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Advertising Rates on Application TABLE OF CONTENTS Page NIGHT PROWL

By Lieut. F. D. Latta ..........................

FIFTY-THIRTY NORTH WITH THE BOW

By Dr. Paul E. Klopsteg .....................

SINEW BACKING

By Bruce Robertson ..............................

EDITORIAL ....................................................

THE BOW AND ARROW FOR BIG GAME

By Forrest Nagler ........................

FIELD ARCHERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

By John L. Yount ..................................

THE BOYS IN THE LOWER BRACKETS ...........................................

TOURNAMENT COMMITTEES

By John P. Cuneo..................................

THE LIGHTER SIDE OF ARCHERY Edited by George Brommers .................

FIELD CAPTAIN FOR NAA

By John P. Cuneo ..............................

TOURNAMENT GROUNDS

By John P. Cuneo ..................................

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Night Prowl

By Lieut. F. D. Latta, Coco Solo, Canal Zone

First let me justify this night hunt­ ing. Panama jungles are darned hot places in the daytime, and living critters with any sense stay out of the way. The ones wihout sense are the lizards and crabs and iguanas that are not very exciting to shoot, and the countless sand flies and mosquitoes that shoot at you. Be­ sides that, by taking the outboard and going up the canal one stays away from the heavy underbrush that is impossible for walking and one can stay out where there is a light breeze to keep away the mosquitoes.

Two men from the submarine wanted to take the twelve foot wherry and go fishing at night. One of them has developed a proficiency with the throwing net and on several occas­ ions provided the crew with hefty catches of mullet. The week before I had established a reputation by shooting a blue heron with my bow; so I completed the party armed with an osage bow, a strange assortment of broadheads, old blunts to be shot where there is no possibility of re­ trieving them, and a fishing arrow with a three pronged spike in the end of it.

We started out just a little before sunset to be through the old French.

Canal and up to Tarpon Lake by dark. There is no lingering twilight in Panama. All the way up the canal Rabon and Ogilvie were pointing out iguanas to me as excellent marks, but I can shoot iguanas in my front yard. The pleasure I get out of see­ ing how close I can come to one of the ugly things up in a tree is not worth the price of the arrow because once shot the arrow is forever lost. In the evening the iguanas stretch them­ selves out along the limbs of dead trees to catch flies for supper. Ogil­ vie shot at two or three of them with his .22 pistol without very encourag­ ing luck.

In Tarpon lake we stopped theoutboard and took to the oars, skirt­ ing the edges looking for mullet schools in the shallows. It was quite dark by then. Rabon and Ogilvie both put on jack-lights which we

had hooked up to a six volt battery in the tiny boat. The mullet were scarce and, after about an hour with only two to show for several throws of the net, Rabon and Ogilvie walked in the shallows towing the boat to avoid carrying the heavy battery. I stood up in the bow and, as we moved slowly along, got several shots at small barracuda. They lie quite still under the glare of the lights but vanish instantly as the arrow strikes the surface. I failed to hit a single one. Then we came upon a blanket fish slowly moving the gray corners of his diamond shaped body. While Rabon held the light on him, Ogilvie pulled the boat up until I was in position for a shot at ridiculously short range, for the fish was in water only about fourteen inches deep. I drew the arrow up to the prongs and loosed, shooting so nearly straight down that the refraction did not even enter into it. Result—a big muddy flurry and the arrow floating on the surface. I couldn’t have missed, but he must have had an awfully tough hide or the arrow tore out of his rather thin edges. We went on in much the same fashion, Rabon throwing his net at the mullet or holding his light on an occassional barracuda or red snapper.

Once while close inshore, we heard a faint rustling in the branches of an over­ hanging tree and turned both lights up into it. There we saw a patch of brown fur and bright eyes gleam­ ing in the reflected light. I had one shot with the bow and Rabon got in two with the pistol. Then I became hopelessly entangled in the net, stepped on one of the netted fish and couldn’t find another arrow. In the meantime the little brown possum went his unhurried way, probably to find a quieter spot for sleep.

By ten thirty I was dead sleepy and the other two men were a trifle disgusted with their fishing luck, so we started home. And then the fun began!

With Rabon running the motor, Ogilvie and I each had one of the jack-lights strapped on our heads. I discovered that by putting

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the light just a little forward and above my left ear I could keep it trained on whatever I wanted to shoot and still be free to handle the bow.

We kept a light on each bank of the rather narrow canal. This is De Lesseps canal that I am referring to and is only about thirty yards wide.

I was amazed at the number of pairs of eyes that shone back at us from the deep shadows.

When one of us spotted a reflected gleam, he kept his light on the spot and yelled at Rabon over the noise of tthe outboard. The latter steered for the spot indicated by our lights since he wasn’t ordinarily able to see the reflection unless he happened to be in the same line of sight. Then when we got close to the shore, he cut the motor and we drifted in to see what lay behind those gleam­ ing eyes. And I tell you it was FUN! More real excitement than I’ve ever before had with a bow. The first pair of eyes we saw turned out to be a baby alligator. He was an 'un­ certain target because he was up near the bank and there were weeds and sticks just his size floating be­ side him. That’s my alibi, anyway, because I shot just once and the familiar flurry of water cleared away leaving the arrow stuck in the bottom near the bank. The next headlight turned out to be an owl. He em­ phatically did not want to be dis­ turbed. I shot two arrows past him and on into the neighboring province before he flew to another tree ten feet away. I tickled his feathers with a third shot so he turned his back on us and left with some remark about “disturbing decent folks’ sleep.”

