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“BELL BENT” FOB TIMBER

By JACK DOSCII 4005 40th Ave. South, Minneapolis 6, Minn.

For the past six years, or since 1947, four of us. two brothers, Francis and Bud Laska. and my brother, Elmer and I. had teamed up for bow and arrow deer hunting. Bud and Francis are guides for fishing, grouse hunting and rifle deei' hunting and Francis makes his living that way. But this bow hunt­ ing was all for fun and we usually got in from 8 to 10 days in a season and we always got one deer among us. This year was an exception.

The shooting of my deer started on a two-day trip two weeks before. The stand was a neck covered with ever­ green between two swamps. There were three trails, one along each edge of the swamp and one down the center. The four of us used the driving method, with two standing and two driving; al­ ternating each drive.

It was my turn to stand with Francis.

We looked the three trails over and he picked one at the edge of the swamp and I took the one in the center. This neck was only about 100 yards wide so we had it pretty well covered. Francis was about 100 feet ahead of me and 75 feet to one side, hidden in the ever­ greens, so I could not see him from where I was. but I knew exactly where he was and visa versa. I had picked my stand in back of a big balsam tree with limbs going right to the ground and they measured about eight feet in diameter.

By peeking through the branches, I would be able to see a deer coming from about 150 feet. The trail passed within 15 feet from where I was stand­ ing. There was a small balsam about 30 inches in diameter next to the trail and I had about six feet shooting space between the two trees. After that there was about a thirty-foot open space.

I was on the stand about 20 minutes when I heard some deer coming. If it is quiet you can hear a deer running for some distance. I looked through the trees and there was a doe and a fawn coming on my trail. I quickly drew back the arrow, but in doing so the nock fell from the string. After hunt­ ing a few days a person is liable to become careless and I had not checked the nock on this arrow when getting on the stand.

In fumbling for the arrow to get it back, the deer must have seen me and stopped about 30 feet in front of the tree. Before I could walk around the edge of the tree for a shot the deer had turned and run back at about a forty-five degree angle from the trail right for Francis. In the meantime the fawn had stopped about 100 feet from the tree. Francis had his bow up and was taking aim when the doe very nearly ran over him. It startled him so to have a deer coming from the wrong

direction that he released the arrow at the doe and missed.

He sure was in for a lot of ribbing.

While in the Army, he hunted in the South where they have a practice of cutting off shirt-tails for a miss and he had a hard time keeping us from doing the same to him. It was lucky I was there to see the whole performance or I am afraid we never would have known how close this deer actually was to him.

They asked why I didn’t shoot and I told them the deer stopped before he got to me and turned and ran back.

When they read this it will be the first time they will know the actual facts.

As an old deer hunter I was too embarassed to tell them that it was be­ cause of carelessness that I didn’t get a shot.

The next weekend Elmer and Bud took this stand, but the deer ran around us and we didn’t bring any out.

The following week—two weeks afteithe first episode—they decided to let me stand alone and three drive, so as to be sure to bring one out. I was definitely going to be prepared for a deer this time, so I made all prepara­ tions. There was a cradle knoll at my stand, so I took off my red jacket and sat on it. I took off my glasses and turned the visor of my cap backwards.

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I sat facing the six-foot opening with my knees apart with the bow between them. I was there only a short time when I heard a deer coming and she was ’’hell bent for timber.” I drew back the arrow but that deer went so fast I didn’t have time to release in that six-foot space. I swung the bow to my left past the small tree and released.

I saw the arrow hit what I thought was the center of the ham. It surprised the deer so that she jumped against a small Norway pine and the arrow (an aluminum one) came out. I thought it had dropped out and here is the reason why: When I swung the bow to my left I forgot to swing my knee with it and the string hit the side of my knee a terrific blow which caused a blue and yellow mark two and a half inches in diameter. I thought the full power of of the draw had been spent by hitting my knee and the arrow hat: only peneIt so bad trated an inch or so. IT thinking I had muffed nr. chance I what had didn’t even get up to i- running happened. I heard the away so x iiiuag,i!i that mu. v. .. that. away I thought The fellows came aloe .nd I told them what had happened. . incis walk­ arrow and ed over and picked up th cording to said: "Why this arrow. ® Continued on page twenty-

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By RICHARD F. NICKELS “THE LONESOME POLEBENDER”

6301 Banbury Road, Baltimore 12, Maryland and I noticed an occasional scattering This here story concerns a bunch of of what looked like busted plow shares, ;sophomore bow hunters, since it took spread about, neatly rounded water Splace during the second year we’ve en- holes. Sure must be lousy dirt to fight jjoyed a special bow and arrow season back at a farmer like that, I thought, tfor deer in our state. It it weren’t for some guys never give up trying. b’having to say that any similarity to butWe found the gully without much aactual persons, places or events is coin­ trouble, slipped into the woods and ccidental. there would be no more “order broke up into groups, spreading out oof the bone" awards, because the guys in a wide fan-like advance. Each group iiinvolved would be in possession of the had at least one hunter who knew likely whole danged skeleton—head-bone to spots, from the preceding season, and ttail-bone. and all osteography connected headed for them with no delay. I was tlthereto and between. It’s gotta be said with Kenny Boggs, Al Brown. Ken and tithough for a number of reasons; so—I Fred Didier, on our way to a deer run haave spoken. that Fred had dubbed "Main Street.”

It all started on a November morning, and from the one day we were there ait a Route 40 diner near Willoughby the year before, no one could possibly RRoad. D-day, for deer season, plus one disagree with the name choice. too be exact. From all reports passed The light breeze coming from the aaround since the previous year, this marsh, through which the deer would aurea was supposed to be like the legend- move, was with us. and our group took airy elephant graveyard in reverse. To cover in natural blinds made by wind­ heiear some people talk, you’d think that falls and uprooted trees. It felt kind of airound here was where all little white crowded, though, with five of us there, tsails come from. We had agreed to meet and I began to get the fidgets. It’s funny att this crossroads cafe to form an or- how, before field archery caught on in gaanized hunt, to prove the credulity— this state. I used to feel like the only ^whatever that means—of the tales con- archer east of the Mississippi. I guess ceerning this natural assembly line for I picked up some unusual woodcraft, ieeer. and were waiting for the clock all on my own; like being able to trip too hit the zero hour. over roots and snap the only twigs on When the time got close, the boys the ground with my two left feet. You maade up a convoy that started for a don’t get many Christmas cards that spool they had picked for a central base way, and anyhow, something seemed to of’ operation. We had to move bumper keep telling me to get back to the gully, tot bumper along the road because of so I sneaked off making as little noise thae thickest fog ever to hit these parts. possible.

