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Official publication of the National Field Archery Association, Route 2, Box 514, Redlands, Calif. 92373. Phone (714) 794-2133. Published monthly by the National Field Archery Association.

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COVER: NFAA Pro Jim Quarles, who learned a lot about control during the past year, took command of the Desert Inn Classic. See tournament coverage, page 8. (Photo by Les Belt).

Features Tire Desert Inn Classic / by Dan Gustafson The Scores Tell Their Own Story Observations of a Coach / by Steve Hayes The 1975 NFAA Nationals, Eh? The NFAA Annual Directors Meeting A Successful Hunt(er) / by John Durham Howard Hill Remembered / by Roy Hoff ELK: The Perfect Stalk /by Joel Hogan

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Personalities What’s Your Problem? / by Freddie Troncoso Strictly for Bowhunters / by Dick Sage

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Low Arrows Freddie: I have been using Easton X-7 arrows since they were introduced a few years ago. At first, 1 had trouble with vertical or lengthwise cracks in the shafts which were promptly replaced by Easton. My new problem is consistency of shafts. I shoot in the 295 to 300 bracket on the PAA round which tells me 1 should be able to tell if it is the shafts or me. I have experienced a couple of shafts which constantly hit about 12 inches low at 20 yards. I have carefully examined these shafts and cannot find anything physically wrong with them. Any suggestion? Rocky Guerinni La Puente, CA

• In preparing for this year's Vegas tournament, my wife Eva handed me one of her newly refletched arrows and told me it was not hitting where she was aiming. I carefully examined the shaft and could not find anything visibly wrong with it. I tore the fletching off and refletched it and proceeded to try the shaft being sure to mark it carefully for ease of identification. I proceeded to shoot it and each time the same arrow would hit the same hole in the low blue or five scoring area of the Vegas target. All other arrows were in the gold which told me something was wrong! I decided to put the arrow shaft to the saw and discard it for good. While removing the point for future use, I was suddenly surprised by an outflow of lacquer thinner which was trapped within the shaft.

Upon examining the nock end of the shaft I noticed the arrow had been hit in the nock area and several microscopic cracks were present beneath the nock. The lacquer thinner apparently enters the nock end when I soak the arrow shafts for easy removal offletching. Could this be your problem?

New Paint Job What are the methods used successfully to repaint a bow handle without the finish chipping off and for maximum durability? 1 have used several types of spray paints without much success and want to know what brand paints to use. One problem encountered is covering up the sand-casting pitting characteristic of most metal handles. What can I do to eliminate all the tiring sanding of the badly pitted handle? Gabriel Jara Albuquerque, NM • I have experimented with several types of finishes to find a method of successfully refinishing metal bow handles. 1. To cover up the sand casting marks, I take a piece of foam and dab on a good grade of interior/exterior white latex house paint, being careful to apply the paint evenly. 2. Allow the latex paint to dry overnight and spray the handle using a good quality white flat primer and allow to dry. 3. Spray on the color of your choice using a good quality Continued on page 38

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pointing right at the target. Now, make your shot without

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, no squint, The idea is to avoid contorting your body, your arms or anything else while making the shot. It should look easy, it should feel easy; it should feel smooth, it should look smooth. The objective of this first lesson is to concentrate on shooting form until you feel relaxed when you take the shot. Until this feeling is achieved, there is little you can do to improve your accuracy. When you feel relaxed and comfortable when you shoot, you are ready for another lesson. Lesson two is: “push with the bow arm, pull with the drawing arm.” Push and pull ‘til you feel those back muscles working. All good shooters have tension” in their back muscles when they are at full draw. This keeps their arrow aligned with the target and reduces the chance it will be pulled off line at the moment of release. It also sets a constant draw length and aids in reaching the same anchor point on the face each time. Both are essential features of accurate shooting. This is something on which you must work carefully. Don’t practice beyond the time when you can hold the bow easily at full draw. If you do, you’ll soon be “collapsing” and making poor shots. This push and pull is one of the most important elements of making good shots consistently. It is also something that you can’t do if your bow is too heavy. Possibly you will develop the necessary muscles but a far more successful approach, if you have “tension” trouble, is to go to a lighter bow until you have the technique mastered. Even then, don’t rush back to your heavier bow too soon. Remember a 30 lb. bow is “too heavy” until you can develop the proper back tension on each shot.

Practice Makes Perfect - Almost Perfect Once you reach the plateau where you can easily draw and hold and shoot while standing erect and relaxed, the next essential need is for practice. To the expert archers reading this far, remember we are talking to the bowhunter who doesn’t do much with his bow except bowhunt. His goal is to be able to place arrows reasonably at short to moderate hunting ranges. His job in achieving accuracy is not the dedicated effort the competitive archer must make. In fact, he is apt to be turned off by the complicated procedures necessary to attain tournament skills. He plans to compensate for a lesser degree of shooting ability by getting closer to the game he plans to hunt. He needs help but won’t take the time to practice unless he can see real improvement. The job is to teach those basics this will make real differences in his skill. Okay, let’s repeat our story up to here. Relaxed stance before, during and after the shot. Push with the bow arm, pull with the drawing arm. Tension in the back. Solid anchor at the same spot for each shot. Get lots of practice. Aiming Once Once you you can shoot a good arrow (smooth release, no wobble in flight, good follow-through) you’re ready for some aiming help. Here it gets complicated because everyone seems to have a different scheme. Some gap, some use multiple

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Hsert tag Classic Winning is what Vegas is about by Dan Gustafson, Editor

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answer the question for myself. You see, the people who attend this tourna ment experience more in a single hour than anyone could possibly put in print. So everyone who is there has his own subjective and unique story, writers included, of the tournament. The objec tive story is that whoever put the most arrows in the middle won. A tale told in Rod and Ann Schooler, limited freestyle numbers. And those winners and their winners. scores are listed at the end of this article.

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the passenger ahead of us. She brought her right hand close to her face and held at simulated full draw for a moment while she struggled with terminology. “Are you going to, uh ... arch?” she asked, and then dropped her hands. “No, write, for a magazine,” I re plied, letting her lead me right back to the problem at hand. “Why, what can you write about a, uh (hands back up to full draw) whattyacallit, tournament?” Good question, lady. Fortunately we re-directed our attention to the last round of free bubbly, but I still had to

TThe 1975 Desert Inn Archery Clas■ sic began promptly at 9:00 the morning of Friday, January 17. Or so they tell me. Shortly after noon on Saturday the 18th, I found myself descending from 33,000 feet over Death Valley, less than half an hour by 737 jet from Las Vegas and about a day and a half late for the start of the tournament. Winning is all, I rationalized. Catching the end justifies the means - that is, arriving halfway through - because my job is really to report the aftermath of something on the order of 100,000 arrow points puncturing paper within the confines of the Convention Center. Being “unavoidably detained” is stimulating. Clearly, you have to act 8

imaginatively to cover the action you’ve missed and act fast to catch those events which will be fleeting even as you arrive. With such stimulating thinking aided and abetted by first-class leg space and complimentary champagne in coach, my mind wandered freely and eventually stumbled right into conversation with the lady on my right. She looked just on the light side of 40, pretty, weekend gambler-plus-show-goer, probably more adventurous than slots, possibly black jack, find her at the five dollar mini mum table. “Archery .,. you mean with a bow and arrow?” she was asking politely, raising her eyebrows while extending her left hand toward the seat back being brought to its full upright position by

As the toy hotels along the strip grew up to proper proportion and a tire squealed on the runway, 1 decided to let the numbers tell their story and to cast myself adrift at Vegas to tell mine, hopefully to convey a mood, sum up the feeling there as well as add up the scores. Into the limousine, off to the Con vention Center and right out of the limo I run into Bill Shain, a prime mover in archery from South Carolina, a low profile guy I respect for his well-hidden ego and invisible PhD. This is good, I tell myself. I’ll get straight talk on what’s happened here for two days. First, a personal question, and in response Bill allows how he’s been shooting in the 290’s, but that “with that 1!4 in. dot you just have to breathe MARCH 1975

on your nock for it to go out.” Then Shain lets me have the men’s competition in a nutshell: “Gene Leuck had a 300 yesterday but dropped some o ay. And Jim Quarles is hanging in there tough.” We walk together into the Center and I m taken aback by the immensity of the structure. It is a huge airy concrete vault, and it contains the thousand-odd archers and/or spectators (archers go both ways, don’t they,.bringing family and watching each other to make this a spectator sport at all) with ease. In fact, the impression is much like being in a modern ballpark - say the Oakland Colliseum, home-ofthe-World’s-Champion-A’s - when there is no ball game. Close your eyes and it seems deserted here; it seems almost quiet enough to hear the inner workings of the structure itself, the hum of the physical plant, the metal viscera. We are all here, yet we are dwarfed by the vertical space, and ours is not a sport to fill that space with cheering and screaming. We are a sedate sport. But we are all here, clearly. Someone has noticed that I am here. It is Bill Cushman, resplendent in a fashionable puka necklace from his na tive Hawaii, and I accuse him of looking like the Oahu Mafia. His rejoinder is that I’m a haoly hippie, and then we discuss the fact that puka means hole. This suggests to me that the Hawaiians value the hole in these formerly worth less little shells, that they value the labor more than the shells. Cushman lets that pass as accurate enough. The hole is the tiling, not the shell. Drill them, string them, sell them to the tourists for fifty cents a hole. Puka. Below us on the floor archers are making holes in paper. A swarm of arrows. Shoot them, score them, mark down three arrows at ten points possi ble, thirty points per end. String togeth er enough perfectly drilled holes and win $500. Step right up. Vegas was built on tourism, too. Cushman tells me he has devoted full-time effort to the NFAA Instructors School and Master Coach programs. He tosses off a list of scheduled schools, and I manage to record about half of

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them in my notebook. He is enthused, and that attracts a couple of passing archers to our conversation. I have entered the hall from the back, and we are standing on a con course perhaps ten steps higher than the main floor. The manufacturer’s booths are lined up here, much as their bows hang together in rows in dozens of pro shops. It is an impressive array, much more so than last year when the booths were lumped into a corner of the hall like a cumbersome afterthought. This year this little trade show has been given elevated position - and happily for the displays, it is located above the conces sion stands. Grab a beer, go up and look at a bow, shoot the bull with a buddy. From the practice targets at one end you can walk a straight line of perhaps fifty yards down the concrete avenue, watching well over a dozen — maybe two - booths, stocked with bows and sales reps, pass in single file to your left before you reach the Saunders booth at the other end, where the slingshot tour nament is being held. Whap, thunk, the steel balls slap into the rubber cup targets. If you can bear to stand in one spot here for three days, you will undoubt edly see and talk to just about everyone at the tournament. Indeed, two more archers approach and expand our con versation. “You just get here?” I am asked incredulously. “Hope you had somebody covering this thing for you.”

