800 lb. and measuring over 25 in. on skull measurement, possibly a new Pope and Young record.

Bowhunters in Illinois have had a great year. Chuck Maloney of CBH shot a Pope and Young bear, Frank Hefflin of ALA shot a whitetail doe that dressed out over 140 lb. Several bucks were taken at the Mark Twain Refuge on a special three-day bow hunt at Quincy.

The IAA election is drawing to a close; we’ll have the results next month.

Chicago Bowhunters host their annual Children’s Benefit shoot on December 17. Registration is 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the fee is a $2.00 gift marked for a boy or girl. Aft­ er the shoot these gifts are deliv­ ered to the orphanage near the club.

The indoor season is in full swing with many leagues already started. Don Schram has started one for bowhunters with animal faces; his address is: 7240 W. Madi­ son, Forest Park, Ill. Continued on page 3 5

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Hawaiian Open the Greatest Pat Norris, in our estimation, is today’s greatest promoter of professional field archery, and I am per­ sonally acquainted with over a hundred guys and gals who will back me up on this statement. There may have been others who thought of such a “pack­ age deal” event, but only Pat Norris had the nerve to back such a promotion. The event was fantastic from beginning to end. I should like to give you an arrow-for-arrow account of the many pleasurable and exciting experiences we enjoyed during our trip to beautiful Hawaii and the Bonnie Bowman $10,000 Open Field Archery Tournament.

Frieda and I, accompanied by Ruth Hathaway, NFAA Advertising Coordinator, boarded a Western Air Lines plane at Palm Springs Airport on October 19th and flew nonstop to San Francisco. We joined the archery gang at the Holiday Inn for a one-night stop-over. The following morning we checked our baggage to Honolulu, passed through the metal-de­ tector devices and boarded a Western Air Lines 720 jet plane. We were airborne at 8:30 on a round trip of five days and four nights. Our itinerary included: deplaning at Honolulu Airport; transfer and passage to the Waikiki Resort Hotel by Sightseeing Services of Hawaii, Inc.; free passage to and from the tour-

View of Diamond Head Crater and lineup of targets.

Archers are: Jack Lancaster, John Williamson, Gary Lyman and Bob Vespa. Lancaster won the event.

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nament site at Diamond Head Crater. This was a beautiful drive paralleling Waikiki Beach.

The tournament site actually was in a volcanic crater, but instead of molten lava there were acres and acres of a beautiful park and green lawn.

Upon arrival at the tournament site we found 28 NFAA field targets arranged in a straight line start­ ing with the birdie target, progressing to the 80-yard walk-up; then from another 80 back to a birdie. We had a practice session Friday afternoon. Two official NFAA 28-target field rounds were shot, one on Satur­ day and one on Sunday. Monday was an open day for sightseeing. Departure for the mainland was late on Tuesday evening. Incidentally, all archers competing in the event had to be members of the NFAA. Probably the most important highlight of the trip was the low over-all cost which made the difference to us and many others of being able to afford the lux­ ury of a trip to Hawaii. The total cost of transporta­ tion, hotel in San Francisco and Hawaii, shooting fees, bus fares, and awards banquet, was $639 round trip for both of us.

We want to compliment Western Air Lines on their fine meals served aboard their champagne flights. As has been said, “The Only Way To Fly”. Our en route to Hawaii meal consisted of the following: filet steaks (four-ounce), terriyaki, rice, carrots, ba­ nana cake, roll, butter, coffee and/or champagne.

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viewed from our hotel window overlooking Waikiki Beach. A reef projects out from the beach several hundred yards and the clear sea water reflects not only the blue sky but the vegetation covering the reef. A most beautiful montage of blue, green, and other vivid colors. Other pretty sights were great numbeis of sail boats, occasional outrigger canoes and shapely gals in bikinis.

Many times I have heard that it rains in Hawaii e.very day. Perhaps so, somewhere on some island, but we did not have to use the umbrella even once during our stay. We saw clouds occasionally but they did not drip on us.

Our first trip to the field was Friday afternoon for a practice session. As our bus neared Diamond Head, I wondered how we’d get on top. I couldn’t see any road so presumed it was hidden by trees. We didn’t climb the mountain, we went through it! Yes, we went through a tunnel, which was level with the bottom of the crater.

It would seem that in a crater there would be no wind. Don’t you believe it. We shot in a wind which, at times, was brisk. Normally this would pre­ sent no problem if it came from the same direction.