It was lead-heavy and could give any as By' the way. I forgot to mention that, Laondon blanket a run for the money. on the w'ay' in, a pile of leaves had bid By six forty-five, with fifteen minutes me a polite good morning. It was rather to go. we had managed to creep along surprising, until the heap turned out to thee hard surface road to Otter Point, be Tom Durkin, wearing a multicolored theen turned along the railroad. With union suit, sitting behind a log. I fig­ thee track bed for a guide, we could ured to cut back in that direction and onlly drive blind, with one eye glued to take a stand near the woods end of thee speedometer. A block signal stands cut. is an old log road that runs abcout a mile and seven-tenths south of theThere thee Otter Point station, and when the from one end of the second growth to old! bucket of bolts had ticked off that the other, and I thought it was strange >]is'»tance we pulled up and there it was. to run into two files of Boy Scouts, -naiking an honest effort to shine tramping along on either side of the thrrough the mists for Casey Jones’ path. I remember thinking that those nepphew, when he came pounding down kids should be in school, since this was :hee rails from Philadelphia.

FHere we left our cars, checked tackle Tuesday.

Pretty' soon I spotted Tom talking iiidd strung our bows. Then crossing the with tw'o men. One looked like he might raucks we climbed over an embankment be a Scoutmaster, the other was carry­ ,ndi reached the edge of a wide meadow ing a short, black bow, crooked under jiait lay between us and a point of his arm and seemed to be doing all the *-ocods where the deer should be moving. talking. “Oh-ho," says I. “must be one YYouTl have to bear with me as you of those Turkish bow’s. This I gotta see.” ^a*icf this, buddy, because while the tense So up I goes, noticing that the fellow jioi'Uld be past, the action seems to be with the bow starts toward me at the -i tithe present, and it’s tough to realize same time. He looks kind of young to t»alt it isn’t happening again. me. early' twenties maybe, and all of a 'Che fog was still blotting out objects sudden I see that the bow he’s carrying fesw feet in front of us, and suddenly— is a double barreled shot-gun! >!■* ACKO, right in the mush. I’m slap“Hey, junior!” I commanded, with the hy a fence post. There is a plank voice of authority, “what’s the idea of -filled top-side, but no barbed wire. the gun? Don’t you know better than to _,arnk goodness; and just beyond we carry a shooting-arm during the special _,ufffle up to a wagon road that some- bow’’ season? Man. you can get into remembered from last year. This plenty of trouble, yes sir!"

-^juuld take us to the woods-point, where He turns kinda purple-red when I tell gijully made a little avenue into the him off. and his Scoutmaster buddy jcl’kets. takes a couple of steps toward us say­ y«ou had to walk slow-step, with eyes ing, "Hold it. Sarge! Take it easy boy!”

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November, 1953

This sounds odd to me. "Sarge.” eh?

Probably an ex-GI who don’t know the hunting regulations. OK., then I will pacify him. "Look,” I tell the youngster, "you haven’t fired that thing yet, so break it down and everything will be just fine.” This guy must have high blood pressure, or else is awful nervous, because his neck muscles begin to twich. kind of like he was trying to control his temper. With a quick continuous mo­ tion. he grabs inside his tunic and shoves an identification card in my face.

"Lookatdat!” he grunts through his teeth. Must be some citation, thinks I. so I will humor him. His picture is on tire cai-d, pretty good likeness, too. some finger prints, and something about him being a sergeant in the military police— "Wassamatter. Locksley,” growls the Sarge, "your eyeballs are sticking way off base?” This is later confirmed by Tom Durkin, who swears they were popped enough to take a four-inch fletch.

Gradually I begin to pull my wits to­ gether. "Oh.” sez I, "so your name is Racine, eh? Do you maybe have a brother in the Air Force? You sure look a lot like a guy - The sergeant is enjoying himself now. "No I ain’t got a brother in the Air Corps, and you un­ string that bow and take those feathers off your back. chum, because from here on you are ‘grounded’; unless you got a permit from the Provost Marshall.”

This sounds kinda screwy to me. since I was always just a little too old for each draft, and I sure wasn’t in no army now.

“What do you mean, permit? I’m a civilian hunter with a Maryland license and this is part of Maryland, ain’t it?"

Racine is very patient. "Yeah,” sez he." "that’s right—but this particular hunk of terra firma is ani cextension ____ L.. of the Chemical Warfare Arsenal _____ ' just‘ south of here. What I want to know is how come you're here in the first place?

So I” tell him. Up the railroad tracks, over the embankment in the fog and across the open field that bordered the woods. Even mentioned bumping into the fence post with the plank nailed to it.

"Just like last year. Sarge.” I says.

"Seems as though there are more bust­ ed plow shares in there now. and some additional waterholes that somebody dug for the white tails.”

The Sergeant’s pal is with us by this time and Racine introduces him as the Post Game Warden. He said he wanted my license, just in case I got lost on the way out. He was a nice enough fel­ low, telling me that everybody they picked up would have to check in at the Provost’s office to get their licenses back. Then, turning to Racine, he said, “I believe these fellows are on the level, but you'd better tell them what the score son.Sergeant ” So, is,the began. “Look, I will brief you on the errors of your way, my friend." He was using the when mv grandpaw caught me with my hand in’the sauerkraut barrel. "First."

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my hand in the sourkraut barrel. "First,” I he" continued, “the railroad’s right of way is private property, and if your jalopy ain’t towed away by Pennsy’s police I’ll be surprised. Next, the plank on top of that post you bumped into has some interesting information on it.

It says ‘KEEP OUT. MILITARY RES­ ERVATION.’ and it is just one of a two-mile row of signs placed fifty yards apart.”

My breathing is easier by the minute, because my mouth is hanging open more and more as I listen to these facts.

"Furthermore,” I hear over the buz­ zing in my ample ears,” that cow pas­ ture you crossed is the Arsenal School Field, used for maneuvers. Those water holes were dug by the air arm with 50-pound bombs, the fragments of which could be identified by a dumb civilian as being ‘busted plow shares.’ Inciden­ tally, there are probably some duds laying out there, and you can guess what would happen if some goon tried to take one apart with a pair of pliers like YOU are carrying.” That reminded me, graphically, of the old wheeze about the prospector who dropped a case of dynamite. "That’s me, all over,” he truly remarked, as he was distributed about the landscape.

Racine was still talking. “Then there’s a contaminated area about 600 yards to the left of where you are standing, but maybe you’d look good with your nose lit up after sniffing some of the radio active atmosphere.” This strikes home, and scares me a little, since I had had a small growth on my schnoz removed with radium, and I thought there might possibly be some reaction.

"Oh yes,” says the gentleman with three stripes on his sleeve,” those Boy Scouts you mentioned have been laying - - then, after father left, we ALL had to pitch in.” in fox-holes over by the river for the last two hours, waiting for a simulated barrage to be thrown at them from the Aberdeen Proving Grounds up the line.

Our Colonel radioed to APG asking why Arsenal HQ where we could call for work there, had a civilian • . ss-tag on the delay, and the APG command coun­ them; then we’d head for Parkton over his windshield, which was ar matically tered by asking what the hell all the by the Prettyboy Dam, and round out honored at the post entrance They had hunters were doing in the Arsenal. You the afternoon. The idea was OK., but in slowed down and were abo'.-l to state guys are holding up a test operation about half an hour it was knocked into their business, but the guard chewed them out for blocking other traffic. As­ and that’s why the Post Warden and a cocked hat by what followed.