Rabon cranked the outboard and we were underway again, but inside of five minutes Ogilvie spotted an­ other pair of eyes low in the water at the edge of the canal. We re­ peated our maneuver and I nocked a blunt, all set to do real damage this time. And, believe you me, this was THE time. It was an alligator again but this fellow was four or five feet long. Maybe that’s just baby size, too, but the first one had been a bare eighteen inches and this guy looked enormous to me. I changed the blunt for one of my best broad­ heads while Rabon poled us up closer and closer. I could see the grayish white of his underbody, the rough

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corrugations of his spine and the unblinking gleam of his right eye.

Rabon advised my sitting down if the ’gator started our way. Then I saw his front feet starting to move as he backed water to move from the light and I let the broadhead go. There was a big splashing and thrashing, then nothing but a brightly painted arrow floating on the surface. Hon­ estly, I know I hit him. Rabon says so too. I just think his hide was too tough or maybe the arrow glanced.

It should have penetrated—a seven hundred grain arrow and an osage bow that was a sixty pound bow in any climate but this. Oh, well, more alibis.

Our next near victim was a ghostly white heron, cosily asleep in a tree.

The light picked up the white bulk of his body, and as we swung around I let go a blunt,at him. The arrow struck the branch on which he roosted.

He started up in such a flutter of ex­ citement that he flew right into an­ other branch of the tree, tumbling beak over tail feathers, then took off again screaming with rage. I don’t blame him a bit and I’m glad I missed. It’s no more fun piling out of bed to answer the phone and fall­ ing over a chair.

There is just one more episode. As much fun as all this was, I kept yawning until I couldn’t train the light properly, and only the rapid repetition of these forays kept me awake at all. .That is, until Ogilvie’s light picked out four points of light in the trees on the right bank. We were past the spot before Rabon could swing us around, so used oars to get in to the bank. I don’t care if you never be­ lieve this one— but there were two wildcats sitting up there! He and she, if I am not taking too much for granted, looked down at us and de­ cided that we looked harmless if some what disturbing so I got in the shot I had hoped for—and missed. The arrow didn’t startle the cats, so they came slowly down the tree to get out of the light. I shot again —and missed. Then Ogilvie, rightly disgusted, took a shot with the pistol and, with a snarl and a spit, the pair left the country. I felt right down­ hearted. I had so wanted to get one (Continued on page 14)

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Fifty-thirty North with the Bow

By Dr. Paul E. Klops teg, Chicago, Illinois (Continued from last month) The rain changed to snow about noon, with occasional flashes of sun­ shine. Early in the afternoon we started for Little Canada by kicker and arrived there at about 3:00. We

Thanksgiving Day in Canada.

Tuesday, October 12 1937: Up at 7:00, ample breakfast in the cook­ house, then wait for the plane. The weather is not too promising. Strong wind from the northwest, tempera-

Cut Courtesy Hudson’s Bay Co. Moose Killed with Two Hits with Arrows at 27 and 45 Yards

found all planes down—no flights today—so we waited. Had supper at Charlie Norton’s cookhouse and play­ ed with his little dog named Cabbage.

While we were thus engaged, a kitten came along which aroused either jealousy or some other instinct or emotion in the dog, so Cabbage took the kitten by the nap of the neck and carried her away to a safe dis­ tance, then came back for more pet­ ting. In the evening we visited with Mr. and Mrs. Rust, then came back to one of the few cabins in Little Canada and prepared our beds on the floor. A plane is promised for morn­ ing if the weather is good. This is

ture about 20, occasional snow flur­ ries. Roy saw a partridge sitting in a tree not far from the cookhouse.

Forrest and Roy both took their bows and three arrows each; I took my Forrest registered three camera, misses. They went back for more Forrest had the seventh shot arrows. _________________ ________ and a miss, and on the eighth, Roy hit the branch on which the partridge was sitting which jarred him—the partridge—loose and he flew away.

I was taking pictures while the shoot­ ing was in progress. I felt much better after the eight misses, because when I shot at the partridge in the brush I missed only six times.

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The plane arrived at about 11:30.

After our farewell to Forrest, Roy and I went aboard with our baggage, including the moose antlers. Foui< passengers were already aboard so I had to go forward and sit with the pilot on account of my greater avoirdupoise than Roy’s. Our flight out was bumpy, through some heavy snow flurries. From our altitude of about 3000 feet we could see snow­ storms miles away, then would fly through them. A heavy tail wind put us into Hudson at about 12:15. The plane was to return to Little Canada via Sioux Lookout to pick up Forrest and take him to Red Lake. In Hudson we had to wait until 2:00 A. M. for a train to Winnipeg, so we spent some time supervising the process of pull­ ing a pile driver out of the lake, which had fallen in several days be­ fore, and exploring the small settle­ ment. I also arranged to ship the antlers home by express but ran into the regulation that two hind quarters had to be presented before the Ex­ press Company could clear shipment. . It was an impossible situation, so far as we were concerned, so I hunted up the local game warden and found him doing his wardening in the socalled beverage room of the hotel drinking beer. After asking many pertinent and impertinent questions he cleared the shipment. After sup­ per we lay down and slept until about 1:00 A. M., then went to the station.

Wednesday, October 13, 1937: We took the train at 1:50 A. M., slept well, and arrived in Winnipeg at 8:40. We went to the Fort Garry Hotel and experienced one of the greatest pleasures of the trip, a warm bath . We had hardly arrived in the hotel when a reporter with a nose for news arrived and got our story and picture. We had to wait in Winnipeg until 6:35 so we spent the time look­ ing around the city, getting our bag­ gage cleared through U. S. customs, and going to the first movie we had seen in some time. Our trip home from the time we left “the bush” is taking us longer than a trancontinental trip by train. It is due large­ ly to the long period of waiting to start the next leg of the journey.

We left Winnipeg for Minneapolis on the 6:35 train.