“Sure,” 1 lie, adding, “Yeah, they telll me Gene Leuck had a perfect but lie’s dropped some today. 1 guess Quarles is right up there too.” Everyone seems relieved that I have had it covered - no one more than I. Then I get daring: “How’s Eva doing today?” No one is quite sure but the consensus is that she is probably still leading. Calculated guess, Gustafson, but don’t press your luck. I content myself with just trying to look knowing. As the conversation stalls, I take ' advantage of my vantage point by the booths and take in the tournament. By a small procession of people with full sudsy cups which seems to come from beneath us, I locate the beer source. Might as well complicate the problems that the now-aging complimentary champagne in coach is presenting to my system. From where I stand most of the shooting line is obscured by the spectat or stands. I decide to go look at the line and maybe find Jim Quarles. Two beers later 1 find Quarles, only I’m not certain that 1 have. The beer has not altered my perception; Quarles has changed his appearance - dramatically. 1 greet him with a question - “Jim Quarles?” - thinking ths must be his younger brother. In just under a year, Quarles has lost a full third of himself, and apparently has found himself as a shooter; he has dropped 95 pounds (from 282 to 187) since last February on the Dr. Atkin’s

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diet, and he has dropped only a single point on this Saturday afternoon to lead the tournament with a 595 after two days. Gene Lueck and Mel Stanislawski trail by two and Gale Cavallin by three points. Before me stands the proverbial thin man who has been struggling to get out of a portly body, but the “new” Quarles is something more than a man of altered appearance. Certainly some of the fer vor of successfully seeking his new image shows, the happy fanaticism that carried him through a protein-laden year - “I can eat all I want of meat and eggs and cheese,” he tells me, “and butter, except I can’t eat anything I would put butter on. But if 1 can’t get the right food, I don’t eat at all.” — and now a full portion of pride and confidence is rightfully his. 1 suspect all this must have had an effect on his shooting, notwithstanding the fact that he has lost a hundred pounds of natural stabilization. “Well, I’m not quite as strong,” he admits. “I’m shooting the Bear Compound now and holding at 32 pounds. But I do have a lot more stamina. Why, the Nationals at 7,000 feet last summer didn’t bother me.” Quarles finds first place an exciting but humbling experience, and he is looking ahead to perhaps his toughest day in archery. “I’ve never been on top target before, whew!” he confides with a grin and a sigh. Just as I am thinking I should check out the limited freestyle competition, up walks the whole story on that count in the person of Don Collier. We remi-

nisce about body surfing up onto the narrow sands of Waikiki together (in the pre-puAa boom days of the first Bonnie Bowman Hawaiian Open), and then the talk turns to Don’s partner in RAMCO (Rocky Mountain Archery Manufactur ing Company), “Gentleman Jim” Pick ering. Building bows has left neither Don , nor Pick much time for practice, and Pick had a bow handle blow up on him the first day here, but his “form is forever” shooting has kept him in fifth place, within ten points of the limited freestyle lead. “He just picked up anoth er bow and started where he left off,” Don comments. As usual, Don’s attitude about the handle is open and, well, refreshing. “Jim’s handle had a casting fault,” he says, “and that happens to all manufac turers from time to time.” Indeed, it does, but Don doesn’t ask me not to print anything about the bow breaking. We continue talking about Iris shooting - “I’ve just been watching Schooler and sucking eggs all day,” he laughs - as we stroll on over to the RAMCO booth. I’m struck by their priorities. The sign in their cluttered stall is uneven and hand-lettered, but many archery heavy weights hover around. What Jim and Don may lack in graphics after years in the sport they have more than made up in generating goodwill, and now after months in their own business, they have assembled quite an impressive stable of shooters - Bill Mills, Gene Parnell, Rod and Ann Schooler - and I find out that Darrell Dixon shoots for them and he’s

the man Pickering is trailing by ten. Moreover, Cobo Hall winner Rod Schooler has posted a 292 to stay tied for second with Olympian John Wil liams in a tight limited contest, while Rod’s wife Ann, also reigning Cobo champ, is only two points out of first behind Marita Gilmer’s 549. As pleased as he is with RAMCO shooters, Collier is proudest of the fact that his small town of Rangeley, Colo rado, population 1,500, has sent 23 shooters to the Desert Inn Classic, in cluding two teams from Colorado Northwestern Community College. “Without young people in this sport, we have nothing,” Don calls after me as I start dowm to the main floor to investi gate a sudden increase in .sound volume. The cause is the Speed Round com petition, and while there are only 40 or so entrants, curious considering the hef ty S1,000 first prize, the stands are suddenly full of those elusive spectators and some of them are actually perched towards the edges of their chairs. Standing there watching, I can’t help overhear the lament of several freestylers whose argument goes something like this: Why is there $ 1,000 top money allotted for this fun round and only $500 up for grabs among all the serious archers who have worked all year get ting ready for three grueling days on the regular Vegas round? I recognize their viewpoint - there does seem to be an inequity tn the money offered — but in later conversa tion with tournament director Joe John son, I find that one resentment has no basis. No money has been taken away

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from the regular purse for the Speed Round, he tells me, rather, additional funds were put up specifically for promotion of the new round. The other obvious question that arises is, why weren’t those archers competing for the money in the Speed Round rather than merely watching and discussing its merits? One fellow tells me that it really isn’t a speed contest that rightfully it should end when the first of two head-to-head competitors fires his last arrow, and that right now it is a round built on accuracy and timing, not speed necessarily. As we ponder such questions, one fact becomes obvious to any observer. It is, at least, an action round. Compared with the normal line, activity among the Speed Rounders is dramatically accele rated. Viewed from the side, the line takes on characteristics of a huge wave threatening to break. As each archer picks his own pace there is constant tension and energy generated. Bows rise and fall spewing arrows, and the line as a whole surges and swells and crests as time runs out, while the crowd provides the roar. As the competition narrows down to fewer, more individual contests, I find myself watching Jack Lancaster, a form er Vegas champ, who is locked in combat with pretty Penny Donnell of Miami, Florida. Jack is the focus of a lot of attention, because he is standing next to Penny and because he is shooting a compound, sight and release, supposed ly a liability on this rapid round. Penny is an archery P.R. man’s dream, pretty, animated and to Jack’s dismay, accurate - she is giving the old pro a run for the money, but in the end, perhaps Lancaster recalls some of his past barebow expertise to win it. This puts Jack in the finals, where he defeats runner-up Ben Rogers in a cool, methodical yet exciting exhibition of siglit-release shooting. I wonder if those freestylers will be standing on the side lines of the Speed Round next year. By winning, 1 suspect Jack has changed this round.

As I stop to chat with Bob Jacobsen and Ken Ostling, I’m struck by number of Vegas alumni I’ve glimpsed already Pickering, Lancaster, Parnell, Mary Lynn Snyder, Eva Troncoso, Bob and Ken _ the elite fraternity of those archers who have once done it - won it.

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Both Jake and Ken remark about the thrill of being on the line again, about what brings them back here. The current unlimited champ, Jacob sen has had what is for him a disap pointing first round (293), and he con fesses that he was really nervous. “It’s unexplainable what it does to you out there,” he says as Ken nods agreement. And then Jake enthusiastically tells me why he comes to Vegas: “But when you finally do get it together out there and beat yourself, it feels just great! Wiry I didn’t shake today and 1 had a 297. This whole tournament is just great.” Indeed, with the denoument ofCobo Hall, Vegas is undisputedly' the tourna ment, and it is exceptionally well-run, so smooth as to be almost anticlimactic. The ultimate criteria, people are enjoying themselves. As Saturday afternoon wanes, 1 wan der around and run into Gale Cavallin. A glance-out on the first round netted him a 294, but he has recovered with a 298 despite a beat-the-clock battle. On this day, new red digital clocks have appeared to count down the 2/i minutes for the archers, and after letting down four times on his first arrow, Cavallin has looked up with two shafts still in his quiver to find 32 seconds left. In his own little speed round that followed, Cavallin relates, he accomplished two things: “two quick tens and countless grey hairs.” Gale is within three points of the lead. I also learn that in the amateur men’s competition, young Darrell Pace, the 1291 FITA record holder and reigning Vegas amateur champ, is trailing the even-younger Mike Gerard, 14, of San Rafael, California, by a four-point mar gin. Gerard has turned in a 293-291 so far, and has also pulled out the JOAD title by a mere 40-odd point margin. Wow. As the Saturday crowd thins to spread out over Vegas for the evening, I encouter a pensive David Hughes on the way out the door. Equipped with com pound and sight as well as access to the expertise of friend and freestyle mentor Bobby Hunt, the barebow champ has shot extremely well with the exception of that infamous one bad arrow that plagues so many at Vegas. David’s came on the first day: “Bob by saw me flinch into an arrow and said quietly, ‘Put it down, Dave.’ But the

arrow went off as I started to let down, and it went into tire two ring.” That eight points gave him a 298, and al though he has rallied on Saturday with a 297, Hughes sits in 17th place in the championship flight. He surprises me by turning down the offer of a beer, saying he will turn in early — uncharacteristic, I point out — and we kid half-heartedly about getting old as the car turns into the Desert Inn parking lot. Later that evening in the casino, there is a substantial crowd of archers, but it doesn’t seem to equal previous years’ Saturday nights either in numbers or in spirit. No one 1 know is winning on this night. Rumor has it that a couple of Saudi Arabians have dropped a million dollars or so this weekend, and some body remarks that they probably weren’t wearing their WIN buttons. Well, they can afford it, we reason, in contrast to us. Winning is all at the tables, or you soon follow Hughes’ example and retire early. Tomorrow, after all, is the big day for winning. Over breakfast Sunday, I spot Fred and Eva Troncoso and sons at a nearby table and join them for coffee. Eva carries a seven-point lead over Mary Lynn Snyder into this final day’s com petition, but Mary Lynn, a hometown favorite to win Vegas again, promises to be tough. Eva politely refuses my offer of more coffee, saying coyly, “That’s one of my little secrets.” As I observe my not-sosteady hand pouring my third cup from the carafe, I see her point. “What’s another one, a secret?” I ask, and I’m told that she’d never part with that trademark hat because it keeps the glare off her peep sight. We talk pleasantly as I finish another cup of stimulant, and I keep noticing how calm Eva appears. Thinking about nerves, I’m reminded of Bob Jacobson’s story of the time he took a tranquilizer to stop the bow from shaking, and shot his worst score in memory. Ah, archery, the mental game. Back at “Psychology Center,” the mental game is well underway, but the championship contests are scheduled for the afternoon, so there is time to wonder and chat. Gary Lyman has arrived in the role of spectator today, and although his shooting has been