Here the wind seems to blow from every direction at the same time. In the manner of a whirlwind but of a milder nature. The wind would seem to come in one side of the bowl, take a tour around the inside and exit in another direction.

I remember one target where the wind gave me trouble. I could feel it on my left cheek, so I held on the left hand side of the five ring. I think the dis­ tance was sixty yards. My first arrow was in the mid­ dle of the three ring at nine o’clock. For me, there is nothing startling about that. When the second arrow hit about the same spot I was puzzled. While I was pondering the situation I saw a paper cup blowing toward the left behind the target butt. Actually the wind was blowing in the opposite direction down by the target. I asked Pat Norris what the answer might be. He explained that he watched the waving grass between the shooting line and the target. I noticed even the good shots, had embarrassing ar­ rows off the target in the straw at times.

Speaking of the good archers, we had an exciting shoot-off of a tie in the gals’ division. The tie was be­ tween Darlene Collier and Anita Vespa. To make the shoot-off more dramatic the Field Captain requested the women to decide the issue on the 80-yard walk-up.

With considerable money resting on the outcome of the event, Darlene and Anita toed the line at the fif­ ty-yard marker. Here’s the way it went: Fifty yards —Darlene, five; Anita, three.

Sixty yards —Darlene, three; Anita, five.

Seventy yards — Darlene, three; Anita, five.

Eighty yards-Darlene a blank; Anita, three.

Final score: Darlene three for eleven; Anita four for sixteen. Four for sixteen on this target un­ der the obvious pressure was mighty nice shootin’.

Congratulations Anita!

Full coverage of the tournament appears else­ where in this issue.

I was pleased to meet Mike Trotto, tournament coordinator of the Hawaiian State Archery Associa­ tion and Hawaiian representative for Bonnie Bow­ man Promotions, to whom we owe much for the suc­ cess of the tournament. I was especially impressed in meeting and visiting with Jimmy Lee whose per­ sonality will win you over before he has said ten words. His personality is terrific. I am sure he is a Polynesian and a leader in Hawaiian Archery and bowhunting. We offer our thanks for his help in showing the archers a good time. We talked much about bowhunting in Hawaii. He is Hawaii’s leading guide and outfitter and has invited mainland arch­ ers to join him on one of his guided hunts. If you are interested, you may contact him at the following address: Jimmy Lee, 62 Ponahawai Court, Hilo, Ha­ waii 96720. His title is Hawaii Island Archery Club Advisor. You can also contact Pat Norris for group hunts.

As a grand finale to the tournament, we were treated to a fine banquet plus cocktails. A fine or­ chestra furnished Hawaiian music. Many of the arch­ ers enjoyed dancing during the evening. This enter­ tainment and banquet was provided as part of our “package.” Pat Wingfield, president of the NFAA, announced the winners. Pat Norris made the actual

Left: On the flight to Hawaii, Pat Norris, Hawaiian Open promo tor, discusses the event across the aisle with Bob Blair, Bear Archery Com­ pany representative.

Right: With Diamond Head and the archery range inside the crater in the background, spectators are Ruth Hathaway, NFAA Advertis­ ing Coordinator, pretty unidenti­ fied lady, and Frieda Hoff.

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presentations. A total of $10,000 in cash and mer­ chandise was given.

From a purely personal view the biggest and most delightful highlight was Pat Norris’ “birthday party.” When we arrived at Pat’s apartment with our gift and card of congratulations we found the suite full of other archers who had been invited. In a few seconds we learned it was all a hoax, but nice. The gang gave us three cheers foi* our Golden Anniver­ sary. Pat and the gang had planned the event as a surprise, and it sure was that. After many congratu­ lations and a smooch or two, Pat presented us with a Above: Posing in the Hazvaiian sunshine are: Roy and Frieda Hoff, Jewel (Mrs. Max) Hamilton, Eva Trancoso and Orrie Geier.

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There were two goblets engraved with the wording: “Roy and Frieda’s Golden Anniversary”. Each com­ partment of the bag contained a gift of gold. There were four small goblets to go with and match the big ones; salad bowl with gold fork and spoon. A special gift was a three-inch-long gold arrow set with spar­ kling stones. Mary Lynn Snyder made the presen­ tation in behalf of the Las Vegas Archers.

Frieda and I thank you all very much. It really was wonderful. A highlight of our life and a fantastic tournament.