I are rounding you fellows up. So, We were marking time beside the suming that they were expected, trustful adios, amigo, and no hard feelings. Just parked cars when Joe Thompson pulled Joe heads on through the grounds, follow this road, and for your own good, up with his sedan full of de-licensed straight for Building 803, parks outside, hit it, pronto.” bowmen. "Stick around, you guys,” he leads the boys up to a door marked In all sincerity I thanked the now yelled through the window, “we’re off "Major C. S. Flooper, Provost Marshall," gracious non-com, tipped my cap to the to see the wizard who dreamed up this and blythly walks into a hornet’s nest, Post Warden and headed down the path deal and collect our confiscated doc-you- The illustrious major was at his desk to see — 3 a half with Tom. On the way out, Durk told ments." Ol’ Joe gets steamed up every and swivelled around to field stained bow me he had been stalking a nice buck. now and then, when he feels that every­ dozen bedraggled and..........

1--------------------■*--------- 33 — middle of his He had been doing right well, with his thing is not strictly according to Hoyle, hunters standing in the camouflaged overalls and everything, and his strength of conviction is to be office. “How the ‘ h-------- did you get in when the Warden spotted him after the envied. "Now wait right here," he con­ here!?” he shot at them, which was the question that was beginning to seei■m Sergeant had walked past within ten tinued, “and we will be right back. feet or so. the standard phase used to open conver­ Maybe we can pick up your tickets, too, We were somewhat disgruntled, but and save you a trip.” Still hanging out sations around these parts. “You men were soon joined by half a dozen other the car window, off he bounced along have caused me enough trouble without hunters coming out of the brush with the ballast that had tumbled from the adding insult to injury!”

When the fellows explained, with un­ bows unbraced and without their li­ track bed, kicking up enough dust to censes. Comparing notes, we found that screen an invasion force. This thought thinking simplicity, how they believed the son of the Sheriff of Nottingham was significantly recalled a little later they were expected and came busting had given us all a break. Keep your when Joe and his passengers came tear­ through the gateway, the major really tackle, get out of the reservation and ing back to our bivouac. He slammed took off. There are some of that bunch check in at the Provo’s office. The li­ on his brakes and swung his cai’ side­ who still insist that the air in that of­ fice turned a vivid blue when the Provo’ censes were the equivalent to scalps, ways to block what roadway there was, and rightly so, proving that the M.P.’s to keep any other autos from passing dished out a come-uppance. The whole were accomplishing a mission. toward the Arsenal until he told his interview lasted just a few minutes, but When we reached the railroad cut, we story. “Oh boy,” he puffed,” was that the dialog—entirely one sided—would were glad to see all of our autos still Major sore! Don’t anyone go near that take two hours to write. It ended with declining to return the licenses, a threat parked along the tracks. Each one, how­ Provost’s hangout—not today anyhow!” ever, was tagged with a neat red warn­ Well, after the story is pieced to­ of chastisement in more ways than one. ing to move or be moved, signed by the gether, it seems that with all the civil­ and a far from fond farewell. It was superintendent of the Pennsy’s police. ian employees working at the Chemical suggested that bow hunters in the area, This was not like the last time we Center, special car stickers are issued particularly a chosen few. should p> were at Otter Point, but it was still for their vehicles to expedite traffic some other place—where the tempera­ early in the day. First we’d eat lunch, through the gates and into the unre­ ture was much, much warmer than the • Continued on page thirty-five. allowing time for our licenses to reach stricted areas. Joe, having done contract

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Tournament, held in St. Louis, September Competitors in the 1953 Missouri Bow Hunters of bringing home a rack from the fall Sth, 6th and 7th, speculate on the probability their tournament skill, Left to right: hunting grounds, if their hunting prowess equals Hunters), and of the St. Louis Bow Kneeling—Chic Jones (Granite City, III., member and Alan MacKeen.

Bill Glackin Owen Jeffery the 1953 Missouri State Champion. Standing:

St. Louis Bow Hunters’ Fall Championships

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and junior with the highest totals of the four best scores shot in the monthly­ handicap trophy shoots since January 1.

J53, when the handicap system of 1953, (onthly shoots was adopted as a club m< policy. Monthly handicap shoots consist of field and broadhead rounds of 14

percent of total entries, bracket system.

However, anyone compiling a score high enough to win one of the three places in a higher classification, is compelled to take that trophy instead of the trophy for high in his or her own classification.

Winners in the Expert Division were as Men follows: (instinctive)—Owen Jeffery, 1st; Alan MacKeen, 2nd; Chic Jones, 3rd.

Men (free style)—John Argust, Bill Bobbit and Don Fink in that order.

Women—Lorrayne Glackin, 1st; Do­ lores Bristol, 2nd; Pat Ferguson, 3rd.

Cupid chalked up the highest score of the day when it was learned that a long-time archery courtship would re­ sult in the November 4th marriage of two of the St. Louis Bow Hunters' most popular members—Don Stayton and Pat Ferguson. Don was President of the club in 1952.

Wausau, Wisconsin, Gets New Field Club Organized at Wausau, Wis., is a new field archery group, the Rib Mountain Bowmen, named for a famed Wiscon­ sin landmark. Membership topped 40 after the second organizational meeting.

Objectives of the live-wire club are: Development of many new archers through a program of demonstrations and shooting opportunities; an indoor winter range, and an outdoor field range, on club-owned land, if possible.

The first project, a club hunt, w’as held in the Boulder Junction area of Vilas County on Sunday. October 25.

Officers are: Frank Plano, president; Elroy Stiber, vice-president; Mrs. Grace Gisselman, wife of the Wisconsin Bow Hunter president, secretary, and Leon­ ard Filiatreaux, treasurer. All are vet­ eran On archers. the board are the officers and Mel Steffen, Ervin Jagodzinski, Keith Huehnerfuss, Norman Woller and James

targets each. ’ • ) Tourna----- in the Championship _ The 1953 Fall Championship Tour­ Awards t were based on actual scores. For nament of the St. Louis Bow Hunters ment were 1 — first time, adult field archers were was held on the club range in the the ‘ ” • 7 fi.icd fixed classifies; to compete in Miller.

August A. Busch Memorial Wild Life required tions instead of on »hn thc former 25-50-25 25 -Area, at Weldon Springs, Missouri, on Sunday, September 20. The program in­ cluded 28 targets of the standard field round and 28 of the broadhead round with official animal faces on the bales. i Nature provided the bow hunters a splendid surprise by producing a perfect day—something different in tournament weather. Sixty-two archers participated.

The tournament resulted in the crowning of three new' champions— Owen Jefferies in the men’s division; Lorrayne Glackin in the women’s di­ vision, and Wayman Gault in the jun­ ior division. Each of the three was given possession of a perpetual trophy in the form of a plaque with winners’ name f A ’I plates attached. In addition, the man and woman champions received gold * ! cups and the junior champion, the figure of an archer mounted on a pedestal.

