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FCRREST NAGLER

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By DR. PAUL KLOPSTEG 2100 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C.

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When death takes a friend, the loss absolute reliability of his friendship, of Sun Valley for an ‘out-of-this-world’ cannot be replaced except, in a measure, his unfailing integrity; of the generous week of skiing. Back home, went to through the making of new friends; but help extended to man who needed help, work for a day and then home with theI new friendships can never take the especially during the depression and flu, in bed for a week, the first time place of those that have endured the war, all without letting the nature in 25 years. Up and around, took a through the years. The death of and extent of that help become known; drive to Lake Forest to deliver a model, Forrest Nagler, on April first, at Lake of his exceptional vitality and vigor and at the State Line the walls fell in.

Forest (Ill.) Hospital is, to many of us, throughout the period of our acquaint­ Letty was with me, and when I couldn't such an irreplaceable loss. We who ance; of his outstanding leadership in drive from sheer ‘pain in the sawdust,' knew him so well, who enjoyed his serious and worthwhile things, as1 well she drove me to Deerpath Inn. I navi­ close friendship, can appreciate the as in the fun of recreational activity gated on own power, called a doctor, impact of his passing on his family, and the good-natured practical joke. got room, and he had the answer in particularly on Mrs. Nagler. To them Those who knew him know that these fifteen minutes. Into hospital, oxygen we express our deep feeling of sym­ are true words of appreciation of a tent for a few days when necessary, and pathy. truly great character. since the 28th not a single pain, acts ’ As one grows older, he becomes phil­ Because of my living in Washington or abnormal sensation. Cardiogram at osophical about many things, but he at present, our communications during three days showed improvement and it does not become indifferent. He recog­ the past months have had to be by ten days (today) hope to get a Grade A.. nizes that we can do little to change the letter. On the day before he died, he Maybe go home this week. 1 hope never: course of events. There is no alterna­ to refer to this again—a perpetual ‘stop ! tive to accepting them as they occur, me if you've heard this.' and to adjust to new conditions. An “Was sure a virgin hospital cus-1 event like the passing of an old friend tomer. Our costumes are simple—muck ! strikes deep into the emotions. It be­ like the design of a 6-year-old’s bandit j comes especially poignant when it hap­ mask out of a handkerchief. Of course | pens unexpectedly. Your adjustment I put it on like a coat and it didn't comes with difficulty. You had counted go clear around. It xvas the- last word., on many days in the future when your the dernier cri, the ultim'te. the ns duties were less demanding, when you plus ultra of plunging ir lines. New might together engage in pleasant ac­ I know what ‘ultra’ n ms. Meet tivities you had long planned, leisurely amusement at a time whei .i little was and unridden by your conscience which needed. might be prodding you to get back to "Please note I haven't ;■ ached oree the pile of work on your desk. Now on how to live.” you are full of regrets at hax'ing let Forrest Nagler lived ex. < ■: ly a month time run out, at having missed oppor­ beyond his retirement.. Shishly, anil tunities for enjoyment of pleasant com­ with self-pity, we may mourn his deaths panionship. It is with such thoughts We feel great sorrow thai . ith his cn-1 and regrets that I write this memorial bounded energy and his ...■••at enthu-j and tribute to Forrest Nagler. iasm he was not permit: i to enj:y| My first meeting with him occurred many years of retirement the pursn.il about 1930. No doubt it happened at of his hobby interests. V. by this was I an archery tournament, for it came not granted him is a m. 'ter beyc-nil about through our common interest in human xvisdom. We mour,. his passinn I archery. I had only recently discovered Especially do archers tnoinu it, for tl-I the possibilities of. many kinds of great loss that has bi t n sustain?: ■ pastime offered by archery, and had through the death of its .neatest begun to study the bow as a research tributor. problem in physics and engineering.

Forrest Nagler was born, m Freef-o" ■ C. N. Hickman in New York and For­ Michigan, on April 21, 1SS5. From tl-B rest Nagler in Milwaukee had been do­ Hastings, Michigan high school he wen'■ ing the same. Since I was living in FORREST NAGLER to the University of Michigan. where !-'■ Evanston at the time, Forrest and I obtained his Bachelor of Science degree■ had more frequent personal contacts than we did with C. N„ but we kept replied to one I had written him as in Mechanical Engineerin', in 1905. KB up a lively flow of correspondence with soon as I heard of the attack which put that year he took a position with thtB him. Roy Case was another kindred him in the hospital. His was mailed on Allis-Chalmers Company of Milwaukee ■ soul whose shop and superb craftsman­ the morning of his death, and reached where he became a specialist in t''B ship contributed much to the early ex­ me two days later. It was like a voice— draulic turbines. He invented the axi^B periments. Forrest, Roy and I met fre­ a cheerful and optimistic voice—from floxv turbine runner that bears hsB quently at tournaments. Through them the Beyond. To receive the letter was name. For this and other notable weSB 1 became interested in hunting, which startling, for I knew he had died on in engineering he was awarded a culminated in an unforgettable journey the day it happened. I am taking the membership in the American Society into the Lac Seul-English River coun­ liberty of quoting from it, because it Mechanical Engineers. In 1930 he Jc!:?-B try of northwestern Ontario, to hunt highlights one part of his makeup as the A. O. Smith Company of Milwauke^B deer and moose in the autumn of 1937. nothing else could do—far better than and in 1933 went to Toronto as ch-B Nothing can compare with a hunting my attempts to find suitable discriptive engineer of the Canadian Allis-Chalnn'B Company. In 194 2 he returned to V '■ trip to reveal character. This adven­ phrases. xvaukee as chief mechanical engicv-B ture and many later experiences which "I am feeling so fine I am inclined of Allis-Chalmers, and in 1950 t:>B we shared gave me a basis for appraisal scan your letter thoroughly just to over the direction of the atomic enr:?B that in my experience is almost un­ to find something to differ about - - -. work carried on by that company. b-^B duplicated.

About ‘operation’: I retired as of ing the war he xvas closely associate^B Had I greater skill in the use of March 1my took up the work of which with engineering developments of words, I should tell at great length of I spoke and you—an engineer's dream. Manhattan District, in connection the unusual and remarkable qualities Finished to a lecture series with two in production of U235, at Oak Ridge. r'B that identified his personality; of the Denver—up got a raw throat—7went on to • Continued on Page Thirty.

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ARCHERY May-

Grey Buck of Gilcrest

By NORT SCHENSTED Glenwood, Minnesota

An ancient Chinese proverb has ward the drivers. About the time I it, “Fear not a bow hunter expected to meet them I saw the buck caught with his trousers down, come crashing through the brush to­ for he is like unto a man bound ward me. I picked an opening in the brush and released at exactly the right with a thousand chains.”

I am not certain if it were Confucious second. Tile arrow sped straight for who said it or if it were some other his front shoulder and buried itself in philosopher of old, nor am I entirely a tree. A buck is supposed to be a certain that it really was the Grey Buck that I saw coming toward me on that cold October day in ’4 9. Grey Buck or his brother, that was the day my dream PRIZE U 15 MM. began, a dream which was to continue for two years. \Toin My bow was leaning against a bass­ wood tree about six feet away, when I saw his antlers appear over the crest This month we present file tTBaa of the hill I started to walk toward my of our prize-winning st< .’.l: itTirs. bow but quickly, very quickly discov­ <«rev Bih k of Gilcrest ered, that under the circumstances, am! winner ot the $50.00 first prize in our story contest, is X'ort crawling covered ground faster. The Srlten.sted of Glenwood. Minnesota. buck, not being handicapped in the U e feel positive that you will way I was, reached the tree first. He saw me and came to a sudden stop. I thoroughh enjoy reading this story living each of the events as the froze in my tracks, which was not author deptc ts them. \nd, vv e* 11 hard to do with the thermometer near zero, and under the circumstances in wager it will tickle your I’nnii v which I had found myself. The wind bone light to the marrow.

■ -.............. was blowing hard from the north and In submitting this Mon. Vorl hjHilogizi'd for his writing ability, I was on all fours facing south. Thirtyand was a bit reluctant to enter the two years ago I worked for a North lontest. It was the unanimous deDakota farmer who described every cold < isioti of file judges that Vort's day by, “The vind he blow like knife slot i should win first place. which blade.” I remembered Mr. Evenson as should prove beyond a reasonable I held my pose. I looked at the buck doubt that Sort doesn’t know what and the buck looked at me. How long he's talking alsntt when he says this mutual admiration business would have lasted I don’t know. A large ex­ he < an t write.

We deem it a privilege arid a panse of my anatomy was getting very pleasure to award the S50.no first cold—we each made a lunge—me for pr ize to Sort s, heiisted and luqte the bow, he for the brush. that his efforts will be an inspira­ I sighted him several times during tion to others who ”<an'r write." the rest of the season and each time This i otitest was antiotineeii in his rack seemed to have gained another point and his great, grey frame grown the V Igust. 1051 issue or Vrtfierv Magazine. We offered seven prizes more immense. However, the season ended with the Grey Buck still roam­ with a total < ash value >«t SI 25.4 Ml. •ies uere submitted for ing the woods of Gilcrest.

Fhe judges The season was closed during the enirv in (tie < »>nte*( 1950 season, so all I could do was to had no nn difficult} in deciding rhe first prize winner, hut t<» place the continue to dream of the Grey Buck. I did not see him but reports came to other five contestants was a difme of farmers in the vicinity of Lake fereot matte r Thev just < iHihhi t Gilcrest finding deer tracks in their dec ide That being rhe < Use. VOIH F.dlfor corn fields which were as large as those will decide the Issue and declare of a two-year-old steer. Our local game warden had the opportunity of studying that all othe r c oiitestarits I |mH him through his field glasses. He count­ s«*c oriel and will split the ed 14 points and estimated him to I ‘he authors and the titles <«»( (ht ir F tt the stories arc* "Na ' an'f weigh about 35 0 pounds dressed weight.

F nun A youngster walking through the woods llc»riis t»v I He k Boutin F IomI < Hie to si x If s F Illi.

Bv saw, “The biggest deer I ever saw—it F.« < leston as told If I iilu 'stalker. was so old it was grey,” was the way Big link i>v •sfuart U ils«»n he described it to me. By the end of Klondike Meadows bv 1950 the Grey Buck of Gilcrest was a l.orw B at In riietii Hills. legend in Pope County.

1951 was the year that I made every I II X Well arrow with only one thought in mind: i oiigraf ulai ions to vvii all, and this might be the arrow that will with iI»i|ks| .tpprec tattoo l.. all «•* stop the Grey Buck. Every one of my %ou for voiit fine < broadheads was made sharp enough to These stories HI II ap|~ ar frovii .« feat IIred s|>o| split a grey hair! month hi month in 'l.cga/iiM Match for To me, October 6, 19 51 is the great­ will be identified l»v est day in modern history. That was I hem. Tie » ; ■ r«<d star that a«. oinpanies the day it happened! Funny how easy the same and how simple things can sometimes In list« d « art h le X..i t I. be. Dennis and Verne were putting on a short drive; Jane was posted on a runway and I was walking slowly to-

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wary sort of a creature and I have found them very much so as a rule, — on this ---- particular ----------- day _ my buck but for, must have had .—2 his mind elsewhere ' at the clunk of the arrow in the tree, he stopped and turned his head toward the source of the noise. If he had rolled his eyes just a trifle he would also have seen the fellow who started the racket; however, he gave me time to get another arrow on the string and this time even I could not miss—a broadside shot at less than 30 yards.

As I saw the arrow disappear into his side I knew that now Ralph Bagley would no longer be able to call me “the virgin”. I was no longer the frus­ trated person that I had been for so many years. I had tasted of that worldly pleasure—I had gotten my deer!

The book says to give a deer an hour to bleed out. I was certain that it would not be necessary in this case—even the largest deer can not carry a well placed 190-gr. broadhead far. My buck stag­ gered and fell within 40 yards. To be on the safe side, however, I filled my pipe and tried to smoke. By holding it with both hands I managed to keep it from chattering too much. About a minute of this was all the suspense I could stand. As I neared by buck I saw he was dead and by the time Dennis and Verne joined me I had him almost dressed out. While Dennis helped me, Verne went to find Jane and by the time they returned we had the buck ready to drag out.

During all this time I was acting as though this was just another deer, but I never have been as proud of anything as I was of that buck.

Besides that Chinese proverb there is another which goes like this: “Pride goeth before a fall.” Boy, how true that one is! As I was cleaning my hands I made the remark that we would have quite a job dragging my buck to the road. At that Dennis grabbed it by one front leg and took oft through the timber. Now, Dennis is just an average sort of a fellow; no Atlas material.

That was only the beginning. When we tried to tie the buck on the car we discovered that these now tangled fend­ ers were not designed with that in mind. Somebody suggested the trunk, but I was quick to say that it would never go in the trunk. Dennis and Vern opened the trunk and tossed my buck in.

I said something about “they sure make big trunks nowadays,’ but the fact for another that there was still room ... deer as large as mine made my remark Jane tried to sound a trifle empty.“that size is the soothe me by saying, best eating.”

I may have been cut down in size a little, but T still was plenty proud. On the way home I stopped to see a farmer friend and do a little crowing. I open­ ed the trunk and called him. He looked at my buck and asked. “Can you eat them when they are that small?” I said “good-bye!” and hoped that Jane and the boys had not been listening—they had.

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TO BE, OR NOT TO BE

INSTINCTIVE

By ARNOLD KAISER 5393 Iroquois Ave., Detroit 13, Michigan

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Many are the arguments one hears minds of some, is the instinctive archer poor violinist so also I would rather ’ '— ~<~v. amiable sighton the relative merits of instinctive a reality or just a modern myth? Is it shoot with a happy, ------ a griping, alibing In­ shooting and sight-shooting. Most of really possible to shoot accurately by shooter than Now don't get me wrong.

1 the arguing is done by people who are instinct alone? In my opinion there is stinctor. strongly—one might even say, violent­ no doubt on this subject. Of course in­ am not implying that all the gripers are_ in the instinctive group or that ly—prejudiced one way or the other. stinctive archery is real. Certainly there — This is pretty tough on the novice are archers who shoot by instinct alone. all sight-shooters are fun to shoot with. archer who wishes to form an unbiased I believe I can prove this point beyond Not by a jugful. We have all kinds in a doubt to anyone who can understand both divisions. I just mean that for a opinion. shooting companion I want a man who I think the whole controversy could the logic of a parallel case.

Have you ever watched a good vio­ is a good sport and fun to shoot with be summed up by quoting the old ad­ age: “One man’s meat is another man's linist play a difficult composition? Of and I don’t care how he shoots or by poison.” From some of the things I course you have. But, have you ever how many points he beats me.

The complaint has been voiced, not have seen and heard on the archery stopped to consider how he produces ranges, I am afraid many of those who those amazingly true tones? The gamut once but many times, that archery is ij the tlie point where the deteriorating to are most violently opposed to sights do of a violin has no frets or marks or de­ not know what an instinctive archer is. any kind to show where a certain note score means everything. If that is desport- l ave* de J" ­ Certainly many of them are not in­ is located. Moreover, in the higher reg­ terioration then all sport.stinctive archers, although that is what ister of the instrument, the notes, or teriorated. Can you name ne sport where defeating one's oppom nt is not one’s they call themselves. more correctly, the tones, are spaced one's Let’s ask the question: “What is an an infinitesimal distance apart. The the prime objective? Pit Is instinctive archer?” According to the distance between B and C an octave strength and skill against neither instincts, N.F.A.A. the instinctive archer used no and a half above the staff would be one of mankind’s stronge ijldhood ’s sight or point-of-aim. He does not look measured in just a few thousandths of It manifests itself in il death at the point of his arrow when he takes an inch. Yet the violinist can place earliest games and continu aim. In fact, he does not take aim, in his finger on the exact spot with un­ When man’s competitive 1”. dies out rd. Cao 1— the general sense of the word. He con­ erring accuracy. Nor does he need to he is ready for tlie bon shootine centrates on the black spot in the cen­ look at the place where his finger you imagine four archer •ing score ter of the target, and depends on in­ must go. In fact, he could not do so around a course without k stinct to give him the correct elevation; because his eye would not know where or comparing results at th finish to wnu won? >vuii. Then j. ntu why >• .1 tills talk see who just as when throwing a hall one does to look. If the muscles and nerves of acc not stop to figure out whether the re­ a violinist’s left hand can be trained about “the score’s the tiling.’ - though ould no: ceiver is twenty or thirty yards away, to measure the exact distance which that were something that or just how high in feet and inches the the hand must travel in going from be. I’ve never heard of . >ple who ball should be thrown to reach its ob­ first to ninth position, without any con­ shoot for pleasure and care tiling for jective. How many so-called instinctive scious estimate of space, then the left the score being unwelcome : any arch­ archers qualify under this definition? hand of the archer can also learn to ery meet. No! It’s the felloe "lio cares That is a hard question to answer, but measure the exact distance which the so darn much because his .■ .-ore Is not I think it is safe to say, “not as many hand must travel to make the necessary higher than all the others wi > Is doing -.-“3 . .e score’s as would have you believe they do.” change of trajectory from fifteen yards all the griping. Of course wants to I remember one "instinctive” archer to eighty, without conscious aid from the thing and every' archer *’ who tried to help me improve my score the mind. The distance the hand travels shoot in the manner tthat will give hie on the long shots. I, of course, was in either case would be about the same. the best score. an instinctive archer, but not a very As I have drawn a violin bow as well Let’s face it; field archery is cotgood one. "You’ll never get anywhere as a bow and arrow, I know whereof petition, and competition makes just sticking up your bow and shooting I speak. So let’s not sell the real in­ archery. And who would y. „„’.J want it othrtthe way you do,” he told me. “Now stinctive archer short. He’s quite a guy wise?

Many instinctive archers adopt the me, I hold the top knuckle of my left and has developed a skill of which he hand on the spot at sixty yards; at may well be proud. But not so proud, attitude that if they wanted to put a eighty I do the same with my second let us hope, as to lead him to believe sight on their bow, they could show knuckle.” that no other method of shooting can these sight-shooters a thing or tw:.

Now I ask you, is that instinctive be as praiseworthy as his own.

That, my friends, is a lot of bunk. I'« shooting? Not in my book it isn’t.

On the other hand, we have all heard known quite a few instinctors who han That’s sight shooting, pure and simple. violinists who do not always strike a tried to shoot with a sight and given uj Another archer who never used a true tone, just as we all have seen in­ in disgust. They had neither tlie temsight told me: “There’s no such thing stinctive archers who do not always hit perament or background to make goci as Instinctive archery. Everybody uses the target. It takes hours of practice sight-shooters. I’ve watched many skill­ something to sight with. Nobody can every day for many years to produce ed machinists “chuck up” a work-piece just look at a target and hit it.” Well, even a fairly good violinist. The in­ in a four-jawed chuck. Some slap the I can’t buy that, but it does prove that stinctive archer cannot become an ex­ piece in the chuck, spin it once by liani many' archers who call themselves in­ pert in a few week-ends of shooting. make a slight adjustment, and are ready stinctive have no faith in the precepts The instinct may be there, but it Is to start cutting. Others take many and ideals of the class in which they latent and must be developed slowly minutes centering the work with a dial choose to shoot. I don’t think we need and palnstakenly. indicator. They do not trust their ey>! worry too much about these fellows.

Now, there are many people who love or instinct to tell them the piece is At first thought we might say they the bow and love the game of Field centered; they must read it on the were cheating, but actually they are Archery who are not temperamentally dial. These people could never make In­ cheating nobody 1but. themselves. ’’ ' By fitted to become instinctive archers, any stinctive archers. Their whole lift-' cluttering up their minds with their more than some peopie wll0 iove mus[c training is against doing anything halmake-shift aiming aids they spoil theil are fitted to become violinists. The hazzard—-in trusting their instinct chances of ever becoming a good in­ first mentioned can have just as much They must have something definite anl stinctive shots and they are not honest fun shooting with a sight, and the concrete to set their teetli into, It enough to put a sight on their bow and second can get just as much fun playing archery they must use a sight or lost compete free-style. a mouth-organ. Just as I would rather interest.

The question is bound to arise in the listen to a good mouth-organist than a • Continued on Page Twenty-eight.

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ARCHERY May, IM3

A TOUCH OF

TURKEY FEVER Ry HIRAM GROGAN Ball Ground, Georgia

I recognized the symptoms as soon as my kid brother stumbled into camp babbling incoherently about giant birds, bows, and arrow—turkey fever! This type fever is related to buck fever ex­ cept it is brought on by turkeys instead of deer and it lasts much longer. I bade him sit down close to the roaring fire and thaw his frozen digits in the zero weather. But no, he talked inces­ santly, loud at first, then gradually dwindled into soft monologue.