Thursday, October 14, 1937: We

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arrived in Minneapolis at 7:20 A. M. and took the 8:15 daylight express.

Roy was met at Milwaukee by Mrs. Case at 5:00 o’clock. I left the train at Deerfield where my family met me at 6:10 P. M.; home at 6:40.

The story of my first big-game hunt is finished. Its memories and recollections are a valuable possession on which no taxes can be levied. Out of them I shall jot down a few casual impressions and thoughts as they come to me, after three weeks out of the bush: Admiration for resourcefulness of the guides—they’ve got to be—for in­ stance, the scraper for the toboggan runners............. Voracious appetites of the sled-dog—almost like mine— devoured seven-pound jackfish in less than ten seconds, scales and head in­ cluded .... If I have the good for­ tune to go again, I’ll know just how to do it. I’ll stalk ’em in the bush, much better fun than sneaking by canoe . . . One deer or moose with an arrow out of six or eight possible seems like a fair result—no disap­ pointments .... Paul to Roy, while writing diary, “How do you spell ‘agarol’1 ”?.... Roy trying to per­ suade Forrest to bring heavier bows next time .... French-Canadian guide’s incessant conversation—after three days of it we knew what was coming next .... Hunting arrows of 540 grains are preferable to heavier ones because of flatter trajectory, and heavy enough .... I’ve seen the real thing in bow-and-arrow hunting at first hand, and want to see more of it ... . And what if we didn’t shoot a thing? Just having been there is compensation—Deo volente, I shall go again.

We just can’t help criticizing the Butte Bowmen for so-naming their club when they could so logically have called themselves the Ishi Bow­ men, because they practice the art of archery in the locality in which Ishi, the last native American bowman, lived before he was taken away by his white friends. The new officers of the Butte Bowmen are Albert J. Walsh, president; J. A. Mayr, vicepresident; Carl Rabe, secretary­ treasurer; and Dr. W. S. Westwood, target captain. The club has twentyfive members.

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Sinew Backing

By Bailee Robertson, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The use of sinew as a backing for bows is not new. To the best of our knowledge, its use dates back several hundred years, perhaps thousands.

Archeologists have found carvings depicting the use of bows, and judg­ ing from the shapes, they were composit bows backed with sinew. Thus, the art of sinew backing is very an­ cient. Since the decline of Turkish archery, the use of sinew has, more or less, become a lost art.

The American Indians and the eskimos at times used sinew on their bow.

The sinew used on Eskimo bows was usually chewed and made into cords and bound on. The Sioux In­ dians used chewed sinew glued on.

The Turkish com posit bow was back­ ed with shredded sinew glued on.

This method is the one which the modern archer craftsmen are a in­ tempting to duplicate.

For several years, I have been ex­ perimenting with sinew as a backing material. In one test, using a fortyfour pound yew target bow unbacked, I carefully measured the maximum distances it would cast a flight ar­ row. I then backed the bow with sinew and retillered it. Although re­ tillered, the sinew added one pound to the draw weight. (Here’s a chance to build up that light bow of yours).

Upon using the same flight arrow under similar conditions, and care­ fully measuring the distances shot, I found an average gain of approxi­ mately twenty-five yards. Later, on using the bow for target at one hun­ dred yards, I found my point of aim had dropped two target diameters and was on the top of the target with a medium weight, footed arrow.

Tests of its tensile strength show that sinew is as strong or stronger than any of the bow woods.

This past summer in' the National Tournament at Lancaster, one of my foot bows broke. The wood splintered underneath the backing. However, the backing was not damaged at all and the bow remained in one piece.

If it had not been for the sinew backing, the bow would have gone all to pieces, and someone might have

been hurt.. Sinew will effectively prevent breakage where both fiber and rawhide would fail. However, ________ , it will not always prevent breakage.

The application of sinew is not dif­ ficult and anyone capable of making a bow can soon learn to successfully apply it. Any bow may be backed with it; however, it is advisable that the back be as regular as possible.

First, the sinew must be obtained from a packing house or butcher shop.

My preference is for the Achilles tendon from cows or steers.

It is advisable to have them removed from the sheath, cleaned and put in the drying room at the packing house for about a week before attempting to use them. This saves hours of un­ pleasant labor. After being dried, they resemble amber celluloid and are about eight to ten inches long, forked at one end. The first step in prepar­ ing the sinew for use is to remove all the fat and oils and to scrape off the skin. Then they should be washed with carbon tetrachloride, which is a non-inflammable cleaning fluid ob­ tainable in drug stores. This wash­ ing is to remove all traces of oil. If this is not done, the oil is apt to ruin the glue job.

Next, the hard dry sinews are pounded on a block with a mallet to soften and break down the fibers.

While pounding the sinews, revolve them. The sinew is then separated into strands about the size of ordinarv store string. Each strand will consist of a number of very small fibers matted together. When pre­ pared and ready for use, it is white in color and strongly resembles un­ spun flax.

After the strands are separated, they should be made into a bundle and tied until needed. This is by far the most tedious part of the backing and requires the greatest time. It will be necessary to prepare about a dozen sinews to back the av­ erage bow.

The glue used in backing is the hot type. Cold glues, such as casein, are of no value. My preference is for the clarified and refined calf skin stock flake glue. This is mixed five parts

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water to one part glue by weight.

About one-quarter of a pint should be mixed for one layer. The tech­ nique of the individual will determine the necessary amount. It is better to have too much glue rather than to run short. The glue should be al­ lowed to soak in the water for at least an hour before heating and as with other hot glues, it must be heat­ ed in a double boiler and the glue itself should not be heated above 145 degrees fahrenheit.