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It’s been said that all literary (agents are frustrated writers, all actors’ agents are frustrated actors, all athletic coaches are frustrated athletes. Frankly, I mistrust all sweeping state ments, especially when there is a ring of truth to them. So, in paraphrase,let me just say this: a majority of the archery coaches that I have met would, at some time in their lives, prefer to be a champion than the coach of a cham pion. Now, hold on. Don’t go getting excited. Before you start sharpening up your knives, re-read the statement and realize that there is nothing derogatory about it. I’m merely asking you to stop a moment and search your souls - see if somewhere deep inside you (with me it was almost visible beneath the skin) there hasn’t been a time, an instant maybe, when you looked at your star pupil, as he or she received their trophy or gold medal, and thought, “Hm-mm, lucky devil. Why isn’t that me?” I know I have. And I’ve coached enough champions to make a normal guy sick. Fortunately, few people have

been crazy enough to accuse me of being normal. So, despite my success as a coach, I’ve been able to also survive as an archer. By this I mean, I’ve not become unbalanced by the realization that I, Coach Generalissimo Steve Hayes, cannot coach Steve Hayes the Archer to become world champion. And if I can’t do it - well, it is obviously an impossibility. (Hey - I thought you didn’t like sweeping statements?). And I can’t. Or, to be less negative about it, I don’t want to enough. All right? All right. How do I know this? (I never thought you'd ask). Very simple. At the 1974 NAA Championships, held in Ox ford, Ohio, I finally had to admit the fact to myself, but it didn’t hurt half as bad as 1 thought it would. Fact is, folks, it felt pretty damn’ good. Which is aston ishing. Because 1 can remember a time in my young life when, for almost ten straight years, the idea of becoming world champion was an obsession with me. 1 mean, I designed my whole life around the idea. And woe betide any one or anything that interferred. MARCH 1975

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our team’s chances!”), and we discussed the possibility of my going to the NAA Championships where 1 would meet one or two of the nominating committee and probably all of the archers most likely to make the Olympic Team. Some of the archers were not that familiar to me. and since there was a chance I would be their coach, I thought it best to know them a little better (their styles and personalities) first. Jim agreed with me, and my work schedule was arranged so that I could take time off to go to the tournament. 1 remember the conversation well. Es pecially the last thing Jim said to me. He said: “You gonna shoot?” “You kidding?” I said. “I can still shoot half a dozen arrows with the best of ’em, but a whole tournament? Five days of sweat ing and pulling that bow back in the broiling sun? You gotta be crazy!” And I left his office. Now, 1 don’t know exactly when it happened. But some time between leav ing Jim’s office and the next week or so, I started to get the urge to shoot competitively again. God knows why. I mean, it hadn’t occurred to me in years. Not only that, but I only had a month or so before the tournament started. And no one knows better than I. the importance of proper conditioning and pre-tournament training. Of course, knowing me as well as I do (no one knows an idiot better than another idiot), perhaps the very fact that it was a next-to-impossible chal lenge is what appealed to me. I mean, I’ve been there before. And back. And if there’s anything about me that I’ve learned over the years, it’s that - once my mind is made up, I’m impossible to reason with. Not with other people, I don’t mean. With myself. Steve versus Steve. Sanity versus insanity. Rational versus irrational. So I did what any normal person would do, I gave up. Okay, pal, if you want to kill yourself - go ahead. I will, 1 said. Just you watch! And 1 did. And, oh man, did it hurt. . . By the time I arrived at the Nation als, I had shot two dozen FITA rounds. 1 had not kept score, deliberately, so that I neither disappointed myself nor had room to gloat. But 1 did know I was shooting well. Very well. 1 also knew I had developed a blister on the third

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finger of my release hand. It wasn’t too bad a blister, though. On good days, in fact, you could barely see any blood on my shooting tab. ‘Least, I couldn’t. My new wife, Suzie, could. Had to make a big deal out of it, too. “Well, if that’s your idea of a fun sport," she concluded, “I’m sure glad you didn’t take up fencing.” (Just what I needed, right? Another wife with a sense of humor!) In Ohio, Bob Rhode also noticed the blister. I’d just said 1 wasn’t going to shoot in the team round, he’d asked why, and 1 showed him the blister. “So?” he said with his usual belli; gerence. “If I’d let every tiny blister keep me from shooting, why, hell, I'd’ve never held a bow in my hands.” I suggested that the only blisters he’d ever had were on his tongue, and spent the rest of the day talking to the other archers up and down the line. The next morning, after I’d wrung the night’s humidity out of myself, 1 was ready to shoot. 1 stood on the ninety-meter line, shot my six “sighter” arrows, saw through my ’scope they were all either eights or sevens, and thought: What am 1 doing here? I don’t want to shoot. Don’t even feel like shooting. Besides, my finger feels as if someone’s trying to cut the end off with a blunt saw. Then why are you shooting, pal? I don’t know, I said. Probably trying to fulfill an old. tired dream. But if you don’t shoot, what else will you do for the next four days? Plenty, I thought. I’ll do what 1 really wanted to do all along, what 1 do best - walk around, looking, watching, learning, and trying to help everyone else shoot the way I once believed I’d shoot; the way 1 could shoot, if I'd only listen to me. And that's what 1 did. [.shot the ninety meters with very little enthusi asm. then unstrung my bow, bandaged my bloody finger, laughed a lol when Rhode howled and screamed and called me a quitter, and spent the next four days enjoying myself like I’ve seldom enjoyed myself at an archery tourna ment before.

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The following conversation regarding the 1975 Nationals was overheard recently when an Interested but Sceptical Archer met briefly with One Who Knows. As we join them, ISA has just been informed of the location of the National and World Field Championships. ISA: Jay Peak, Vermont? OWK: That’s right, on July 21-25, 1975. ISA: Well, I have a vague idea of where Vermont sits, but what is in Jay Peak, anyway? And where is it, in the middle of nowhere? OWK: Well, yes and no. It’s a ski resort, actually, but it doubles as a summer resort and actually there’s more to do there in the summer. Name your pleasure - golf, tennis, swimming, boating, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, antique hunting, sightseeing, or nightlife. And it’s located in some of New England’s most spectacular countryside, which fortunately is still relatively un developed in comparison to other ski areas. ISA: So it is in the middle of nowhere, eh? OWK: On the contrary, the Jay Peak area sits astride the Canadian-American border, which gives it a sort of international flavor - appropriate for the International Field Archery Assn. Championships being held there in conjunction with the Nationals. In fact, if you take the five minute ride in the aerial tram to the top of Jay

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curtailed by his recent marriage and his father’s illness, Gary is busy working on a unique left-and-right handed compound bow design with Jim Scar borough. A little later I run into another unique “compound” design in the hands of Spartan Archery’s Terry Call. Called the Challenger, it consists of a metal disc in which myriad holes are drilled allowing myriad adjustments. Tile bow is more than a conversation piece, says Terry, pointing out that it allows a 9 inch adjustment in draw length, and from 20 to 60 lb. variance in weight, and that he can probably con vert any metal-handed stick bow into a Challenger for about a hundred bucks. He quickly adjusts it to my draw length and I am surprised to find that the bow lets off in the last inch - 33% drop off, he informs me. Then it’s down to the floor for some photos from behind the line as I at tempt to be as democratically and brief ly rude as possible, moving quickly in response to a chorus of “down in front, please” to get the leaders on film before unduly enraging the spectators. From the opposite end of the line, Archery World’s editor, Glenn Helgeland, is hot footing and shooting in a similar man ner. Out of film and running out of time, I still need more input, more perspective on this tournament, so I seek out Sherwood Shock to see what brought him here from Pennsylvania. “I can’t really justify this trip in terms of dollars and cents,” he muses, “but it generates such excitement about archery for me that I need to come. It’s fantastic, there’s so much going on all around here. He is most impressed with the Speed Round: “Lancaster has shown that any body can make this round work for them — even with sights and releases. I think people are afraid of this round, but that will pass.”

Sherwood conveys the excitement that is this tournament, but it is an elusive quality. There follows a fat lull in the midst of the round, the gentle popping of arrows piercing targets, a dream-like fluidity of motion as archers perform like soft machines. Then, towards the end, things hap pen. Quarles drops an arrow or two on

the ninth end and Cavallin looms close before dropping one of his own and fading. Mary Lynn pulls within three points of Eva, then Eva pulls back ahead. Both Rod and Ann Schooler overtake their competition in the stretch, and Darrell Pace hammers away successfully at Mike Gerard. It is like the final lap of a long distance race here endurance shows, bids are made, the crowd tunes in, the winner kicks it in for home. And soon it is all over. No shoot-offs this year. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have the winners. Now shooting begins. Like wolves descending on a herd, the camera corps, myself a member, singles out and stalks the winners. Another lull follows before the awards, and I. stop to chat with renowned archery writer, C.R. “Bob” Learn, who is covering for Bow & Arrow. Our conversation is interrupted, but Bob assures me, “I’ll be here later. I’m going to profile him.” “Who?” I’m a little slow to catch on. “Him .. . Quarles,” Bob clarifies, his eyes asking, who else? “Air, Quarles.” “Sure,” he replies, “We’re only con cerned with the winners.” So I seek out a pair of winners — Rod and Ann Schooler, unique in that they both own an indoor archery “double-crown” of sports, having won the last Cobo Hall event together and now moving to Vegas to repeat. One surprise is Rod’s informing me that he had not shot since Cobo Hall last March, that he had not resumed shooting until December, aiming for Vegas. Whatever it takes to win, they’ve got it, and it’s all in the family. Interest ingly, Rod explains he was more con cerned with Ann’s shooting than his own, constantly interested in how she was doing. Maybe that’s the key, getting out of yourself a little. Another couple, also unique, also winners with a secret they share. Fred ■Troncoso tells me, “Eva was as nervous today as I’ve ever seen her. She dropped a couple toward the end and Mary Lynn crept up within three.” Fred is always there, behind Eva mentally and often physically, watch ing, feeling, and he gave me a glimpse of what passes between them: “If I can convince Eva she is the one to beat, that she’s capable, the one to put the pres sure on the others, she’s great. But she’s got to shoot her own tournament. All that matters is Eva and her target.”