I interrupted. "How many in the flock?” This shocked him out of it.

“Oh, about fifteen or twenty, 1 guess," he answered. “Looked like a hundred!”

“How close did you get?” I asked.

“Close enough to count their chin whiskers,” he answered.

After five minutes of determined questioning I was able to piece the story together. This was the last day of the hunt and he had seen no deer or bear all morning, and was working his way down a ridge toward the car when he blundered into a flock of feeding turkeys. They didn't fly, but ran over the hill and disappeared. Sur­ prised and bewildered he forgot all about his bow. He just stood and gaped.

A clear case of turkey fever.

This was Lee’s first hunting trip with the bow and arrow. We were camped in the mighty Blue Ridge Moun­ tains. The mountains were capped with snow and the valleys were one great deep-freezer. The temperature ranged on each of the three days from zero to thirty, maybe. Huge icicles hung from every cliff and rock. Not a pleasant environment for a beginner, who hither­ to, didn’t care much for hunting. But the turkeys had set off that deep-seated spark that made a man a hunter and helped him forget the weather and the cold coffee.

We prepared lunch over a little kerosene burner and, temporarily for­ getting bear and deer, made plans for the afternoon turkey hunt. The bear had evidently already hibernated and the deer were as scarce as hen’s teeth.

Lee had glimpsed two does the day before, and I had spotted one lone doe a quarter of a mile away. It was agreed that I would climb the mountain and Lee intended to slip up the cove where he found the turkeys. I insisted on reversing the procedure, but he argued that I didn’t know the location of the turkeys. I gave in, but before I got to the top of the almost vertical mountain I wished many times I had stood stead­ fast. Lee was to give me an hour’s start before he started up the cove to­ ward the turkeys.

My tennis shoes and three pairs of heavy wool socks became soaked as I pulled, slipped, and fought my way up the snow slide. Toward the top I was forced to stop and gasp for breath every few feet. Finally I pulled up out of the shadows into the sunlight at the top. The top was a ridge not

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twenty feet across. The view was mag­ nificent. I could see a continuous chain of white-capped blue mountains in both directions. For several minutes I stood gasping for breath and admiring the marvels of nature, when I suddenly caught a glimpse of something moving fifty yards down the mountain. The breeze was hitting me in the face. I saw a doe's head move our from behind a tree, followed by a young 'buck. This was it and I knew it. I forgot all about the turkeys for the moment. I eased my bow into position, checked the ar­ row and waited. The numerous trees made a shot difficult, but I was de­ termined. I selected an open space be­ tween two trees as the target area. The doe ambled past and I drew. The buck walked boldly forward. Just as his head showed between the trees I loosed the arrow. The Bod-kin sailed straight and true, hugging the ground at the right level. Socko! Smack into one of the trees. The doe bolted straight toward me and stopped behind a bush. The buck dashed off down the mountain.

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I watched the doe walk out of sight, took one last look at the blue and white panorama, and started down the mountain toward where the turkeys were supposed to be hiding. The cold numbed my hands and feet. But I knew there was little danger of frostbite as long as I kept moving.

Halfway down the mountain I slow­ ed to a steady creep, expecting Lee to spook the flock any moment. I paused for a brief rest among the strewn snow-covered boulders that lit­ tered this side of the mountain. I heard twigs snapping across the ridge to my right. With bow ready I tensed, and wailed. Six turkey hens ran over the ridge into view and trotted up the ridge out of sight. I could tell that others traveled with them out of my line of vision by the noise they made.

I would have chanced a shot only I didn’t want to spoil my chances with a big raccoon I was watching that was climbing higher trying to stay in the warm rays of the sinking sun. A hun­ dred yards behind the turkeys came Lee, practically running.

“Which way did they go?” he panted.

"Up the mountain,” I answered.

He knew it was hopeless to continue.

The last rays of the sun were making a feeble effort to warm this frozen forest. He flopped down on an ice-cov­ ered rock and began to beam.

“What happened?” I asked, puzzled.

"Did you get a shot?”

He held up a turkey feather. “That’s how close I came,” he said, half to himself. Then his eyes took on that glazed, preoccupied look of a man suf­ fering from a bad case of turkey fever.

Suddenly I ware aware of the cold again as the long shadows swallowed us. “Be interested in taking a pot shot at a ’coon?” I asked.

"Huh.” he said. This broke the trance temporarily. Then thinking I was joking he added: "Oh sure, we might as well knock off a lion or two while we’re at it.”

Look up in that tree above us,” I said deliberately casual.

He half-heartedly rolled his head sideways and looked up. His eyes sud­ denly widened and he began scrambling to his feet, kicking snow in all direc­ tions. He fumbled with numb hands to nock an arrow in great haste as though he had actually seen a lion and was afraid it would get away.

“Look!” he shouted.

“I know,” I boasted. “I've been keep­ ing an eye on it for a long time. Spot­ ted it as soon as I came over that ridge.”

“It1” he exploded. “Take another look.”

Lee limbered up by plinking a few arrows into a stump.

I looked and, believe it or not, there were three ’coons sitting on one limb, side by side!

The 'coons were on the topmost limb of a tall oak. We first decided to sit the them out until they came down the • Continued on Page Thirty-one

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You Will Be Proud to Be a Member of Except that in all cases we reserve the right to withhold an archer's handicap NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSN. until he can show a reasonably con­ sistent group of scores.

The National Field Archery Associa­ NEW N.F.A.A. 20 PIN tion (NFAA) is your organization. It The pin formerly used was not origviigbelongs to all the field archers and inated by the N.F.A.A., and so was not bowman hunters of America. As a solely our own property.

Because of member you belong to an organization fostering the oldest sport in the world. this a great many clubs have also been For J 3.00 you secure a year’s mem­ giving these pins, sometimes under bership in the NFAA and a year’s sub­ rules that were not too strict.

We feel that any award given by the scription to ARCHERY. Additional N.F.A.A. should be important enough family memberships are $1.00 each.

Send memberships to the Secretary. to be distinctive and should not be copied by any club or other organiza­ tion. For that reason we have brought out our own 20-pin, and have made this

By JOHN L. YOUNT pin available to any N.F.A.A. member who shoots his 20 under our rules and regulations.

NEW MAIL TOURNAMENTS This is a fresh beginning and opens If your club didn’t take part in the — the 20 pin competition all of of our .

---- .--‘tition to all April —” shoot ’ ’be .j sure to enter the May ----members regardless of the fact that tournament, As you have probably theyvmay have — - one of our original won heard, everything about these tourna- 20 pins. ments is new this year.

We expect our order of pins in about The new single handicap system will 30 days,, so you who have shot be used. .. your perfect-end score in A April please know There will be two entirely separate we will send the pin .... ,..n just as soon as tournaments, even to the point of being receive them. We think you will like on separate pages in Archery Magazine. we the new design very much.

One for Free Style Archers and one for Instinctive Archers.

SCORE CARDS I dislike to repeat this but many clubs All awards will be new and distinc­ tive and those for the two tournaments are wanting our official scorecards, and since we had to increase the price will be entirely different in design.

Archers, who took part in last year’s somewhat because of the cost of print­ Mall Tournaments, will have their han­ ing and parcel post, here are the new dicaps converted to the new one. Others, prices: $1.70 per 100 postpaid, who can supply 4 RECENT and DATED $8.00 per 500 postpaid, club scores, will be handicapped from $15.00 per 1,000 postpaid. them if they show the archer to be This card is arranged to use the reasonably consistent in his shooting.

The rest will be handicapped from new handicap system and to play a match-round.

In fact, f„L anything in Field —J. I.i scores shot in their first two Mail Tour- — Archery ‘ ’ . .you wish ---- ; to use a scorecard for.

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DEADLINE FOR SCORES Secretaries please note. When yea send in the Mail Tournament scores, please be sure you mail them not later than the last day of the month, so we will receive them by the 5th. as that must be our deadline.

Also give us the age of your Juniors so we will know whether or not they are Juniors or Intermediates.

HANDBOOKS As we have mentioned before, we do not have any more of the last edition.

The new one is being worked on at! we are taking orders for it. The price is $1.00. It will be a better and more complete text book on Field Archery and those of you, who send in a cash order in advance, will receive the first ones off the press. Archery Magazine will let you know when to expect your copy.

TOO BAD William L. Braswell, Lawrenceville.

Virginia, advises us that he is "supposed to be the worst shot in the state of Virginia," but our report in Archery Magazine didn’t show him to be. He says his brother, Raymond, also of Lawrenceville, has been receiving a lo; of kidding about tHe three deer we re­ ported for Bill, and none for Raymond.

Die truth is we did send an award tj Raymond for one of those deer, at* awards to Bill for only two deer, n;.; three. We are mighty sorry to hav^ made this error in reporting.

OFFICIAL COURSE IN CHILE Chilean Archery Club, in Santiago Chile, has an approved course. Its seg. retary is Sr. Francisco Font. Av. Pop­ tales 2659, Santiago.

A CHANCE TO MAKE NEW FHIEXhj The fellows of Roving Bow Hunter, of Victoria, Australia, want to l’orr,^ pond witli American archers. t'e hax\• Continued on Page Thirty-three^

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FACE THE FACTS

By JOHN L. YOUNT SECRETARY, NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSOCIATION

Box 388, Redlands, California The following is from a letter sent that matter, that he must be given a to all California field clubs. By pub­ place in all clubs. lishing it I may be able to save myself If you live in a metropolitan area the work of writing a lot more on the where there are five or six clubs and same order to clubs and. individuals where the Free Style and Instinctive in other states: Archers have been fighting for the past Redlands, Calif. 15 years, and it doesn’t look as if there April 2, 1952 is a peaceable settlement In sight, To All California Clubs: wouldn’t it be a good idea to make In this state we have a lot of new some clubs Free Style and some Instincclubs, new leaders, and new members tive? This is so simple i sometimes in old clubs. Naturally many of them don’t believe either side w’ants a settle­ know little of the background of the ment. Instead they want to rule the sport of Field Archery and so have had entire sport. little chance to find out just why' and Some clubs have the idea they' are how this Instinctive vs. Free Style busi­ going to solve this problem by doing ness got started in the first place. Some away with the standard round. Let's may even be looking to some new or­ take a good look at this. Before there ganization rather than the N.F.A.A. for was a standard round there was no the way out. If this is so, let me give Field Archery and less than 100 hunt­ you a little history and maybe you will ing archers in the entire country. From decide it isn’t the National’s fault. that beginning we have built to our Field Archery was started in South­ present strength in something like 18 ern California as a purely Instinctive years. Now. if something has come sport and continued as such for a num­ along and spoiled our game let’s fix ber of years. There were even occasions it and not throw the game away. In when we covered bow-marks with tape. the first place, a club to keep active In the North it was a little different, must have a permanent place to shoot. for several of your leaders always have No matter how this course is laid out used sights, but most of the tourna­ and regardless of whether it is mea­ ments were being won by' Instinctive sured or not. shoot twice around it Archers so there wasn’t too much and you have a standard course. If trouble. you don’t have any' course but plan to In the Midwest, especially in Mich- lay out a new one for each week-end igan, a 1big percentage of our early' y'ou will soon run out of help and your archers were .. target .=-i" men as well as archers will even be afraid to show up hunters and so used sights. Because of for fear they will be put to work. This this,- our President, A. J. Michelson, doesn’t mean that an occasional tour­ insisted that we make some provision nament, of a novelty nature such as for them, so in our by-laws we arrang­ the coming State Shoot, isn’t a good ed for two divisions. One division was idea.

I know that the N.F.A.A. has been for clean bows and one for sights. Then for the benefit of small clubs that highly criticized by some for allowing needed members and were too small for Field Archery' to get into its present two divisions, we allowed the use of a mess, but. believe me, there was nothing single mark-sight in the Instinctive Di­ we could do about it. Some state as­ vision, but on no occasion have we rec­ sociations refused to follow our lead­ ognized the right of anyone to use more ership, or profit by' our experiences in than the single mark when competing other states. It seems to be human na­ against Instinctive Archers, and we ture to have to learn the hard way. didn’t advocate even that. We only al­ Some of the leaders in the ‘‘Instinctors” lowed it because of local conditions. movement today' were Free Style Arch­ Now. we find that very few are in­ ers less than two years ago and con­ terested in a single mark-sight and demned the two-division stand of the the majority of the Free Stylers are N.F.A.A. at that time. using either multiple sights or adjust­ Some of these same men are now able sights, even while hunting. Many opposed to allowing the Free Style tell me that if they use an Instinctive Archers to take part in any' Field Tour­ style of shooting, and most single-sight naments, even in their own Free Style men claim they do—the sight is just division, and went on record to that ef­ another complication and they some­ fect at the recent meeting of the Cali­ times use the tip of the arrow on a fornia Bowmen Hunters and Field Arch­ short shot, or the sight on a long shot, ers Association. The N.F.A.A. feels that with rather sad results. So they have such action would be even more harmful either entirely taken off the sight or to the future of the sport than the adopted adjustable or multiple sights single division for all archers lias prov­ instead. Either of these sights works en to be in the past, and you all know fine when hunting from blinds where what that did to the membership and the distance to a deer trail is exactly good fellowship of your association. known.

We also believe that what happens I have explained this to show that to Field Archery’ in this state is going sights actually have a place in Field to depend, to a considerable extent, on Archery, so the man using sights right­ what happens at the coming State Tour­ ly belongs in the N.F.A.A., and your nament. For that reason we are appeal­ state association. This doesn’t mean ing to the level headed members of all that he should be allowed to compete clubs to go to the tournament and to against an Instinctive Archer or, for make it a success. The success of a

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tournament is largely a state of mind.

If you are looking for trouble you will find it. If you expect things to go off smoothly and ignore the trouble makers, no matter who they may be, the tour­ nament will be a happy one.

It is just a matter of enjoying the sport the way you like it and letting the other fellows do the same. We are not behind the iron curtain, so let’s live and let live and start doing so at the State Tournament.

Sincerely yours (signed) JOHN L. YOUNT, Sec’y Why are letters like the above made necessary year after year? We think it is because Field Archery is unique among sports. In it w’e have the newest sport of all, but back of it we have an old and time-honored sport—Target Archery—and we are continually faced by groups that are trying to blend the two.

Field Archery was to be a game as different from Target Archery as pos­ sible and was for the benefit of those archers who didn’t care for the dignity and serious competition of Target Arch­ ery. Now we find that in a lot of places a lot of Target traditions have been drug into our game and a good many present day tournaments have a lot more, in common with Target Archery than they do with Field Archery as first played. Since these changes have been largely brought about by the Free Style Archers, who incidentally are Free Style Archers because they are first of all perfectionists and being perfection­ ists are more interested In the score than anything else about the sport, the most natural thing in the world is to blame these same Free Stylers for everything that has happened, or can happen, to Field Archery. There is no doubt but what they have contributed very grately to the degeneration of the game from the Instinctive Archer’s point of view and some have done a great deal to create hard feelings by putting up the silly argument that they have a right to shoot a bow in any manner they want to. Quite true, they can also play golf with a baseball bat and a pool cue if they wish, but if they do they are not going to get into any matches until they find another baseball bat and pool cue golfer. Regardless of this you Instinctive Archers can’t blame everything on them and neither a twodivision setup in your club or the com­ plete elimination of Free Style shooting is going to do you much good, unless you also get away from your program of nothing but a series of conventional tournaments. Without doing this you will only have traded on group of con­ sistent winners for another and no one is the gainer except this new group of champions. Then who are you going to blame?

Your club needs one championship tournament, but only one. For the rest of the time you need handicaps, match play, and everything else that goes for • Continued on Page Twenty-eight.

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WISCONSIN FIELD ARCHERS ANNUAL INDOOR TOURNEY

Indian John Shoot To Be Held June 15th

By SAMUEL DINERSTEIN Rt. 3, Delavan, Wisconsin

By JULIUS BOTS One of Canada’s leading annual arch­ ery- events, sponsored by the "Brant Bowman Archery- Club," in commemor­ ation of “John Van Every,” noted Ca­ nadian archer, is to take place on the 15th, the third Sunday in June, at Brantford, Ontario. This will be the 7th Annual Indian John Memorial Shoot.

Special prizes will be awarded to Americans participating in this event.

Last year Harold Doan, of Adrian.

Michigan, yvon first prize in the men’s expert division, for the third consecu­ tive year. In the ladies expert class.

Sharlene Skanes, Detroit, Michigan, won top honors.

Outstanding among Canadian archers were: Howard O’Connell, Brantford and Ermina Yeomans, Simcoe, both first year winners.

This colorful tournament has been one of the most outstanding annual archery attractions of the Canadian past and in accordance with this thought we wish to extend to all American archers, especially to those who have contributed to making this shoot so successful in previous years, along with friends and acquaintances, a most hearty welcome.

For the benefit of campers and other early arrivals, a “weiner roast” will be held on Saturday- night.

Refreshments and other accessories (archery) will be available during the shoot, which will be held on the same site as in previous years.

With a blizzard shutting off all pub­ lic transportation by piling five-foot snowdrifts over the roads in the north­ ern and western part of the state, one hundred and twenty-four hardy archers braved the elements to converge on the armory in Oconomowoc and take part in the March 23rd Indoor Field ArcheryTournament, sponsored b.v the Wiscon­ sin Field Archery Association. Although the storm prevented many archers from attending, nearly' all of the 1951 state champions were on hand to defend their titles.

Each year some thirty clubs in Wis­ consin bid for the privilege of conduct­ ing the indoor tournament. The WFAA sends its indoor committee to supervise the tournament, hut the actual work is done by the club which wins the bid. This year the bid of the Ocono­ mowoc Archers was accepted by' the WFAA and the tournament was held in Oconomowoc on March 23rd.

Under the direction of Gene Jones, their president, the Oconomowoc Arch­ ers went to work and converted the armory- into an archery- shooting gal­ lery. Shooting lanes were marked off by ribbons of yellow and of green, the colors of the Oconomowoc club, hang­ ing from the ceiling. One entire wall of the armory was stacked with bales of marsh hay, five high, which served as a combination backstop and target.

The hay as baled by- club members the day before the tournament to insure getting tight, even bales which would stack well. To show how well the boys did this job, not a single arrow pene­ trated the targets during the tourna­ ment.

T. K. Loveland of Oconomowoc was the field captain and he ran the shoot rapidly and efficiently. Clai Spaulding, NFAA Vice-President, acted as his as­ sistant.

The boys did not do all of the work themselves. Mae Titel, Mona Titel and Kay Hackbarth handled the registra­ tions. Since facilities had been set up to handle three hundred archers, and the storm cut down the attendance, all registrants were promptly sent to the shooting line.

The tournament was a one-day affair running from seven in the morning to

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Olga MacFall, Milwaukee, Wis., Instinctive Champion ten at night. There were no restrictions on arrow weights, bows or sights. Each archer shot twenty-eight rounds of four arrows. The average shooting time was two hours.

The winners of the state champion­ ships were as follows: Men's instinctive—Frank Hackbarth, score 501.

Men’s free style—Warren Halleck, 528 (1951 champion also), Women’s instinctive—Olga MacFall, 422.

Women’s free style—Mildred Miller, 443.

Boys’ instinctive—Larry Beresh, 464 (1951 champion also).

Girls’ instinctive—Susan Nesta, 388.

There must be a reason why this tournament has such a pulling power in spite of the difficulties which the weatherman put in the way of those who wanted to attend, and we believe that it lies in the type of round that is shot in this tournament. At this tournament the indoor field round was used which was developed bv the WFAA two years ago. This is a modified Flint round with equivalent thirty and twenty yard ranges using larger faces than the standard Flint round. All spot hits are recorded in a column of X’s and are used in settling ties.

Archers are classified, regardless of age, sex or style of shooting (free style or instinctive) into the following groups based upon their score for four­ teen targets: Class A—251 to 280 Class B—226 to 250 Class C—201 to 225 Class D—176 to 200 Class E—151 to 175 Class F—126 to 150 Class G—101 to 12 5 Class H— 76 to 100 Class I— 0 to 75 The score for the highest quarter and the score for the lowest quarter shot by each archer in the tournament for which he is being classified is to­ taled to determine his classification.

Once classified, the archer may win awards in his class only, unless he shoots a championship score, which automatically removes him from the classified lists.

Awards are made to the eight cham­ pions and to the first three place win­ ners in each class. The champions are the instinctive and the free style arch­ ers with the highest total score among the men, the women, the boys and the girls.