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EUROPE

by PHYLLIS BUTTERS

The Ramstein Archery Club hosted a two-day shoot on Sep­ tember 30 and October 1. After shooting a hunter round shot on Ramstein’s 28-target field course, the archers traveled five miles to shoot an International round on a new range at the Kaiserslautern Rod and Gun Club. Tournament winners and their combined hunt­ er and International round scores are: FS Men — Larry Young, 797; FS Women — Ann Young, 688; BB Men, Class B - Randy Porter, 533; BH Men - John Durette, 546; FS Youth Boys — Matthew Burns, 729; FS Youth Girls Class C Cindy Young, 242; BB Youth Boys Class B — Ron Brainard, 175; Adult Open Division — John Hus­ ton, 410; Youth Boys Open — Alex Vogel, 118.

The Ramstein Club is the only club in Europe that includes a Peewee Division in its tourna­ ments for children under the age of ten. Most of these young arch­ ers shoot small bows of twenty to twenty-five pounds from the Youth Division stakes, and they have surprised adult archers with their ability to shoot a complete twenty-eight target field round on one day, and shoot another one the following day.

The Ramstein Club, which pres­ ently has two boys and two girls shooting in their newly-formed Peewee Division, feels strongly that the program should be adopt­ ed throughout the European tour­ nament circuit, so that these little folks will have more of a chance than they do in the regular Youth Division.

SOUTHWEST

by MARLENE CRIM

California Black Mountain Bowmen are having their annual “Morning After The Night Before” shoot

(as it was traditionally called) on January 7. They are expanding the shoot this year, making this their open for “73”. There will be 28 multi-colored targets, American type scoring, 5 arrows; hot lunch after the shoot, novelties, refresh­ ments, sorry no babysitting. Tro­ phy’s liquid. Registration 8:309:15, start shooting 9:30 sharp.

Registration fee: adults $2.50, youth $1.50, family max. $6.00.

The Black Mountain Range is located on Wagner Road; take Camden Ave., turn right onto Hicks Rd., go to Wagner, turn right, follow road right up to BMB range.

Black Mountain recently elect­ ed new officers who will be in­ stalled at their annual banquet which this year will be planned around the children in the club.

The officers elected are: president, Steve Lucero; vice-president, Ran­ dy Redmond; secretary, Dotty Clark; treasurer, Jana French­ men; range captain, Chet Boyd, and range assistants, Dennis Jen­ nings and Jack Greenhill.

Hawaii

The Hawaii State Archery Assn, recently elected the following of­ ficers: president, John L. Bates; vice-president, Bob Nishihama; secretary/treas. Dan Addy; NFAA representative, Jim Archuletta; bowhunting chairman, Tom John­ son.

The State Field Championship tournament was held September 2-4 and included the following winners: Youth/Ama. - Bobby Quayle, 1610; Youth/FS — Matt McMul-

lin, 1709; Cub — John Bates III, 1930; YA — Ben Hauger, 1653; Women/BB — Terry May, 1224; Women/FS Ama — Joyce Kitteredge, 1550; Women FS — Kitty Archuletta, 1583; Men BH - Bill Kaleleiki, 1589; Men BB — Wes May, 1529; Men FS Ama — Bob Nishihama, 1695; Men FS — Jim Archuletta, 1626; Open — Wally Nagao, 1625.

The State Indoor Championship will be held on Saturday and Sun­ day, January 13 and 14, 1973 at AFFAC Indoor Range. This will include the JOAD Championship.

Nevada November 5 was the date bow­ hunters in the area turned out in full force to compete in the Las Vegas Archers’ Santa Cruz shoot.

Forty animals were shot at un­ marked yardages with legal bow­ hunting equipment with field points. The awards were paid hunting trips to Santa Cruz Is­ land for Marino Sheep and Rus­ sian Boar. The three lucky arch­ ers who will travel to Santa Cruz in February are David Snyder, Jim Rigioni and Jim Rogers. Con­ gratulations!

Utah

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Championship Shoots bids were awarded for 1973 with the follow­ ingclubs as hosts: Indoor, Brigham Bowmen, April 7-8; Golf, Datus, May 5-6; Formal, Mt. Ogden, May 19-20; Field, Brigham Bowmen, July 14-15; Broadhead, Brigham Bowmen, August 4-5.

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LlKE ME, many of you bow­ hunt a little and shoot a few tar­ gets. You probably have fair luck but do your share of missing too.