First place in the Bowman and Archer classifications was rewarded with a mounted figure of an archer and second and third places received medals. In the Junior, Open and Free Style Divis­ ions, only one trophy was awarded—a mounted archer. The Free Style Divis­ ion was an innovation for the St. Louis Bow Hunters, all club activities in the past having been confined to instinctive shooting.

Trophy Winners. Left xo first row, Lett In the evening, a fabulous chicken --------- r Owen Jeffery, men ;53 Championship men’’ss champion; champion; Wayman St. Louis Bow Hunters 1953 dinner of the all-you-can-eat variety, ’, kneeling—Chick Jones (Granite City, III.), 3rd (Granite C.-, ’s kneeling—Lorrayne Glackin, women . plus all the trimmings, was served under Bristol, 2nd place; Pat pat Ferguson, Ferguson, 3rd place, Second row, Gault, junior champion, the direction of Bessie Moore, the club’s class; Paul Carron (Bloomsdale, Mo.), men’s Dolores place; Alan Mackeen, 2nd place; food chairman, in the main lodge of the class; Connie McCune, 1st place, Archer Archer Standing — Ken Hood, 1st place, area. After dinner, the tournament tro­ 1st place, Bowman division; Fran Stayton, 1st place Bowman. open division; Jay Reeg, phies were awarded. In addition to the women’s open class; Elaine Lewis, 1st place, tournament trophies, golden arrow Page Seven awards were made to the man, woman

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JIM KINNEE, President 9G2 N. 39th Street, Milwaukee S, Wisconsin ARNOLD O. HAUGEN. Vice-President 96-1 Lakeview Drive, Auburn, Alabama JOHN L. YOUNT, Secretary-Treasurer Post Office Box 3SS - Redlands, Calif.

KARL E. PALM ATI ER, Tournament Chairman 1317 Hillcrest Ave., Kalamazoo 39, Michigan DIVISION REPRESENTATIVES:

Expert B. and only 29 poin.ts between 1st and 6th man.

It is customary for a man and wife to take part in tournaments, but it is not often that both are champions.

Up in Walla Walla, Washington, Jac and Betty Thompson have won that distinction. They are members of the Blue Mountain Bow Benders at Walla Walla, an up and coming organization even though it is only eight months old. Their method of selecting a cham­ pion is both interesting and practical. It is based on four scores shot over a period of four weeks, a lot more ac­ curate way to find the top shot than the customary one day’s tournament where a lucky score can win.

Donald Royer of Pasadena and Bill Dean of Los Angeles recently shot one of the biggest bears ever reported to this office. Especially interesting was the fact that it was shot within twenty airline miles of this office, near Big Bear Lake. Of course you never saw an airline mountain road, but anyway it was within an hour’s drive. The bear was estimated at about 600 pounds and was six feet eight inches from head to tail.

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ALBERT F. VAN DER KOGEL 78 Woodedge Road. Plandome. New York Southern FRANKLIN C. SEFORD, JR. 2nd Floor Hall Bldg. Annex Little Rock, Arkansas Mid-Western NORT SCHENSTED Glenwood, Minnesota Northwestern GLENN ST. CHARLES 19807 1st Avenue South, Seattle 88, Washington Southwestern ROY HOFF Post Office Box H Palm Springs, Calif.

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We have a new Mail Tournament Instinctive Record, the first for quite awhile. Dale Keller of Flint. Michigan, an Intermediate boy, shot a 736, beat­ ing the former record of 713 by 23 points.

The Gunpowder Bowmen of Parkton.

Maryland held an open tournament on August 16th attended by 78. All shoot­ ing was instinctive and the competition in all classes was close. The open was won by George Rogers with 327, follow­ ed by Anthony Baumer with 305. The Expert B winner was Art Johnson, with Charley Wing top man in Bowman, Joe Horner in Archer class, and K. D. Tracey in Novice. The winners in all classes shot scores that will soon put them one class higher.

The winning woman was Emma Cole­ man. Ruth Nace topped the Archer class and Freda Borne the Novice. In the Juniors there was a tie for top score.

Both Herbie Hoke and Terry Best shot a score of 114.

You will find the 1952 NFAA election results listed in this column. Maybe you backed the winner, and maybe you didn’t. Some contests were mighty close, but the man elected is your Board of Field Governors representative for the coming year, so get acquainted with him. He needs your help and advice.

RESULTS OF 1953 NFAA ELECTION Executive Committee Member to rep­ resent Midwestern Section—Tracy L. Stalker, G-4221 Springfield Street, Flint 4, Michigan.

Board of Field Governors Alabama—Charles B. McKee, 1522

The National Field Archery Association iN.F.A.A.) is your organization. It belongs to all the field archers and bowman hunters of America. As a member you belong to an organization fostering the oldest sport in the world. For S3.00 you secure a year’s membership in the N.F.A.A. and a year’s subscription to Archery Magazine. Additional family memberships are $1.00 each.

By JOHN L. YOUNT

If every club would only get back of Match Play and Handicap Tournaments •we could double the number of field archers in a very few months. These are the only things that can make the sport just as fine for the dub as for the expert. Just take a look at the Instinc­ tive Mail Tournament handicap match.

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The following is from a new Hawaiian club and speaks for itself. If some of you fellows would like a little inter­ esting correspondence, here is your chance— “We would be very much interested in corresponding with other clubs in localities where hunting is being done.

We would appreciate any information regarding equipment, effectiveness and maintenance of such equipment, and ex­ periences of any of the NFAA mem­ bers.” Signed, William R. Totherow, M.D,. Hawaiian Pineapple Co., Lanai City, Hawaii. The club is called the Lanai Stick and String Club.

Madison Ave.. Montgomery. Ala. Arizona Carl Eiffert, 112 W. Glen­ dale Ave.. Glendale, Ariz.

Arkansas—O. K. Jones, 710 N. Tyler St.. Little Rock, Ark. California—Nate D. Morrison, Route 1. Box 116, Bakersfield, Calif.

Colorado—Ed Nolan, 611 Columbia Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo.

Connecticut—Dr. James Whitlock, 15 Baldwin Ave., New Carman, Conn.

Florida—Wallace J. Braman, Box 211, Jensen Beach. Fla. Georgia—Richard D. Ardell, Box 178, Sandy Springs, Ga. Idaho—Mel Daly, 2303 W. 22nd St., Boise. Idaho.

Illinois—Henry Collignon, 722 N. Pine, Arlington Heights, Ill. Indiana -Maurice Le Favour, 1209-1/2 Swieney Ave., Ft. Wayne, Ind. Iowa—Paul H. Will, Box 127, Wa­ verly, Iowa.

Kansas—Chief Clyde Elmore, 2920 Jackson St.. Wichita, Kan. Kentucky—Dick Hutt. 266 N. Upper St., Lexington, Ky. Maine—Quentin Sprague. 21 Gardner Ave., Machias, Me. Maryland—Joseph D. Thompson, Jr..