For best results, the glue should be heated and allowed to become cold, preferably the day before it is to be used, and reheated for use. By so doing, a more uniform and stronger glue is obtained. The room temper­ ature for backing should not be less than eighty degrees, preferably nine­ ty degrees, so that the glue does not become chilled during the backing.

Besides the sinew and glue, one needs about two yards of unbleached mus­ lin for bandages to bind down the backing. The muslin should be torn into strips about five inches wide and folded lengthwise so that when the backing is bound down, the folded edge goes onto the backing, the torn edge overlapping the previous turn.

Otherwise, the ragged edges will be glued into the backing.

If one is going to back a finished bow, first remove the finish and get the back as regular as possible. Then, the back may be given a sizing coat of glue. With a new bow, be sure to have the sides and back as you want them in the finished bow with the corners rounded, for after the back­ ing is completed, no work should be done on the corners except to smooth the sinew. This sizing coat is neces­ sary so that the sinew will be more closely bound to the wood. It is bet­ ter to do this the day before the back­ ing is applied.

One of the advantages of a sinew back is that it is not necessary to follow the growth rings closely; how­ ever, do not cut through too many rings. The back should be as flat and regular as the stave will allow.

The sinew is divided into small bundles about the size of an ordinary lead pencil and they are laid out on the table or bench ready to hand; about thirty bundles being needed, one half for each limb. This will

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vary according to the length and width of the bow.

I have found it best to use a shal­ low pan about six inches in diameter for the glue, this pan being suspend­ ed in a pan containing hot water.

It is easier to keep the glue at the proper temperature if the pans are placed on an electric plate which may be turned on and off at will. Speed is essential to a good job for if the glue becomes chilled before the bun­ dle is applied, it may not stick prop­ erly and the backing may pull apart where the bundles overlap.

It is much easier for two people to do the backing than it is for one, for the limb should be finished and wrapped before the glue sets.

If there are two, one does the dipping of the sinew in the glue and passes it to the other who applies it to the bow. The dipping of the sinew in the glue requires particular care, and much of the success of the backing depends upon it. The bundles are dipped in the glue one at a time and passed to the one applying the back­ ing. The bundles must be thoroughly saturated with glue and the excess carefully stripped out.

This must be done rapidly so that the glue will not begin to set before it is applied to the bow. It is important that the glue be thin and not too hot. If it is too hot, it will cook the sinew and ruin it. If it is too thick, there will be too much glue in the backing. It may be necessary to add water to the glue, especially if more than one bow is being done, as the water tends to evaporate from it. The purpose of the glue is merely to bind the fiber to the bow, and if there is too much glue, it will cause the backing to crack.

It is advisable to start backing from the tip and work to the handle as a more uniform thickness may thus be obtained. The backing is gradually built up by laying the bundles side by side and working the ends in together. As they are applied, they are smoothed down and moulded to the bow with the fingers. Care must be taken in lapping the ends of the bundles so that the laps do not come at the same place on the limb but are staggered. The sinew should be matted together over the entire (Continued on page 15)

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Editorial TELLIN’ YOU George F. Miles, Los Angeles — Help! Please don’t sick George on us.

We are clear down in the basement of his dog house now.

Janies F. Cully, Weed, California— You surely didn’t have much faith in your cartoon name entry or you wouldn’t have sent two dollars on subscription because, you know, there is no chance to get your money back when you once send it to us. Thanks, just the same, and glad, mighty glad, you like Ye Sylvan Archer.

R. C. Stua/rt, Saginaw, Michigan— Your title, “The Woes of a Basement Tackle Maker,” will touch the heart of many an archer even if it didn’t reach the heart of the judge.

F. K. DeWolf, Haney, B. C.—You have Fred Woodley to thank or blame, as you may view it, for a subscription to Ye Sylvan Archer.

In the interests of more regular archery publicity in the sports col­ umns of the newspapers and sport publications in the United States, Henry S. C. Cummings, chairman of the publicity committee of the NAA, is sending a monthly mimeographed “Archery Sportline” to the press.

Kore Duryee of Seattle and B. G. Thompson, who is in Seattle this win­ ter working for his Doctor’s Degree at the University of Washington, visited the Victorian Archers recently and got a good lesson in archery that should show in their Olympic Bow­ men scores. Let’s hope that some­ thing will or we are going to be af­ flicted with them in the Lower Brack­ et Boys.

An enterprising member of the NAA tournament committee has fig­ ured that each archer drawing a 40 pound bow at the August tournament will pull approximately 23,760 pounds.

250 archers will pull 5,940,000 pounds; almost enough to lift 3000 tons; or, to raise the Chrysler Building ap­ proximately six feet off the ground so an archer could walk under it.

Next month he’ll explain the Theory of Relativity!

Dr. Fred E. Harper says, “I am glad that I qualify to belong to the Lower Bracket Boys. I understand that Dr. W. HL Haines of Warren, Pa., who also qualified as a Lower Bracket Boy, for he shot on the same target with me at Lancaster, has been called to take part in the Last Great Tournament, where sooner or later we each will take our place.”

One of the bows donated by Willis H. Barnes to the Byrd Expedition to Little America in 1933-1935 has been returned to Mr. Barnes by Dr. Thom­ as C. Poulter, second in command, with valuable information on the back. This bow, which is still in per­ fect condition after taking part in the tournament under the ice and the other vicissitudes of the expedition, is one of Mr. Barnes’ most valued possessions.

Hey, Kids, Look!

Some of the sectional tournaments in California have had as many as thirty juniors competing, and as more than that number are expected at the National, in August, a separate sec­ tion of Golden Gate Park Stadium will be set up at one end of the field for them.

Gee, kids, won’t it be swell. We’re going to have our own field captain, lady paramount, n’everything!

—NAA Tournament Committee.