His customary smile gone, eyes in tent, Freddie says softly, “It’s funny. I know what’s happening to her but there. I can feel it. She’s part of me. And I’m part of her.” The grin returns as he says, “We’re a team.” And with quite a record. I find Jim Quarles at the Bear booth, still exhibiting both the excitement and humility I had observed a day earlier. We discuss winning and, more specifi cally, his winnings. They are considera ble. In addition to his $500 first place money, as an NFAA Pro he has col lected 20% extra and has also won $280 in the NFAA competition. He has made $25 on a left-handed shooter award, bringing his total to $905. Bob Rhode is about to increase all that handsomely with a $1,000 check from Bear Archery. That makes it $1,905. I ask Quarles what he would have collected, on some sliding scale perhaps, for a second place finish. “You have to win,” he replies. Soon the booths are all disassembled, the target matts brought down, the crowd evaporated. Only a jumble of empty chairs and empty paper cups testifies that over 650 archers competed here. Back at the casino that evening, hardly a soul is winning - or drinking. We sit in the near deserted bar, feeling a little (to recall how Hugh Rich summed it up nicely) “blah.” A legion of black jack dealers stands in classic pose, star ing vacantly ahead, arms folded, cards fanned out on the felt before them, blinking and yawning through the shift, the $5.00 limit signs conspicuously ab sent. On the way to the airport, the cab driver laments the decline in business of late and puts his finger on the problem: “Can’t win when you got nothing to bet. It’s the recession. Too soon after Christmas. Money’s tight. It’ll pick up, though.” Well, archery has paid off to a lot of winners here, I assert to myself. Indeed, later I am to find from Joe Johnson that while the average Vegas attendance for such events if off 20% this year, archery is up 10% over the previous year. Fastest growing sport in America. We’ve got a winner. At the airport, I again get first class leg space in coach, and eventually I raise a glass of complimentary champagne to the winners, to everybody who came to this tournament, and I begin scribbling on this piece.

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This year, 1974. was a difficult year for us finanI dally, but we did make good, solid progress on many fronts. I am very optimistic for our future. I ask that we continue our dedication - to serve our membership as the need provides, promoting participation with our doors closed to no one. We have a responsibility to protect and to preserve our traditions. On die lighter side, it is said that in many things, including the art of making love, a degree of success can be attained in dignified submission, but the results are a whole lot better in a situation of vigorous cooperation. That is the only in gredient 1 would add - vigorous coopera tion with a vigorous effort to attain complete fulfillment of our goals. . Our NFAA Professionals again made progress last year in increased participation and increased purses. 1 reiterate, once again, ultimate success of this division will relate to continued expansion and larger purses. NFAA Professionals, presently, hold a position of advantage. To make best use of this position will require a vigorous effort in promotion now! To put it bluntly, the crowd goes where the action is. To remain in the limelight will require that you continue to direct the action. Due to the efforts of NFAA School Director. Bill Cush man, nearly 200 NFAA Instructor and Master Coach Certifica tions were issued last year. These schools will be further expanded this year and a NFAA Instructor Manual is being prepared for publication by Mr. Cushman and his staff. Out instructor school program has very enthusiastic leadership. It is being very well received. The school can be expanded as qualified teaching personnel is attracted. Mr. Cushman is with us here in Orlando and will speak to

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On January 25,1 received a final report from the chairman of our Amateur Study Committee. In summary the report recommends two divisions of competition, Amateur and Professional, with all references to the Open Division deleted from the Constitution. The Amateur Division will have only two sty es of shooting, one would be reserved for conventional bows, the other for compound bows. Secondly, it recommends Southern Section item No. 4 be adopted in its entirety excepting that terminology refer ring to open divisions be completely deleted. While no specific reference is made to release aids, it must be assumed they would be prohibited in youth and adult amateur divisions. I have considerable apprehension about this recommendation. It was my stipulation that the Committee report be submitted prior to the legislative deadline of September 1st to allow distribution to our affiliated state associations for their evaluation prior to taking legislative action. To do otherwise now would be another prime example of instant legislation without recourses. It is my personal evaluation that the two division concept is ideal, but to attain it our largest segment of competition must be dis mantled. The mechanics to accomplish this must be worked out in detail and the final result must be acceptable to the archers who will be affected or this will become a new source of serious conflict. Once again, 1 recommend that we must go back to tlie drawing boards and work out a complete proposal, publish it to our affiliate associations and the membership and proro gate legislative action to next year. There was good input regarding our question on tlie TClass proposal. Many variations were tried and some clubs reported good success while others highlighted dissatisfaction. I believe it can be used to advantage in club events. I do not recommend it be used, ever again, at our National Cham pionships as it obscures individual identity and personal achievement of national ranking within the different styles of shooting. That is what our national tournament is all about. I call attention once again that responsibility for national and sectional tournaments is vested in the Council and suggest that there is wisdom in recommendations rather than legislation. Our problem concerning scoring is real in that the skill of our freestyle archers exceeds the capability of our scor ing systems. There are several possible solutions and I caution each of you to consider them carefully. I must appraise you of the fact that any change in our field targets must include a long range plan for implementa tion. Last year we marketed 160,000 field targets and 160,000 indoor targets. To service our customers we must carry a large inventory. To guarantee delivery at competitive prices requires that our orders to the supplier be placed one year in advance. Well over a year will be required to phase out this inventory without sustaining substantial financial

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Fund which in turn is used to help protect the rights of the hunter which are constantly being challenged. NFAA Public Relations Committee established with the Chairman being appointed by the President. In addition to coordinating all NFAA promotional activities, the Chair man’s duties shall be: 1) Develop promotional material in the form of flyers, pamphlets, decals and other items which will promote archery from the club to the national level. 2) Develop guidelines to take advantage of free commu nity services such as newspaper, magazine, radio and TV from the local to National level. 3) Develop guidelines in layout and art work for use by local clubs to promote their facilities, provide easels and counter display material which has public eye appeal. 4) Develop guidelines and programs to improve club and state association management through upgraded meetings, activities and facilities. 5) Establish and expand as appropriate an NFAA Film library of movies and slides of archers enjoying all phases of NFAA recreational activities and games. Encourage the use of these films and slides at all levels of organized archery and at non archery related groups. The Bowhunter Education Program, with its supporting literature and procedures, the result of two years of study and preparation on the part of the NFAA’s Bowhunting and Conservation Committee, adopted for implementation. The unit rule was re-defined as follows: 1 award for 1 through 3 archers in a class: 2 awards for 4 through 6 archers in a class; and 3 awards for 7 or more archers in a class. Bowhunter memberships and Professional Division mem berships obtained through NFAA Headquarters will be forwarded to the State Association Secretaries in the form of a listing, giving the name and address of each member. Perfect Patch award established to be made available to any member who records a perfect score from the adult stakes on an NFAA Field Round or Hunter Round, or 26

1 offer as another example the targets of the NAA. Those four color targets are a pillar of strength in them selves. They spell NAA/FITA in every language for one simple reason - because basic color and design has never changed. There have been no changes to that target except in size. This is what the field target means to field archery. I suggest to you that this should be our approach to our target and scoring problem.

If the majority opinion should indicate a change is ad vantageous, I ask you to be mindful that it will not be pos sible to phase out our present inventory of targets before September 1976. This means two more tournament years must bi concluded with our present targets. During this interim, it would be well to make as few changes as possible so as not to disrupt our state association classification systems, the 20 pin, perfect pin and 500 club awards and. as well, national records of individual scoring accomplishments. In addition, we should consider using field targets and 5-4-3 scoring for our International Round. The targets now used do not serve our top freestyle archers either. We do not supply them, so there is no concern for inventory. Three target sizes would be required and present 24, 18 and 12 inch targets would create a challenging round. Should these targets be deemed unsatisfactory, 1 would then consider designing new ones along guidelines suggested by Pat Norris in the December issue of AR CHERY Magazine; that is, to increase the size of the spot and also, the overall dimension of the target. There are various means to accomplish this; for exam ple, by multiplying all parameters of our field targets by a common factor such as 1.25 or 1.5 - this could be achieved without sacrificing original design. Limiting factors and serious considerations, however, are the desired size of the spot and whether or not the smaller target faces then become too large to be placed, four on a butt or eight on a butt. We know that membership turnover is a constant factor in archery and that recruiting efforts must produce an in crease of 30% just to break even. Because of our membership tie-in from club to national, major efforts in recruiting must take place at club level. To encourage this level of

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promotion we, the NFAA, must furnish guidelines and tools. Initially, we must develop a means to do this. Early last year, 1 suggested to our Council that one of them should take an assignment as Public Relations Chairman and address this problem. But there was no response. I feel strongly that this must be a continuing effort from Council level. Now, I recommend to you, that the position of Public Relations Chairman be created and added to the Board of Directors Council and that the position be appointive, to serve at the nlftasiirR pleasure nf of thft the nrpcidpnf president.

The Public Relations Chairman must have broad authori zation to establish guidelines for a long range P.R. program and authority to appoint key personnel to managerial positions within the framework of a P.R. Committee. Functions of the Committee would be implemented by Headquarters under guid ance of the Chairman. The Chairman and, possibly two mem bers of the Committee, should be present at the annual meetings and funds should be budgeted to cover travel and subsistance. I would intend that the P.R. Committee would function at the annual meetings in a manner similar to our Bowhunting Committee. Functions which the Committee would address would be left to the discretion of the Chairman and depend largely upon the talents and capabilities of the committee members which he can recruit. I would hope the following would be included: Development of new promotional material in the form of attractive and cleverly worded flyers, pamphlets, decals, etc., to be provided to clubs and individuals to help them advertise our sport. Development of guidelines to take advantage of free community service TV and Radio at local and national levels. Development of guidelines in layout and art work for club flyers, etc., intended to help clubs advertise their facilities and to provide easels for counter display of such material. Development of assistance for improving club manage ment, namely, meetings, activities and facilities.

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Establishment of a NFAA film library for movies and slide shows of archers enjoying NFAA functions in recreation, conservation and competition. This recommendation regarding establishment of a P.R. Committee is directed to the attention of the Chairman of the Administration and Budget Committee.

Market surveys, supported by records of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, recognize archery as the fastest growing participation sport in the U.S. and that 80% of the growth is in bowhunting. I believe this will continue, at least throughout the remainder of Illis decade. During these years, the numbers of bowhunters in the field may well reach 3 to 4 million. This is a sizeable clientele and most assuredly deserves our best effort. There is increasing interest within this group for limited competition with hunting tackle, both with sights and without. It is absolutely imperative that we shift into high gear to develop Sectional and National Bowhunter Jam borees. Clubs must be encouraged to develop similar events

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combination of 14 Field and 14 Hunter. NFAA membership dues in states not affiliated with the NFAA increased to S 16.00 per person and dues for additional family members remain at S5.00 per person. The following Divisions and Styles of Shooting are approved for Sectional and National Competition:

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Archers will be arranged by Division & Style, and average score (determined from the handicap card) at the start of the tournament. Flights will be established at that time. Archers having no established average score or handicap will be placed into proper flights at the end of the Field Round(s) according to score. No changes will be made after that time. Equal division of the number of archers in each flight will be maintained excepting that the last flight will record an odd number as may be required. When two or more tie scores appear at the flight break, those archers will be placed at the top of the lower flight. The flight system DOES NOT apply to the professional division.