Michigan Bow Hunters Hold Annual Banquet Meeting

By MARY TAYLOR, Sec y 1018 Frost St., Flint 4, Michigan In spite of a raging snow storm.

206 members attended the annual ban­ quet and business meeting of the Mich­ igan Bow Hunters, held at Mt. Pleasant on Saturday evening, April 5th. Floyd Eccleston of Mt. Pleasant, Governor of District 5, was chairman of the event and was assisted by a committee of local archers.

A large Michigan Bow Hunters em­ blem was used as a center piece for the speakers’ table. Napkins and coasters at each place also bore the M.B.H, em­ blem.

Since our President and Vice-Presi­ dent are elected for a two-year ierm; President Fred Bradford of Beulah ana Vice-President Gordon Campbell of De­ troit, were not up for reelection this year. Elected to the Board of Governors for a two-year term were: Ed Ball of Traverse City, Wm. Loomis of Newaygo.

Earl Taylor of Flint, Cleave Sidnain of Lansing and K. C. Mikkelsen of Elk­ hart, Indiana.

Marvin Leslie of Jackson was the winner of the Leonard Smalstis ial Trophy, for the largest deer Kill.

This trophy was donated to the Mich­ igan Bow Hunters by Dr. Richard Heldt of Detroit. Marvin is now in the Mannes and stationed in California, so was unable to be present to receive his trophy. .

After business had been transacted, pictures taken at several National lournaments and also a cat hunt shown

by Fred Bear of Grayling, provided pleasant entertainment.

Fred also entertainment, showed a movie of a ffishing triP on Lake Erie with the bow which was very timely as fishing for e' bow has been rough fish with the opened for the first time in Michigan.

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The Oconomowoc Archers Club Pres­ ident Gene Jones welcomed one and all after the meal was finished and called upon Otto Wilkie for a few words. Otto spoke briefly on correspondence be­ tween himself and Howard Hill, in re­ gard to the cooperation of all archers in all phases of archery. Larry Whiffen was then called on for a few words and he expressed his sincere pleasure of being with the O.A.C. members again.

He then introduced Howard Hill who in turn introduced his wife as the one devoted to him and his ambition. How­ ard added a conclusion to Otto’s talk by saying that friction between archers in all phases of archery is only a stumbling block in the program of archery as a whole. That good fellow­ ship and understanding of one another is the only way archers the world over will be able to gain the privileges and enjoyment that archery is meant for.

He described the making of the film, “Tembo” and answered several general questions from the group.

Then the O.A.C. President Gene Jones announced the presentation of awards.

First, Howard Hill was presented with the O.A.C. championship silver medal with his name engraved on it as a sou­ venir of the event. Then, in behalf of the Oconomowoc Archers Club, Howard

O.A.C. AWARDS

By CLAIBORNE SPAULDING 26 S. Park St., Oconomowoc, Wis. Did you ever day-dream of a bright future? If you have, then you can un­ derstand what I am going to tell you.

Eight years ago I had a day-dream of an archery club in Oconomowoc. It took two years for that dream to become a reality. After the club was started I began to dream of the day when the club would be large, strong and active, with a large attendance at a banquet and the awarding of many beautiful trophies by some famous archer. After six years that dream came true April 3, 1952.

The Oconomowoc Archers Club In­ corporated held their fourth Annual Banquet at Chuck's Resort, two miles south of Oconomowoc with the attend­ ance of fifty-seven. Guests for the eve­ ning were: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Whiffen, Douglas Beck of R-K-0 Pictures, Otto Wilkie, President of the W.B.H.; C. W. Brown, Editor of the Oconomowoc Enterprise, and Bob Bennett, press photographer.

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A set of twelve special made arrows was presented to Treasurer Loveland, the O.A.C. Field Captain, for three years of unselfish work. (In most clubs the field captain is the forgotten man.)

The following winners scored on the 30-yard range with target size 9 x 18 inches: For the men, the highest aver­ age score medal and traveling trophy went to Frank Hackbarth with a score of 237. Second place medal went to Ken Larson, 223; and third to Gene Jones, 220.

For the women, the highest average score medal and traveling trophy went to Mrs. Billie Nelson with a score of 152. Second place went to Kay Hack­ barth, 143, and third to Mona Titel, 120.

Junior medals were awarded to Clem Janny, Richard Knopp and Robert Butschke.

Handicap trophies for the indoor season were awarded to: Men—Frank Hackbarth, Omar Huebner and Myrus Nelson. For the women—Mona Titel, Billie Nelson and Camille Titel.

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'W ' VH THE MINNESOTA STATE ARCHERY ASSOCIATION GOES TO WORK ON THE NATIONAL When the M.S.A.A. held its big meeting in Minneapolis on March 16, nearly everyone invited was able to attend, in spite of the long drives for some of them. Those un­ able to be present were Jack Critchficld, Sec’y-Treas. o the Minn-Wiss-Sippi Bow Hunters Assn., Winona Minn.; Ken Clambey, M.S.A.A. Governor, Fergus Falls, Mum-1 Charles Ebenhoh, President, Rochester Archers, Roches­ ter, Minn.; and Ralph Bagley, Vice-President, Tawasentha Bowmen, Minneapolis, Minn. Both Ralph and Chiu les were out of the state. Ken Hanson, who is an M.S.A.A. Governor, was present, but not able to be in the picture since he was the photographer. In order that all field archers, who are planning to attend the National r iel<l Tournament this year, to be held at Eaton’s Ranch in the Twin Cities from August 24th through the 28th, may become partially acquainted with their hosts, those in the picture are, back row, left to right: Fred Corrie, M.S.A.A. Governor; Ernie Henkel, M.S.A.A. Governor; Dale Jensen, M.S.A.A. Governor; Ev Johnston, former ed­ itor, “The Bowhunter”; Dewey Hutchinson, President,

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Twin City Archers; Oscar Welander, President, Fergus Falls Archers; Charles Sykes, President, St. Paul Archers; Dr. E. I. Puckropp, Sec’y-Treas., Montevideo Archers; Charles T. Burnley, Corresponding Secretary, Twin City Archers; E. Elliott Briese, Sec’y-Treas., Rochester Arch­ ers; Hugo Wolf, M.S.A.A. Governor; Steve Hicks, Pres­ ident, Hiawatha Archers; Jim Hammer, member, Austin Archers; George Cruikshank, Sec’y-Treas., Lake Archery Chib—front row: Mrs. Dale Jensen, member Thief River Archers; Edna Hammer, member Austin Archers; Lor­ raine Henkel, Sec’y-Treas., Tawasentha Bowmen; Bruce L. Morikubo, M.S.A.A. President and N.F.A.A. General Chairman; Adell Hartwick, M.S.A.A. Treasurer; Evelyn Estervog, M.S.A.A. Secretary; Manley Hammer, President, Southern Minnesota and Northern Iowa Archery Assn.; Bob Toner, President, Tawasentha Bowmen; Nort Schensted, M.S.A.A. Governor and N.F.A.A. Field Governor for Minnesota; and Hank Forsberg, President, Minnesota Archers League.

—Photo and caption courtesy Evelyn Estervog.

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1952 N.A.A. TOURNAMENT AT JACKSON, MICH.

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By HOWARD CLARK 1022 Chittock Ave., Jackson, Michigan Large archery tournaments are not new to Jackson, Michigan, the site of the 1952 National Archery Tournament.

While it is true that Jackson never has been host to the National, it has had a wealth of experience in state and sectional tournaments. Such experience always has been happy for the people of the city of Jackson as well as the visiting archers.

The 1952 Tournament of the N.A.A. will be held on the beautiful grounds of Ella Sharp Park, the site of the 1948 Midwestern Archery Association Tour­ nament.

Ella Sharp Park is located on the south boundary of Jackson on U.S. 127 and has some four miles of improved drives within its borders. 300 of its total 530 acres have been developed into spacious lawns, flower gardens and recreational facilities—recreational fa­ cilities that include archery ranges and an 18-hole golf course.

We are aware that the prime pur­ pose of an archery tournament is the shooting of arrows, but archers do have some free time on their hands after the day’s shooting is over. With some of this free time, you will surely wish to visit Jackson's Illuminated Cascades.

The beauty of these man-made water­ falls, lighted by thousands of vari­ colored lights, draws millions of visitors each year.

There are many historical landmarks in and around the city, including the site of the founding of the Republican Party, an event which occurred in Jackson. July 6, 1854. We realize the im­ probability of visiting archers seeing many of these places of interest due to closely planned schedules, but every­ body should plan to visit the Cascades at least once during his visit.

Jackson, originally named Jackson­ burg, was named for President Andrew Jackson, January 16. 1830. It has been incorporated since February 14, 1854

pSr' Palmatier (left), Ray Fry and Ray Smith, N. A. A. Tournament ~ ' _j members, sweating it Committee out with a crosscut saw. Logs will be used as target stands for the N.A.A. Tourney at Jackson, Mich.

Above is the committee for the N.A.A. National Tournament, to be held in Ella Sharp Park, Jackson, Michigan, August 4 to 9. They are, sitting left to right: Karl Palmatier, Sec'y Michigan Archery Ass'n; Ray Fry, original com­ mittee chairman, succeeded by Jack Vaile; Bernard Wiselogle, Pres., Jackson Archery Club; Earl Avery, Pres., N.A.A. Standing: Bob Adams, financial Sec'y; Ray Smith, Capt. of the Green; Ken Hager, Vice-Pres., Jacksen Arch­ ery Club; Lester Lawn, Pres., Michigan Archery Ass'n; Lew Morri, Sec'y, Jackson Archery Club.

and always has been the county seat of Jackson County.

Jackson is 76 miles from Detroit, Michigan’s largest city, 71 miles north­ east of Toledo, 244 miles north of Cin­ cinnati and 208 miles east of Chicago.

With such a location, it is felt that a good percentage of the N.A.A. tourna­ ment participants will have only a short trip for this year's National.

Jackson covers an area of more than ten square miles. It is in the center of a resort region that draws vacation­ ists from a score of states. There are eight county tourist parks with free camping grounds, each equipped with cooking stoves, flowing water, sanitary arrangements, police protection and nearby supplies.

The population of Jackson is about 50,000. The summer average tempera­ ture is 74.1 degrees. Arrangements are being made for a trailer camp near the archery range for those who wish to camp while attending the tournament.

The churches of the city represent all leading Protestant denominations; five Catholic churches; one Jewish temple.

Our 400-acre municipally-owned air­ port is one and a half miles from the center of the city and has American Airlines Convair Service through two daily flights from Jackson and inter­ connecting service with all major air­ lines. Eighteen passenger trains stop at Jackson daily. We are on the main line from New York to Chicago. Trains also come into Jackson directly from the north and south. Our Great Lakes Greyhound and Short Way bus lines operate out of the Jackson terminal to Lansing, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Detroit in Michigan. To Toledo and Cincinnati, Ohio and to Chicago.

We of Jackson are proi j. <1 of th* privilege of being host to ti National . and assure you that plans are being ( made and carried out that will make this year's tournament one of the most enjoyable in the history of the asso­ ciation.

Racine Archers Organize New Field Cluis

By RICHARD H. SHARP 3415 17th St., Racine. Wisconsin

Tlie instinctive archers in and arouni Racine, Wisconsin, have formed a new club called the Racine Instinctive Row­ men. They have the honor of obtaining number one charter in Wisconsin an’ charter number six nationally of th* Instinctors, Inc. Officers for the new club are as follows: President—Doc Chaussee.

Vice-President—Jim Wissinger.

Sec’y-Treas.—Dot Sharp.

Directors—Dick Sharp and Ray Hatmerstrom.

Our club entertained Howard HUI world famous archer, at a banquet a: the Elks Club April 2. Hill told of hij experiences in Africa while making his latest picture, “Terobo" and of his close call while killing an elephant with his bow. Hill traveled 13,000 miles through Africa for the filming of this picture which took nine months.

During the course of the evening c.» members had an opportunity to discuss their archery problems with Howard at which time he autographed copies cf his book, "My Method of Shooting * Bow and Arrow,” for all members cd the club.

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By TRACY L. STALKER

825 Chevrolet Ave^ Rrrt 4, Michigan

it? I have tried everything.—W.K.B., Corpus Christi, Texas.

Answer: There is no secret method or cement for fletching aluminum ar­ rows though sometimes it is mystify­ ing why at one time or another almost everyone's fletching goes sour for no known reason. I have never had any trouble, however, when the following system has been used: Rough up the shaft where the feathers are to be applied, with garnet paper or fairly coarse emery cloth. Care must be used not to touch this surface with your hands afterwards. Next, give this part of the shaft a good coat of lacquer.

When that is dry, attach the feathers, using good FRESH household cement.

centers on the lathe. (It is necessary to make special centers, smaller than the diameter of the smallest shaft to be turned.) Above the cutter, bearing on the upper surface of the shaft, is a flat shoe so arranged as to adjust Question: Your most interesting art­ itself to the taper of the shaft. This shoe is fastened to a small bar with a icle in Archery Magazine on bowstring universal type of mounting such as is making ends: "Should some enterpris­ used on commercial surface gauges. ing manufacturer place a made-up One end of this bar is fastened to a string on the market which could be bracket on the motor in such a way bought by the foot, bowstrings could that it can move up and down but be very quickly made by this method.”

Exactly so. I took the matter up a year NOT SIDEWISE. The other end of the bar at the back or so ago with a big linen thread and twine dealer in New Y'ork City who in of the machine is equipped with a small turn submitted the idea and sample to ■ IJc; ca roller which rides on a wooden cam several thread factories. The reply was running the full ‘ 'length of the lathe, of this cam governs the that they had no machine set-up to turn The shape ‘ out such a string. I guess the core shape of the> finished shaft. In other strand was the factor that made it dif­ . .. barreled shaft is desired, words, if a b to ficult for them to turn it out. Perhaps the proper shape cam is ’ attached ’ ’ *you and I could, by pooling our re­ the back of c.‘ the machine. ’ ~ As the cutter sources, get a thread manufacturer to G.v. shaft, ft, the roller end feeds along the take up the idea. Your laying jig is of the arm holding l.„!.'.!..= the shoe, following clever but I get by with a simple hand the contour of the cam, rises, increas­ ing i..

6 the ..... ---distance r.r.ra between between the the cutter cutter and and gadget and like the ancient Chinese A spring oP.lr.g loaded leaded arm L back of the shoe. A z' gunsmiths, the sample jig does a good (he cutter 1. holds the ’ shaft ’--*■* “ tight ->■< against • - job. Another suggestion: You might contact John Hoff, Abbotsford, Wis.. the shoe. as to recurving lemonwood staves about t vcrv much that I have no I regret very which one of your inquirers wrote some drawing of this to send you. photo or C time back. He is an old timer and a dealer and I am quite sure he am making my son a square Question: I am uses urea treatment for this as worked with recurved lemonwood bow t. ... ends and out by the Forest Laboratories at Madi­ wish to put a snakeskin backing on it. son, Wisconsin.—C.L.W., Glens Falls, ' might ' ' t not be I realize that snakeskin any good as a backing material but H New York.

Answer: As far as interesting some is to serve mostly for looks and to manufacturer in making bulk string make some use of the copperhead • here, would say that I am not in the archery snakes —----- we. have so plentifully the skin business except in the way of arrow The question is, how should on? Would scales, spine testers and cresting drums; and glued be prepared »..d g!

Cascophen glue do the job? Could you and would have no real interest in Question: Translated from French. tell me how good bamboo bows are bowstring material. The rope laying ma­ chine shown in the sketch to which We thank you very much for your re­ made?—A.M.G., Jr., Topeka, Kan. you refer is not the one I use but is one sponse to our recent questions, es­ Answer: Answering your query about that could be made very easily by the pecially the good details. We have made snakeskin backing I would say, average amateur. Mine is gear driven. the necessary entries in relation to the applying first, soak the skin in water until soft, Thanks for your information about John different firms. On this occasion we off the surplus water, coat the Hoff. Abbotsford. Wisconsin. I will re­ would like to ask you if you would be Wipe back of the bow with Casco glue, lay fer any further inquiries on the subject so kind as to give us a few details for and stroke it down your arrangement "for machining the skin in place a piece of 1/4" round of recurving lemonwood staves to him. carefully with shafts on my 10-inch lathe, using a skins tear very Question: For some time I have high speed rotating cutter and cutting rod. Caution: these1 yen you can work out wanted to crest my arrows full length lengthwise of the shaft." For this we easily! With this rodallowing the skin with a rather slow spiral. Can you ad­ most of the glue, allov. ...„ would be very appreciative. In waiting to make a good contact with the wood. i vise me how this is done?—B.W., War­ for your response by return courier, No wrapping or clamping is necessary. we wish to present to you our very ren. Pa. sincere thanks.—A.G., Lokeren, Bel­ After the backing is thoroughly dry.

Answer: Painting the arrows diagon­ cover it with a piece of masking tape; gium. then pull the tape off. This removes all ally as mentioned in your query is usually done by painting the arrow Answer: I don’t know if I can give full length with the lighter color you you a description of the arrow milling theI scales. can give you no intelligent infor­ plan to use; then when this is dry, wind arrangement that will be of any value mation on making bamboo bows.

I have or not but I will be glad to try: A base made several, some with flat grain and a strip of narrow masking tape about the arrow on the spiral you want and is mounted on the carriage of the lathe with edge grain, but none of them paint on the other color. This is the to which is attached a small high speed some has been very good.

Perhaps this was electric motor. (I used an old Hoover due to the material I used for I did only method I have ever seen used but it works out very satisfactorily. vacuum cleaner motor.) This motor is mounted with the axis at right angles not get hold of any regular Tonkin cane.

Question: Question: What do you think of to the spindle of the lathe. Attached Question: How do do vou fletch an to the end of the shaft is a 1-1/4" ) imake the feathers using peeled veneers of maple, beech or birch, that are used in the manu­ four-bladed cutter. The motor is so aluminum shaft tolittle shooting mine on? After a facture of furniture? I notice you use mounted that the upper surface of this stay all come off.

Is there a special glue fairly thin laminations in a working cutter can be adjusted from 1/8" to that manufacturers use or is there a recurve bow described in Archery Mag1/4" below the center of the lathe good glue ou the market?

If so, what spindle. The square from which the is the name of it and where do I get • Continued on Page Thirty-three. shaft is to be made is held between

Question: I am making a recurved hickory bow and plan to back it with Toxglass and face it with Toxhorn. Am I right in assuming that these ma­ terials are glued on BEFORE the bow is steamed and clamped to the form for recurving? And is Toxglass backing applied in the same manner as hickory backing; that is, is the bow clamped on the backing form in a reflexed po­ sition? In what position is it clamped for Toxhorn facing? I have been look­ ing all over New York City for suit­ able plans for bows and have had little success. I am interested in lam­ inated, recurved self bows, and straight bows. Can you advise me where such plans are available?—J.S., Jackson Heights, N. Y. Answer: I don’t believe yqu would have any luck in trying to recurve your bow after the Toxglass or Toxhorn is attached. On the contrary, I strongly recommend recurving the bow first. The backing and facing are both attached with the bow bent backwards in the gluing form. The facing is not usually carried around the recurve except on bows that have long, working recurves as it is very difficult to bend and even on these bows with the long recurves it is often necessary to thin the facing down so it can be bent safely. In the October, 19 51, issue of Archery Maga­ zine I published plans for making a laminated bow. Copy of this issue may possibly be obtained from the publisher if the supply is not exhausted. Frank Eicholtz, an advertiser in the magazine, has plans available for several different types of laminated bows. You might get in touch with him.

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ST. LOUIS WILL BE MECCA FOR ALL MIDWESTERN ARCHERS JULY 4-6

By KENNETH W. HOOD St. Louis, Missouri

\ r £ Ever since that day almost fifty years ago when the nation started to sing the new song that brought fame to the St. Louis World’s Fair (The Louisiana Purchase Exposition), "Meet Me In St. Louie" has been the rallying cry for countless thousands belonging to organizations and groups of all kinds, who have made St. Louis their conven­ tion city. In July the refrain will be picked up by the archers of sixteen dif­ ferent states. The occasion will be the 1952 Tournament of the Midwestern Archery Association to be held July 4th, 5th and 6th.

The 1952 tournament will be jointly sponsored by the St. Louis Bow Hunters and the St. Louis Archery Club. Those who attended the tournament of the Southern Archery Association in St. Louis last September, which also was sponsored by the same clubs, will realize that the outstanding success of that tournament makes it only logical to predict that this year’s Midwestern will outdo all former Midwestern Tourna­ ments.