Cartoon Caption Contest Our last month’s cartoon contest brought out so many good names for Ken Clayton’s cartoon that it made selection of the three best very diffi­ cult. We should have made Ken the goat and submitted the names to him, but, as the bright idea came too late, we had to find another judge, unnamed here to protect him from any wrath to come. Here they are: 1. “The Call of the Wild” submitted

by Fred E Harper, Angola, N. Y. 2. “For the Last Time, Where Is My Prize Turkey?” submitted by Jack D. Quick, Milwaukee, Wis. 3. “He Knew It Was Coming!” submitted by George Miles, Los An­ geles, Calif.

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Probably the first machine invented by man, his first source of real superiority over animals and more wide­ ly dispersed over the face of the earth than any other single device, the bow has been so far supplanted by firearms that there is little general knowledge of its capabilities. It is still the device that gives muscles their greatest distance in misslc throwing. I am not speaking of the toy pinch grip bows of our childhood or even of most of the native bows that are known. I am rather referring to powerful military and hunting bows— bows such as permitted the Persians to wipe out whole armies of Romans when the latter were at the peak of their power just after Cae­ sar’s time; bows such as the Turks used in wiping out whole armies of Christian Crusaders; bows such as the Mongols used in defeating every considerable European and Asiatic power that could be brought against them; such as the Welsh used in defying the English for several hundred years, and that later when incor­ porated in the outnumbered English armies gave them astonishing victories over the French at Crecy, Poictiers, and Agincourt. That bow freed the commoner in England from fear of the nobility hundreds of years before her neighbors had similarly progressed, and in that freedom England gained her place in the sun.

— The English had a pow­ erful weapon, easily made, practically immune to wea­ ther conditions, fast in ac­ tion and very effective in driving heavy armor-pierc­ ing arrows. It was inferior to the Asiatic and Turkish bows as a general military weapon because of its length and its much shorter range. The English achieved possibly 200 to 300 yards, whereas

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the Turks were able to drive their military arrows twice that far and achieved over 800 yards with light arrows.

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Bow and firrow or Big Game

By FORREST NRGLER

C Hudson's Bay Company Our present day bows are develop­ ments of the Welsh war bow, later and perhaps better known as the English long-bow. Developments of

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the last ten years with this bow have practically doubled its range and greatly in­ creased. its effectiveness:------We are frequently asked, “why use the bow?” The only answer is that we like to. It is light, silent, and deadly. Interesting to make and not easy to master. It gives a quicker and more positive kill than a rifle bullet for the majority of body shots. It has no stop­ ping power whatsoever, but the one inch wide cutting head may be driven through the largest land animals in North America. It kills by lung collapse and blood let­ ting, but due to its lack of shock, is of no value in stop­ ping a charging animal if there ever should be such.

The energy or stopping pow­ er of an arrow is about 20 foot pounds — a good hunt­ ing bullet has 2000, though they weigh about the same.

A bow weighs about a pound, and an arrow about one ounce (5’/2 shillings is one of the old English arrow desig­ nations). In this respect it corresponds to the fly rod, and although it is a little clumsy in the bush because of its length, its lack of weight makes one appreciate it at the end of a long day.

Hunting equipment is lim­ ited to an extreme range of about 200 yards, and the usual effective range is less than one half that. Desir­ able range for moose, which is probably the hardest North American game for the bow, is probably under 75 yards.

One running moose that I killed was hit at 27 yards, missed at 35, and hit again at 47 yards.

Three shots in about 15 sec­ onds.

No arrows went through, due to the binding of the shafts by the play of the muscles, but both shots were fatal.—Selected from article in “The Beaver,” Hudson’s Bay Company magazine.

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Southern California Field Archers

By John L. Yount, Secretary

What Happened at Yermo A small number of underhanded crooks, headed by President Woodley, arrived for advance practice, Friday, January 21. This is a personal opin­ ion. They claim they were there early to help get things ready for Sunday’s tournament.

Some 35 or 40 more of us pulled in Saturday afternoon. That evening a very informal indoor meet was held in Ken Wilhelm’s garage. With one target and 45 archers all trying to shoot at once, one can well imagine the informality.

Sunday’s tournament got underway at nine o’clock with 70 archers taking part. The opening event being a charging whatzit, upon which each archer must qualify before competing in other events.

This is how it worked. The archer stood in a pit and hit the face with an arrow. This worked the trip and dropped the sack of ballast. If you hit, you were safe.

If not, the sack kept right on coming and you got socked. A swell event for the spectators.

Other novelties were a galloping buck. He certainly had a lot of ac­ tion for a deer that wasn’t going any place. His heart was a bell, so every­ one looked when you hit. Fine for chest expansion.

Then there was a great bow making and shooting contest. Twenty min­ utes were given to run into the woods, cut a mesquite limb, tie a string to each end, and shoot all the score you could in the allotted time. This was won by Howard Hill. How that man can run! Second place went to Ken­ neth Jones, of Bakersfield, and third place to Chester Seay.

The big event at this tournament, as at all of our tournaments, was the round of rovers. The boys had laid out a fine new 17 target course over which all shot one practice round in the forenoon, thus acquainting them­ selves with the course so there could be no mistake in the afternoon’s of­ ficial round. The results follow: Championship Division: Howard Hill, first with 258 points; Bob Faas, second, 210.

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General Division: Volus Jones, first with 291 points, thus becoming one of the exalted champions; Vin­ cent Dillon, second, 247 score; Emery Watts, third, 243.

The Ladies’ Division was a clean sweep for Redlands with Glenn Curtis first and 171 as score; Dorothy Ahman, second, 128 points; Veda Buffum, third, 100 points Highlights and Raspberries Chester Seay after losing an arrow telling the gang to forget it, that he thought it had feathers on anyway and didn’t match his others.