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[Jesuits of the 1975 meeting of the NFAA Board of l«Directors disclosed several realizations which are signifi cant. First, there were no changes made to rules or regulations which pertain to our games of Field Archery. This has not happened since prior to re-organization of the NFAA in 1966. Secondly, a sudden and unexpected realization occurred when the Board considered the various options for presenting awards at our national tournament. Early polls of the Council members and Directors indicated majority opinion in agreement with the T-Class system was less than satisfactory for the national and sectional tournaments and that a return to A-B-C classes would be favored. Two director committees worked diligently for many hours to re-establish logical class breaks for each division and class. An unexpected and seemingly unexplainable result oc curred when the committee recommendations were presented on the floor of the general assembly. After a rather short discussion a vote was taken and the motion went down to a resounding defeat. The question then reverted back to the Board of Directors Council which has responsibility for management of the National and Sectional Tournaments. In an after hours session by the Council, the question was again reviewed. With the T-Class being found unfavorable and the class system having been voted down the options had been narrowed considerably. Discussion centered on a unit system, that is, a percentage of entrants in a shooting style would receive awards as if used by the NFAA Professionals, or a flight system. The resulting flight system was selected. In reviewing what happened, I believe the two pages of

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and provide broadhead courses for hosting them. Failure to do so will mean that your club will be left out of the action. On the other side of the coin, our bowhunter image will be severely challenged. Anti-hunting sentiment will continue to focus on bad publicity aimed to discredit bowhunting on the basis of inhumaneness, game law violations, questionable shooting skills and crippling losses. In defense of bowhunter image a vigorous effort must be directed to our universal, nationwide Bowhunter Edu cation and Certification program aimed at improving hunting techniques and shooting skills and to disown and discredit the slob bowhunter. I will not pre-empt the Bowhunting Committee report by giving details but I would be remiss if I did not report to you that the work of that committee will go down in history as the greatest achievement in the NFAA during our contempo rary times and that the names of these Committee Members will be recorded in archery posterity. Because of a complete void in financing, publication of our book, Bowhunting Deer, had to be delayed nearly two years. I must tell you that, through the personal effort of Bill Wadsworth, private funding has been provided and the program material is now at the printer — at no obligation to the NFAA.

All of the material of this program, was compiled, edited and financed by the work of these committee members. Their efforts were brought to fruition last month when Bill Wadsworth, as a member of the NRA ad hoc Bowhunting Commit! successfully presented it for universal adoption. Ladies and gentlemen, please join with me in expressing tribute to the members of this committee for this most valued contribution to our association, and to bowhunting in the United States. & Now we need vigorous effort and cooperation from each director, each member of the Bowhunting Advisory Board and every bowhunter in the United States. We have been handed the tools — now it’s time for us to go to work! At this point I feel like the preacher who is about to commit the unpardonable sin of asking his parishoners to pledge more funds, or the politician who finds himself in the uncomfortable position of demanding a tax increase. Never-the-less, that is our first order of business. Our financial problems are serious. They were brought by prior methods of bookkeeping, settling court liti gation and the present double digit rate of inflation. Begin ning 4 years ago, it became necessary each year to borrow S10,000 during November. This was reported as a cash flow problem due to low income during the latter part of the year. No provisions were made in the succeeding year’s budget to repay the debt but regular income was used to satisfy it. This resulted in a continuing carry-over deficit which, last year, amounted to $7,337. Secondly, $5,000 was paid to settle court litigation brought by the publisher. Angus Stone. There was no default on our part of the agreement with him to publish ARCHER Y i agazine. The problem came about because Stone went bankrupt before a contract was signed. He brought suit to re MARCH 1975

cover $14,000 which he charged amounted to iris cost plus 10% over the amount of payment we made to him. The suit was delayed nearly three years due to docket postponements. During May of 1974, Stone offered settlement for $5,000. Our attorney and our bankers at Redlands urged us to accept as legal fees incurred by continuations were mounting rapidly and would soon exceed that amount. This reflected a $12,000 deficit before June 1st. The remaining part of the deficit was caused by rising cost. This will be detailed by our Secretary, Mr. Belt. You will recall that our present dues rate was set in 1970. Since then, costs of postage, shipping, office supplies, publishing costs have tripled. Major periodicals have increased their subscription and advertising rates substantially. For example, NRA, which has a subscription/membership arrangements as we do, raised its dues from $7.50 to $10.00 last July. Ladies and Gentle men, this is a solvent organization with more than one million members. Although we projected our loss prior to July we could take no action as our constitution prohibits any dues con siderations, excepting at the annual meeting. Any raise in dues voted at this time will affect only 1 /3 of the member ship this year. We have a double encumberence now — to present a balanced budget for next year and begin retirement of the debt for last year’s deficit. Now, it is the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Directors Council that our dues be increased to $10.00 for a single membership or head of household. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot going for us now and we’ve got to strike while the iron is hot. To reduce the headquarters staff, our magazine or our services would not be in the best interests of the Federation. This is a time when we must meet our obligations, head on, in a.spirit of vigorous cooperation with vigorous effort. We have a lot of people turned on. Fires of enthusiasm are contagious. They should be fanned, not snuffed out. There need never be fear for the future so long as we are of one mind. There need never be fear of decision so long as our judgements are based on wisdom of experience and our actions are tempered with patience. 1 do not recall the glory of our past. I do not pre dict greatness in out future. But, I tell you here and now, that you have given the archers of this nation the greatest archery program in the world! NFAA means total archery: • Where all archers are always welcome . Where an archer can shoot equipment of his choosing • Where an archer can shoot for the sheer fun of it share fellowship with archers with similar tastes, • Where an archer can dedicate his interests to bowhunting and conservation in a full time bowhunting program, • Where an archer can progress from Cub to World Champion Amateur or top ranked Professional in the same organization • Where an archer can find certified professional instruction for competition and for bowhunting.

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classes and score breaks which came out of committee brought a shocking realization thiat this type of system is no longer practical for use in a tournament honoring 34 divisions in 4 shooting styles. To offer an example how the NFAA Flight System will be used at the National and Sectional events, a lady freestyle, open division archer will find her name listed under LADY FREESTYLE, OPEN. She will compete with no other archers. Names will by listed in numerical order according to average scores taken from the handicap cards. Flights in LADY FREESTYLE OPEN will be deter mined before the start of the tournament and will be based upon the total number of archers who register in that division. If fewer than 16 archers enter there will be one flight and awards will be based on the unit rule. If 16 to 32 archers enter, two flights will be established and 3 awards (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) will be made in each flight. 33 to 45 entries will require 3 flights, and so on. The lady who shoots the highest aggregate score in the LADY FREESTYLE OPEN DIVISION will be awarded the LADY FREESTYLE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP. This identical system will apply to each shooting style in every division of competition.

NFAA means Archery for Recreation, Archery for Conser vation and Archery for Competition. This is a package I love to sell. Now I need an answer from each of you. Will you help me? Thank you. ARCHERY

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sights, some use a single pin, some shoot instinctive, and all methods have their advantages and their disadvantages. Furthermore, this entire magazine is too small to go into explanations of each and every method. So, we’ll talk in generalities about sight shooting and instinctive shooting, the two most used procedures for hunting. Tire hunting bow sight is like the front sight on a rifle. Your anchor point is the rear sight. You hold the bow verticle and put the sight pin on the spot you want to hit. Hopefully, that is where the arrow goes. If you hit high, you move the pin up. If you hit low, you move the pin down. For hunting most sight shooters use three or four pins, each set for a specific distance, usually varying from 15 to 40 yards. When a deer walks into view you simply estimate the distance, put the proper pin on Iris chest and shoot. If you’ve guessed right and shot the arrow well, that deer is meat in the freezer. It is essential that you know how to estimate distance if you plan to use a sight. To improve your accuracy, you should go into the woods where you’ll be hunting and guess distances under varying conditions (uphill, downhill, from tree stands, etc.) Then measure off the distance to see how well you do. Remember, all the direct benefits of a sight come only if you can guess the right distance. Most bowhunters shoot without a sight, probably because they don’t know much about them. Their procedure is to look at the target, elevate the bow until it seems about right, then shoot. Needless to say, this method takes considerable practice in order to become proficient. But, if it can be mastered, I believe instinctive shooting is the fastest and surest method for shots up to about 35 yards. It is also the simplest to use but the easiest to foul up. To illustrate the concept of instinctive shooting, raise your arm and point your finger at an object. Now do it at an object that is further away; not at one closer. The thing you’ll notice is that you can “feel” you are pointing your finger right at the object. Notice, you don’t look at the finger, you look at the object. That, in a nutshell, is the principle of instinctive shooting. You “point” your arrow at the object you want to hit by looking right at that object, not at the arrow. The arrow does enter into your secondary vision but you must focus your sight on the target. You sense where the arrow is pointing but you don’t look at the arrow directly. Thus the term “instinctive” aptly describes this shooting technique. Instincts vary from one person to another but, almost without exception, instincts can be developed with continued practice and that is the key to shooting proficiency with this method. It takes lots of practice and a lot of patience. For those reasons it is probably a more appropriate technique for the experienced veteran rather than the neophyte or casual bowhunter. A principal problem in practicing the instinctive technique is the failure to practice good form on each shot. With a sight, good form is a must but, instinctively, the importance of form • is less obvious although every bit as essential. Just being aware of tills fact is half of the battle. No archer can shoot well without good and consistent form. If your shooting produces erratic groups and your equipment is reasonably okay, it’s ten to one your form is varying from one shot to the next. MARCH 1975

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In the years that I’ve been hunting ■ with a bow and arrow, I’ve been fortunate to have enjoyed a lot of hours in the woods with good companions, a lot of adventure, and plenty of relaxing fun. There have been some unforgettable moments marking the high point of many of my hunts. There was the time I took a Florida State record whitetail, or the time I won the big buck pot, or that deer that put me over the top when I was working toward Master Bowhunter in the NFAA hunting program. I’ve had a few hairy experiences like a big storm in Blackbeard Island, Georgia, and get ting a little too close to a bear in Montana. Sometimes things were just down right funny, such was watching one of my cronies climb a tree with no limbs on it in nothing flat, because he was being chased by a monster of a wild hog (strangely enough, he did not think it was funny). And then there was a time when I was hunting with some Seminole Indian friends who thought me a fool for using a bow, because in their words, “Indian learned the hard way that rifle is better.” Sure, these memories are stored away, and are just as thrilling for me to relive today as when they happened. But this past hunting season I tucked away a few new memories, and I guess that these by far are the best of all. My hunt in Skyline region of Ala bama was doubly thrilling, because 1 saw it through two pairs of eyes - my own and my young son David’s. It seemed to me that everything was new again because this was my son’s first big game hunt with me and my adult