Like me, you also may know an archer who just seems to have the good breaks while hunting. You can keep up with him on the target range but, almost without excep­ tion, he is the fellow who brings home the trophy rack and the one who consistently fills out his tag.

They say “luck will beat skill anytime.” But not consistently, certainly not in bowhunting. So let’s talk about our friend and see what makes him so “consistently lucky.” Let’s call him John.

Old John shouldn’t be any more successful than a dozen others in

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the club. He doesn’t attend most of the big tournaments, and when he does, his scores aren’t that great.

His equipment certainly isn’t the latest, and his form leaves a lot to be desired. He hunts small game and fishes a lot. How can he be such a good bowhunter without worrying more about the finer points?

After analising John and tak­ ing a look at his past, several things are obvious. Maybe it isn’t luck that our friend relies on. See what you think.

Quality Practice

Probably the single most impor­ tant reason for John’s success is his attitude and dedication. There was a time when he was right up in the ranks of the state’s best tar­ get shooters. John has reconned with himself and decided between target archery and bowhunting.

He knows the difference between quality practice and just shoot­ ing a lot. On his fishing trips, which just happen to be near the country he hunts, he spends most of the day along the deei- trails, and the evenings fly fishing.

John shoots broadhead tipped arrows throughout the year and knows his hunting country like his own back yard. John has crept up to and shot through and under pine boughs at more cow pies than most of us have seen. His not so perfect form has been ground in by thousands of stump shots, many from odd shooting positions, at unknown distances.

With John there is not the need for constant formal shooting. He was carrying an old straight lem­ onwood bow when the solid glass and the “advanced” laminated re­ curves came on the market. What his well-used equipment lacks in class, it makes up in function. No reflecting surfaces, a quiet string,

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When John goes hunting he doesn’t go to party ot to camp. He goes dedicated to enjoy the en­ vironment and the fellowship of his companions, and primarily to hunt and kill the game they pur­ sue.

We can’t all be like John, but we can profit by our talk about him.

John now lives in the city like most of us and finding a way to remain competent in bowhunting is a definite effort for him too. It doesn’t just happen, nor can a be­ ginning bowhunter become profi­ cient without deliberately working on the long and sometimes incon-

venient time consuming process.

As bowhunters we respect and we owe our experience and degree of skill to the animals we pursue.

The all important thing for a bowhunter to do is to condition.

Condition his ability, both physic­ ally and mentally, so that he con­ sistently obtains clean killing hits.

Classic Shoot It has been my pleasure for sev­ eral years to participate in a shoot that is a classic in the line of qual­ ity bowhunting practice. At the risk of making this appear like an advertisement, I mention the Treasure Mountain Shoot of Park City, Utah, to give credit where it is due. Realizing that bowhunting is a priceless privilege for an archARCHERY, DECEMBER 1972 / 37

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By doing- this, they encourage good fellowship, and importantly, increase the hunting skill of those who participate.

Last year the club spent several hundred dollars and hundreds of man-hours in the development of targets the actual size, shape and color of the mule deer we hunt. At a distance of an average shot at a deer the targets cannot be distin­ guished from the real thing.

To achieve a natural hunting atmosphere and add to the enjoy­ ment of the hunters, the club has participants ride the ski lift gon­ dola from Park City to the top of the Wasatch Mountains. Thirtytwo deer (targets) are placed through some of the most beauti­ ful pine and aspen covered coun­ try in the west.

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try, and at a distance of an average shot, the deer tar­ gets cannot be distinguished from the real thing, ac­ cording to the author. The targets also facilitate easy withdrawal of broadheads, and pass through shots have been minimal.

legal broadhead tipped arrows.

The targets are great for with­ drawing a broadhead, and pass through shots are minimal. For icing on the cake, on Saturday night of the two-day weekend shoot, the chef puts on a beef barb-que, and live western music and laughter are heard halfway up the ski slopes.

For quality practice, I can think of no other activity that equals the extraordinary Treasure Mountain Shoot. The key to making this kind of shoot most worthwhile is not to go there with equipment that has been idle all summer. It should be climax of a summer of conditioning that will enable you to get that first shoot into the vi­ tals of a trophy buck. Anyone who attends a shoot like Treasure Mountain has to become more like our old friend John.