The Bakersfield gang talking tour­ nament and barbeque along about May. Let’s not let them forget it.

George Brommers showing the yel­ low streak, white feather, etc., by refusing to face the charging whatzit or take part in the bow-making con­ test.

The first sight of the new mascot,

by Walt Wiljuai, owned a real wild boar, It stands about six inches helm. high.

Howard Hill claiming that arrows are arrows as he grabs six of any­ body’s and goes back to shoot them in the bow making contest.

Clyburn and Cook enjoying their first field tournament after traveling 250 miles from Calexico. Real en­ thusiasm, folks.

General rejoicing that our associa­ ___ 's Southern tion now truly represents California. Calexico on the south, Bakersfield on the north, and from the Pacific Ocean to the desert. More territory than most other state asso­ ciations.

Extra general rejoicing over the presence of 70 actual contestants and 200 spectators. 150 miles from home for most of the gang.

Big double extra! We now have 122 paid members. All this from nothing in just one year.

A pleasant surprise was the pleas­ ure of meeting Mrs. Hill, mother of Ed and “Curt” Hill, two outstanding archers, one in Southern California and the other in Ohio. We wish her a delightful sojourn in our vicinity.

February, 1938

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The Boys in the Lower Brackets

By THE RETIRED BASEMENT CHAMPION where the number of the target is Mr. Paul Bunyan, temporarily a high and the scores are low, that is guest of his close relatives, (and where the real joy of archery springs wouldn’t you know it?) Paul Gordon, eternal, and where the fellowship is of Beacon N. Y., sends in his appli­ golden and the laughs are all spontan­ cation. As Gordon says, we can’t eous and free, untainted by any false very well do less than make the ap­ note of worry or strain over the final plicant an honorary member. outcome.

I have the kindest recollections of There are those who stand near us my old employer. (All of you have as we draw* and loose and who give heard of his foreman, the Big Swede) an “AH” when we make a gold and I have taken the matter up with our who groan when the following shot president, and Sasha says that Paul is a one or maybe a miss. How we can’t be any more of a damn— well, pity them! How do they know what what he means is that both Mr. Bun­ we are seeing as we appear to peep yan and Mr. Gardner have a lot of through the sights and hold on the imagination. We now have two hon­ gold?. They cannot possibly realize orary members on our list. Who is that as we shoot at that bale of inert, next? He will have to be pretty good marcelled straw, we see that snarl­ to fit into that kind of company. ing and tumbling coyote with the Thirty strong the Bakersfield, Cal. broadhead in his shoulder! By no Archers want to join. stretch of their imaginations can they Just what do you fellows think this is? Aimee’s temple? Send in. imagine that muskrat, swimming thirty yards upstream and a per­ your individual applications and we fectly flying arrow as it makes a will take them under advisement. direct hit. Their poor ears cannot My old friend, Jack Woodruff, is hear the dull thud as the arrow’ clamoring for admission. His score strikes the horn of the bounding sixis all right, and since we wanted to pointed buck nor their dim eyes see get some inside dope on a certain him as he falls, over and over. What BIG GUY, who is supposed to have do they know of the thrill of the six helped to produce Trader Horn, and pound carp as he threshes about in since Jack’s sister happens to be Ed­ the tulles, stuck with an arrow in wina Booth, who starred in the pic­ his vitals as he consumed the spawn ture, we put it up to Jack to get us the low-down. And now it turns out of the black bass. Shoulder to shoul­ der there they stand, seeming to shoot that the lady has never even heard of at the gold, and in reality, living over the BIG GUY, but Jack is admitted again the thrills of the hunt and the just the same, and we are very glad roving afield. There’s old Charles to have him.

Bowman, the local flight champ and Take over from here, Harry Zollars maybe more in the years to come, of El Paso. And how about some kind of short and stout, and a mar­ more of you duffing in? velous shot on the rovers course. And “Turkey Harris” who is apparently From El Paso asleep until a turkey is up for a prize, at which time he comes alive and car­ It may seem to be a disgrace, this ries home the trophy. And Dr. Re­ being a consistent member of the herd, with a daughter champ and a Lower Bracket Club, with its accom­ bad right shoulder, who makes amaz­ panying red ribbon, when seen ing hits out “stump hunting”. What through the eyes of the high-scoring an understanding bunch of fellow’s, champs and near champs, but it is who can give and take alike, these not so to me. If it were, I would lower bracket boys. Pay their dues have “snook off” long ago and would a year in advance so that they won’t now perhaps be playing blacksmith have a chance to miss being outto a rubber pill out in the country scored by half the members in the or something equally as bad. But club. Repairing targets and lending I know my place and like it. Down

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tackle to boost the game. But it seems to me that the ranks are being swelled by those who are not bona fide lower bracketers, unless they have slumped terribly. I see in Ye Sylvan Archer the names of pros­ pective members who have applied for admittance, and I thumb back through National Bulletins and published scores, and I feel that maybe someone is trying to fudge their way into this most select organization. I say may­ be, because slumps may come and slumps may go, but the lower bracketers go on forever.

James F. Culley says, “Glad to be counted as one of the boys in the lower brackets. The only time I ever beat anyone was when I was doped before the meet. When that Gardner and his gang of rogues anchored those land yachts up here last sum­ mer they nearly made off with my hide. And that guy Styles, he came up here and got me out in the brush on the pretext of hunting for a buck.

Then he talks me into a match with broadheads, picks out a stump in the very center of a rock pile and starts shooting. After about a dozen shots I didn’t have any arrows left. That’s the kind of a gent he is. Never let that guy in the outfit.”

Mrs. Howard Hill is reported to be recovering nicely from a recent ill­ ness and operation and her many friends will be glad to see her out-to the tournaments again.