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friends. Although at thirteen years of age he has a lot of growing up to do, last October in Alabama he made his first steps toward being accepted as a man by other men. Earlier in the summer I had been invited to hunt with some Alabama friends in tire Skyline Wildlife region, so 1 made up a party of hunting buddies from home to go with me. Frankie Jones, Bobby Johnson, and Bobby Gaban and I began making our plans for the trip, and arrangements for time off from work. David asked me if he could come along and whether or not I thought he was ready for a full-fledged hunt. Well, I talked it over with Mary, my wife, and we both agreed that Dave should be given the chance to prove himself. First of all, there was the

problem of school to be considered. 1 don’t think that we will ever frame one of David’s report cards, but he isn’t really a bad student, so we figured that the time lost from school would be worth it, as hunting and woodlore are a valuable part of a boy’s overall educa tion. David and 1 have done a lot of small game hunting together since he was really young, and as a matter of fact, some of his prized possessions include two small game patches he had earned in the NFAA Bowhunting program. But he wasn’t going to be able to use his own bow for hunting deer. At his draw, he just wouldn’t get enough weight out of it. 1 couldn’t believe he could shoot one of my 60 pound bows, but he surprised me by being stronger and pluckier MARCH 1975

Left: Have your youngster practice at 20 yards on soft stumps about deer size and deer height off the ground. This would have been a good shot. Right: David practices in his field clothes.

than I thought. His draw length en abled him to get about 45 pounds of thrust. Since most bows are weighed at 28 inch draw, you can figure roughly two and a half pounds per inch less or add that much for each inch more. Dave could manage to get off 20 or 30 shots well with my bow, and 1 had him practice at very close range, em phasizing that only a close shot.should ever be attempted, so that a clean kill could be made, and with less chance for a wounded animal. 1 was really worried about his being over-bowed, and would never recommend that he shoot such a heavy bow for many shots con secutively, but I figured that for a few shots, it would be better for him to have maximum penetration. I taught David to shoot for the chest cavity, no matter what angle the deer was facing. I instructed him to stay still for one hour if he got a hit, and then to quietly come to me and we would blood track together. I figured that with a youngster, the chance of buck fever or the thrill of the hunt would be even greater than with an adult. So 1 tried to prepare him psychologically for that aspect of it. I tried to stress that the actual kill is not the most important thing in the hunt, as this state of mind for a begin ner could be dangerous or even disas trous. Many serious mistakes are made when we are too emotional to think clearly. I gave him tips on the use of his compass, and what to do if he got lost or injured. 1 fully intended to be close by anyway, for his first hunt, but I didn’t want him to depend on that, but learn how to lake care of hunself. We found that he had outgrown his old camouflage clothes, so we ordered him some new ones. When it looked as if the new suit would not come in in time for our departure, we took some old khaki coveralls and camouflaged them the best we could with blotches of green and black. Luckily, his new set of camo arrived before we left for Ala bama. This was a real thrill for him, being the only ones he had ever owned that weren’t cut down from someone’s old second hand camo. He could already

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feel that he belonged with the rest of us. We had been informed that the Sky line area had some of the largest white tail deer in the U.S., but we arrived there during a full moon, so we had a feeling that the hunting would not be loo great. On the trip up there, I reviewed with David many of the things that 1 had told him and taught him at home. The first day out, we took the station wagon we used to the trip over some really rough terrain, and messed up the transmission pretty bad. For the rest of the week, we had to get to the hunt area on foot. For us Florida flatlanders, those hills seemed like mountains, and it was quite a distance to go each day, but the boy made it with a minimum of complaint. I always put him in the best spots, trees close to the deer trails, to see some deer. 1 stayed very close by, within earshot, so that some advice as to how he could better spend his time while waiting for deer. Each day as 1 left him, I would help him orient his compass in case he had to get back to the road, and instructed him

to stay in the stand until the rest of us came back to get him unless there was some emergency, such as an injury. If

for some reason he should need to move from the area, and got lost, I suggested dial he whistle, holler, or at last resort, light a fire, and we would find him. Back at camp each night I sharpened or checked his broadheads for sharp ness. I honed them to hairpopping sharpness, and rounded the point to a shovel nose, because those two factors are especially important when shooting a light bow. But it wasn’t all work when we weren’t hunting. Often during the afternoon break we would practice some close shots, and have a few con tests like shooting and tomahawk throwing.

My buddies were getting a lot of “luck” shots, and wound up winning about four or five bucks from me, so I started the axe throwing, and won it all back. This included a one-shot, double or nothing throw worth an eight dollar dinner. But I have to admit that the old pro could see that my young hunting buddies are starting to catch up with their coach. One skill that David has learned well in his years of camping is cooking. He is a fine camp cook, having made trips with his Mom and 1 to the woods since he was a baby. He’s been in the Boy Scouts now for a couple of years, and 33

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has combined his training there with what we have taught him, so that he is as good a camper as any man I’ve ever taken on a hunt. He isn’t any more inclined than the others to wash dishes, however, but 1 have one advantage there. I’m still Dad, and he can’t protest too much. Every morning as we walked to the hunt area, we looked for tracks, and at the same time, looked for arrowheads and other traces of our ancestral hunters who roamed the same trails in search of game just as we do today. As we would assemble our grear for the day’s hunt, it seemed to take David a little longer to get ready to leave the camp, and one day we found out why. He used the extra time to prepare Kool-aid for his canteen, which he preferred to water. I told him that it probably wasn’t a good idea, because if he really got thirsty, and needed it badly, water would be of more use to him than a sweet drink. Then one day he set the canteen down in the woods and couldn’t find it later. I can imagine the thoughts of any

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outdoorsman who finds that canteen, to discover that it contains raspberry Kool -aid. But David did get a taste of a real man’s drink while we were in Alabama. Our friends and guides served us some good old down home brew, which Dave was allowed to sample, right along with the rest of us mighty hunters. He also got a couple of good swallows of Tequila one night, and handled it better than most of us. But that was not the extent of his initiation. We included him in a poker game, and allowed him to play until he had lost ten dollars (of mine). I then look his place and tried to win some of it back. I can’t say that he was a very good loser, but then I haven’t really met very many people who are. 1 had to forfeit my hunting for one day to take the car in for repairs, or we wouldn’t get home later in the week. David and I went to Chattanooga, Ten nessee, where we could find a good repair shop, and have an opportunity to visit with our old friends, the Jerry Wise family. Jerry is Tennessee’s NFAA Di rector, and he and his wife Adelaide are always good company. When we started out, it didn’t seem far from Skyline to Chattanooga. At least, on the map it looked really close, especially to us flatlanders from Florida. We forgot to count on the “hills” in between. They were mountains to us, and it took us longer than we thought it would to drive around them. When we

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I toward Hill, without a doubt, the algreatest all around archer of modern times, passed away February 4th of this year. Gone at seventy-four. He retired a few years ago and returned, with his wife, Elizabeth, to their old home in Vincent, Alabama to spend his last days. Howard started in archery at an early age. He was an accomplished hunter by the time 1928 rolled around. He bagged big and small game in many countries and his ability as an archer was depicted in the popular movie titled “Robin Hood,” in which Howard costarred with Errol Flynn. There were few, if any, big

countries of the world .where this masterpiece was not shown. Howard hunted big game in many countries. His greatest accomplishment in this respect was when he hunted in Africa and downed a huge elephant and a cape buffalo. In the early years of modern archery, Howard competed in some of the big national target events. But the real challenge, which he enjoyed immensely, was field archery which was founded in the late 1930s. I had my first scuffle with Howard on the old Redlands. California range, which is generally considered as the first

to cater entirely to field archery. When I say 1 competed against Howard Hill in those years 1 use the word loosely. To my knowledge there were few who could claim actual competition, for Howard won every tournament. There were those who figured he couldn’t possibly shoot that good. The word got out that Howard must be padding his score. When Howard heard about these insinuations he, in effect, told field archery to go jump in the lake. On March 18, 1945, the California Bowman Hunters staged their first annual state tournament. Howard parti cipated and 1 felt privileged to shoot with him in the same foursome. He explained that he would forego keeping score because there were those who would feel badly if they were beaten in the shoot. There was no doubt in my mind who won the event, though I took home the hardware as the first state champion. Consistent with the above thought, I should like to tell you of an event when

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Howard Hill gave me a personal lesson in how to shoot a bow on a field range. In 1944 Howard Mathison, a wealthy archer and resident of our SanFernando Valley, built a magnificent field range on his property. Every shot was a challenge, with a degree of difficulty much higher than that to be found on local field ranges. Upon completion of this range, Mr. Mathison invited Howard Hill and me to join him for a round to sort of initiate the range.

At the time, I was shooting champi onship winning scores. But they were not good enough. Howard Hill, on a strange course, shot a score of 428 for half a round of twenty-eight targets. That was equal to almost nine hundred for fifty-six targets; something which, in so far as I remember, was unheard of in competitive field archery circles.

Howard Hill and I were together often. I honestly was pleased to have been selected as his “prop boy” for demonstrations before clubs and for

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shows before thousands of people. A rather humorous incident hap pened at a show before the Los Angeles Elks Club Convention of more than three thousand guests. As the prop boy, 1 was throwing up eight-inch plywood discs. Several times Howard came to full draw but did not shoot. My efforts were wasted. Later I asked him: “How come you didn’t shoot?’ Here is his answer: “You see, Roy, you were throwing those discs pretty close to your body. It seems there are some people in the audience who like you. I figured they wouldn’t be pleased to see me put a hole through you.” Howard always did a lot of clowning, but the audiences enjoyed it. He was perfection at showmanship. Later in this same show we started on a sequence of throwing up and hitting a dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime and a nickle. After the dollar and half-dollar he closed the show. 1 asked him how come. His answer was: “Let’s not press our luck. You can’t do better than perfect!” He will be missed. - 7?oy Hoff

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BOWHUNTER BULLETIN Gaining Public Acceptance pirst, I wish to state that I believe in a few basic I assumptions. One is that ecological considerations main ly should influence our approach to wildlife management. We may contest how these should be put to use, but we know enough facts so that wildlife and fish can be perpetuated and harvested wherever suitable habitat (food, cover, water) exists for each kind of animal. Second is that the conduct of wildlife productivity can be accomplished best by persons trained and experienced in the biological field. Third is that: 1. Bowhunting programs in Colorado have been made more stable. 2. Partisan politics have been reduced in setting bow hunting seasons. 3. Private investments (licensed guide services) are being made in bowhunting.