This year’s 9th annual Treasure Mountain Shoot was held over the weekend of August 12 and 13. No one under 16 years was allowed

to shoot the course, and legal equipment was required. Park City is an ideal location - an old mining town which has been re­ stored into a swinging ski and summer recreation town, a sight­ seers and campers haven which also has excellent motels. For in­ formation on participating or how the shoot is run, contact Presi­ dent Ray Howard, 942 Statice Avenue, Sandy, Utah 84070.

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Been on a college campus lately? Maybe you’ve even given some thought to taking a course or two. We can’t predict how you’d do academically, but here’s a chance to test your college archery IQ. The following questions are based on results of a survey conducted by Stev­ en Hayes, equipment consultant for Jas. D. Easton Co., at the 1972 In­ tercollegiate Archery Tournament.

See how closely you can pick the tackle and technique preferences of 162 top men and women collegiate archers. Score five points for each correct answer. If you score 90 to 100, open an archery shop near cam­ pus; 80 to 90, offer to assist the college instructor; 50 to 80, ask the in­ structor to enroll you in his class; below 50, sign up for Basketweaving 101.

1. From the dozen bow makes listed at right, pick the top three in order of popularity among all the archers surveyed.

2. Which of these bows was the favorite among the top ten women shooters?

3. Which bow was used most by the top ten men?

4. What was the average bow weight among the top ten women?

5. Estimate the average bow weight among the top ten women.

Bear Black Widow Browning Carroll Golden Eagle Groves Howatt Hoyt Morrett Pearson Root Wing

6. Pick the fletching preferred by the higher scoring half of the field: (a) feathers (b) hard plastic vanes (c) soft plastic vanes.

7. Which shaft was found predominately in the upper half of the field? (a) Swifts (b) 24 SRT’s (c) X7’s.

8. How many of the archers use an extension sight? (a) 27% (b) 40% (c) 60%. Where are these archers found in the field? (a) upper half (b) middle (c) lower half (d) scattered.

9. What percentage of the archers use a peep sight? (a) 10% (b) 30% (c) 40%. Where are these archers found in the field? (a) upper half (b) middle (c) lower half (d) scattered.

10. Approximately what percentage of the archers use a level? (a) 10% (b) 35% (c) 55%.

Where are these “level shooters” located in the field? (a) upper half (b) middle (c) lower half (d) scattered.

11. Approximately 40% of the archers use kisser buttons. Where are they found in the field? (a) upper half (b) lower half (c) scattered.

12. Which stance is used by the majority of archers, open or tradi­ tional square?

13. Of the 162 archers surveyed, how many use a side anchor rath­ er than an anchor position under the chin?

14. Did the men or the women have a higher range in aiming time?

15. Which group, men or women, averaged a longer follow-through?

(Answers appear on page 44)

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Biography of One Bowhunter TWENTY years ago this month my first whitetail deer fell to one of my homemade cedar arrows, shot from a 63 lb. straight end Bear Polar boiv. At the time it seemed like the culmination of an effort that had many times previously ap­ peared futile. Now, looking back, it was not the end, but only the first step in a bowhunting jour­ ney that hopefully will continue for many more years.

It almost goes without saying that my experi­ ences since taking up the bow some 23 years ago, and particularly after scoring on that first deer, have given me a great deal of pleasure. A lot has been learned from innumerable errors as well as the occasional successes. Today, I still enjoy bowhunting as much as ever, perhaps more, even though the drive to “bring home the venison" has long since lapsed into a secondary position in judging the success or failure of the hunt.

In the following months we will recall some of these adventures, expound on some aspects of hunting with the bow, and review bowhunting developments over the years. Entitled “Biogra­ phy of One Bowhunter,” this series will try to recapture some of the nostalgia of those early days for the oldtimers. For the newcomers, the aim is to help them appreciate more their newfound avocation and develop more quickly into proficient huntsmen. For everyone, the hope is that you will find these articles enjoyable as well as profitable reading. — Dick Sage

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y EARLIEST awareness of archery came from Ernest Thompson Seton’s Two Little Sav­ ages during the early 1930’s before I reached my teens.

Enthralled with the experiences of Yan and Sam, I created a series of primitive bows and ultra-primi­ tive arrows with which I could hit nothing I aimed at. About 1935, I acquired a Stemmier lemonwood bow and six arrows and, although totally unaware of how to use it, I sallied forth in pursuit of upstate New York’s rabbits. My first and only shot at game was made from atop a brush pile at a cottontail half-hidden therein and I nearly took a toe off. I harmed the rab­ bit not at all and he promptly fled.