Archers will have their choice between entering the events for field or target enthusiasts. The target C7C„,evenis will be staged on the target range of the St. Louis Archery- Club, In famed Forest Park which is one of America’s finest parks.

The field events will be held on the range of the St. Louis Bow Hunters, located in the August A. Busch Memor­ ial Wildlife Area at Weldon Springs, Mo. Here, in an unsurpassed natural setting, the Bow Hunters carry on their sport with the full cooperation of Mis­ souri’s Conservation Commission. Hills and dales, streams and natural forest growth not only offer a picturesque land over which to roam, but one of the most interesting and difficult arch­ ery ranges in the country. The targets on this course offer a challenge that is the delight of all good archers.

Field events will include Broadhead Flight. Field Round. Broadhead Round and Hunter’s Round. There will be two separate divisions—one for free style and one for instinctive archers. “ ’ __ Registration for the three days of field events will be at the field course.

Friday morning, July 4th, from 8:00 to 12 noon. Target archers will register Target No. 5, an 80-yard walk-up, on for the three days of target events at the range of St. Louis Bow Hunters the target range in Forest Park.

Registration fees will be 84.00 for seniors and $2.00 for juniors. These until Saturday and attendance prizes. tions are one of tlie world’s finest zoo­ The month of March was one of hard amounts include membership fees in the Midwestern Archers Association. work for the members of the St. Louis logical gardens, the second finest bo­ For those who cannot register until Bow Hunters. Each Sunday, work de­ tanical garden in the world, two maj«r Saturday, there will be special reduced tails carried out their assigned tasks league baseball clubs and the worlJin policing the range, relocating and famous Municipal Opera.—an outdoor registration fees.

Tournament shooting will end Sunday setting up new targets and otherwise summer opera featuring famous stars the American stage and screen atf noon and awards will be made at that preparing for the spring and summer of time. Sunday ngiht there will be a ban­ shooting. Another work period before unsurpassed singing and dancing chor­ quet and business meeting at the Can­ the tournament will insure a range uses. Lavishly costumed and staged - I dlelight House, 7800 Clayton Road. that will be In tip-top condition for an outdoor theater in Forest 1’ark that Banquet tickets will be sold for $2.75. the archers who gather for the field seats over 10,000 people, you will hsr« | an opportunity to see and hear famozs 1 During the field events there will be events of the 1952 Midwestern. beverages available at the range. Lunch­ Archers contemplating the trip to musical shows at their very best. C- I pacity houses night after night are i: I es will be served at the area Field the Midwestern Tournament should House, a short distance from the range, keep in mind that a trip to St. Louis themselves a sight never to be forgot- I ten, and long after you leave, tie I at reasonable prices. A shelter house, not only will offer an opportunity to drilled well water and toilet facilities participate in their favorite sport with glorious music will linger in your me— I inspiring friendly competition, but also ory. Also, located in Forest Park Is tie ■ are available on the range.

There will be prizes: galore—sixty­ an opportunity to explore one of famous Jefferson Memorial Museuz ■ nine awards, spot shot :awards, special America's oldest, most historical and with a wing devoted to housing th* ■ Interesting cities-—-the Gateway to the marvelous collection of gifts and tr.-■ awards for those who icannot register West. phies given to Charles Lindbergh ar? ■ “feci. Among its multitude of attrachis wife after their various air exploits |

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Don Stayton, President of the St. Louis Bow Hunters, is Chairman of the Field Events of the 19 52 Midwestern Tournament. Those desiring additional or more detailed information should thec club contact Mrs. Bessie Moore, t.. secretary, 7117 Seymour Drive,, St. Louis 20, Mo. Archers interested in participating in the three days of target events should contact Mrs. Jane Johnson, 1429 Sil­ verton Place, Richmond Heights, Mo., for information.

CALLING ALL ARCHERS

By NUBBEE PATE Barstow, California Well, folks, it’s another year and another big shoot—the Desert Bow Hunters 6th Annual—June 7th and 8th at Barstow, Calif.

The Commando Raid Round was such a big hit last year that it will be repeated this year.

The whole town is going wild about this year’s shoot and we hope to have $1800.00 in merchandise prizes for you, plus five $20.00 bills, donated by the Oasis Cafe, that will be used as grand entrance prizes. The drawing for these twenty-dollar bills will be Sunday af­ ternoon.

The Barstow Chamber of Commerce and the local merchants have gone all out this year to raise this huge total of merchandise prizes.

The Barstow Firemen’s Service Club, our sponsor, will erect a four-foot by fifty-foot banner across Main Street.

It will read, “WELCOME ARCHERS.” The Barstow Athletic Association has underwritten the cost of three beautiful trophies to be awarded the winners of the Commando Raid Round. For the broadhead flight we have three beau­ tiful medals for the men that were donated by Carl Henrik Bergstrom of Sandviken, Sweden.

Shooting will start Saturday morning at 8:30 and M-G-M News of the Day will again be on hand to cover the shoot.

Saturday night at 8:00 all cars will meet at the range and a police escort will lead the way to the Rodeo Club where you will have the oppor­ tunity to dance to a music of a won­ derful nine-piece orchestra. For those who do not care to dance Art Robbins will take you on a rabbit and cat hunt at his ranch.

Make it a point to arrive early, for we have three special prizes for the first three archers to register. And, something new has been added this year: some beautiful prizes for the best dressed western outfit, man and woman. Also the best dressed “Com­ mando.’’

There will be ten novelty events to keep you busy, so get here early.

Don’t forget the dates—June 7 th and 8th. For those who want cabins or rooms, please drop me a line—Nubbie Pate, Barstow, Calif.—and tell me how many will be in your party and how many beds you will need. I’ll take care of the reservations for you and will be at the range all night Friday to direct you to your accommodations.

Bring the whole family; there’s lots of camping space.

The range is located right behind the Oasis Cafe, in west Barstow, on High­ way 66.

As far as we know now Howard and Eddie Hill will be here to greet their many friends.

Ok "Enemy Prison Camp" will be Target No. 7 in the Desert Bow Hunters Com­ mando Round, June 7 and 8 at Barstow. Prisoner behind gate is unidentified!

HONORING OUR PIONEERS

By GEORGE BROMMERS Bellevue, Washington Within al few months we have seen two two more of archery's true pioneers, W. B. Wescott and Forrest Nagler, laid to rest. As usual, it comes to our minds that something should be done to honor their memory. We would like to see something special done. I have a sug­ gestion to make, and there is nothing new about it.

Why should we not revive the custom llulllE, *.archery clubs of naming or re-naming arch­ after our departed friends? True, state of ery clubs are always in ft and just fluidity; new ones spring up as rapidly disappear, What is wrong re­ enough to with that? It is easy name an old club if we wish to. other and We may well feel ithat of our apmore lasting manifestations as i preciation and esteem, such medals and prizes, are in order, but we should • >.— are means avail­ not forget that there able that . ..... need no organized effort. name of a club L is one of Changing the new club them. So is organizing aa new and naming it in.honor of the person we wish to commemorate.

To take some outstanding examples.

Why should not the Atlantic states

honor themselves by naming one club after the late historian, Robert Elmer, and another club be named after the organizer of field archery on the At­ lantic seaboard, W. B. Wescott? Nor would other illustrious Atlantic names be hard to find.

There is the Midwest, and two names come immediately to mind. Maurice Thompson is a national figure, but he spent most of his time in the South or the Midwest. And Forrest Nagler, who passed so recently and so unex­ pectedly, is one of our authentic early big game hunters and pioneers. Surely it is time we do something to create an Archery Hall of Fame, and what better candidates would we have to begin with?

The Pacific Coast has no dearth of candidates for such a Hall of Fame. In Washington, Will Thompson. and Kore OreDuryee stand first in our esteem.

— o-......... gon has. George Cathey and Homer Prouty, both honored pioneers.

California has an abundance of great archery names. Unless I am mistaken there were, in the Bay Regions, both an Ishi and a Saxton Pope Club, so we have precedents to go by. We know that there were Art Young clubs formed in different parts of the country. There are the Pope-Young Archers of Oregon.

No doubt there are similar clubs of • Continued on Page Thirty.

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-/HCPRESIDENT H. A. MATHISEN 1800 HYPERION AVE. LOS ANGELES. CALIF.

VICE-PRESIDENT DR. DELMER PLETCHER 238 18TH ST. BAKERSFIELD. CALIF. SECRETARY-TREASURER KEN MOORE. 4951 GLACIER DRIVE EAGLE ROCK, CALIFORNIA

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BOW HUNTERS DEER ROUND Instinctors, inc., now have a bow hunters round. This round has been asked for by Instinctors the nation over.

It is a non-standard round for hunting practice on deer. Three different life­ like and full color deer targets are to be used. Pictures of two of them are shown on this page.

Where space permits, 30-bale sets are needed, but where space is re­ StriCted, fitvccu uaico may iuuj fifteen sets sets of bales be used. One day's shooting should1 be sixty targets. Two bales are needed for this target as it measures 28-1/2" x 44". No bales should be set farther than fifty-five yards from a shooting position.

Each contestant will shoot three ar­ rows at each target. Each shot should be from a different position. Every ar­ row in the target will be scored. Scores are either ten, five, zero or minus five.

The minus five, in other words, is de­ ducted from the score. Heart section of the bucks is ten points, any other hits on the bucks except horns are five points. Trees are no count and a hit on the doe in any area is MINUS FIVE points. Any arrow ricochetting or skip­ ping into the scoring areas are COUNT­ ED. Full directions for scoring are on each target.

The deer faces may be obtained from Instinctors, Inc. Full set of fifteen is 510.50 plus 51.00 postage and wrap­ ping. Write: Ken Moore, Sec’y, 4951 Glacier Dr., Eagle Rock, Cal. The following is a suggestion for set­ ting up the course: Three shooting po­ sition stakes should be used for each target. They should be staggered across so that after one person shoots, he moves to the next position which could be to the right a couple of paces and forward several paces. Next shooter can then shoot from position one. Third position should be staggered also to the right. Never alternate from right then left. Always stagger the positions either all to the right or all to the left on any one target. Three such stages are used for each target thus each distance will be different. The following is just a suggestion for the placing of your shooting positions: Target No. one: According to space limitations pace off or place marker “A” any distance from 12 to 55 paces from target. Go back toward target several paces and either to the right or

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The above target face is a facsimile of white-tail buck deer. Arrow in the tree made of tough paper stock. scores zero. Targets

■ These deer are mule-tail. An arrow in the doe scores a minus five points.

left, whichever makes for a better shot, set up marker “B.” Then toward tar­ get several more paces and to the side enough to clear shots from behind set marker “C.” You proceed around the course setting markers in a similar manner. No shot should be over 55 yards, but there is no reason you can’t set them at any distance you wish. The average distance a deer is killed is 30 yards, so it might be wise to average out to about 30 or 33 yards.

It is suggested that at lunch time, on all even numbered targets, the A mark­ er be moved in front of C several yards. On all odd numbered targets, all even numbered targets, the A mark­ er A several yards. This leaves all B markers still in the same position, but makes for an entire change on the shooting.

This round is made for fun and prac­ tice and should also bring out your competitive spirit.

Washington Bow Hunters Elect New Officers

By KEITH GUNNAR Dorm M-7, Rm. 205, L.., Richland, Wash The Washington State Bow Hunters Association held their annual meetity and the following officers were elected.

President—R. F. Kelly.

Vice-President—Bob Arvine.

Sec’y-Treas.—Keith Gunnar.

At the present time our club is put­ ting on a big membership drive, ant so far it has gone over very successfully In order to interest more people aid to give the present members even mor; activities, we have formed a Smsf Game Committee, which will attem; to get more interest started in smf game hunting. There will also be » small game award, similar to the NFju Art Young Small Game Award.

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FOURTH INDOOR MAIL TOURNAMENT March, 1952 CONTESTANTS: All score cards must bemarked as to style of shooting—INSTINCTIVE or FREE STYLE (a sight, pin or mark of any kind).

Be sure to check your NFAA membership card and see If you are in good standing. We cannot give prizes to non­ members, and who knows—you might win in your class.

Be preparedl March Target Score BOYS JUNIOR CLASS—(Under 12) 1. Allen, Jimmy, Wo-Pe-Na Archers, Clifton, N. J.............. .......... 131 INSTINCTIVE—INTERMEDIATE CLASS: (Over 12) .703 1. Rucker, Bill, Minidoka Bowmen, Rupert, Idaho..............

G66 2. Williams, Lee, Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich. . .567 3. Dick, Perry, Jr., Pontiac Archers, Pontiac, Mich............

WOMEN FREE STYLE—OPEN CLASS: 1. Peterson, Charlotte, Cascade Archers, Seattle, Wash............... 860 2. Kelly, Marty, Secoma Bowmen, Auburn, Wash.......................... 823 3. Powell, Mary, San Diego Archers, San Diego, Calif.................. 688 4. Radtke, Fern, San Diego Archers, San Diego, Calif.......... ........684 5. e Stolen, Stole, Mary, Skookum Archers, Tacoma, Wash.............. ........ 586 6. Redfield, 1 Josephine, Sylvan Archers, Portland, Ore.................... 566 INSTINCTIVE—OPEN CLASS: 1. McCurry, Martha, Okla. City Archers, Okla. City ................. .805 805 .652 2. Mathew, Beda, San Diego Archers, San Diego, Calif.................. 652 3. Kime, Lillian, Ft. Wayne Archers, Ft. Wayne, Ind.................. 646 4. Studnicka, Frances, Lenawee Co. League, Adrian, Mich.... - 579 5. LeFavour, Jennie, Ft. Wayne Archers, Ft. Wayne, Ind........ 646 6. Freeman, Josephine, Mid-Michee Bowmen, Midland, Mich. .534 BOWMAN CLASS: 1. Steelman, Deneice, Okla. City Archers, Okla. City .........- . .551 2. Pierce, Rose Marie, Wo-Pe-Na Archers, Clifton, N. J. — ..•193 3. Sisson, Betty, Golden Arrow Bowmen, Santa Rosa, Calif. ...186 ARCHER CLASS: 1. Boyd, Helen, Lenawee Co. League Adrian, Mich.......................... 418 2. Camburn, Vera, Lenawee Co. League, Adrian, an. xMich xM ................397 Mich......................... 378 3. Wiltse, June, Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich 4. Cole, Ruth, Pontiac Archers, Pontiac, Mich....................... ....361 5. Hall. Verna, Golden Arrow Bowmen, Santa Rosa, Calif........... 291 NOVICE CLASS: 1. Hauyon, Elida, Chilean Archers, Santiago, Chile ................... _...2H MEN FREE STYLE—OPEN CLASS: 1. Powell, Reuben,San ...............

Diego Archers, Sani Diegc:o. Calif......... 1034 2. Kelly, xvwmch Robert. F. l___.................... 991 x-., Secoma Bowmen, Aubuiirn, W'ash - Mich. .956 3. Yeuttei _______ Adrian, Yeutter, *Kenneth, Lenawee Co. League, .

4. Lcvvuc, .951 LaVire, uusepn, Joseph, x-'omiac Pontiac J\.r> Archers, Pontiac, Mich.................

919 5. Eide, Les, Secoma •urr Wash...................... ~--------- - Bowmen L____ ien, Auburn. .916 6. Boyd, Jack, ’Lenawee Co. League, Adrian. Mich.

7. Smith. Bob, Lynwood Archers, Lynwood. Calif............. .920 .901 8. Studnicka, John, Le Lenawee Co. League. Adrian, Mich.

890 'J. Redfield. Dick. Sylvi .„ I/an Archers. Portland, Ore. .............. .877 10. Hedges, Harold.. ~ Pontiac Archers. Pontiac. Mich........... .871 11. Robbins, Kenneth C., Cascade Archers, Seattle. Wash. .S60 12. Peterson. Harry, Cascade ___ _____ Archers. Seattle, Wash. . .857 13. Stolen, Harold, Archers, Tacoma. Wash.........

Harold. Skookum Archet *L $]alnes« Royal. Sylvan Archers. 1Portland. Ore.................... ~ *zan Archers, #•!

Jr L,adtke, Fred. San Diego Archers.

Archer! San Diego. Calif........ sis IS’ **unter, L. D.. Sylvan Ore.......... -...... — 'an Archers, Portland, I iv Gamburn. Elmer, _enawee Lenawee Co. _ League, Adrian, Mich. }?• Hanson. George. Pontiac Archers, Pontiac, Mich........... expert bowman—CLASS B: •>' Hyron, Sylvan Archers, Portland, Ore....................... -....... S50 George, Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich. ................ 472 BOWMAN CLASS: 1. Camburn, William, Lenawee Co. League, Adrian. Mich........... 729 “• Warp, A- J-. San Diego Archers, San Diego, Calif.................... 582 "• Ramsey, Howard, Tri-Clties Bowmen, Binghampton, N. Y. 575 ?.W,;9AIonaple- Jl,n. Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich............... 458 ARCHER CLASS: , Tri-Cities Bowmen, Binghampton, N. Y.....409 -OPEN CLASS: 1. Beach. Rex, Okla.

C .996 City Archers. Okla. City ............................

2. Hoffman, Kc-------’ .890 Hoffman. Kenneth.

Mid-Michee Bowmen. Midland, Mich.

3. L^k'o . .865 Lebavor. l.f Maurice.

Ft. Wayne Archers, Ft. Wayne. Ind. S58 k ^ddI,son- Leroy, Pontia.

Leiuy, i-ontiac Archers, Pontiac. Mich................... o- Steelman. Leroy C., Okla. City Archers. Okla. City ..

S25 .S13 7 Varaon» M., Sylvan Archers, Portland, Orc................

• ♦ Mathew, Martin, San Diego Archers, San Diego. Calif. .795 .719 o- ozymanski. Stanley, Lynwood Archers, Lynwood. woe . Calif. _ .723 in lowers. Charles. Pontiac Archers, Pontiac, Mich. ’ ..._. .707 r»rr’ A,len. Pontiac Archers. Pontiac, Mich, camburn, Frank. Lenawee Co. League. Adrian. Mich... .671 Le Favour, George, Ft. Wayne Archers. Ft. Wayne. Ind.... .65S irvn^'nier. perry. Golden Arrow Bowmen, Santa Rosa, Calif. .647 L-XPERT BOWMAN—CLASS B: i. Linpvell, Pete, Cascade Archers, Seattle, Wash............................ 730 7 i*a,1< Clarence, Golden Arrow Bo'►wmen, Santa Rosa, Calif ....691 Woods, William, Tri-Cities Bowmen, Binghampton, N. Y.... 678

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4. Erno, Henry D., Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich. .— 667 ' Cole, ’ Ken, 5.

Kei Pontiac Archers, Pontiac, Mich........................................ 157 BOWMANI CLASS: ~ 1. Allen, Fred 1 J., Wo-Pe-Na Archers, Clifton, N. J......................... 531 2. Devlin Devlin, Don, Sylvan Archers. Portland, Ore............................... —529 Mitchell, Fred, Bay Bowmen, Bay City, Mich......................... 510 3. 2 ___ ______ . . City _ chj]ean /Archers, Santiago, vime Chile ...................... .......................... 492 4. Medina, Mario, Chilean uvucib, cimiicibw, 5. Kerr, John T., Bay City ity Bowmen, Bay City, Mich........ ...... „........ 477 6. Uhlman, Art, Bay City . Bowmen, Bay City, Mich............... ......................... .... . 472 7. Fawver, Phil, Indian Trail Bowmen, Freeport, Ill........ .......... .............. 459 8. Hauyon, Chaly, Chilean Archers, * ‘ ~ Santiago, Chile ------ ....................... .451 ARCHER CLASS: 1. Baldwin, William, Tri-Cities Bowmen, Binghampton. N. Y..

Y..... 137 2. Sartain, Fremont. Bay City Bowmen, Bay City, Mich_____..... 419 3. Kenagy, Dr. F. H., Minidoka, Bowmen, Rupert, Idaho......... .362 NOVICE CLASS: 1. Cole, George, Tri-Cities Bowmen, Binghampton, N. Y............ 233 2. Mura, Luis, Chilean Archers, Santiago, Chile ............................... 126

HIGH SCORE STANDING FOR 1952 SEASON INDOOR MAIL TOURNAMENTS Based on 3 Highest Scores

Season’s Average Score

BOYS JUNIOR CLASS: (Under 12) 1. Allen. Jimmy, Wo-Pe-Na Archers ........... —107 111 131 117.33 INTERMEDIATE CLASS: (Over 12) 1. Williams, Lee, Bay City Bowmen. . .671 676 666 671 WOMEN FREE STYLE: 1. Kelly, Nirs. Marty, Secoma Bowmen .—.......756 809 S23 796 Radtke, Fern, San Diego Archers ......................693 743 681 706.7 3* Powell, Mary, San Diego Archers...................... 705 666 688 644 658’7 Studnicka, Frances, Lenawee Co. League....675 S60 635*3 5. Peterson, Charlotte, Cascade Archers.............488 6. Redfield, Josephine, Sylvan Archers-------------550 566 529.3 7. Camburn, Vera. Lenawee Co. League............ 330 115 380.67 8. Boyd, Helen, Lenawee Co. League ................274 418 363 351.67 INSTINCTIVE: 1. McCurry, Martha,i, Okla. City Archers............. 667 790 805 754 Jan Diego Archers ................. 667 706 669 680.7 2. Mathew, Beda, Sa«i 3. Kime, Lillian, Ft. Wi Wayne Archers ............ _..... ..693 620 616 653 Saginaw Bowmen ........