Tournament Committees

By John P. Cuneo, Pres. NAA The committee of the 1938 National Archery Association tournament to be held in Golden Gate Park Stadium in San Francisco August 8 to 12, is being formed. Roy Myers of San. Francisco is in charge of the housing arrangements and before long he will have information regarding the hous­ ing accommodations for the archers who will attend the meet. Roy tells us he will have everything from pent­ house accommodations on St. Fran­ cis Hotel roof, to camp tent grounds for those traveling less luxuriously.

The only obstacle he has encountered so far is the failure of the city au-

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thorities to allow the hitching of visiting trailers to the fire hydrants on Market Street.

Harold Atkinson is getting his 600 yard tape measure in shape and his basement is rapidly being filled with stakes, markers, benches, chalk, graphs, designs, wind breakers, fog rarifiers, and sun reflectors. He has been seen leaving the archery range on Sundays as early as 5 P. M. and that bucket he hurried by with the other day was filled with chalk for the lining of the field. Harold will set up a gridiron shooting grounds that ought to top them all.

Wayne Thompson let us in on the good news that the Greenwood Ar­ chers of Oakland would be glad to help with the field events and you can look forward to that enthusiastic crowd putting on a few real events.

If you see twenty or thirty fellows abreast, doing a crawl stroke across San Francisco Bay during the early morning hours of that week you’ll know it is the Greenwood boys rush­ ing over to Golden Gate Park to see that the clout shoot grounds are in shape, or that the Robin Hood Round shooters are comfortable and satis­ fied.

Harold Macquarrie, our Northern California flight champion, wrote Santa Claus for an automatic bow weighing machine but it did not come so he will have to use those bulging biceps to get us some bow weighing mechanisms. Harold was called upon recently to give an archery exhibition during “Discovery Day” activities on the site of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and he did himself proud. The local newspapers wrote him up by saying his husky arms were the envy of champion wrestlers. Anyway, he shot a flock of arrows out into San Francisco Bay in the direction of Alcatraz and I guess the boys there didn’t like it much because two of them ran away from Alcatraz the other day and they haven’t shown up yet.

We expect well over 200 on the shooting line in August. Indeed, a man real close to the situation offered to bet me a buck, just the other day, that regardless of the preparations we made we would not go over that.

I hope he’s wrong, ’cause I took the bet.

February, 1938

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The Lighter Side of Archery

By THE DOGHOUSE PHILOSOPHERS

Requisites and Perquisites of a Doghouse Editor The main editorial requisite is a tough hide. The perquisites are many and varied.

We will not again refer to coon hunts, which we take as our due as n distinguished visitor. These hunts would be thoroughly enjoyable if it wasn’t for the crude sense of humor of some of our fellow hunters. Nor will we speak of the fan mail, though we are saving it up and will print some more in this column to show the low literary taste of some of our cor­ respondents.

We are thinking of more tangible expressions of the esteem in which we are held.

“I am sending you a scroll of doubt­ ful authenticity, which I picked up in China”, writes Lieut. Latta. “The pursued gentleman in the picture, the one with all the arrows and hardware protruding from the most suitable pin cushion in his anatomy, looks very much like you.”

I took the scroll home that night, telling my art commission that vhe Commander of the Asiatic Fleet, hav-

ing nothing particular to do just at present, had sent it to me as a re­ membrance, pointing out that the hardware emburclened gentleman looked very much like a composite portrait of John Davis and Chester Stevenson. The art commission agreed that such a close remembrance was really more than a coincidence, and the scroll was given a place on the wall of our living room. What will happen to it now I hate to think, but thank you just the same, Frank!

Then there is the myrtle placque, sent me by my friends Bill King and Bill Goddard. And if you do not think that Bill King is an artistic woodcar­ ver you do not know the gentleman.

The subject matter is a dejected look­ ing pooch, labeled George, standing outside his doghouse. “The likeness in the case,” states the art commis­ sion, “is so striking, and the senti­ ments so noble, that the placque de­ serves its place on our mantle” Thank you, both of you!

Now every so often some envious gent makes some slurring remarks about a medal that was given me,

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and it is high time that my wildly interested rooting section gets the straight of it.

It happened out at Griffith Park, and the donors were the Los Angeles Municipal Archers, so don’t say that a really great man can hide his light under a bushel even in his own home town. That is, not if he is willing to concede his own worth, and even my wellknown modesty isn’t equal to denying it.

The presentation was made with all the solemnity that the occasion called for. Visibly moved, the secre­ tary, George Miles, made his speech.

“In behalf of the Los Angeles Ar­ chers, and in recognition of your ser­ vices to justice, tempered with hu­ manity, I take pleasure in pinning this remembrance to your manly chest.”

“In behalf of myself, may I add that I will never forget the way you saved me from the wrath of Ilda Hanchett when she wanted to have me impounded as a repeater.”

I had known for some time that some honor was going to be conferred on me, and must confess that I had­ n’t really trusted the high motives of the donors, and had done as much to sidestep the distinction as the sponsors had to bestow it. So you may imagine my pleasure on seeing a beautifully engraved doghouse with a dignified old pooch emerging through the door. Even my initials were engraved on it. Enviously Frank Goulet and Reed Williams insisted that the likeness flattered me.

The medal was duly pinned on, and I braced myself for an eloquent speech of acceptance. Chester Seay inter­ rupted.

“Here, Miles, you forgot to kiss him on both cheeks.”

“Who, I?” asked George aghast.

“You do it, Chester!”

Chester was looking for no lime light either. Magnanimously he sug­ gested Ilda Hanchett, but Ilda was gone.

A broadcast was sent out for Bea Hodgson, Audrey Grubbs or Gladys Hammer. Ray Hodgson saved the day by pointing out that osculation, not extermination was called for.