Thereafter, until 1948, my arch­ ery interests were subdued while I pursued small game animals and birds with the shotgun. Al­ though my father had hunted deer for many years with the gun, I did not accompany him until 1947.

But then the urge really took hold and I became an avid deer hunter.

During the summer of 1948 my ■wife and I began a close friendship with another- couple that reopened

my interest in archery. During a weeklong, two-family canoe trip from Racquette Lake to Tupper Lake in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, Jack Longwell and I discussed our mutual interests in the outdoors including fly fishing and hunting. Also discussed was the idea of hunting game, big game, with the bow.

Jack Longwell is a jack-of-many trades and master of most. A re­ spected scientist with a doctorate in chemical engineering, he is equally interested in the cello, intricate wood carvings, fly fish­ ing and Sierra hiking. When I brought up the idea of bowhunting for deer, his skepticism was in­ stantly overcome by the challenge of an unusual and difficult under­ taking. By fall we had managed to build OU1- first bows, mine a fiber backed lemonwood, Jack’s a straight limb self osage. Our ar­ rows were birch dowels, poorly fletched but reasonably straight through careful selection from hundreds in a local hardware store.

This was, of course, prior to the days of New Jersey’s special bow seasons, but that fall found us out after rabbits and later for deer during the gun season. Our lone success was a rabbit, shot in the chest on the dead run. Nevei' since have I made a more perfect shot, yet it could only be described as

a miracle since I could hardly put half my shafts in a stationary din­ ner plate, even at a much shorter distance.

Subsequent seasons came and went. We hunted in New York’s Westchester County, a bowhunt­ er’s heaven with plenty of deer, big deer, and no gun hunting. We even ventured into the Adirondacks, although hardly expecting to be successful in that most dif­ ficult of deer hunting areas. In 1950 New Jersey established its first bow season. Naturally, we were out every spare moment, but to no avail.

We Buy Bows Our equipment and our shoot­ ing both improved and by 1951 we had moved up to our first pur­ chased equipment, laminated bows made by Fred Bear. My bow was a 63 lb. Polar and Jack had a 57 lb. Grizzly. Compared to our previous equipment we were ad­ mirably equipped. Our arrows were now Port Onford cedar, well fletched. Our field archery days had begun and we could score in the 180’s for 28 on the field course.

We expected big things that fall but alas, no soap. Two weeks of “bucks only season” provided in­ numerable chances for does. I didn't even sight a buck and we Continued on page 42

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I saw the hit and the buck was out of sight. For a few seconds I heard him running, then silence.

Elation and chagrin came upon me simultaneously for the hit was far back in the middle of the ham.

I stayed put for ten minutes or so, then ventured over to Jack to an­ nounce the hit. Moving to the clearing we immediately found a broad blood trail. Following along we tracked until the trail van­ ished, but only 70 or 80 feet be­ yond was our deer, down and dead with a severed femoral ar­ tery.

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When the 1952 season rolled around, we considered ourselves good archers; when the bonanza of a buck or doe season was put forth by the Fish and Game mas­ terminds in Trenton, we hardly could conceive of failure in the fall.

Opening morning I hit a big doe high in the shoulders, almost a miss, and didn’t get her. Except for blood on the shaft I would have judged the shot a miss. Then followed several futile days for both Jack and I, until the last day of the season.

A six point, 104 lb. buck was the culmination of nearly five sea­ sons of trying—seasons during which our associates jibed us un­ mercifully. Seeing him stretched out at the base of that apple tree on Lance’s Hill was almost impos­ sible to believe. It was even more difficult in view of the unlikely cir­ ARCHERY, DECEMBER 1972 / 42

cumstances and the lucky shot.

We had started the day on stand, then switched to our favorite stalking technique and were on stand again in mid-morning near the crest of the “mountain” we’d dubbed Lance’s Hill. Down in the valley small game hunters were beagling and we figured on the likelihood that a deer might be spooked uphill by the commotion.

Soon after we went “on post” a red fox wandered by but my arrow cleared his back and landed in a stump. Shortly thereafter a deer could be heard clip-clopping uphill in the dry leaves. He headed right at Jack but veered toward me an instant before J ack released.

I heard Jack's arrow plunk into something, later found to be a tree, but couldn’t see the deer at first.