591 592 517 566.7 4. McCully. Gladys, P hers.......... 491 511 627 543 5. Le Favour, Jennie. ie, Ft. Wayne Archers 6. Freeman, Josephine, Midland Bowmen............. 517 551 531 7. Steelman, Deneice, <Okla. City Archers......... 496 172 551 506.3 8. Pierce, Rose Marie, Wo-Pe-Na Archers.—494 437 493 9. Sisson, Betty, Goldeni Arrow Bowmen..—........435 436 1S6 10. Wiltse, June, Bay Cii _ity Bowmen ....... .............. 330 34U 378 319.3 11. Hauyon, Elida, Chiblean Archers .......

185 199 211 198.3 MEN FREE STYLE: San Diego 1. Powell, Reuben, ------------ Archers....... -. 1006 1047 1034 1029 991 2 Kelly. Robert F., Secoma Bowmen ............ _..1O17 951 Pcr.'.!?.e Archers 3. La Vire. Joseph. Pontiac Archers...... ........... 955 Archers.—................ 900 954 902 918.7 4. Calhoun, Eugene, Pontiac Arche: 5. Robbins. Kenneth C., Cascade .Archers........ 91G 929 901 915.3 6. Studnicka. John. Lenawee Co. L<.eague............. SSO 952 901 912 929 890 912 7. Redfield, Dick, Sylvan Archers.

8. Boyd. Jack. Lenawee Co. League............. ......8 15 S99 94 G 906.67 9. Eide. Les. Secoma Bowmen ...................... ..... S50 895 919 898 861 956 10. Yeutter. Kenneth, Lenawee Co. League.

921 876 8?2'.77 11. Fuller. Tom. Secoma Bowmen...........

SIS 841’ 12. Hunter, L. D.. Sylvan Archers............

809 860 837.3 13. Peterson, Harry, Cascade Archers....

818.67 ...... .........

824 14. Camburn, Elmer, Lenawee Co. League ........ 824 877 794 15. Hedges, Harold, Pontiac Archers..................... 733 16. Radtke, Fred. San Diego Archers ....... -............ 786 769 822 792.3 784.3 799 17. Gaines, Royal, Sylvan Archers............................. 711 775 761 18. Peffly, Byron. Sylvan Archers .........................658 625.67 19. Camburn, William. Lenawee Co. League........ 729 531 550.67 20. Ramsey. Howard, Tri-Cities Bowmen............ 504 573 21. Warp. A. J., San Diego Archers.......................... 503 5o8 582 517.7 22. Wiltse. George, Bay City Bowmen....... .............. 563 508 172 514.3 23. Ramsey, Stephen, Tri-Clties Bowmen........ 362 366 409 379 INSTINCTIVE: 1. Beach, Rex, Okla. City Archers.......................... 905 890 996 930.3 2. Addison, Leroy, Pontiac Archers.......................... 854 S63 858 858.3 3. Hoffman, Kenneth. Midland Bowmen............. 871 809 890 856.7 4. Carson, M. M.. Sylvan Archers...............................854 820 813 829 5. Steelman, Dave G., Okla. City Archers ____ 837 S23 S25 S2S.3 6. LeFavour, Maurice, Ft. Wayne Archers......... 797 786 865 816 7. Mathew, Martin, San Diego Archers ............. 860 7S6 795 813.7 8. Dickinson, Dale, Roving Bowmen...................... 759 863 805 809 9. Szymanski, Stanley, Lynwood Archers____ 731 781 749 10. Orr, Allen, Pontiac Archers................................... 827 726 707 11. King, John, Ft. Wayne Archers...........................69G 765 762 12. Bissonnette, Aubrey, Bay City Bowmen...... -712 79S 657 722.3 13. Le Favour, George. Ft. Wayne Archers....734 716 658 702.7

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By HAROLD W. GARTHE 5722 N. Winthrop Ave., Chicago 4 0, Ill. Does your field archery club have “dissentitus”? Is it pleagued by the what-will-we-dc-ncw virus? Is it cursed with leaderless leisure?

No, this isn’t advertising copy. It is a true story telling how one club de­ generated into the depths of despair, then found a formula for rebirth, new hope, and mounting interest. It’s a story flavored with sweat, blood and tears, and crowned with dazzling suc­ cess. It’s the story of the Bo-Arro Hunters club in Chicago.

The story starts in the usual way: A few bow hunters met casually while roving in the prairie land on the out­ skirts of the Windy City. These archers shared the mutual interests of hunt­ ing, love of the bow, and sportsman­ ship. Soon the group formed into a tightly knit band of less than a dozen members. No formal field range, no rules, no restrictions, no inhibitions; just wholesome fun and congenial com­ panionship.

But others heard of this rollicking, robust group, and joined them. Still more came. Then to the amazement of the original prairie rovers, it was sud­ denly realized that they had a fullgrown field archery club on their hands.

Where it came from; how it happened, or even why it happened was an im­ ponderable mystery. But there it was.

And right there the black storm clouds gathered!

Problems by the dozen beset the new and inexperienced club officers. Incor­ poration, insurance, range development and maintenance, and eighty-eight dif­ ferent personalities and opinions (the club membership) all clammered to be heard. Meetings developed into 3-hour free-for-all evening fights once a month.

Range shooting degenerated into “clique” shooting, and the house was divided amongst itself. Sorry indeed were those dark days.

Then from out of the darkness came a tiny spark of light. One of the mem­ bers—an advertising agency man—lean­ ed back in his chair in a Chicago Loop office building and wondered what could be done about this problem. How could eighty-eight (now well over 100) fine people be joined together in one com­ mon bond with one mutual interest?

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Could this problem be likened—or handled like—the merchandising prob­ lems the advertising man had to su­ pervise every day? Why, of course it could, and in the same manner!

In the first place, just WHO were these members of the Bo-Arro Hunters club? Even though he had shot with them, hunted with them, been in their homes, yet did he or anyone else ac­ tually KNOW these people? A “No” answer came as a shock! So a two-page questionnaire (with a return, stamped envelope included) was sent to the membership. Twenty-three questions were asked. And even though it took two whole months to get the answers back, yet 72 percent of the member­ ship DID answer.

And from those answers we received some interesting surprises. Things we thought were true just weren't so. Other things we were in doubt about were made indelibly clear. Previously scat­ tered opinions were now jelled into specific facts. We finally learned who we were and what we wanted as a club. So far, so good. But that was only the start.

Our next step in the rescue program was to write to twelve national authori­ ties on problems such as ours. Out of the twelve, nine answered with exceed­ ingly helpful advice. Those who answer­ ed were: William H. Morrissey, president of the National Field Archery Association.

Roy Hoff, editor of Archery Maga­ zine.

Lulu Stalker, wife of T. L. Stalker, questions and answers editor of Arch­ ery Magazine.

John L. Smith, asst, director Camp­ ing & Special Events, Boy Scouts of America.

Fred B. Bear, president of Bear Archery Company.

Larry C. Whiffcn, president of L. C. Whlffen Company.

Mary Taylor, secretary-treas., Mich­ igan Bow Hunters.

I. H. Glsselman, treasurer Wiscon­ sin Bow Hunters Association.

Conservation Department of the State of Illinois.

Brothers and sisters, we were really on our way now! The suggestions and answers were compiled and catalogued under three separate club activities.

These activities are: 1. Indoor meeting activities. 2. Field course novelty ac­ tivities. 3. Field course regular or for­ mal activities.

Whereas in the past we had found gaping holes in the program, now we found that there wasn’t enough prac­ tical nights and week-ends in which to cram our newly developed program.

Twelve specific programs were develop­ ed for indoor activities to handle all the regular monthly meetings for the entire year. Fourteen special or novelty shoots were programmed for the field course, and fourteen formal or invita­ tional shoots were scheduled with spe­ cific plans (for each). About sixty percent of the material scheduled came as ideas from the national sources pre­ viously mentioned. The balance was

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F drawn from our own experience. Every event, every activity was easy of ac­ complishment and well within the scope of any field archery club.

Here are a few examples, and opera­ tional methods, of programs in the re­ cent past that have met with unanimous approval: Modified William Tell Shoot: Three 18-inch bows were made, and equipped with appropriate arrows. About 40 eat­ ing apples were then floated in an old-fashioned wash tub. Taped to most of the apples were numbers (hidden) good for both merchandise and novelty prizes. It was amusing to w'tch the best archers in the club miss the apples at a distance of only three feet, while novice archers frequently made hits with the first shot!

Cherry Tree Shoot: A “tree” was constructed of 2-inch square pine, six feet tall, and with an adequate base.

Limbs of the tree were made of straightened-out wire coat hangers. Numbered red poker chips (cherries) were tied to the tree limbs. Again, food and novelty prizes for hitting the right "cherries.”

Bouncing Bunny: To date, this has been our most elaborate setup. Scenic props were made, and the cardboard “bunny” was pu’led back and forth on a light wire cable. Pictures accompany­ ing this story will convey a graphic idea of the plan and action of the Bouncing Bunny operation.

First class archery or■ conservation important movies have also been an ; part of each meeting. And either hot dogs or pop corn have been served as a regular part of the entertainment.

Also, valuable door prizes are given at each meeting.

To make these meetings semi-self­ supporting (rather than to dip too deeply into the treasury) we have ex­ perimented with two financial systems.

First, we charged ten to 25 cents for the entertainment. At other times, we “fed the kitty.” Both systems have proved adequate, although there is a degree of preference for the kitty method.

There is one more ingredient in this sweet medicine for a sour club. People are human. As such, they must be SOLD an idea! They must be convinced that the activity is worth their time and effort. And it’s just about the easiest thing in the world to do this selling job. The solution is: SEND POST­ CARDS to each member. Send ’em reg­ ular, and send ’em often, and SELL each activity with a postcard.

Finally, here is the keynote to this whole successful activity: Make specific and precise plans for the entire year.

Then do not depart from those plans come fire, flood, or what have you.

Publicize your program to your mem­ bers. Tell ’em about It often and regu­ larly. Time your programs. A lag or a gap can be fatal. Keep things moving fast, FAST, FASTER! Give inexpensive prizes, but give ’em often and in abun­ dance.

Do everything possible to get com­ plete audience participation. Get the wallflowers off the wall and into the shooting line. Reduce business meeting time to the barest skeleton. Better yet, have a special Service Committee to settle all controversial business sub­ jects. Keep in mind at all times that an archery field club is a place or organi­ zation where we should expect to re­ ceive fun—lots of it—along archery lines. If that isn’t your objective, how about trying Canasta? They tell me that’s a good game, too!

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WISCONSIN FIELD ARCHERS HOLD CONVENTION

By SAMUEL DINERSTEIN Rt. 3, Delavan, Wisconsin The Wisconsin Field Archery Associa­ tion held its annual convention in the Linker Hotel at LaCrosse, Wisconsin on March 15 and 1G, 1952.

The date for the Wisconsin State Outdoor Field Tournament was per­ manently set to fall on the first week­ end following the first Sunday in Aug­ ust. This makes the 1952 tournament fall on August 9 and 10.

The bid of the LaCrosse Archery Club to hold the 1952 outdoor field tournament was unanimously accepted.

It was voted to try out a new Variable Field Round at the outdoor tournament. A complete description of this round will be given in a later article but a brief description can be given now. It resembles a standard field round in the number of posts, the number of arrows shot and in its scoring. It differs from a standard round in the fact that each arrow is shot from a different position upon a different target. There are seventeen different size targets, and the extra long shots have been eliminated. The new round is being set up in the Kettle Moraine Forest by the Ojibwa Bow Hunters of Milwaukee and will be shot all summer long on an experimental basis. A committee was appointed to study this round at the Ojibwa course and to put it into effect at the state tournament with whatever changes it finds necessary.

In addition to the variable field round a standard field round will also be shot at the outdoor tournament. The use of » third round, and its selection, was left to the discretion of the rules committee which consists of Jim Kinnee, Walt Wellman and Bern Novy.

After a long discussion of the merits of allowing sight shooters to compete with instinctive shooters, a classification system was adopted for the State Tour­ nament which allows sight shooters to compete with instinctive shooters in classes, but which selects separate sight and instinctive champions. The WFAA classification is as follows: "Each archer shall be classified on the basis of the field score shot in the preceding WFAA State Outdoor Tourna­ ment. If he has no score for this tour­ nament, the archer shall see that the secretary of his club or the secretary of his league sends in his score for a

28-target field round to the secretary of the WFAA. "All archers shall be classified, re­ gardless of age, sex or style of shooting (free style or instinctive) into the fol­ lowing groups based upon the 28-target field scores described in the preceding paragraph: “Class A—300-560; Class B—270299; Class C—240-269; Class D—210239; Class E—180-209; Class F— 150-179; Class G—120-1 49; Class H— 90-119; Class I—60-89; Class J—0-59.

■ "Once classified, an archer may win awards in his class only, unless he shoots a championship score, which will automatically remove him from the classified lists.

“The following awards shall be made: A gold medal of a new, smaller design, shall be given to the first male and the first female winner in each class. All awards for all classes shall be identical in appearance.

“A large gold medal, the kind used in previous outdoor tournaments, shall be given to each of the eight champions.

They shall be the following highest scorers: “The instinctive man, the free style man, the instinctive woman, tne free style woman, the instinctive boy (under 16 years of age), the free style boy (under 16 years of age), the instinctive girl (under 16 years of age) and the free style girl (under 16 years of age).

It was decided to send a resolution to the N.F.A.A. asking that a committee be appointed to revise the standard field round so that it will not violate the basic principle set up in the con­ stitution of the NFAA which states that shooting shall be at unknown, un­ announced and not predetermined dis­ tances.

Correspondence between John Yount and Sam Dinerstein regarding the print­ ing of the WFAA indoor round in the new NFAA Handbook was read to the delegates. John pointed out that a geo­ graphical name should not be attached to the name of any round printed in the Handbook. In accordance with this line of reasoning, the members voted to change the name to “An Indoor Round.”

The following officers were elected: President—Clayton Burkart.

Vice-President—Dick Sharpe.

Sec'y-Treas.—Robert Ringdahl.

Directors—Sam Dinerstein. Claiborne Spaulding. Bob Snyder, Gladys Renk.

Art Koenig, Ed Breckheimer. E. H. Steiber. Bern Novy'. Carl Hulbert and Judd Grindell.

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1 VARMINT SHOOT FOR INDIANA ARCHERS

By BERT LEIFER Fort Wayne, Indiana

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The Waltonian Bow Hunters of the Fort Wayne, Indiana chapter of Izaak Walton League held a “varmint shoot” on their new hunting course on the chapter's club grounds on March 30th.

All targets consisted' of pictured var­ mint animals such as crows, wood­ chucks, great horned owls, bobcats, and mountain lions, all native to the wood­ ed ravines along Cedar and "Lost Ar­ row” creeks.

All shooting was at unknown dis­ tances, one arrow from each stake, under simulated hunting conditions, with plenty of trees and brush to pro­ vide natural handicaps. Many of the shooting positions required kneeling or sitting, with some shots necessarily made through brush at targets located behind the shooter's back. This was done so as to provide practice for the deer that insists on snorting down the back of bow hunters’ necks!

When the last minus point for ear and tail hits were deducted from the score—sorry, you can’t deduct like that on form 1040A!—Evert Carnahan, Fort Wayne, came up with 564 points to be dubbed “Chief Chuck-slayer.” L. R. (Pop) Schrock of Elkhart stood second with a 408, followed by Art Coe, Fort Wayne, with 392. Elaine Schumaker and Ceal Coe, both of Fort Wayne, tied it up for the ladies at 216, with Rose­ mary Furry, Huntertown, trailing with a 171. In the shoot-off Mrs. Coe amass­ ed a one-point lead but her handicap from a previous win cost her the trophy to Mrs. Schumaker. Steve Smith, the Albion rabbit-hunter, failed to catch his opponent and the junior honors went to Bill Back of the Springfield, Ohio, Tecumseh Field Archers.

The Waltonian Bow Hunters came into being for the purpose of banding together the great number of unaf­ filiated archers in this vicinity who are primarily interested in the bow as a hunting weapon, and in archery as a sport rather than as a means of com­ petition. The group is affiliated with the Izaak Walton League because the membership feels that It should be con­ sidered necessary for any person in­ terested in any outdoor sport to be in­ terested in preserving the natural re­ sources of our country.

The chapter’s grounds providei excellent topographical features fc for a hunting type course, and it is not at all unusual for the archer to flush rabbits from their forms or pheasants from their nests as he strolls from stake to target. Needless to say, hunt­ ing is strictly forbidden on the club grounds. Much of the land consists of flat or rolling fallow land, broken by clumps of thorn and wild rosebushes, with the remainder in heavily timbered hills and steep ravines pitching down to the waters of the creeks. It is plan­ ned to keep the course in a fluid state, changing shooting positions frequently, and always before an open shoot. Tar­ gets with scoring rings are not used as it Is felt that these do not lead to accuracy under hunting conditions.

Although the Waltonian Bow Hunters has been in existence but a short time it has already shown a healthy growth in membership, and in the two shoots offered to date it has nearly doubled its entry list. Things are looking bright along “Lost Arrow” Creek!”

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HOWARD HILL VISITS VULVAN ARCHERY CLUB

By LEWIS D. CRUM 1112 Kingsbury Ave., Birmingham, Ala. Howard Hill, while appearing at a local theatre with his great African film, “Tembo,” responded to an invi­ tation of the Vulcan Archery Club to attend an informal dinner held recently in Birmingham. Here in the intimacy of the candle-lighted cellar restaurant.

Hill displayed some of his African bow hunting equipment and recounted some of his experiences on the “dark” con­ tinent.

It was interesting to note that Hill had lost none of his provincial Ala­ bama accent, nor "gone Hollywood” so to speak, as do so many of our local gentry who go 'way out yonder on the Coast.

One item of interest, pointed out by Hill to the local bow hunters, was the suggestion that in hunting one should use a much stronger bow than he would normally use for ordinary shooting (some 15 to 20 pounds heavier). The reason for this, he went on to explain, was the fact that hunters, under the excitement of the hunt, are prone to overdraw the bow and thus in many instances injuring themselves or damag­ ing their equipment, or both.

Club Secretary J. A. Valentine en­ gaged Hill in a lively discussion on the merits of using siglits as compared with instinctive shooting. Club VicePresident Sterling Wortham champion­ ed the instinctive shooters; Hill went on to point out the merits of each.

The meeting was climaxed by the presentation to Hill of a life member­ ship card to the Vulcan Archery Club, by club President Jack Gilliard. Hill graciously thanked the club and said he expected to return to Alabama to visit his former home in adjoining Shelby county this summer. He prom­ ised to pay the club another visit then.

Howard Hill, one of the brightest stars that ever fell on Alabama’s sport­ ing scene, promised defnitely to enter the Southern Meet to be held in Bir­ mingham August 20th, with the Vulcan Archerj- Club playing host to the event.

Sandusky Bowmen The Sandusky Club was formed in October, 1949, in Sandusky, Michigan, and consisted of six charter members.

It sounds like a bad time of year to start an archery club in the Midwest but as things worked out it couldn’t have been better. The club got per­ mission to use the High School Gym­

nasium one night a week. This brought in a lot of new members and gave everyone a full winter’s practice before the outdoor season began. The following July a 14-target Roving Course was built with the first club championship being held the last of September, fol­ lowed by deer season with plenty of hunting but no kills.

The second winter the club decided on a program of instruction for Juniors and had 14 register for the course.

The club growth has been steady and they now have 60 members, including a number of juniors. This past winter they shot in a 4-H building on the county fair grounds, with the juniors of the 4-H club taking enough interest to warrant a tournament of their own each week.

No wonder this club continues to grow. They have taken a lot of interest in a lot of things besides just who can shoot the highest score.