Garrison Forest Rd.. Owings Mills, Md. Massachusetts—Eugene Small, 11 Fairview Ave., Watertown. Mass.

Michigan—Wm. H. Morrissey, 1372 N. Ballinger Rd., Flint 4. Mich.

Minnesota—L. Eichman, Grand Rap­ ids,- -.Minn. . . _ . .

- ,. . none Mississippi—Richard B. Brown, 2228 Kelly Ave., Gulfport, Miss.

Missouri—Jay F. Reeg, 6 7 7 Eichel­ berger Ave., St. Louis 9, Mo. Montana—A. R. Peterson. Box 777, Helena. Mont.

New Hampshire—Stan Mid .'. Route 2, Box 59, Newport, N. H. New Jersey—Harry De 1. ikelaere.

41-A Linwood Ave., East Pate son, N. J. New Mexico—Edward J. IvGiela, 724 Silver Ave. S. W„ Albuquerque N. M. New York—Stuart Wilson. Jr., Koo Koose Farm, Deposit, N. Y. Nevada—Ray J. Sisk, Box 1373, Las Vegas, Nev. North Carolina—John E. l.r.'tg. Route 1, Box 598-A, Salisbury. N. C. Ohio—William Brown, 3697 Indepen­ dence Rd., Cleveland, Ohio.

Oklahoma—Ned White, P. O. Box 55, Muskogee, Okla.

Oremn— —J. I R. R Williamson. Route 1.

Oregon Box 292, Centra] Point, Ore. Pennsylvania—Eugene Williams, Sky Haven, Clearfield County, Penfield, Pa. South Carolina—Ed. L. Wallace, Box 342, Rock Hill, S. C. South Dakota—Virgil Sorenson, Rapid City, S. D. Tennessee—Ben Brown, 441 14th St„ Cleveland, Tenn.

Texas—Dr. A. J. Love, Maihis, Texas.

Utah—Richard E. Kerr, 845 W. 450 N.. Orem, Utah.

Vermont—Alden Jackman, Marlboro

CHRISTMAS IS COMING Why not take a look at the list of jewelry, shirts, books, _____ emblems. etc., that we sent you along with your ballot?

If you don’t have the list, write us and we will mail you one.

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Second crossed arrow—Dr. Donald IRd.. West Brattleboro. Vt. Craite, Detroit, Mich.

Virginia—Howard Rivenburg, Route 2, COURSE APPROVALS iBox 568, Alexandria, Va. Washington—Keith Gunnar, Dorm.

Glenmar Bowmen. Baltimore, Md. IM-7, Room 205, Richland, Wash.

Suffolk Archers, Kings Park, N. Y. Washington, D. C.—Addison W. PlumLake Tahoe Archers, Inc., Kings imer, 3025 15th St. N. W., Washington.

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ID. C. Archers, State CotNittany Valley ’ Wisconsin—Carl Hulbert. Birch Point lege. Penna.

I Lodge. Rhinelander, Wis. Meadville Field Archers, Meadville.

Wyoming—James Demos. Jr., 144 S. Penna.

•Center St.. Casper. Wyo. Cow’anesque Valley Rod. Gun and West Virginia, Louisiana and North Archery Club. Elkland. Penna.

1 Dakota are tied and we will have to Burlington Bowmen, Burlington. Wis. ssend out new ballots for these three.

Herlong Bowmen, Herlong, Calif.

• unless we should get in another vote Los Altos Archery Club, Albuquerque. iin time.

New Mexico.

Alaska—Ivan Blood. Box 1979, An­ Las Vegas Archers, Las Vegas, Nev. chorage, Alaska.

BIG GAME Australia—Alan A. Cosgrove, 12 ConANTELOPE: inell St.. Hawthorn E. 2. Victoria, Aust.

William J. Scoggin, Sinclair, Wyo.; Canada. Ontario—George M. Mc___ L. Rathbun, Casper, Wyo.; Ted • Gowan, 199 Grand River Ave., Brant- Robert Carrish, Boise, Idaho. i ford, Ontario.

BEAR: Canada. Saskatchewan—John W. Mc• Guffin, 1452 Robinson St., Regina, Sask.

Carl Kiilunen. Lake Linden, Mich.; Hawaii—Frank L. Colev. 3352-A., PaaDonald L. Royer, Pasadena, Calif.; Robt. lea St.. Honolulu, T. H. P. Comport. Los Angeles. Calif.; Loren Japan—Hideharu Onuma. No. 1931 A. Willey. Albion, Mich.; Joe William­ 2-Chome Nishisugamo, Toshima-ku. son, Central Point, Ore. (2 bearsi. ' Tokyo. Japan.

BOB CAT McVinnie, 3 New Zealand—Ian L Michael Alosi, Susanville, Calil.; Jue ' Teviot St., Oamarn, N. Z. Williamson. Central Point, Ore. (2 bob SMALL GAME cats).

WILD HOG: Pin: Louis C. Sutter, Corpus Christi, Cress, Camp Gordon, Ga. Keith E. Texas; Wm. J. Scoggin, Sinclair, Wyo.; DEER: Harry F. Carstairs, Casper. Wyo.; Jac California—Donald F. Bauer, La Thompson, Walla Walla, Wash.; Frank Habra; Robert Poznoff, Shafter; R. D. Louck. Marion, Ohio; Harry E. Withrow, Peterson, Los Angeles; Eldrado "Al" Medford, Ore.; Norman J. Keith. Ogden.

Pistarino, Palo Alto; William R. LachenLtah; Douglas Farnow, Las Vegas. Nev.; maier. Shafter (2 deer); Warren C. £• J. Leadenham, Marion. Ohio; Robert Johnston, Glendale; Stew Foster. La E. Trombley. Memphis. Tenn.; A. L. Canada; Howard J. Mitchel. South Gate: Aafedt, Fargo, N. D.; J. L. Mitchell.

Pryor. Okla.; Gene E. Guetzko, Earl­ Edward C. Moore. Tehachapi; George ville. Iowa; Robert L. Rathbun, Casper. W. Pryde, El Cerrito.

Idaho—Enso DiPietro. Pocatello; Ted Wyoming. .First arrow: Victor Pinks, Aurora. Carrish, OregonBoise.

—Jo Redfield. Portland; F. C. Ill.; J. L. Newton. McLean, Tex.; Floyd Baird, Stayton; Don H. Sieforth, Dallas; Metzger, Aurora, Ill.; Robert Siegel.

Joseph C. Burns. Medford; V. H. Standard, Calif.; Nicholas P. Zemo, Col. Fairfield, Pa.; Norman J. Keith. Ogden, Springer, Salem; Robert G. Bruce, Al­ bany; Tallant Greenough, Coquille; Rus­ Ltah; A. L. Aafedt, Fargo, N. D. L. Howard. Medford.

Second arrow: Richard E. Kerr. Orem, sellUtah —Ivan F. Holford. Orem; David Dave Rogers, Sr., Norwalk, Conn. M. Morris, Milford (2 deer).