When I did he was going full blast and broadside with no promise of slowing at all. I pulled way ahead,

Our elation is hard to describe, but we danced around whooping and hollering like a pair of school kids. It could be done and we’d done it.

Jack and I have hunted that same area with the bow now every year since 1948. After we broke the ice in our fifth season afield with the bow, only a couple of lean years have been experienced. Our mutual interest in bowhunting has never waned but Jack’s asso­ ciation with other forms of arch­ ery, never as strong as my own, has been dormany since the mid50’s.

In the years after the latest World War I became enraptured with surf fishing for striped bass.

This sport is, of necessity, almost a way of life and for several years I strived to catch one without suc­ cess. I fished all night and went to work the next day, sleepless. I spent entire weekends at the Jer­ sey shore, even sleeping on the sand, until that bright June night when I caught my first — a 16‘/2 pounder. Later that year I caught several more, even guided a friend to success with a pair scaling 20 and 25 lb. on his first trip. Then finis. My interest petered out and I have not fished for stripers in fifteen years.

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After breaking the ice in 1952, few lean bowhunting years followed. In 195.1, still using his Bear 1955 we found an excellent loca­ tion in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, to which we’ve returned nearly every year since.

We tried the Adirondacks too with nil success until 1964 when I downed a small buck in an area between the Boreas and Hudson Rivers. Vermont and Pennsyl­ vania whitetails have not been neglected either.

But while the whitetail re­ mained the prime quarry and is still rated most highly, we turned our thoughts to other game as well. A postponed Newfoundland moose hunt came off in 1960, and successfully. In 1963 in Ontario, Canada, my first arrow loosed at a black bear after several trips scored. In 1965 a cougar and a fine mule deer were downed in Utah.

A second mule deer hunt in Colo­ rado in 1968 was unsuccessful.

I even got to Arizona for a crack at javelina. Finally I downed a Pope and young caribou in north­ eastern Quebec in 1971.

This fascination with bowhunt­ ing for big game in no way dimin­ ished our small game activities;

Polar bow, the author took this handsome buck, his third.

in fact, as our proficiency in­ creased, we began to score better on woodchucks, squirrels and rab­ bits. Because of longer seasons and more liberal limits, our hours afield for small game exceeded our annual hours for big game, particularly in those seasons where a bucky first day shot closed out the deer hunting for the year.

In one case the season lasted 10 minutes; another took a whole hour!

Now, twenty-three seasons of bowhunting after that first one in 1948, many things have changed, Equipment has evolved drastically since the early days of self bows and cedar or birch arrows.

Shooting techniques have been improved and today field scores shot with legitimate hunting equipment far exceed the scores expected of target archers in the past. Archery is no longer an un­ known sport and bowhunting has become a major activity.

The reasons for all these changes are many but basic to it all is the thrill of loosing a smooth­ ly shot arrow to arc gracefully

to a target or to a fine game ani­ mal. Bowhunting remains a real challenge, even with the improved equipment, that pits the hunter and hunted against each other on the most intimate of terms. The bowhunter must literally “see the whites of their eyes” before he attempts his shot, all the time watching for intervening limbs and other obstructions waiting to careen his shaft off course.

As I look back on these twentythree seasons, I find myself re­ living all the experiences once again. The thrill of waiting out the meandering' buck, slowly mov­ ing ever closer, is almost as acute now as was the actual event. Just putting down the words on the pages that will follow has been exciting, not in the least a chore.

It would be sufficient reward if the reader could be moved just a fraction as much as was the writ­ er.

NEXT MONTH: Dick Sage re­ calls some memorable shots as Bi­ ography of One Bowhunter con­ tinues on these pages.

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with the heaviest being 34 lb. The bottom ten women averaged 27 lb. The heaviest bow on the wom­ en’s field was 37 lb., found in the upper third of the field.

1. Top three bow makes in order 6. Score five points for selecting of popularity were: Hoyt Pro Meds (c) soft plastic vanes.

(42); Bear TD, HC 300, etc. (27); 7. Score five points for picking (c) and Wing P II, White, etc. (16).

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Score five points for each bow 8. Five points if you said (b) 40% of make you had in proper order. archers use extension sights. An­ 2. Score five points for Hoyt. The other five if you picked (a) upper top ten women used 8 Hoyt Pro half.

Meds; 1 Bear HC 300; 1 Black Wid­ 9. Score five for (a) 10%. Another ow. five-for(b) middle.