Their officers are: President—Howard Schroeder.

Vice-President—Juie Allen.

Secretary—Katherine Tyrell.

Treasurer—Joyce Allen.

Central Calif. Bowmen Hold Broadhead Shoot

By WARREN MOODY 14 5 Princeton Ave., Fresno, Calif.

The Third Annual Central California Bowmen Broadhead Shoot has come and gone. As usual the Kern County Archery Club, as host, put on a good shoot, It more than lived up to advance notices in providing interesting _____ shots. The running-deer, pop-up and other moving targets were all tricky.

It was plainly evident that a lot of work had been done in putting on the shoot. KCAC President Ben Koch and Secretary Joe Giguere were still on the job full time both days of the meet.

KCAC is to be complimented on stag­ ing a smooth running and well timed shoot.

The next regional CCB shoot will be a bow hunters' warm-up for the Sierra archery pre-season for deer and will be put on by the Tulare County Bowmen.

President Gil Cardoza of TCB has ten­ tatively scheduled the meet for Sunday.

August 31, shooting to be over a course at life-sized silhouette deer, and is to include shooting at a running deer moving at various speeds of travel. Time and place to be announced later.

Winners of the CCB shoot "’ere.Jor ' ’ - 1st; Ken the men: Warren Moody, Kaberline, 2nd; Dr. 1Deimer Pletcher, 3rd. For the women: Mrs. J. .Matlock.

1st; Olive Gadberry, 2nd.

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YEAR AROUND WITH THE BOW AND ARROW

By HARVEY HAMPER 2904 Cassopolis Rd., Elkhart, Ind. The thing I like about the game of archery is that there is something to be done in all seasons and very often there may be two or three uses for the bow going on at once.

In winter it is rabbit hunting and in­ door tournaments. Comes spring and the out-of-doors affords all sorts of bow and arrow fascination—the fixing up of the outdoor ranges, usually a trip or two to a nearby river for carp shooting, and sometimes a spring bear hunting trip can be managed, which in itself is really worth all the time one could spend in practice. Of course, comes fall, we all drop just about everything for the pursuit of the white tails. I still use the word “pursuit” as that’s about all I can account for. It seems I can brag about all types of game from water snake to black bear but oh dear! just one deer! and I’d be ready to give up, that is, for that one season.

Now to go on to another pleasure . with the bow. Last summer the wife, myself and son were vacationing just north of Blind River, Ontario, at Bear Head Lake, which is right across the ridge from Lake Matinenda. Both these lakes have lengthy shore lines ranging around 1G8 miles, composed mostly of large protruding rocks with occasional sand beaches between the rocks, and the lakes are supposed to be out of this world for fishing. As far as we were concerned cd, we might as well have been out of .. that t world for fishing. T certainly didn't catch any fish though I tried every bait in our tackle box and a few' recommended by the fellows who were catching them, but still we caught no fish. Everyone has heard the story— take the same boat, fish in the same spot, use the same line—yet the other party comes back with half a boatful.

However, I just couldn’t be "skunk­ ed” so on the third day as I was sitting waiting for those elusive fish to bite, an idea was stimulated by the deepthroated serenade of big bull frogs.

The idea seemed rather good and my wife said frog legs were very tasty.

So in the afternoon, after all the fish­ ermen went out, I rounded up the re­ mains of our camp, which consisted of two ten-year-old wild Indians and a younger brother. We cut some small popple poles and bailed out the only remaining boat, an old flat-bottom scow, and were off to the rushes, at the fast clip of about one-half block per hour. With a boat load of kids you have to set up some rules and the pri­ mary one was when the cry of “frog” was echoed, everyone else was to “freeze on spot" until I could get into position to shoot. The first ten minutes were spent in trying to tell the boys that we were not hunting frogs from one-half to an inch long but were out formeat; however, everything including pollywog to thimble size, was "frog” to them.

Then I spied a nice yellow-throated bull floating in snake grass in about ten inches of water. The boys pleasantly surprised me by easing the scow to within about ten feet from the bull without too much noise and splashing, and I picked him off with one arrow.

It’s ideal for shooting frogs along this shore as the arrow goes into sand about two or three Inches and the feathers

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Capt. Bill Tilton gives another of his "impressions of California field courses.

seldom get wet. All you have to do is pole the boat over and pick up the frog and arrow.

The next few were taken in the same fashion but as we were passing near a birch tree which had fallen into the water, I noticed a medium-sized green­ back sitting on a limb which was about three inches in diameter. To make things more interesting, I tried picking off the sitting frog without hitting the limb. At about fifteen or twenty feet away this entails drawing it rather fine, as the area goes down to about the size of a silver dollar. It was a lot of fun to try. I learned to keep a sharp eye on a frog that became disturbed and swam away under water, as he usually would hide under some small cover fairly well exposed except for his head. If the water wasn't too deep, I aimed about three to six Inches low to make up for the water distortion of where the frog was actually located, If the water was too deep I waited a few minutes and soon the frog would head back for shore again. ________ really quite large, Those frogs were fourteen to measuring approximately fourteen eighteen Inches from nose 1to toe, with many weighing well over ai pound. We got twenty-three of those big fellows the first afternon and were out only a little over two hours. That's forty-six legs to be skinned, though.

The next afternoon we got seventeen more and a friend of mine. Chet Carlin of South Bend. Indiana, who has never

shot the bow and arrow, was soon pick­ ing them off with one shot. He would make a very good archer as he has the eye and judgment to hit and I wish he would take up archery as his hobby.

In less than six hours hunting that week, we took a total of fifty-one bulls.

Of course, the frogs cooperated by be­ ing in the right spot at the right time.

I estimate we shot around sixty times so did not have too many misses and no lost or damaged equipment, which always adds to the enjoyment. I used straight field arrows with non-skid field points. So, archer-fishermen, if the fish aren't biting, remember there is good marine food to be had with a few wellplaced arrows and no matter where you are or what the purpose, there is use and pleasure in that bow and arrow.

Lake Tahoe Archers Elect Officers Archers in the Lake Tahoe area, Cal­ ifornia and Nevada, gathered at the postoffice building in Kings Beach and formed a new archery club, the name of which will be Lake Tahoe Archers.

Officers elected for the coming year are: President—C. A. Sipes.

Sec'y-Treas.—Joe DeLorey.

Directors—Bev Brooks, Bob Arney and Ernie Crawford.

Target Captains—Walter Mandeville and Max Kreuger.

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New Oregon Field Club Organized

By WALLACE EUBANKS 1615 Norway, Salem. Oregon Last November archers came from behind stumps, out of the brush and fields, from offices and stores to form a new field archery club in Salem.

This organization named itself the the Jabberwalkie Field Archers of Salem.

Oregon and elected Chuck Morris, Pres­ ident; Kenneth Burnett. Vice-President and Wallace Eubanks. Secretary, Treas­ urer. The group adopted a constitution patterned after the N.F.A.A. and went to work organizing the club.

Today they have the unlimited use of 25 acres of hill land covered with fir and oak timber, intersperced with grassy openings, within seven miles of town. They have set up one regulation 14-target course with straw butts; built a headquarters building 14 by 24 feet in size with stoves, windows, coun­ ters, etc.; drilled a 68-foot well for water; cleared a large picnic grounds and parking area; built two outhouses; graded a quarter of a mile of road and accomplished innumerable other tasks to build a swell archery range in time for use in the good spring weather we are now having. They also have plans to build at least a 2S-target course with space reserved for another 28. Facilities have been set up for outdoor fires, pic­ nic tables and playgrounds for the youngsters. Other snace has been re, served for novelty shoots, the running (6 ' deer, flying targets, etc. k?

If there are anv archers in this I ’’ vicinity who should like to join the club or receive additional inform"tion about it. I’d be pleased to hear from them. Just drop me a card at the above address.

Detroit Sportsmen's Congress Holds First Summer Meet Bv BOB MILLBROOK 1506 St. Clair Ave., Detroit 14. Mich.

Seventy-one archers turned out for the first 56-target meet of the year at the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress. High seore for the day went to Bruce Sieloff with 4 85, a good score considering our 30-degree temperature and the spring snow storm we had.

In keeping with the progressive arch­ ery spirit in Michigan, the Congress and most other Metropolitan Detroit clubs are cooperating to promote the NFAA classification system.

We are looking forward to a record year of field archery to be climaxed with the Metropolitan Field Champion­ ship on July 13th.

No, your eyes are pot deceiving you. The deer is a white albino doe. Shown with the rare specimen <_ is the successful hunter, Richard Gumm of Detroit, Michigan.■ Deer was taken in Montmorency County, Rush Lake, Michigan.

closes June 1st at midnight. Maps have started to come in and I hope there Beaulieu, Washington; Dr. M. A. Vannetta, Louisiana; Mary Powell, Cali­ will be a larger number of them.

Another reason you should get your fornia; Walter Curnutte, West Virginia: range approved is because I am making Ethel Laubaugh, Michigan.

I presume there are times when I a pin point map of all the approved ranges in the United States. This map have been a little slow in answering, but I try to keep up with the corres­ will be on display at the National Tour ­ Calling All Field Clubs nament at Minneapolis, Minn., in Aug­ pondence. Many times I have to write

By CLAIBORNE F. SPAULDING ust and I’m sure you would like to see letters of explanation besides the ap­ proval set-up. I try to take all letters Vice-President, N.F.A.A. a pin marking your range. The map in the order they come. The information is three feet by four feet and I 26 S. Park St., Oconomowoc, Wis. complain if it gets so crowded won’t listed on the forms you make out are Have you sent in your forms for have trouble getting another pin that I valuable toward changes or corrections field course approvals? If not Just drop Also all ranges will be listed on it. in the NFAA program and in this way under me a card or to John Yount and we will each state name. So get busy and get we will know if we are serving the majority to their satisfaction and en­ mail forms to you and there is no your range and club put on the map. charge or fee to get your range ap­ There are some Counselors who joyment toward better field archery. proved. Just a few questions to answer, should be given due credit for their so we get better acquainted with one efforts, so I will compliment W. R. Alabama’s First 1952 another.

Grady of New Mexico who spent his Field Tourney Get into the map contest and if you vacation in Tennessee and got a club wish for the rules you may find them to build an approved range. Another

By CHARLES B. McKEE in the September, 1951 issue of Arch­ energetic man is Ed Ball of Michigan 1522 Madison Ave., Montgomery, Ahery Magazine. Otherwise write to me who was down in Florida and has made The Alabama Archery Association and I will send them to you. Time a lasting Impression where ranges and is getting short for the contest, as it clubs have met with NFAA approval. held its first field meet of the Other workers in their areas are: O. P. season at Auburn, Alabama in a dr*x’ zling rain. Forty-one archers partla*

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pated and the scores were pretty high hi spite of the all-day showers.

Arnold O. Haugen of the Chewacla Bowmen, host club, won the men’s Class A division. Mrs. Ola Davis of Columbus. Georgia won the ladies Class A division, and Roger Cheshire, Au­ burn, took first honors in the junior boys' division.

Truman Thornton, Auburn, showed highly improved shooting in his first time as a participant in the men's di­ vision. winning first place in the men's Class B. Truman just passed his six­ teenth birthday and graduated from the junior division. C. S. Gilmore of Tus­ kegee won the men's Class C division; Dixie Ruth Brown of Montgomery gar­ nered the junior girl’s first place; Helen Weller of Montgomery won the ladies Class B award.

Other ribbon winners were: men’s Class A: 2nd, J. L. Adams, Birming­ ham: 3rd, O. C. Tisdale. Montgomery.

Men’s Class B—2nd, R. G. Goodin.

Montgomery; 3rd. Frank C. .Davis, Co­ lumbus. Ga. Men's Class C—2nd, R. C. Weller. Montgomery; 3rd. Robert Mof­ fett. Birmingham. Ladies Class A—2nd.

Kitty Adams. Birmingham; 3rd. Vneda Haugen. Auburn. Ladies Class B—2nd, Beth Gilmore, Tuskegee. Junior Boys— 2nd. Jimmy Flanagan. Auburn; 3rd.

Bobby Wingate. Auburn.

0. C. Tisdale, president of Mont­ gomery Field Archers, won the instlnctors award for best score of the instinctors shooting in the tournament.

R. C. Goodin of Montgomery was sec­ ond and Frank C. Davis of Columbus, Georgia was third.

The Alabama archers are blossoming out with the most ■colorful quivers and jackets in the country, with their local club insignia, state association emblem, N.F.A.A. patches; and some are wear­ ing the large Instinctors badge. Much colorful publicity has been gained from

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the activities of the local clubs, state organization and individual archers such as the visit of Howard Hill to the slate theatres with his African archery hunting film.

Results of California State Shoot If we wait until next month to report on the California State Tournament the news will be kinda stale, at least to those who participated, but we have no alternative. The tournament was held in Bakersfield April 19-20, too late in the month to get pictures processed, engravings made and story written for the May issue. Look for complete cov­ erage, pictures and all, in the May issue.

Though we can't give you the story this month, we can give you the names of the new champions. Here they are: BARE BOW Women—Peggy Ortiz, San Francisco.

Men—Courtland Johnson, San Diego.

Juniors—Bob Markworth, Los An­ geles.

FREE STYLE Women—Gladys Ripple, Sunland.

Men—Wm. Hicks, Jr., Pasadena.

Southeastern Archery Shoot Will NOT Be At Asheville!

Word conies from Maurice L. Cable, Secretary of the Asheville Archers of North Carolina, that his club will NOT be host to the Southeastern Archery Championships as had been previously announced.. The tournament was to be held July 5 and 6, but due to conditions beyond their control the club returned the bid to the S.E.A.A. Secretary.

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Can you tie this? Above two brothers who bagged their bucks in almost the same spot, within five minutes apart, on the morning of October 12th. of St. Johns, Michigan; on the right, On the left is Frederick M. Carpenter c."

Douglas S. Carpenter of Houghton ILake, ____ Michigan.

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ARCHERY RECOLLECTIONS

By GEORGE BROMMERS Bellevue, Washington

CHAPTER THREE OREGON

Oregon, except in the magazine field, has not had as many nationally known leaders in archery as some other states can show. The main reason for this is that Oregon never has emphasized or­ ganization or tried to force progress.

Its history, however, is a prominent one. particularly in the field of har­ monious relations between the different phases, and its great contributions to the sport as a whole.

Personal recollections, even if they can not always be documented, furnish some of our most valuable leads to the history of the past. I have before me a letter of this kind. It is written

by Van Robertson, now over 80 years old and probably the oldest living arch­ er on the Coast today. Mr. Robertson took up archery in 1912, and has written many valuable articles on his favorite subject. He has also written a number of bow hunting stories, and they breath the real spirit we like to associate with the sport. I'd like to quote some extracts from a most wel­ come letter: "Dr. Henry E. Jones, a retired phy­ sician and an Army surgeon in the Civil War. was, as far as I know, the pioneer archer in this state. The story goes that he induced Capt. F. S. Barnes of Forest Grove to take up bow making.

Then there was Louis F. Barron, a disciple of Barnes, who learned both to make bows and to shoot them.

Barron became a finished archer and I learned a lot from him. Next in this group were Lewis A. Shaw and his wife. Pearl. There were others, and I would call this group the real pioneers of the state.”

“Just now another name, that of Everlngham. came to my memory. He was from Eugene and I believe he was the first commercial yew producer in the state. He got his wood free from Booth Kelly, thanks to his friendship with the members of this large lumber concern.”

Fortunately there is much more to the letter I quote, but the rest deals with more recent events and persons.

From Mrs. Thompson’s letter I know that one of the archers who shot with Will Thompson was an L. H. Bates, also from Forest Grove, which means that the activities of both Bates and Barnes preceded 1916.

Now. will someone please help us out? If we can get a few more names and dates we will have a fair idea of Oregon before 1912. My own records, and I am sure I had none of value in this respect, were lost when I left Los Angeles 12 years ago. I remember read­ ing. In some magazine, I think, an article about Capt. Barnes. Can some­ one give me a summary of it? It should give us something to go on. If we can follow up and document Mr. Robertson’s leads we will have accomp­ lished a lot. The best we can do now is • Continued on next page.

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to start digging for still available data and references. It will be worth it.

Let us now proceed to more recent developments which will be much easier to document. Again I will start off, hoping for your participation and criticism. Dogmatic assertive writing without constructive follow-up is worth­ less.

We will begin with Portland, the home of many archery greats.

Dr. George A. Cathey and Hnmer Prouty were national figures. So is "Pat” Chambers.

We will go into the matter later in detail, but it is my impression that Dr. Cathey was the first one to advocate a national hunting body. He was also a great flight enthusiast and set a num­ ber of records. For one thing he was the first man in this country ever to shoot a distance of 300 yards. No arch­ ery reference book will be complete without the mention of his name and accomplishments. And Homer Prouty, in his undemonstrative way. did more to foster the growth of flight shooting than any man I know. It was not only the unbelievable distance he got. it was the fact that he was already an old man when he set the record that held for nearly ten years, if I remem­ ber right. Truly, Cathey and Prouty will always remain big names in arch­ ery annals.

"Pat" Chambers, former national target champion, is also one of the most versatile archers I have ever known. He is good at everything, target, field, hunting and trick shooting. With Ken Wilhelm of .California he must share the doubtful honor of giving us more hair-raising stunts than any men I know. Pat and Ken have no nervous

system worth mentioning themselves, but they surely know how to send shivers down our backs.

Any number of Portlanders can con­ tribute valuable knowledge to the state's archery history.. Among these I could count Major "Bill'' ■Bill” Williams.

President of the National of 1941, and Dr. H. H. Hewitt, who also has been very active, and to whom I owe some of the information in this article. Dr. Tawney was another old time hunter and target archer, and the names of Col. H. L. Knight. DeWitt Hawkins.

Gene Warnick. Lambert, Adcook and Thurlow come readily to my mind. Also there were Peters and Mixler. but why go on, there were so many well known archers residing in the city or its vicinity.

By the way, will someone tell me where the records of the Northwestern A.A. are kept? A documentation of its activities would be a most valuable con­ tribution to archery history.

Having spent considerable time in Central Oregon, I probably know that section of the state best. Let us begin with one of its outstanding archers, Gilman Keasey. Twice he won the Na­ tional target championship and his knowledge of archery raw materials and their processing is something I like to recall. Also his enjoyment of the social side of the sport long after he had given up trying to pile up a big score.

Then there are the Sylvan Archers, though, not unlike the Sherwood Arch­ ers of Portland, it is hard to tell what kind of clubs they really were. I would call them early field archery clubs— more of them later—but I also know that both clubs were interested in every

kind of an archery activity. Mostly on an informal basis, the way the Red­ lands Club of California, a contem­ porary, also operated. All I know Is that none of these clubs took Itself very seriously, for which reason they had an uproarious amount of fun.

I should know something about this.

Never have I been so thoroughly taken in as the Sylvan Archers, led by that arch villain, Chester Stevenson, took me in on an only too well remembered coon hunt. I still chuckle, somewhat ruefully, every time I think of it, but let me state right here that I would rather be the guest at a convention of man-eating tigers than go out with that gang again. But why does Oregon have to rub it in every time I get a letter from one of the bunch of hyenas who took part in the event?

I like to recall a few other names.

Those still living are among our best sources of Information. Oregon has a number of men who are competent to write archery histaory, but darned if I know one of them who will.

Russell Jones, Ned Myers, Howard Richards, James Stovalland, V. C. McCaulley are all authorities. On deviltries mostly, but they could be useful. Bill King is another one; I still have one of his wood carvings on my mantle.

Oregon has a number of outstanding raw materials producers and processors besides Keasey. Among the earliest I think you will find Ullrich, McKinney.

Hobson, Goddard and Daily. Ullrich and Daily were also great promoters of archery and partook in many important organizational matters. Ullrich has. I believe, attended more National tourna­ ments than any archer in the state.

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The distaff side I will leave undis­ cussed, with one exception. Glenn Vine­ yard once beat all the male field arch­ ers at a tournament. Let us hope that the majority of the contenders were Sylvan Archers.

Without the active support of the ladles, many of whom I have been in­ troduced to, Oregon would never have reached its prominent archery status.

It is my sincere hope that one of the girls will document their share in arch­ ery activities. A mere man would make a mess of it, and it is too important a matter for that.

Here I wish to call attention to two items of iterest. One Is the den of Dr. B. G. Thompson of Corvallis, which contains, in addition to trophies of the chase and archery implements, a library of great historical value to the archer.

Should this treasure be tapped, many events and persons who are now obscure would be clarified. A hint to someone, I don’t know who.