Regretfully this part of the program was cancelled. Not that any visible regret was evidenced by the ladies

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in question, but the audience seemed disappointed.

Proudly I displayed the medal untii I came to Earl Grubbs. On seeing it, Earl let out a howl of agony.

“So that’s where my dog license plate went”, he groans. “Same num­ ber and everything. I thought I had lost it.”

“So you had,” confinns Miles.

“It cost me two bucks,” wails Earl.

“Well worth it,” concedes Miles.

It was worth a whole lot more than that if you ask the recipient.

NIGHT PROWL (Continued from page 2) of these Panamanian cats. They’re not large—as wildcats go—but they are wild and that’s what counts. So we gave up, heading the boat for home.

You cannot say that I am not a staunch supporter of game conser­ vation. And I’m an ardent “stump hunter.” What I need here in the jungles, contrary to Brommers’ idea, is a good two for a nickel arrow.

Olympic Bowmen League Great things may be looked for in the Olympic /Bowmen League this year as two records fell in the first week’s shoot. Mrs. Vivian Chambers broke the individual record made last year by Mrs. Daisy Hamlin of 67 golds,- 762. Mrs. Chambers scored 3 perfects, 73 golds, and 770.

The Portland Lady Archers also broke by two points the team score of 2770 made by the Corvallis College Girls last year. At the close of the second match, Gilman Keasey was high for the two matches with ah average of 803, Mrs. Chambers of Portland holds high lady’s average with a score of 762, Portland Archers with 6182 lead Corvallis Archers with 6050, and the Seattle ladies lead the Portland ladies 5505 to 5474. Twenty-eight teams were entered, nineteen men’s teams and nine ladies’ teams.

We hear that Sasha Siemal, re­ cently back from the tropics, is fill­ ing some lecture engagements around Chicago. We hope that he will be able to be at San Francisco next summer directing the activities of “The Lower Bracket Boys.”

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Sinew Backing (Continued from page 6) back and as nearly uniform in thick­ ness as possible.

As soon as one limb is backed, start at the tip and wrap it down as tight as possible with the muslin strips.

Care must be taken, however, so that the backing is not pulled out of posi­ tion. The wrapping tends to squeeze out whatever excess glue there may be which soaks out through the ban­ dages. The other limb is backed in the same manner and the sinews lap­ ped in the handle. When the back­ ing is finished, the bow should be put in a warm place to dry. Due to the fact that the sinew shrinks as it dries, it should dry slowly. For the drying, do not use too dry a place.

The basement floor is good. This takes about four days. When dry, the bandages are removed, care be­ ing taken not to pull any of the ____ The excess sinew is fibers 'loose. filed off the sides and the backing sanded with fine sand paper to smooth it. It is then given a sizing coat of glue, and is ready for the second layer, or if only one is to be applied, for finishing. If a second layer of sinew is to be applied, the first layer should be allowed to dry from ten days to two weeks, so that it is thoroughly dry.

One layer is usually sufficient for a target bow, two for a hunting bow, and usually three for a heavy flight bow. I do not advise more than two layers of sinew on a yew bow, due to the fact that it puts more wood un­ der compression and if too much sinew is used, there is some danger of crysaling and cracking from shrinking of the sinew between the sap and heart wood. Osage, being tougher, will stand three layers.

The backing should be allowed to dry for at least three weeks before tillering or retillering. This allows the sinew and glue to dry out and reach their full strength. I prefer to let it dry six weeks to two months and sometimes longer.

Due to the fact that the sinew and glue combination is susceptible to moisture, it should be protected. The best means is metallic paint, fluculated aluminum being the best, as it is eighty-five per cent moisture re­ sistant. After the backing is paint-

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ed, the bow is then finished in the usual manner.

The successful handling of sinew is a step toward the making of a com­ posite bow. I hope that many crafts­ men will become interested and ex­ periment with sinew and eventually make a composite bow. I would be glad to compare notes with other ex­ perimenters and if I can be of any assistance, do not hesitate to write to me.

Field Captain for NA A

By John P. Cuneo, Pres. NAA John L. Yount of Redlands, Calif., has been selected as the field captain for the 1938 National Tournament to be held in Golden Gate Park Stadium in San Francisco.

Many of you will remember Mr. Yount as the very efficient field cap­ tain of the 1935 NAA meet in Los Angeles. He has had much exper­ ience in handling such a position and notice of his appointment will no doubt be gladly received by archers.

Tournament Grounds

By John P. Cuneo, Pres. NAA Some of the archers who are plan­ ning to attend the National in San Francisco in August have asked about the location, and size of Golden Gate Park Stadium. It is located right in Golden Gate Park, famed the world over as one of the most beautiful city parks. It is about a mile wide and extends from First Avenue to Forty-eighth Avenue, approximately four miles.

The stadium is about 200 yards wide, a little over 600 yards long, and is just like the average football oval except that you could place about three football gridirons inside of it and still have room to spare.

The surface is turf which is kept in excellent condition for the polo games played there; the sides are all raised, giving the appearance of a huge green grass oval sunk into the ground. On two sides there are con­ crete bleacher seats to accommodate many thousands of spectators.

Being in the heart of Golden Gate Park the city buildings seem far away, and with huge trees surround­ ing the oval on all sides, an occasional cotton-tail running by, as well as

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coveys of quail showing themselves every morning, one gets the feeling he is not in a large commercial me­ tropolis, but, rather, some place far off in the country where nature is so much nearer. If you should see a pair of large winged birds flying by the top of tthe targets at 110 miles per, don’t get excited. They will be some of the mallards, or wood-ducks, from one of the lakes taking a squint at some of us fellows missing the target at 40 yards.

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