Third arrow: Wesley L. Hazelwood, West Virginia-Austin Gates. Charles­ St. Joseph, Mo. ton; Shannon B. Harris. Elizabeth.

First crossed arrow: Gerald A. Hart, Wyoming—W. C. Granger. Casper.

Detroit. Mich.

Hawaii—Richard C. North. Lanai City, Lanai.

20 PIN WINNERS FREE STYLE: 35 yards—Leonard Cushing. Kirkland.

Wash.; Sue Neve, Renton. Wash.; Ken Lawson. Jamestown. N. Y. 35 yards (4 position)—Ray Johnson.

Muskegon. Mich.; Dave Mcdacco, Mus­ kegon, Mich.; Gordon Doll. Chula Vista.

Calif.; Tom Horton. Morenci. Mich.; Robert M. Williamson. Tecumseh. Mich.; Corwin Tubbs. Yaie. Mich.; Bert Elliott.

Caro. Mich.

45 yards—Francis Studnicka. Bliss­ field. Mich.

45 yards <1 position!—John Jenkins.

Lansing. Mich.; Harold Smith. Lansing.

Mich.

55 yards—Bill Glackin. St. Louis, Mo.; George Cook, Kendallville, Inn. 65 yards—Clem Butterfield, Burbank.

Calif.; Ken Watters. Morenci. Mich.

INSTINCTIVE: 35 yards—Norman Quade. White Plains, N. Y.; Dan Monchecourt, Monesseon. Pa. 35 yards (4 position,—James C. Hoxsey. Royal Oak. Mich.; Bjorn Beng­ tsson. Stockholm. Sweden: Michael Powell. Chula Vista. Calif.; Roy R. Keller, Ferndale. Mich.; Norman Ash­ burn, Portsmouth. Va.; James Giacalone.

Flint. Mich.; Mac Forbis, Central City.

Nebraska.

40 yards—Leo Droomer, Midland.

Mich.; Jim Hayward, San Diego. Calif.

40 yards (4 position)—John King.

Winona Lake, Ind. 45 .yards—Jeanne Jacox. Belleville.

Mich.: W. H. Burt. Ann Arbor, Mich.; Royce Brower. Sr.. Middletown. N. Y. 45 yards (4 position)—Joe McGinley.

Lansing. Mich.: James J. Turk. Detroit, Mich.; Richard Gall. Onaway. Mich.; Donald A. Frasher, Rochester. N. Y.; Edward H. Smith. Saginaw, Mich.

50 yards—Ken Lockridge, Oneonta.

New York.

This Month’s Cover Warren Johnson, of Glendale, California, is shown on this month's cover, with one of his prize trophies taken with bow and arrow, a moun­ tain lion. During last year’s hunting Warren also bagged a big black hear and a nice buck deer.

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By JIM KIXXEE PRESIDENT, NATIONAL FIELD ARCHERY ASSN. 962 North 39th Street, Milwaukee 8, Wisconsin

It was one of those clear nights when the only move­ ment of air was the settling of cold air from the higher heavens. We had pitched our tent next to the boys from La Crosse and after a short visit crawled into our bags in the early hours of Saturday morning.

One of life’s greatest luxuries is a down-filled sleeping bag on a deep air mattress when the temperature is below freezing. The only disadvantage is the fact that breathing is still necessary and one suddenly becomes aware of the size and importance of his proboscis. Why man should need this particular part, that is so sensitive to cold and rela­ tively useless to smell with, is another of his pecularities.

To be able to dream under the cold stars in a good sleeping bag is the major part of any hunting trip. To learn too late that you have taken the wrong sleeping bag, the one that belongs to your twelve-year-old Boy Scout and made for summer camping, is a disaster. But, you have the utmost confidence in your heating system, among other physical abilities, such as, being able to kill deer with a bow and arrow. So, you settle back and challenge the elementsWell,, before the night has passed many hours you become aware that your suffering is not in vain. You learn first hand that many of man’s achievements were accomp­ lished through suffering. In the wee hours of the cold morn­ ing you are making very important scientific discoveries.

You learn that thermal circulation in your air mattress of­ fers an entirely new principle of refrigeration. You also disprove the theory that sleep overtakes a man before he freezes to death. Who could sleep under those conditions?

Why, your chattering teeth alone would make it impossible.

When the first faint signs of dawn outline the tops of the pines you are glad the night is over and you are aware that there is no method to your motions as you fight to get your pants on. Deer hunting? Phooey! But, a stiff cup of hot coffee and your mind goes right back to the contentfed lunacy that it enjoyed the night before. Out there under dim sky lay some hundred square miles of the Necedah Wild Life Refuge. Memories of what it had to offer in by­ gone years and reports that a large deer herd had returned brought a thousand bow hunters to camp on its borders this cold September night. The border road that passed our camp was like 1st and Grand Avenue in any large city on St. Patrick’s Day and just as noisy. This was the greatest con­ centration of hunters ever to focus on a single area with bow and arrow-

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Fnf. of ?ur moccasins and it was good io feel the hof glOund underneath. All of the miseries of the night before °ae‘°’e were ,f01'g°tten in the first quarter mile. In the disIvp his last hoot to the approach of day. As e enteted the woods all senses that before seemed to have "°Purpose began t0 respond to that for which they were h abe.

Lle nose- that a few hours before was torchered r began to cooperate by registering the wonderful » forest. As these senses began to respond, they ° » eC out all of the other cares of the world that go with me tempo ol life in a modern city. We left our cares in the marsh to wander with the Great Spirit through the marvels of His forest.

The country to the west opened up into a vast swale broken up with large patches of jack pine and J i ' !T le north side of one of these patches offered a oeautUul distant view of the surrounding country and a particularly inviting spot where a fellow could take a sun u 4 a i w hours to thaw out his bones. It took just ok°4 4uat before the sap started running again and about that time a beautiful white bird came flying in and out of a long strip of jack pines in the distance. When it - 0 me open swale a pair of weak eyes turned it into the flying rear end of a big buck. He was showing off as he entered the patch of woods directly opposite and a block ^er twenty minutes he came out the other side and headed east like he had a noon date in Pittsburgh- Just to watch the wonderful way he had control of things was worth the whole weekend.

Did you ever count the number of pockets that you have ln your hunting clothes? Pants, shirt, vest, coat? To find a tobacco pouch and pipe is a good hunt in itself. It means putting the bow down on the ground and removing the shooting glove so that the hand fits the pockets. When the— pipe is filled and the first few puffs go drifting off to ad£s= to nature’s blend of aromas the world is yours and the---bow on the ground is forgotten. The sound of a deer run-— ning close and you grab for the bow while trying to de---termine the direction. You shoot at a grey object going p:tf not thirty feet away and everything becomes a swirl. A---clean miss over the back as she continues on out into tY—— open swale and stops to look around. Only then do • Continued on page sixteen.