The other is the den of Chester Stev­ enson, which contains some of the finest exhibits of archery craftsman­ ship that I know of. Also a number of cartoons, some of them of historical value, also by the hand of Stevenson.

In another chapter I hope to discuss our editors and publishers as I have known them. John Davis, B. G. Thomp­ son, Frank Taylor, C. C. Hall, Erma Haberle and lately Bill and Doris Powell have all had a national oppor­ tunity to put Oregon on the archery map, and they have certainly done so.

It is with real pleasure and antici­ pation that I here begin to outline one of the most constructive controversial matters that has come to my knowledge.

It is a matter of precedence, of “firsts.”

Dr. Elmer has already documented the beginning and development of tar­ get archery in this country. Field arch­ ery, if I may be permitted to use this loose term to include the early hunters and hunting organizations in the coun­ try, is a comparatively recent develop­ ment, and is largely undocumented. Let us see what we can do to bring out known and unknown facts about it.

A year or so ago I expressed my opinion that Oregon had the first bow hunting reserve in the country. It was established in 1935, and so documented by "Ye Sylvan Archer.” It did not take us long to find out that Wisconsin had preceded Oregon in this matter by a full year, and that Michigan followed in 1937. Unfortunately other states are not similarly documented, unless we can find the information in Yount’s NFAA files. Here is where you readers can really help.

How many of what we today would call field archery or bow hunting clubs the country has had I do not know, and I think a good many of us would like to find out. We must assume that Will Thompson and his friends, who staged many a hunt here in the North­ west had some kind of an organization, and certainly Pope, Young, Compton, Styles and others had some kind of a club in the Bay Regions. Southern Cali­ fornia staged many a successful hunt, but what kind of an organization, if any, was represented in the hunts of Compton, Young, Spencer, Roberts, Gardner and others, I certainly do not know. Burch, Day and Hoover, among others, were early hunters in Southern California. They could easily have had

a club. But we will wait until the next chapter to deal with what we know of California, here we deal with Oregon, and this time I believe I can establish two firsts: a national and a state or­ ganization.

Leaving the Sylvan Archers and the Sherwood Foresters for later treatment and, pending clarification, temporarily dropping early activities in Oregon, let us proceed to what is to me one of the most important and significant chapters in modern archery history, the forma­ tion and program of the Broad Arrows Society, which is, to my knowledge, the first attempt to organize field archery on a national basis. Thanks to a recent letter from John E. Davis, former ed­ itor of "Ye Sylvan Archer,” and now state entomologist, I am able to quote: "In the March, 1933 issue of ‘Ye Sylvan Archer’ I find a column article

by B. G. Thompson under the title 'The American Broad Arrows Society.’ The first paragraph is as follows: ‘The completion of the organization of the Broad Arrows Society has been rather slow, due to the fact that the interested parties have been so tar re­ moved from each other. However, the committee has adopted a constitution and has the organization pretty well rounded into shape.’ An editorial in the same issue reads: ‘We are pleased to announce that the charter members of this organization now runs into the hundreds------’ (Ye Sylvan Archer was the official organ of the Broad Arrows Society.)

"As promised, the April issue of YSA contained a two-page Broad Arrows Society section. Most of it was devoted • Continued on next page.

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to a survey of the legality of hunting ably two-thirds of all the bow hunters with the bow. The information was col­ in the country at that time, why. then, lected by A. H. Caldwell of Phoenix, did the Broad Arrows Society fail? My Ariz. One of the plans of the society answer is that it didn’t fail, it accomp­ was the promotion of a hunting ’jam­ lished most of the important things it boree.’ So far as I know this never ma­ set out to do. True, it failed to form terialized. In the July 1936 issue Dr. a lasting national organization along Cathey, as ’acting president,’ had a the pattern of the NAA or the NFAA, notice of a ‘complete report on the legal but in the field of public relations it status of the long bow and the broad led the field, and if today we have bow arrow as a legal hunting weapon hunting established as a respected and throughout the United States.’ The re­ accepted sport we certainly have the port appeared also in a later issue. This Broad Arrows to thank for their most report and the report of Mr. Caldwell important contributions. Certainly the were, I believe, the principal contribu­ NFAA acknowledges the debt it owes tions of the Society and I think their to its distinguished predecessor, and value in stimulating interest all over just as certainly it acknowledges the the country in archery hunting and field priority in the national field of the ABAS. Nor is that all. archery can not be overestimated.

Today we take the cooperation of “At one time I had the card file of members of the ABAS. I know there state legislatures and state game com­ were hundreds of names. It might in­ missions a little bit too much for grant­ terest you to know the names of the ed. I fear. This was not always the 1933 ‘Jamboree’ Committee. They were: case. Many and varied were the forms Dr. George A. Cathey, D. W. Hersh­ of resistance encountered by these pi­ berger, Saranac Inn. N. Y.. Dr. L. D. oneers in the newly re-discovered field Pfouts. Payson, Utah, Roy I. Case, Ra­ of bow hunting, and only the charac­ cine. Wisconsin, Kore T. Duryee, Se­ ters and the standing of the men who attle. Wash., and Dr. E. K. Roberts, appeared before such state bodies can Ventura, Calif.” account for the success they eventually These are truly great names in arch­ met. But make no mistake, nothing ery, and I am indebted to Mr. Davis. was handed to them on a platter, they It shows what the Broad Arrows were had to justify themselves. capable of in the line of national dis­ These pioneers were mostly promin­ tribution and representation. Were we ent business and professional men, well able to obtain a full roster of the arch­ known in their states and their com­ ers participating in this society we munities. Their words carried weight. would have a real “Who’s Who” of They asked for no privileges not ac­ early day bow hunters. May I ask any corded to other hunters, what they reader who is in a position to furnish wanted was recognition of their sport all or part of these names to let the and the setting aside of certain areas rest of us have them. I would consider where they would not be exposed to it a most important contribution to the blasts of the gun hunters. A most archery history. Wouldn't you? moderate request, granted because it With several hundred members, prob- was so reasonable. Eventually it was to

lead to pre-seasons, pre-seasons, but lead to but II doubt that the original sponsors expected to gel that far.

Legalizing of bow hunting was a preliminary step required in some states. In this respect, also, the Broad Arrows played a prominent part. Little was heard about them even then, and today their contributions pass un‘ noticed. But the work they promoted and carried on is our greatest asset today.

In 19 39 I had occasion to consult Dr. Cathey and others about the new NFAA, and I think the doctor’s rere­ action was typical.

Somewhat ruefully he admitted that, while he still would have liked to re­ vive the ABAS, he really did not know of anyone who could afford to give the required time to its promotion. But that if the NFAA thought it had such an organization it could count on the full support of the Broad Arrows.

Possibly, thought Dr. Cathey, it was a mistake not to have a broader base.

He noticed how much new blood had been added in California by interest­ ing archers who were not yet hunters.

So the Oregon Broad Arrows not only added their names to the NFAA roster, but lent it their powerful support. Do you suppose that any field archer who had any part in the event would ever forget or fail to appreciate the boost given by Oregon and by the Broad Ar­ rows? I am one who never will be so ungrateful, nor will any field archer today who knows the inside story.

If today target archers, bow hunters and field archers mingle without dis­ crimination at each others' meets, much of this generated good will and under­ standing can be ascribed to Oregon, • Continued on next page.

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F where no definite lines were ever drawn between the groups, and every archer attends the tournament nearest to him without asking what club or group is sponsoring the event, it is a fore­ runner of things to come; there never was any need of a split in the past and needn’t be in the future if we absorb the lessons Oregon and some other states have taught us.

A letter from Roy Case gives us another glimpse of _the Broad Arrows.

The matter of organization was already brought up in 1930, when Case hunted with some of the Oregonians on Lobster Mountain. As near as Case can remem­ ber there were present: Cathey, Prouty, Gardner, Spencer, Duryee, Cook, Davis, Thompson, Ullrich and about a dozen others whose names he can not place.

I consider this a very valuable item, and wish that others, who participated in even earlier hunts, would document their recollections the same way. The time is already here when such hunts are of interest to others than the par­ ticipants themselves.

John Davis, probably my closest com­ petitor for the basement championship title, relates, somewhat maliciously, I suspect, another episode in the state’s archery annals. Quoting Mr. Davis: “It might interest you to know that the first tournament which in any way approached a state-wide field shoot in Oregon was held on Grover Gouthier’s place near Philomath, Sept. 2-4 in 1933.

A round of Rovers, with ‘targets rep­ resenting everything from squirrels to lions will be used and spaced at from 10 to 180 yards apart,’ was shot in addition to a squirrel shoot in which the group was divided into teams of four archers each, and the team getting the most squirrels would be awarded a trophy. As I remember it the squirrels did not cooperate and not enough of them were sighted to justify any award.

The Rovers' award for most hits on the animal targets was a silver medal donated by B. G. Thompson. And—I know you won’t believe this—I won it and still have the medal. I have a copy of the announcement signed by Ned Myers, B. G. Thompson and G. C. Gouthler. And—don’t forget—I have the medal.”

Go ahead and brag, John. Wonder you didn’t drag in the junior William goat you potted and which I had ex­ pected you to remember.

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To get serious again; unless some of the Eastern states have preceded it, the credit for having had the first state-wide field archery association, must go to Oregon. Certainly it was the first one I know of on the Pacific Coast. I refer to the Pope-Young Archers, organized, from what I read,

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Space forbids me to go farther into the matter here, but we will return to the subject later. In the California chapter I will tell how the formation of this organization affected the Art Young clubs and how it indirectly led to the formation of the NFAA. I have met practically no Oregon archer since 1940, with the exception of my young friend Louis Winterstein, whom I had known as a boy, and who spent a few months with me here in Washington. Nor have I much knowl­ edge of later archery developments in the state. However, possibly some Ore­ gonian will kindly add to the small store of information contained in this article. If so I would highly appreciate it. The time will come when such in­ formation may be very pertinent and, as we grow older, our better perspec­ tive will lead us to explore channels we ignored in dur youth. Oregon has. as I said, a rich archery history and today we know very little about it.

it if I were to ask: “What do YOU weigh?”

Anyway I got my deer. It may have been the smallest and the dumbest spike buck in Gilcrest, but it was a deer and I did shoot It with my bow, and I did get my Big Game Award.

Oh yes—that Big Game Award—even Yount makes it tough. The application asks: “If a buck how many points?”

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The Grey Duck of Gilcrest • Continued from Page Five

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To Be, Or Not To Be - Instinctive • Continued from Page Six

Let’s be realistic and broad-minded on the subject. Most sight-shooters are not target archers trying to take over Field Archery. More and more field archers are turning to sights every day. Many of them never have seen a target archery meet. They are just people whose temperament and back­ ground make it necessary for them to have a definite pattern to follow, a logical answer to a problem. They would seeth like a volcano with frustration if they were forced to spend a whole day depending on anything so nebulous and intangible as instinct to accomplish a given objective. And, moreover, just putting a sight on his bow does not give the sight-shooter an advantage over the archer without a sight. He must master the mechanics of archery and perfect his form before he can shoot even a passable score. The man with a poor release or a shaky bow-hand never will shoot a high score, no matter what kind of sight he used.

I’ll grant you that there have been instinctive archers who have improved their scores by changing to a sight. But it takes many hours of shooting over and over at the same distance to cali­ brate a sight to the particular weight of bow and particular height of anchor that any given archer uses. The chances are that the archer who changes to a sight, and makes a success of the ex­ periment, does more real practicing in the first month than he has done in the last two years. Now which do you think

really did the most to bring up his score? The practice or the sight?

Anyhow both instinctive archers and sight-shooters are swell people. They love archery and would break their necks to get to a range where there’s a tournament. And both will break their necks trying to shoot a little better today than they did yesterday. So let’s take a recent statement of Howard Hill’s and make it our watchword: “So long as a man shoots a bow and arrow, I am for him one hundred per cent regardless of what kind of bow he uses or what manner he uses to aim it.”

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are not going to please everyybody, so don’t try. If the majority are Free Style Archers actually, or at heart, run all tournaments to suit them even if it means a championship tournament every Sunday. If yours is primarily an Instinc­ tive club, get your members handicap­ ped and start making match play the big thing in the club and don’t let three or four self-appointed highscoring leaders stop you.

If your club is 50-50, do the best you can, but don't start trying to find a magic round that automatically equal­ izes everybody. There just isn’t any such round and that includes the one-hit rounds that fail not only because the same winners keep right on winning but on several other counts as well. A bad feature is too much walking and too little shooting, but the worst is that when a man hits with the first arrow the game is over on that target. The best any other archer can do is tie and if he missed the first arrow he is beaten. Some one in a good fast four­ some is going to hit every target with the first arrow, so where is your game?

The backers of such rounds always compare their round with golf where the first man to hole out wins, but they never complete the comparison. In arch­ ery, when a one-arrow round is shot, the target is won or lost on the first arrow. In golf you may make a perfect drive, then get in a sand-trap on a later stroke and let the man who top­ ped his drive pass you and take the hole. That is what keeps the interest up. Speaking of golf, did you ever no­ tice that the average par is 72 for an 18-hole golf course or 4 strokes to the hole? While a good archer can shoot a one-hit round with an average of 1-1/2 shots to the target. These rounds

are fine for a change but nothing to build a club on. My advice to clubs in this group is cut your number of tour­ naments and try to replace them with handicapped match play and various games that can be played on your course. The Handbook, soon to be print­ ed, will have plenty of these.

But whatever your club does quit blaming the National. We have taken care of the problem insofar as it af­ fects our tournaments. Now it is up to you, we can only give advice.

This article hasn’t been diplomatic, but neither have the hundreds of let­ ters I have received on this subject in the past year, and I feel it is time our membership got an accurate picture di­ rect from this office rather than the kind of information they are being fed by certain other groups and individuals.

The California State Tournament has been held since this article was written and we are very happy to report that it was a success in every manner. The

attendance was double that of last year.

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Last year I didn’t hear a single fa­ vorable report. This year I have heard nothing but good reports and this in spite of the threats and grumblings that had been going on.

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Honoring Our Pioneers • Continued from Page Fifteen. which I have no knowledge. Both Comp­ ton and Maurice Thompson have al­ ready had medals of honor struck in their memories.

And why should we not, instead of naming clubs after some mythical Robin Hood or Hiawatha, name some of them after the departed Indian warriors who so valiantly resisted the encroachment of the white settler? Their methods are nothing to commemorate, but their courage is. Just when was warfare ever humane anyway? It would seem most appropriate, particularly since our first archers were the Indians, if men of the Tecumseh, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse type were also remembered and honored by respectful archers of today.

There are limitless opportunities of o£ this kind.

But let us not cheapen this very real honor; let no living archer be selected. This is a case where we can not afford any controversies. Our se­ lections must be unanimous, spontan­ eous and final if we are to have an archery Hall of Fame worth the name.

A register of these clubs should at all times be kept up to date.

Now, since I believe that I am still carried on the rolls of the San Pedro Club of California, let me make a spe­ cific motion: I move that my fellow members of the club vote to change its name to The Stanley F. Spencer Club of San Pedro. What do you other mem­ bers say?

Forest Nagler: 1885 -1952 • Continued from Page Four

witnessed the Test Baker (under-water test) at Bikini.

In December 1911 he married Aletta Seefeld in Milwaukee who, with their son John of Miami, Florida, and daugh­ ter Mary (Meyer) of Pewaukee, Wis­ consin, survive him.

His avocations were many. He was expert with rifles, and had done much big-game hunting with me before he became Interested in archery. Among his hobbies which Included fishing, ca-

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skiing. noeing, sailing, ice-boating and skiing, archery had his most serious attention.

The evidence for tliis is recorded in the numerous articles that he wrote, which are collected and published in book form. The first of these deals with his experiences in big game hunt­ ing with the bow, principally in Canada; another with the engineering aspects of the bow. These are also collected in the book published by the NFAA under the title: "Archery—the Technical Side,” which includes also many of the publications of Hickman and Klopsteg.

He was state champion archer of Wis­ consin in 1942, and Canadian champion from 1935 to 1939.

Nagler’s love of the outdoors is re­ flected in the list of his hobbies. In northern Wisconsin he owned a tract of timber land on the Popple River, a trout stream, on which he built a log cabin about 1945. A few years ago I acquired a small section of this area from him, and built a cabin across the river from his. We could think of nothing more pleasant than to drive to the cabin hideout with our wives for a long weekend, where we could fish, or roam the woods with or without our bows, spy on the beaver building his dam. see the work of the pileated woodpecker, and observe the deer and other wild things.

There remains in vivid memory his tireless activity from dawn to dusk, adding to the conveniences of the camp.

Figuring how we might “engineer” a permanent bridge from drifted logs, or devising jokes to play on unsuspecting friends whom we might invite to visit us. On many a cold or rainy evening we joined forces at one or the other cabin in producing a meal, then re­

laxed in cozy conversation to the ac­ companiment of the crackle of the logs in the fireplace and the distant roar of Little Bull Falls and the nearer rush of the rapids between our cabins.

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tree, but the intense cold changed our minds. We just couldn’t stand still and keep from freezing, literally. We agreed to chance one shot apiece and risk losing the arrow. Lee shot first. He missed by a foot, and his arrow sailed off down the mountain. I got directly beneath the furred bundles and put all I had in that one shot. The arrow went

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The sun went down fast. We headed back to the car before darkness over­ took us in that wilderness area. The final curtain had fallen on our hunting excursion for this year, Lee’s first.

Tired, hungry, and half-frozen, 1 ex­ pected Lee to be complaining—but no.

“Let’s come back next year and stay a week,’’ he said. “We’ll bring a turke> caller next time.”

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ARROW SCALES—$30.00; spine test­ ers, $20.00. Write for description. T. L. Stalker, 825 Chevrolet Ave., Flint 4, Mich. tf

OSAGE BILLETS seasoned 6 years.

Green osage logs, 6-ft bows, $10.00.

A. H. Hord, Iola, Ill. j BUCKSKIN VEST QUIVER, detachable.

Our milled, balanced, tapered shafts, $1.75 doz. Tough cardboard field faces, $4.00 per set. Brant Archery Supply, Box 392, Midland, Mich.

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Try us for satisfactory results. Send for catalog. Pinellas Archery, 342-1/2 10th Ave. N.E., St. Petersburg. Fla. tf YEW BILLETS AND STAVES. 5 year seasoned, high elevation billets, $2.50-$5.00; staves, $5.00-$8.00. Ask for bargain price on quantity lot. Need the storage space. Leon Chapin, 1628 E. Sth Ave., Albany, Oregon. tf

WE HAVE SOME GOOD rebuilt com­ posites on hand and others from time to time. If interested send draw weight and draw length required and we will ship same C.O.D. when avail­ able. Prices run $15.00, $20.00 and $25.00. Order direct from this ad. We know you will be pleased. Eddings' Archery, McGregor, Iowa. tf SORRY — NO FEATHERS! Earl Ullrich, Roseburg, Ore.

WANTED FIELD POINT — $1.20 doz.

A field point that takes no special tools to remove from a tree or stump.

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Now, a new double-barbed, reinforced tip, fish head, heavy enough to go deep with very little refraction from the water. Same 5-degree tapered ferrule as the rest of our arrowheads.

185 gr. for 11/32" shafting 150 gr. for 5/16" shafting 80c per head It your dealer can not supply you order direct from

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Forest Nagler: 1885 - 1952 • Continued from Page Thirty.

The deer hunting season was his special joy. It is good deer country, much better for the deer than the hunter; but we agreed that this is as it should be. The cover is perfect, espe­ cially before the leaves have fallen. But as any bow hunter knows, the joy of the stalk on a frosty morning, the still hunt in the surroundings of the riotous colors of autumn, with an occasional glimpse of the white flag or the blowing signal of a buck—these are a full mea­ sure of reward. These are things that rounded out Forrest Nagler’s life.

The Nagler story would be incomplete and inadequate without an account of his fondness for the practical joke, which never extended beyond producing slight embarrassment or mild conster­ nation in its victims; moreover, what embarrassment there was was observed only in a circle of intimate friendship.

The site he selected for his cabin was a half-mile from the point of nearest approach with a car. From here it re­ quired toting by pack-sack or tump­ line of all the building materials ex­ cept the logs, which were floated down the river from the road. With com­ pletion of the job. a well-worn trail had been produced, winding among trees and over rocks. At one point it passes between two trees so near to­ gether that a person of more than average build occupies the full space.

On one side is the river, on the other a huge boulder, and beyond that, thicket. It is the only passage. Forrest called it his man-trap. Part of any firsttime visitor's initiation consisted of giving him a pack-sack to carry in, across the top of which a substantial bedding roll was placed. It was the setup for the man-trap. The unsuspect­ ing porter always had a ludicrous strug­ gle to get himself and his load through the narrow passage.