4. Colorado wildlife conservation officers are equipped to enforce bowhunting laws against those who misuse the privilege of bowhunting. 5. Some effort is now being made to uncover facts about bowhunting by the Division of Wildlife. However, we have not yet progressed far enough in each of these five areas to insure a future for bowhunting in light of the recent "anti-hunting" sentiment of the public which has been a theme-song of a few misguided organizations. The directors of these organizations are working under the climate of opinion that all species of game are endangered and need complete protection from hunting. In Colorado most bowhunting is done on public lands. However, bowhunters are licensed in the expectation that private landowners of land on which game is grown will continue to provide access. In a way, the state and federal

EDITOR'S NOTE: Needed: Better Bowhunters nes the original title of this essay by Dr. Richard Hansen as it appeared in Colorado Outdoors. While he discusses programs to insure the future of bowhunting in Colorado, we feel Dr. Hansen's suggestions apply across the board, across the nation. He is Professor of the Ecology Department of Range Science, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, and a member of the NFAA Bowhunting and Conservation Advisory Board as well.

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public lands are no better off than the private, because in the past five years we have seen more restrictions on access, travel methods, camping opportunities and public use of public lands than during the previous 50 years. Questions are being asked about the rationale for continuing to harvest game anywhere. Most state game programs in the U.S. are based largely on selling licenses to take game owned by all of the people but protected and grown on someone else's land. In most instances, this means an economic or esthetic loss to the landowner if he provides good stewardship for perpetuating wildlife — for someone else to take. However, Colorado bowhunters do not have to depend entirely on private lands for bowhunting because of the large acreages of public lands. To have perpetual bowhunting, there must be game. To have game, there must be habitat. To enjoy bowhunting, there must be access to hunting lands. And, to have bowhunting opportunity, there must be public acceptance. The future of bowhunting is in the hands of the anti-hunting people and it is in this important area where our game departments and organized bowhunting associations do the least. I believe that bowhunting's future urgently requires that more attention be given to the public acceptance factor. This may be accomplished by: 1. Better and more stable bowhunting seasons. 2. Better conduct and stronger personal responsibilities by bowhunters. 3. Better understanding and service to landowners by game departments and by the bowhunter. 4. Better understanding among the professional wildlife management experts as to what are the needs of bowhunting. All informed bowhunters are aware of the intensification of the anti-hunting sentiment. The majority of the "psuedoecology organizations" are against blood sport, and little can be done to change their views. They will not respond to reasoning. The great majority of the public is indifferent toward bowhunting and doesn't care if it continues or stops. Landowners and managers see mostly hoodlums, many not requesting access privileges even where required. They also see bowhunters and without hesitation put them into the same category. All this results in bad press reports and hard feelings

toward bowhunting. Cynics say the state management agency is interested mostly in selling licenses to get more money to perpetuate their department and since license sales to bow hunters are generally a minor part of their income they are better off to do without bowhunters than to put up with landowner complaints and bad press publicity. I believe bowhunting for big game in Colorado would go right out the window if it were not for a very few individuals in the Division of Wildlife who believe the sport is worth perpetuating. The future of bowhunting hangs by a delicate thread. If bowhunting is perpetuated we are going to need more help and cooperation between bowhunter organizations and the Colo rado Division of Wildlife - neither can do it alone. Funda-

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I Challenge On Two Fronts

Qowhunters are a funny lot. Many are "two season" “^hunters in that they regularly take down their rifle or

shotgun and participate in hunting activities during gun seasons as well as during bow season. Many also belong to rifle associations in addition to an archery organization - which leads to one inescapable conclusion — hunting is still hunting regardless of the weapon or the method. But how much longer can we expect to enjoy the sport of hunting? There are an awful lot of people who fail to see any benefit from hunting whatsoever. These people see only suffering and destruction at the hands of irresponsible killers. They are not aware of, nor are they interested in, the role the hunter plays in game management, either in funding the effort 40

bowhunter. Why should anyone who has the price of a license be permitted to bowhunt? There are professions too numerous to mention that required demonstrated proficiency, before a license is granted. 3. More must be done to make sure a licensed bowhunter understands the rules and regulations pertaining to bow hunting in the place he chooses to bowhunt. Mistakes made in ignorance are the best press releases. The fewer the "goofs" the better our public image will be. 4. Standardization of legal bowhunting equipment. Recent advertising claims suggest that some bowhunting equipment may be so good that it does not require one to spend long hours and many days to become proficient. Has any bow hunter stopped to ask what new technological developments the Good Lord has hung on deer, elk or any other game animal in the past few decades? Where does application of technology exceed the bounds of sportsmanship? Bows and arrows were developed as ancient tools and we now use them for sporting. Is the concept of a hand-held bow and a steel-edged broadhead enough?

or in harvesting the surplus. This is where we come in. W: must put our best foot forward, and present a nearly impeccable public image if we are to maintain a favorable position in the eyes of the American people. We must avoid senseless killing of animals or birds at any cost. Certainly we should rightfully continue to pursue regular game animals, those whose flesh will become fare at your table. But hunting and then killing merely to add up "points" is only adding fuel to the anti-hunting campaign. In other words we are now having one hell of a time defending "meat hunting" and really, unless there is some extra justification for shooting coon, possum, or fox, you had better think twice before you do. Sure, there once was a time when man killed whatever game he found - but he also ate it. Now he can buy his meat at the grocery store, and he can get his recreation in front of the boob tube if all else fails. And these very arguments are regularly used by anti hunting groups along with a plentiful supply of pictures, all showing an animal or bird with an arrow in it. Many of these pictures have been around for years and are still very effective. You have elected to participate in a very challenging form of hunting. This challenge embraces not just the sport of hunting but your conduct as an individual as well. You owe it to the sport to meet this challenge on both fronts. -Ted Fenner, NFAA Bowhunting and Conservation Committee MARCH 1975

by Joel Hogan

My Perfect Stalk on an ELK

f^entemher 3rd found my hunting ’^partner and me looking up a very muddy road with about ten inches of snow on top of the ground, debating whether we should chain up the 4x4 or give it a try “bare.” Jack clutched the truck and away we went for about five yards and slid off the road. After several tries we made it to the top of the steep incline where we found the scenery breathtaking. The early snow had covered everything with a blanket of white and as the sun came up, we could see ice crystals floating to earth. We were trying to get to my cousin. Gerald Ahrens’ hunting camp where he and Denny Lane, both members of the White River Bowmen, Rangely, ColoARCHERY

rado, had made camp the day before in the Blair Mountain area north of New castle. As we rounded a bend in the road we spotted two elk approximately one mile away, walking across a snowcovered park. This got the blood to pumping and did some confidence building. We drove on down the road to a tent that was sagging terribly in the middle under a load of fresh snow, got out and smelled coffee perking. There was a lot of elk hunting strategy passed around while we put away a pot of hot coffee. It was finally decided that we would spread out and try to drive elk to each other rather than still hunt. Denny, Gerald and I would hunt a ridge down to a campground about two miles away

and Jack would drive around and pick us up. We checked out our tackle, and prepared for the hunt when Denny noticed that the end of one of his limbs was split on the compound bow that he had just built. “What do you think?” he asked, hoping that he wouldn’t have to use his stick bow. “You have less than a half dozen shots left, then bang!" Gerald replied. Gerald had done lots of shoot ing with compound bows and knows what he is talking about. Denny decided he would use his crippled compound anyway, thus taking a chance. We left camp. I went low, Denny around the side and Gerald, up over the

Friend Denny with the beautiful bull on which author Hogan made his flawless stalk.

top of the black timbered ridge. The snow was melting but the noise it made when it fell from the trees made sneak ing a bit confusing. As each clump would hit the ground, I found myself straining my eyes trying to pick out a patch of gold. Nothing developed for nearly a mile. 1 walked veiy slowly into an area with very heavy down-timber, there finding two large sets of elk tracks — the first sign I had discovered. With tracking so good, I decided to stay on the tracks and hunt very slowly into the maze of timber. I have learned from experience that bull elk love heavy' timber, especially if it contains old windfalls. They seem to feel safe and usually bed down in these areas during the day. I followed the tracks about 150 yards when I noticed an elk antler sticking above an old, rotten tree which had fallen years ago. The bull was bedded about 50 yards from me and unexposed so I put on my best sneak. Fifty, forty, 30 yards, then at 20 yards, the breeze shifted and two ma ture bulls jumped up and trotted in a semi-circle around me. I picked an opening they were headed for and only had to wait a second before a five-point bull moved through. As the second bull, a six-point, moved through, I released my arrow and drilled a tree dead center. My bulls were gone but not really spooked. I walked over to my em bedded arrow and tried to remove it from the tree, but 1 found I was shaking so much that I almost cut myself. I just sat down and relived the last 30 sec onds, wishing I could have that shot over again. The snow was going fast, so I picked up the tracks of those bulls and off I went. The tracks evidenced that the bulls had slowed to a walk and I changed my pace accordingly, hoping they would bed again. I noticed that they were headed in the direction that Jack was waiting for our rendezvous. There was a small chance that one of the bulls would give Jack some excite ment. About the time that I thought it was over I spotted below me about 70 yards a beautiful bull in his bed. I lifted my binoculars to look him over and noticed that he had bedded down next to a large log with just his antlers exposed from the downhill side. I eased my glasses 42

down and got out of view from him by putting a large blue spruce between the two of us. The way this situation was developing 1 should be able to sneak to within 20 yards of him unless the wind changed. Well, this was what I had wanted, a return of what had happened an hour earlier but under a set of circumstances that would allow me hopefully to get right on top of him. Working myself into the perfect set up 1 started down the slope one soft step at a time. It was about at this time in this story that a jet flew over very low making so much noise that it gave me a chance to move to a point directly behind the bull. A shot of adrenalin hit my system and I thought that my heart beat was going to give me away. So I waited a few minutes to let my nerves relax and at the same time try not to get cocky over the fact that I had gotten a second chance that day and had made the perfect stalk. I checked my tackle and eased around the pine tree that had been my cover. First his rump was exposed. After waiting a moment. I moved a little more so as to expose his midsec Lion. Again 1 waited, marvelling at being so close. 1 wanted a good hit in the rib cage, so I moved around a little more to bring the whole body into view. 1 eased the string back and anchored, a second case of the shakes beginning to hit me as the string started across my but then something was fingers wrong. I noticed a trickle of blood running out of the bull’s nose and his head was tilted a little more than when I had last had a good look at him. I let up on the string and lowered the bow slowly trying to figure out why the bull wasn’t breathing. Now just picture yourself in my shoes. You have just finished a perfect sneak job on a beautiful five-point bull and find when you reach the magic spot that he is dead of an apparent nose bleed! I was completely baffled. This was one of the bulls that I had seen earlier, but my arrow was still in a tree on top of the ridge. As I sat there trying to figure things out, I heard Denny whisper as loud as he could from 100 yards away, “Hogan, I hit a big bull, come here!” Well, things were starting to make some sense now. “Down here Denny,