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IM INSTINCTIVE OUTDOOR MAIL TOURNAMENT September, 1953 * Open only to archers shooting bows without marks or sights of any 1 kind. Please membership card and be sure you are ase check your your N.F.A.A. N.F.A.A. membership i in good standing. We cannot give prizes to non-members, and who knows—-you might win ....... in :.» your class. BE PREPARED! HANDICAP WINNERS:

In this year’s tournai ..aments there are no separate handicap divisions, but everyone, Men, Women, \ and Juniors, as well as all cl:lasses, are i a single competing in gle major handicap tournament jusi:t as they should be in a well ..wll run club b tournament.

1st Bengtsson, Bjorn, Intermediate Boy Score 921 2nd Jeffery, Owen, Score SOS wen. Expert Ex Bowman, Class B 3rd Manor, Jim. Bowman Score 897 Bo4th Brower, Royce Sr., Bowman Score 897 Score S97 Spiker, Gert, Bowman (tied ) 5 th Kerr, John W., Expert Bowman, Class B Score 892 6th Menard, Aubrey, Expert Bowman. Class B Score 883 Z

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JUNIOR BOYS (12 and under) : 1. Powell, Michael, San Diego Field Archers. .... 321 74 1 2. Knight. Howard, Archers of Lake Placid... .... 304 78 I 3. Wiltse. Boyd. Bay City Bowmen.......................... .... 219 4. Mazar, Billy, Jr.. Tri-Cities Bowmen.............. .... 154 5- Fetter, Paul, Bay City Bowmen.......................... .... 127 6. Bibbey, Jack, Oregon Trail Bowmen.............. . ... 98 i. Brower. Royce, Jr.. Orange Archers.............. .... 95 INTERMEDIATE BOYS (13 to 15 yrs. Incl.) : 1. Keller, Dale, Flint Bowmen................................................ *2 , 85 6 2. Browning, Bob, San Diego Field Archers................6o4 3. Bengtsson. Bjorn, Ingelboda Bagskyttar.................. o21 921 1. Phillips, Charles, San Diego Field Archers............. 4 4 < 7 67 Ketzler, Richard, Flint Bowmen...................................... i-g 809 $• Reeves, u—Eddie, Oxnard Archery Club ................. 34 8 7-18 •• — Saunder 70 1 _..Jers, Ron, Oregon Trail Bowmen........... ............. 34 4 8. Larsson, Lai Tommy, Ingelboda Bagskyttar...................... 3-b 806 761 10^ Collignon, David, Bo-Arro Hunters................................. 3-1 Goff, Roland, Griffith Municipal Archers................ ono 11. Benzien, Bob, Oxnard Archers ................................... o“ 12. Hoskins, Jerry, Montrose Bowmen.............................. 2oo 808 13. Fountain, James, Bark Eater Bowmen.........................261 721 Bark Eater Bowmen.....

Fetter, George, Jr., Bay City Bowmen.........................

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Henson, Tommy, Oxnard Archery Club Club..................... .............

16. jAllison, James. Buckskin. Archery Bowmen................................. -0OPEN CLASS. WOME"! .<?LASS: o’ nFt’k' ^eKKy’ Redwood Bowmen........ ......6 11 -• Denham, Dolores, Redwood Bowmen... ...... 539 d dtfeon, Bea, Solano Archery Club.

814 ..... 534 1. Reeves, Alma, Oxnard Archery Club.

761 ..... 521 Hall, Jeanne, Flint Bowmi .......... ... ......488 S28 6. Mathew, Beda, San Diego len .

712 Field Archers.............472 'Sarne. Glenna. Flint B<iowmen.................................464 74 4 •S. Ketzler. Lois, Flint " 753 ...I Bowmen ................................... 433 Minnie, P: City Bowmen................. • Bay BOWMAN CLASS: L Taylor, Mary, Flint Bowmen.......................

739 ..... 379 -• Gotowka, Velma, Bay City Bowmen......... .... 356 3. Lx)ckredge, Locki Ruby, Oyaron Bowmen.........

82 1 . ..... 344 I. ?: ‘ McCully, Gladys, Saginaw Bowmen............

820 ..... 340 5. W witzke, Marie, Bay City Bowmen...............

797 ..... 337 6. 1Davis, Ola, Atlanta Field Archers............... .... 31 S Metzger, Edna, South Bay Archers............ . ... 299 8- Henry, Mary, Montrose Bowmen................

797 ..... 297 9. Payne, Theobell, Pontiac Archers.............

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273 11. Rei Reeg, Pauline, St. Louis Bow Hunters., 751 ....

271 12. vwdtse, June, Bay City Bowmen...............

715 ..... 255 13. Menard, Wynona, Flint Bowmen................

734 ..... 254 14. Mullvain, Ruth, Flint Bowmen.....................

743 ..... 243 .3. ,ronea- Beulah, St. Louis Bow Hunters.... {?• 633 .... 173 \RCHER ^er Helen, Centre Archers....

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3. Nlcklasson, Ing £dck!asson, Asta, Ingelboda Bagskyttar.................. -■ « I. Foutch, Mil Mildred. ~ —, Flint Bowmen........................................ j/.i»wortn, Martha, Indian Trail Bowmen............... 5' 5wa,r1, Adeline. South Bay Archery Club............... «. Davis. Marge, Pasadena Roving Archers............... ?.* h‘r,IPse, Roberta, Everglades Archers..........................

J. Hall, Doris, Lenape Bowmen............................................ , !?' l?wver- Erma, Blackhawk Field Archers.-.—-......

II* Thompson, Martinia, Charleston Archery Club....- • Collignon, Bernice, Bo-Arro Hunters................... 202 2fu-V.en- Louise, Painted Post Field Archers.i..... 195 !r* Sr il08* Elsie, South Bay Archers......................... 178 Berthi i °, • B®rtha, Anne Arundel Bowmen........ ..... 170 16.

Melba, Las Vegas Archers...................... 166 17* Jackson, Do ’ Dover, Shirley, Flint Bowmen..................................... ..... 160 Hultzman, Betty. Painted Post Field Archers.. lers... 1 -17 io‘. Haj Hayes, Lorraine, Oyaron Bowmen........................... ..... 1-14 -;?■ ” a‘Ker, Harriet, Flint Bowmen................................... ..... 113 XOVICE*0^8, ^>au^a> Centre Archers............................. ..... 90 V D°Uy< Ingelboda Bagskyttar............... J’1 Z' .y* Margaret, Oregon Trail Bowmen.................. 1 3. rucci, Katherine, Charleston Archery Club...............

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7. Bliven, Laura, Painted Post Field Archers. ....... 53 Inc. ..... 32 Inc. 8. Marshall, Marion, Watchung Bowmen.........

MEN: OPEN CLASS: 1 1. Mathew. Mart. San Diego Field Archers................. 758 778 6 2. Hill. Wilfred. Flint Bowmen.......................................... 730 870 848 6 3. Heinrich. Carl, Algonquin Archers............................ 708 4. Hayward, Jim, San Diego Field Archers................691 6 831 5. Rogers, George I)., Harford Bowmen...................... 691 6 6. Telegin, Ali, Sandodlorna ..............................