3. Score five points for Carroll.

10. Five points for (b) 35%. Five more for (d) scattered. ! nHwulUlU Hlnu M (OTMuru) 11. Five points for finding kisser buttons in (a) upper half of the field.

12. Score five for tradition. Twothirds of the archers use the tra­ ditional square stance. More men than women do use the open stance, although the open stance is not the one men use predomi­ nantly.

13. Score five if you said 10 or less.

Actually, only two of the 162 arch­ ers use a side anchor.

14. Score five for women. Men ranged from 2 to 15 seconds in the “May the world find the true meaning of peace — aiming period. Women ranged that’s the hope of all of us at Texas Feathers, from 4 to 20 seconds. Without a doubt, the survey showed that bet­ makers of BRIGHT WAY ground base feathers.’’ ter scoring archers aimed longer.

FIRST IN 15. Again, score five for women.

QUALITY AND Men averaged a 2 second follow BOX 1118 * ___________ BROWNWOOD, TEXAS 76801 RESEARCH through, while the women aver­ aged 3 to 4 seconds. However, The Original ALLE N COMPOUND Bow there seemed to be very little difference in the amount of followwith KNOCK DOWN POWER No Other Bow Can Approach through from high to low scoring targets._ _______________________ Mr Howard Benson reports "The Allen Compound Continued from page 19 Bow came thru like a Champ! I made a shot from about 12 yards slightly quartering away The arrow en­ up” with the group. And, on the tered the Bear's back 6 inches below the spine be­ subject of hospitality, Hawaiian tween the 2nd and 3rd rib It went thru like a hot knife thru butter and out into 6 inches of sand' under­ archers are first in that depart­ neath the bear. Leaving the arrow on the ground the ment. People like Mike Trotto, bear took off like a shot for 150 yards, then rolled into who stayed up all night getting a ravine stone dead. Needless to say I am real pleased with the performance of the Allen Compound Bow. the range ready and was always It's performance on the Bear indicated that the Com­ on hand to help, and Jimmie Lee, pound Bow had a lot more power than the conven­ tional bow." with a wide grin and a handshake that turned up everywhere, made CHOICE OF MODELS '.'7^ the Mainlanders certain they had Custom 40-50 lb. come to the right place.

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College Quiz Answers

The top ten men used 3 Carrolls; 2 Wing P II; 1 Bear Victor Viking; 1 Black Widow TD; 1 Morrett Dy­ naset; 1 Browning Challenge; 1 Master Archery Co. 4. Give yourself five points if you said 41, 42 or 43 lb. The top ten men averaged 42 lb., with the heaviest being 47.The bottom ten men aver­ aged 34 lb. The heaviest bow on the men's field was 56 lb., found on the lower third of the field.

5. Score five points if you esti­ mated between 29 and 31 lb. The top ten women averaged 30 lb.,

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Unsigned •You’re right, and our apologies for the oversight to Mr. Gandy, of Bartow, Florida, who also estab­ lished an unequaled hunter round record of 1080 at the 1967 Nationals -Ed.

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ARCHERY: Have you been shooting much in the army?

WILLIAMS: I'd been practising all summer, prior to the Olympics.

ARCHERY: Headquarters Company?

WILLIAMS: I work for Special Services, really, as­ signed to a Headquarters Company. I do some of­ fice work. Some of the work around the athletic field.

Then I can go and be free to practise shooting ar­ rows.

ARCHERY: A sports-oriented army career?

WILLIAMS: Right.

ARCHERY: Do you expect to remain in the army a while?

WILLIAMS: I’ll be in until next October, at least.

If things look supergood then, pay wise and all, I might stay in for another year. But you never can tell.

ARCHERY: John, you won the World Archery Tour­ nament in England last year; you’ve won the World Field Tournament in Italy this year, and captured the Olympic Gold Medal. What’s left? Anything?

WILLIAMS: Oh, a great deal is left, I think. One thing would be to go and try to do it all over again.

ARCHERY: Has anyone ever won two years in a row?

WILLIAMS: They haven’t had a two year winner since they introduced the FITA. And very few peo­ ple have ever gone back to defend their title, let alone win it again.

ARCHERY: What about turning professional?

WILLIAMS: Right. That would be one thing to do.

And it’s tempting in many ways. I think it would be a great life. Still, I won’t turn professional until circumstances allow the right offer. But, as I said before, you never can tell.

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