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signer. The cabin needed a stove, which was located in an antique shop and purchased. It was ideal for the purpose, but being made of cast iron, weighed a hundredweight and like everything else had to be toted in. With enthus­ iasm and great effort, he managed to get the awkward load on his back and bravely followed the trail. He hadn’t thought of the man-trap, and it got him. No one enjoyed the humor of the predicament more than he did. He could and often did laugh at himself.

On one delightful week-end Forrest, Letty (Mrs. Nagler), Amanda (Mrs. Klopsteg) and I explored along the river which has many rapids, cascades and pools. At one of the small falls, Amanda slipped off a log into the pool.

By Forrest’s designation the cascade since has been known, and so marked on our maps, as "Amanda Falls.”

Several years ago I presented him with a pair of greenish-tinted "super­ cateye” reflector buttons. These he

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placed a few inches apart, horizontally, in a protected spot among the trees near the cabin. Their location was so chosen that in traveling from the cabin to the "annex” after dark, a flashlight could not fail to pick them up. One item in a first-time guest’s initiation was, near bedtime, to hand him a flash­ light, describe the path to the "annex,” and wish him well on his way, with an expression of hope that he wouldn’t encounter a bear enroute. Inevitably the twin reflections would stare at him out of the darkness, and there was precipitate retreat to the shelter of the cabin.

These stories are but a few glint and gleams to highlight a great personality.

He would have enjoyed reading them, and remembering many more. They il­ lustrate his human warmth as surely as do his many serious activities and his acts of kindness and generosity that exemplified his interest in people. If our purpose in life is so to live that the world may be a little better for having lived. Forrest Nagler's life was truly successful.

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Laminations sanded by setting the rip guide fairly close to the sanding wheel and then running the lamination through, seem to come out sanded thinner on one edge. I don't think that the sanding wheel is bending as it is of cast aluminum with reinforcing ribs built in and machined true. The fence is fairly solid, so I can’t figure this out. Any suggestions? How do you “carefully” select maple and birch in a lumber yard? I picked out a piece of maple that looked pretty good, hard, straight grained, etc., and built a work­ ing recurve bow. The first time I gave it a full draw the laminations parted company, not on any part of the various glue lines, but obviously in the lam­ inations. The wood evidently would not stand the shear strain. When are you going to publish your new book?— W.M.C., Arcadia, Calif.

Al Farman, Long Beach, Calif.

The second Sterling Arrow went to Bud Gouger, Newton, N. J. BIG GAME TAKEN The following applications have been received since the last report: Coyote: Clair B. Young, San Fernan­ do, Calif.

Javelina: Joe F. Dolan and Dr. F. H. Kenagy, both of Rupert, Idaho.

Deer: Maryland—Water Fagan, Hy­ attsville, reports his deer dressed out at 218 pounds. Not at all bad, is it?

Massachusetts—Richard E. Boutin, Braintree.

Michigan—Brooke W. Houston, De­ troit; Les W. Koivisto, Sault St. Marie; and Jack B. White, Elwell.

Well, this is thirty for this month.

Huddleston's term ofotlice as the latter is serving in the Navy.

Any problems you archers of the above states have, we suggest that you contact your representative, although we are always glad to help whenever possible, but he is closer and can give you more personal supervision.

Answer: Using peeled veneer for lam­ inations would be an interesting ex­ periment. I have never tried it, but if you intend to back your bow with glass and face it with plastic I can’t see why it should not work out satis­ factorily. It would certainly simplify

20 PIN WINNER We have only one this time. He is

• Continued from Page Eight found It fun and most interesting to get letters from them and we know you will too. so please contact their secre­ tary, Alan A. Cosgrove. 12 Connell St., Hawthorn E. 2. Victoria. Australia.

BOARD OF FIELD GOVERNORS CHANGES

We are mighty happy to welcome the following men to our Board of Field Governors to represent their respective states until November 1: Senior Salvio Palou, Puente 551. Cis­ terna, Santiago. Chile.

Vernie Rolphe, 2602 S. Mead St..

Wichita. Kansas, to fill the unexpired term of Richard Ardell. who moved to Georgia.

Ed Kobiela, 7 2 4 W. Silver Ave., Al­ buquerque. N. M., who takes over A. E. Robert Radigan. Wantagh, N. Y., dis­ tance 40 yards. Instinctive.

ROVING TARGET FACES

Question and Answers • Continued front Page Thirteen.

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12-inch - - - 1.00 doz.

18-inch-------- 1.50 doz.

24-inch--------2.25 doz.

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azine. My thought is this: 1/8" lam­ inations are fairly readily available and if I could use one fairly thick lam­ ination and a few of veneer, a core of given thickness would be more easily obtained than as I have tried to do previously by scraping or sanding. What kind of a sanding arrangement is used to sand laminations to required thick­ ness? I have a sanding wheel on my power saw but it doesn’t do a reliable job on thin laminations although it will sand thicker stock very nicely.

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bending the recurves and inserting the handle riser.

I think your sanding trouble is caused by the fact that there is so much more of the sanding disc in con­ tact with the lower edge of the lam­ ination than there is at the upper edge.

Could the laminations be shoved across the exact center of the disc it might work better. I use a small planing head in my drill press.

I don’t know of any way to pick out maple or birch except for straight grain and soundness. I never happened to get hold of a piece like you mention.

As to the book. I doubt very much if I will be publishing it as the interest in it doesn't seem to warrant the expense.

Question: After overcoming many difficulties I have been able to subscribe to Archery Magazine. It is a most in­ teresting magazine. In the October is­ sue you describe the making of a re­ flexed bow. It looks good to me and 1 would like to make a bow with backing and facing complete; however, as ‘‘Conolon” and ‘‘Toxhorn'’ are not available in Australia, substitutes must be found for one cannot buy dollars to import archery materials from U.S.A. Materials available here are fibre, osage orange, hickroy and spun glass ribbons .003" thick. I would appreciate it if you please suggest how these could be used in making a reflexed bow to your de­ sign.—A.V.G., N.S. Wales, Aust.

Answer: Using the materials you say are available I would make the back of my bow from hickory with a belly lam­ ination of osage. If you have any method of gluing on the glass ribbon, that would be your best backing but as glass is extremely difficult to glue unless specially treated, you would probably be better off to use the fbre for backing. This adds nothing to the cast of the bow, but does help to pre­ vent breakage. This combination should make a good bow.

various methods. I strip tlie sinew im­ mediately after removed from the leg.

To begin, I have to use a knife to start it. After the cord is quartered it can be handled with the finger nails and stripped down to size, with no trouble at all. Also about 90% of the strands are full length.—S. L. DeR., St. Paul, Minn.

Answer: If you use flight toxhorn it can be heated and bent at the handle riser as per attaching instructions which accompany it. I have never tried to run it over the sharp recurves. The ears should not be parallel to the string when the bow is braced. The string should leave the recurves at about half draw. Your sinew sample looks O.K. and no doubt your method of separating it causes less waste than drying it and pounding it on a block as is usually recommended.

Question: I own a metal bow, 51# pull. I pull 26". I am shooting 5/16" tapered to J,4 " arrows with field points.

Is this the right arrow to be using in my bow? I seem to be shooting all right (I think) but others tell me I should get heavier shafts. What would you advise me to do on my next order of arrows?—B. G., Newton, N. J.

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BOB SNYDER Question: Am I correct in thinking that the toxhorn should be bent in the form to the same shape as the center­ strip before attempting to glue? Is this process done hot or cold? Also, will the toxhorn take a sharp enough bend to cover the ears? Or should I leave off there and reinforce the ears with some other material? Also, in figuring ear radius, would it be correct, that after the bow is braced, the ears are parallel to the string? Would appreciate your opinion in regard to my method of re­ ducing sinew. In all the’material I have read on the subject the directions were to pound the dried sinew with a wood mallet, then separate the fibers via

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Throw-A-Way Blunts, $3.25 doz.

Throw-A-Way Rubber Blunts, $3.95 doz.

Throw-A-Way’s, $2.35 doz.

Junior Arrows, $1.95 doz.

Other arrow prices on request.

Send for our latest price list.

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I High Score Standings 1952 Season Indoor Mail Tournament • Continued from Page Seventeen

14. Palmer, Perry, Golden Arrow Bowmen----- 712 15. Camburn, Frank, Lenawee Co. League 713 16. Hall, Clarence, Golden Arrow Bowmen 616 17. Dingwall, Pete, Cascade Archers -.............616 IS. Emo, Henry D., Bay City Bowmen —683 19. Woods, William, Tri-Cities Bowmen.......... 568 20. Bloyer, Jack, Indian Trail Bowmen „...62O 21. Darling, Robert, Tri-Cities Bowmen 552 22. Devlin, Don, Sylvan Archers.......... .................. 550 23. Keller, Roscoe, Sylvan Archers 614

710 671 720 647 641 584 609 568 621 534

647 671 691 730 667 678 597 594 529 540

689.7 685 675.7 664.3 663.6 610 608.7 571.3 566.7 562.7

517 24. Fawver, Phil, Indian Trail Bowmen....

25. Allen, F’red J., Wo-Pe-Na Archers 26. Kerr, John T., Bay City Bowmen----- ~6m 27. Cole, Ken, Pontiac Archers...... .......... ........ 650 515 28. Defoe, John, Golden Arrow Bowmen....

452 29. Uhlman, Art, Bay City Bowmen.™ 30. Sisson, Bob, Golden Arrow Bowmen.... ........477 31. Medina, Mario, Chilean Archers.......... ........ 465 454 32. Hauyon, Chaly, Chilean Archers —------------33. Sartain, Fremont, Bay City Bowmen-------- 400 34. Baldwin, Willard H., Trl-Cities Bowmen 393 35. Cole, George, Tri-Cities Bowmen—......... —..313 36. Murua, Luis, Chilean Archers-------- --- ------- 195

513 502 525 420 514 525 412 447 432 406 355 281 156

581 531 477 457 497 472 516 492 451 419 437 233 126

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EVENTUALLY YOU'LL OWN ONE — WHY NOT NOW? These Remarkable Glass Faced ami Backed Bows KODIAK, $49.50 — GRIZZLY, $39.50 POLAR, $29.50 — CUB, $22.50

Immediate Delivery Practice Arrows, matched to above bows, $7.50 per doz.

Will ship c.o.d., or we pay postage if money accompanies order.

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All types of arrows - nocks - points - raw materials - bowstrings - and dozens of other items We invite inquiries from other manufacturers for us to handle their material.

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Self shafts ............ 9/32—5/16—11/32.............. 51.50 doz.

Maple footed 9/32—5/16—11/32............. 2.70 doz.

Shafts cut to length and tenoned for nock and point 60c per doz. State weight of bow and length of draw.

Index Nocks 9/32—5/16—11/32.......... .45 doz.

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Steel Parallel Points 9/32—5/16—11/32.......... .45 doz.

Grey Barred Base Ground Feathers.................. .50 doz.

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IS YOUR BOW AN ANCIENT? Are you shooting a slow, out-dated weapon; some­ thing you found in the attic among your grandfather’s things?

Well, possibly, but more likely your bow is one of the sleek, fast, short models that will outshoot anything Grandpa ever saw, short of his old .4 5-90.

But how about your arrows? Are they of modern streamlined design; slim, strong and fast?

BOWS HAVE CHANGED A LOT IN RECENT YEARS, and they are tough on old-fashioned arrows.

Get the full efficiency and accuracy from that modern ow use a MODERN ARROW, made from Compressed Cedar shafts. Yes, FORGEWOODS and BATTLESHAFTS are THE modern development in arrow design.

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WILLIAM E. SWEETLAND 2441 Hi 1 yard St.. Eugene, Oregon

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Flashing Speed and Precision Accuracy NEW “HORNET” AND “WASP” BOWS!

CAN’T AFFORD IT?

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Sensationally new Black Palm Bows enter the hunting fields and target ranges. All new numbers.

This '52 ovation is Dual Reflexed and Deflexed for faster, smoother and more accurate shooting.

CASH - - LAYAWAY - ■ CHARGE Don’t WAIT! Find out NOW how you CAN afford the items you have been wishing for.

AVAILABLE AT ONCE

Semi Finished Finished Short “Hornet” 40# to 65# at 26%" $48.50 $40.00 Long “Hornet” 40# to 65# at 29" 48.50 40.00 Target “Hornet” 48.50 35# to 50# at 29" 40.00 “Longfellow” 55.00 40# to 65# at 30" 45.00 “Wasp” 35# to 50# at 26" 35.00 45.00 “Peewee” Flight 35# to 75# at 23" 35.00 All bows may be custc... om made to your specifications for weight eigh and draw.

We also carry a complete line of KODIAK, GRIZZLY, POLAR, RANGER & PAR-X BOWS Store Hours: Monday 9 to 9; Tuesday thru Saturday 9 to G:30

A penny post card will bring you the answers and catalog.

Write NOW!

2800 PRESCOTT STREET SAGINAW. MICHIGAN

ARCHERY SALES & SERVICE 617 So. State St.

Chicago 5, HI.

ROVING ARROWS Port Orford Cedar with hardwood footing, 5/16" or 11/32", parallel shaft, matched in weight and spine, 4-1/2" feathers, beautiful cresting. Specify colors, and give weight of bow and overall length of arrow.

With Steel Target Points............ ..$7.75 With Bear Field Points 8.25 Postage Prepaid

Port Orford Shafts Air Seasoned Yew Billets Cedar by Cord or Carload W. A. COCHRAN

POTTER & MACQUARRIE

355 Oak way Drive, Eugene Ore.

3400 Fruitvale Avenue

Oakland 2, California

Roughed Out

Finished

PARAGON

$55.00

Full Becurve

$17.45

$55.00

Seuii-Becurve

$17.45

DEERFIELD (straight bow)

$27.50 $33.50

Standard

Deluxe

$12.95 $14.95

COE ARCHERY COMPANY

Otter Lake, Mich.

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Our 30th Anniversary “J” Series

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Price supplement sheet, with 50 new items, to be used with a 1946, 1948 or 1950 series folder. If you DON’T have an old folder around ask for an “AJ” list. A new catalog in Dec.

MFG. COMPANY

Skeet Shooter, $20 - Archery Hats, $3.98 New 5-in-line World Famous Ivanhoe Bows.

A combination you can't beat.

Beginner - Wood - $12.50; Student-Flex (3 piece metal) $25; Deflex $35; Super-Flex $37.50; Master-Flex $44.50 Hunting Arrows, $15.00 and $13.00 “1120” Arrows, $13.00 Grade “A" Arrows, $10.00 Practice Arrows, $7.00 Fortisan Thread (White) $3.50 spool

WHEN IN A RUSH, SEND YOUB ORDER TO US We stock Conolon, Ultrabac, all Tox products, Cascophen and Urac glues, Fortisan backing, lamination strips of all kinds, field and target faces, 3/8" hunting shafts, etc.. Bear leather goods, bows, etc.; in fact most any­ thing in supplies you might need.

INDIANHEAD ARCHERY MFG. CO. Box 303-A, LIMA, OHIO You will like our prompt service and you can “charge It”

FULL LINE OF ACCESSORIES Dealer inquiries invited — Send for new catalog, just out Safety tape for bows — 5 ft. for $.35

When answering an advertisement please teU our advertisers that you saw it in ARCHERY

IVANHOE MANUFACTURING COMPANY Route 3, Juniper Hills, Ludington, Michigan — GET YOUR NEW CATALOG —

Get Your Deer This Year

With A Bow and Arrow OPEN SEASON — OCT. 1 TO 15

the most beautiful season of the year Clean, comfortable, modern housekeeping cabins

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Our New 1952 Model MAGIC FLETCHMASTER Fletches any type or size arrow

$9.50

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See your dealer or order direct No catalogue available at present Custom Built Archery Equipment HENRY A. BITZENBURGER 800 E. 4th St., Los Angeles 13, Calif.

at $14.00 per week per person.

CAMP ANTLERS in the beautiful Rangeley Region

ED and DICK PARKER

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Oquossoc, Maine

MORE FUN SHOOT!NO AT ANIMAL FACES

Archers' Headquarters Authorized Distributor of

Grizzly, Polar and Kodiak composite bows

Ivanhoe Metal long bow — custom made

King Sport-Line leather goods Bear Archery Co. general archery tackle 24SRT-X Metal Arrows (Choice of Champions) PLUS

our own complete line of fine custom made wood arrows, long choice of the Field and Hunting Archer the world over.

Catalog on Request

If Field Archery is to be used as training for hunting, then animal target faces ought to be used. Only “kill” shots should count as other­ wise you don't eat. Here are four sheets (24 square feet of paper) containing 17 faces. Cut them apart and glue them to old posters. Very light lines mark the kill areas. Send one dollar for the 17 faces which we’ll send you post paid

DECALCOMAN IAS POSITIVE ARROW MARKERS

100 YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS $3.50

HUGH RICH

WALT WHITTUM - i9i CHESTNUT STREET

1731 South Brand Blvd., Glendale, Calif.

SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS J

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N.F.A.A. FIELD ARCHERY FACES Available at Once ANY SIZE — ANY TYPE — ANY QUANTITY Contact your local dealer today.

One of the World’s Greatest Bows

For free catalog and prices write to:

No other bow — bamboo or composite has ALL these features!

UNIVERSAL DISPLAYS Dept. A — 1546 West Cortez, Chicago 22, Illinois

LIKE TO MAKE YOUR OWN ARROWS? Some of you do not crest your arrows because of the time and trouble to hand-paint a beautiful crest on your proud work. WE HAVE SOLVED THIS PROBLEM FOR YOU! Your arrows will have that professional look when you use our beautiful DURABLE DECALS. After many tests, our manufacturer has produced for us a decal that will outlast your arrows. In a matter of minutes you will be able to crest a dozen arrows that you will be proud to show off.

The Typhoon, a true imported Oriental bow, hand­ crafted painstakingly from the finest heat treated bam­ boo. A working recurve with BOTH back and face made from one piece peel bamboo laminations. A laminated core built from edge strips. A weapon fast and un­ believably smooth, light in the hand and beautiful in appearance.

THE TYPHOON IS CREATING A SENSATION FROM COAST TO COAST Standard weights 2 0 to 65 lbs.

ONE YEAR GUARANTEE If a Typhoon fails within two months, from any cause other than niisabuse, it will be replaced free of charge. It will be replaced on a 10% per month charge for the following 10 months.

TEST ONE AND SEE! Send 5 cents in stamps for a sample decal crest

SEE YOUR TYPHOON DEALER or write us

Empire Archery Center Brooklyn 23, N. Y.

361 Ave. T

NEW! by the makers of FORGE­ WOODS and BATTLE­ SHAFTS - Brilliant 314" crests of DAY­ GLO Colors. Quick to apply on any shaft. Twelve dif­ ferent crests in .

W. E. Sweetland four colors: Fire*"—"J Orange, Signal 2441 Hilyard St., Eugene, Oregon Green, Neon Red & Saturn Yellow.

Dealers Invited.

90c doz. or $7.00 per 100.

$36.50 PaAadiAe

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■’TIGER" HUNTING MODEL SWEDISH CHARCOAL STEEL

RECURVED AND DEFLEXED EASY TAKE-DOWN WEIGHTS FROM 45 TO 64 LBS. DRAW LENGTHS TO 28 INCHES

200,000 MINIMUM SHOTS

at your dealer or write: ALBERT VAN DER KOGEL 78 Woodedge Road Plandome, L I., N. Y.

820-22 Marquette Ave.

Minneapolis, Minn.

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FASTER SERVICE! Send your orders for our new improved "Indian Cord Grass" target matts and tough paper faces—directly to our

NEW OFFICE AND FACTORY:

SAUNDERS ARCHERY TARGET CO. 1454 North 26th Avenue! Columbus, Nebraska

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The shooting machine was developed and built by Tracy L. Stalker of '-lint, Michigan; it can be adjusted to any draw length, and the release mechanism eliminates the human element and gives very uniform results.

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The method of measuring arrow velocity and the mathematical computavions were worked out by the late '• B. Wescott. The target is suspended by a fine thread which is cut by the arrov/ at the instant it leaves the bow. The falling of the target, caused by gravity, is stop­ ped when the arrow pins it to the back­ stop. The distance that the target falls is a measure of the arrow velocity, and enables us to learn quickly many im­ portant characteristics not only of bows, but of arrows and strings as well.

BEAR ARCHERY COMPANY GRAYLING, MICHIGAN