there is a bull as dead as a rock,” I said, still trying to believe what had hap pened to me. Denny hurried down to where the bull was he and he appeared to be a little on the nervous side. We sat down and he showed me his deflated compound bow. “Gerald was right, I got only one arrow off before my bow exploded,” he blurted out as he held out his bow pointing to the upper limb. We sat there trying to unwind as Denny started his story. He had heard timber popping above him, so he froze and looked up the trail he was standing by and spotted two bulls trotting straight toward him, the first one a five-pointer and directly behind him, a big six-point — the bulls that I had jumped on the back side of the ridge. Denny drew his bow, anchored and released, hitting the first bull in the ribs at about nine paces. The bull spun around and headed back the way he had come. The six-point just stood there trying to figure out what had made that strange noise. He finally walked away into the timber and out of sight. Denny then started to nock another arrow and found that his bow had come undone. Knowing that he would not be able to finish off a wounded elk with it, he decided to wait an hour before tracking the bull on Ms back trail. The bull traveled only 50 yards on his back trail before getting sick and turning downhill to find one of many beds in this area. The bull lay down, and it was at that moment that I spotted him as he appeared completely healthy and started my “classic” stalk. Denny had waited after hitting the bull until he spotted me about to shoot a dead bull that had died just out of sight of him. His arrow had struck the heart and liver but didn’t penetrate the body. I had seen the bull from the opposite side and therefore had not seen any wound. We cleaned, skinned, quartered and hung the bull tn the pines. Gerald and Denny used pack frames to pack the bull out the next day. The antlers have not yet been mea sured for the Pope and Young Records but we feel that they will make the book along with being a nice trophy for the wall. 1 didn’t get an elk, but 1 did get an experience that I will never forget be cause it’s not just anyone that can pull the perfect stalk. MARCH 1975

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Sectional Tournament DATE: April 5th & 6th, 1975 TOURNAMENT HOST: Mesa Bowmen LOCATION: Usery Mt. Park Archery Range. Located 6 miles north of Hwy. 60-70-80, 10 miles east of Mesa. This all new facility has just been completed with over $100,000 being spent for archers enjoyment. PRE-REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 1, 1975 SEND APPLICATION TO: Elaine Curtis, 2253 E. Decatur, Mesa, AZ 85201 LATE REGISTRATION: At tournament site SHOOTING SCHEDULE: Saturday 9:00 a.m. 28 Field, 14 Animal; Sunday 9:00 a.m. 28 Hunter. ACCOMMODATIONS: Numerous motels and restaurants on U.S. 60-70-80 There is adequate camping facilities at range. FOOD: Saturday night, April 5th, steak fry and Western band at range.

NFAA Certified Instructors School being conducted. Register at tournament site.

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SALES& SERVICE KING’S GUIDE SERVICE. Bowhunt for mule deer on the King ranch, located on Glade Park, 30 miles west of Grand Jet., Colorado. 20,000 private acres surrounded by 60,000 government acres. Some top racks have come from this area, including Art Cook’s 1962 World Record. Hunting is done in aspen, oakbrush and sage terrain at 8000’ elevation. We use stock-drive method of hunting and also tree stands. We furnish home cooked meals and lodging. You bring license, sleeping bag, and personal items. Write to: Doug King Art Cook Glade Park, CO 81523 701-26’/2 Rd. Phone Grand Jet. CO 81501 (303) 242-2590 (303) 242-7033

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 34 arrived, we thoroughly enjoyed our visit with them, and I know it was a nice change for David to be in the company of some kids again. When the car repairs had been made, and we said our goodbyes to the Wise’s, and started back to the hunt area, I began to turn over a lot of random thoughts in my mind. Why had this trip with my son along seemed so different, so new to me? We had spent almost a whole week in the woods, and none of us had killed anything. You would imagine that after all the preparation and anticipation that comes before a hunting trip, to come up empty-handed after a week or hunting would be a big disappointment. 1 guess that’s the beauty of bowhunting any way. We had the fun and fellowship of guys who like to be in the woods, and forget for a while the pressure or

RESERVATIONS at GRANNY GRUNT’S ARCHERY DORM for the World and National Archery Championships to be held July 18 to 27, 1975 at Jay, VT. It’s party time at GRANNYS at $11.50 a day MAP. Reserve now. Also Granny’s Archcry Shuttle Service to the targets. Write for brochures and reservations. Box 405, Montgomery, Center, VT 05471. (1) (802) 326-4572.

TARGETS. Complete line, Fast service. All NFAA - Field, Hunter, Big Game, PAA, Flint. FITA, NAA 4-color. Deer, Small Game. Novelties. Cardboard, paper. Free catalog. Finnwood Products, 516 Mill St., Cincinnati, Ohio 45215. Phone 1-513-761-0198.

NOCKS: Compare ours with any on the market. New butyrate nocks 100 for $2.00; 500 for $7.00 or 1000 for $12.00 postpaid. Sizes 11/32, 5/16, 9/32 and 1/4 inch. Colors: white, red, yellow, green, blue, orange, and black. For price list and sample nock send stamped self-addressed envelope. Blue Cloud Archery Co., 242 Walnut St., Ft. Collins, Colorado 80521

EMBLEMS Beautiful Embroidered Emblems at low cost to your club. For price list: ACE Emblems, 14314 Ostend Dr., La Mirada, CA 90638.

CROSSBOWS. Powerful, silent, accurate. Complete kits $14.95. Catalog 25^ CROSSBOWMAN Box 2159AM, Petaluma, CA 94952.

EMBROIDERED PATCHES: Washable fast color emblems made-to-order in lots of 10 or more. 100 Archery designs with exact prices and full detail sent free to clubs. An thony Emblems, Box 7068, Grand Rapids, Mich. 4951O.tf

boredom of workdays. The enjoyment of those hours sitting around the campfire, and trading hunting stories and all of us reminiscing silently as we observed a youngster on his first hunt — made the trip worth while. If we had brought home a trophy buck, that would have simply been a bonus. On one of the last days of the hunt, David came walking up to me from his ground blind, dressed in full camo, his face painled with the disguise of nature, so that all you could really distinguish were his eyes, which were sparkling with wonder and amazement. His pace hur ried more as he approached me to whisper in a voice that was breathy from Iris fast walk; he had seen a beautiful buck and two does forty yards away, but would not take a shot be cause I had told him to wait for a shot at twenty yards or closer so that he could make a clean kill. No, he didn't get a shot, but that first sighting of game up close, and the

thrill of the hunt, was the beginning for David, as it has been for all hunters since time began. And if he is like most of us, no matter how many years he hunts, or how much of a veteran trophy hunter he becomes, that same old feel ing will be there everytime he has the game in his sights. 1 hope someday, when he’s grown and has kids of his own, that he will take his son on this same kind of adventure and share with him the same memories I now share with David. Be cause it seems to me that all a man accomplishes and all he possesses in his lifetime are of little consequence. All that lives on of a man once he is gone is the memory that others hold of him. When all the others have forgotten, maybe he will be longest remembered by his children. I think that the hours spent by a man looking into a campfire, and teaching a young hunter are not deducted from his allotted time on this earth.

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We can’t promise all our guests they will bag record-class muleys like these. We can promise you a real good hunt and a grand time during your stay on our 20,000 acres of prime deer country. In past seasons our hunter success has been excellent. The two beauties shown here were taken during our recent hunts. Plan now to join us in the high country of Western Colorado.

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JOHN LAMICQ, JR. 478-29 Road, Apt. 2E Phone 303 - 243-1082 Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 NOTE: WE ARE NOW BOOKING ELK, LION, ANTELOPE AND BEAR HUNTS.

MARCH 1975

KRFORMAHCE COUNTS! And in tournament archery, performance means victories, because Personalize Your Bow that's what competition is all about. And no one knows this better To give your bow that personalized "Custom than Eva Troncoso, the #1-ranked Woman Pro who holds or has held Look" favored by Eva, Gale, & other Pre virtually all the pro titles a woman can. cision Shooters, look into our optional But great performance doesn't come easy — which is why Eva hardware engraving hand-tooled at our by a custom gun-engraver. Any practices hard and prepares so intensely for every tournament. factory pattern you specify, including the examples Part of this preparation, of course, involves her choice of equipment, shown here, can be applied to side-plates, especially her Precision Compound, for no archer is any better than turnbuckle tubes, stabilizer rods, speed the bow he's shooting. Together, hard work and great equipment make brackets, etc., whether you already own a a winning team, so it's no surprise that Eva and her Precision Precision Compound or are just ordering one, Hardware colors include Gold, Black, Compound captured the Las Vegas/Desert Inn Classic, leading from Red, and Blue (Silver engraving only), start to finish, including a blazing 296 round. and metalflake handles are also available. Nor was Eva's the only impressive PSE-Performance. Precision's Contact your dealer or write our Factory NFAA Champ, Gale Cavallin, despite a slow start, charged back direct! with rounds of 297 & 298 to take 2nd place in the Pro Men's Divi- Precision Shooting Equipment, Inc. son, only 2 points out of first, and the PSE factory team finished a Mahomet, Illinois 61853 very respectable 3rd in the Pro-Team Division. All-in-all, 14 Precision Phone 1 (217) 586-4978 Shooters finished “in the money" as another major tournament proved that Precision Products Perform, and as we all know, it's Licensed under Allen Patent No. 3. 486. 495 Performance that Counts!

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"I’ve traveled around the world hunting the most dangerous game I could find to prove that the bow and arrow was a lethal weapon; one to be reckoned with. J The largest game I’ve taken was a 4 ton African bull elephant in Mozambique on June 6 of 1964.”

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Fred Bear proved his point the hard way. Many times. But all of archeiy benefited from his daring. The sport has more than doubled since Fred bagged his elephant and bowhunting is now permitted in all 50 states. The most popular bow that Bear Archery has is the low cost Grizzly. Grizzly accounts for almost V2 of all Bear hunting bows sold. See the Grizzly and all the other Bear bows at your Bear Archery dealer’s. They've been proven on the game trails of the world by Fred Bear.

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