689 2 7. Touth, Gus, Malibu Mt. Archery Club...................... 685 705 6 8. Giacalone. Jim, Flint Bowmen..................................... 668 9. Pellerin, Jim. Montrose Bowmen........................... ....664 804 73 1 10. Groves, Ronald. Pasadena Roving Archers.......... 654 11. Henson. Arthur. Oxnard Archery Club.................. 613 753 730 6 12. B'ssonnette, ztubrey, Bay City Bowmen...................610 9 13. Ketzler. Ken, Flint Bowmen.......................................... 603 783 14. Ewart, Trevor, South Bay Archery Club................. 5-13 683 EXPERT BOWMAN, CLASS B: 869 X-A8 1. Addison, Leroy, Pontiac Archers............................... 689 898 X-A8 2. Jeffery, Owen, St. Louis Bow Hunters .............. 678 84 2 X-AS 3. James. Harvey, Pasadena Roving Archers.......... 662 10 ....................

4. Kerr, John W.,. Flint Bowmen........................................

632 892 m, Pontiac Archers..........

5. Kerr, Creighton, .............................. 627 827 10 ick. Flint Bowmen................................ ..........

6. McFarland. Jack.

622 842 10 □wvhee Archers................................ ..............

7. Steinke, Dareld, Owvhee 614 834 12 883 .

Flint Bowmen ...............

8. Menard, Aubrey. ............ ..603 11 9. Taylor, Earl. Flint 599 839 lint Bowmen.......................................... ........................

11 81 1 r, Flint Bowmei ................................

10. Mullvain, 571 n, Harley, nariey, Hint Bowmen ...................

11 Field Archers.....

11. Lovell, Dick.

Dick, San Diego I-'ield ....................562 802 12 'egas Archers .• .........

12. Farnow, Douglas, Dougla: Las Vegas 750 1 1 Donald.

Rochester Archers.

Inc ...............

530 13. Frasher, Ev 13 Charleston Archery Club.................... 527 I I. Tucci, 0., P., I 1 3 S06 ligelow, Wes, Flint Bowmen ................ .....................

526 15. Bigelow, W 14 ludgeon, Bill. Solano Archery Club........................ 516 796 16. Dudgeon, 1 i. Quade, ^..^.w.... .—... ... ... ide, Noim, Norm, uicenow, Greenwood Archers ..........

1 1 S06 18. Knoblock, ....................... 506 ibiock, Walter H.. Flint Bowmen ........

12 J., Saginaw Bowmen.............. ..............................505 19. McCully, N. J.. .................... 504 20.i. Pingel, Dave, San Diego Field Archers Archers.... . . Phillips, Buell. Niskayuna Field Archers ................ 501 21.

Archers...

12 7 11 22. Gustafson, A., Harford Bowmen ................501 ifson, Gerald A..

Bowmen...

13 759 23. Nicklasson, 4 99 on, Olle. Ingelboda Bagskyttar Bagskyttar................... ..

14 2-1. Holtz, William Club................ 4 98 'illiam L., Oxnard Archery Club...

15 25. Erno, Henry D.. Bay City Bowmen..............................

490 790 ...............

13 ......... ................ 4S4 26. Alonzo. Cruz. Oxnard Archerv Club..........

1 I 758 27. Cameron, Bob. Sr.. Conn. Hill Field Archers......... 4 78 13 28. McGunegle, Ed., Bay City Bowmen........................... 459 655 11 29. Williams, boi Don. Oxnard Archery Club.............

1 1 716 . .

136 30. Harvey, Tom, Everglades Archers....................

15 31. Besant, Harold, Flint Bowmen...:........................ .... 116 696 32. Brewer, Glenn, Conn. Hill Field Archers........ ....405 33. Fogelstrom. Bengt, Ingelboda Bagskyttar.. .. ....397 1 I 631 3 1. Hoot, James. Oxnard Archery Club...................

13 Inc. 35. Peterson. Carl. South Bay Archery Club........

1 I Inc. .......

145 36. Cook, Howard. Rochester Archers.........

BOWMAN: X-Bl : 1 897 ........

577 1. Manor, Jim Jim, Land-O-Lakes Bowmen....

15 872 ........... 532 2. Collignon, Henry, Bo-Arro Hunters........ xi S97 3. Brower, Royce, Sr.. Orange Archers.....

897 4. Spiker. Gert, Ingelboda Bagskyttar..................

15 5. Collins, Ralph, Boise Bowmen.................

504 S 14 6. Jones. Chick, St. Louis Bow Hunters......................... 199 S79 14 793 7. Ditsworth, Don. Indian Trail Bowmen...................... 493 16 850 8. Lockridge, Ken, Oyaron Bowmen............................. 4 90 15 9. Hall, James E.. Lenape Bowmen................................... 487 10. Beck, Ken. Conn. Hill Field Archers......................... 479 11. Wiltzke, Walt. Bay City Bowmen................................ 477 11.

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Jerry, Bay City Bowmen.................................474 814 12. Wi 17 ‘ ■' Pulaski, Walter, Atlanta Field Archers..................... 470 830 15 13. Pul 14.

Hightower, Don, Atlanta Field Archers..................... 464 14.

16 79S ~ Howell, Bill. Lenape Bowmen......................................... 158 15. Howell.

17 S17 ise. Bob, Everglades Hades Archers............................ 457 1 6. Kirmse.

16 , John T., Bay City Bi Bowmen................................ 452 17.

Kerr, J 16 771 18.

Havward, Eugene, Central New York Bowmen. ...451 __ Cent: 18.

19. Havwar Wilkinson.

Richard E., Rochester Archers ..............

451 i>iv...ov.., ___ lard E., 1 IS 20. Hultzman, Fred. Conn. Hill Fielc 1 IS 21. Goss.

Archers.......................................... — Goss, Gene. Detroit Arc .-cht ................. 44 2 22. Euriquez, Enriquez, Jess.

Jess. San San Die Die*‘'O Field Archers Be 23. Radway.

Harry.

Central New Yorkc Bowmen ......... 142 Harry.South 16 Clul .................... 439 759 24. Radway.

Callies.

Bav Archery Club Callies. Eddie.

Eddie. S< 15 25. Sabom, Sabom, Ingvar. Ingelboda Bagskyttar...................... 438 73S 15 26. O'Neil.

Barney.

Bav City Bowmen .................................

13. _ 16 27. O'Neil.

Bowers, Bar Charles. Pontiac Archers............................... 4 34 ..->4 17 27. Bowers, Ch Atlanta Field Archers............................... 429 ^89 ...

28. Hall. Park.

16 Al. Pontiac Archers...... ..................................... 42 < < I. 29. Tang.

AL Z Frank. Mohonk Bowmen......................... 426 ,«.gston.

IS 30. Livings ''" iver.”Jack H., Indian Trail Bowmen............ ........ 4-3 <83 IS 31. Bloyer.

Walker, Charles. Atlanta Field Archers...................... 12- 80IS 32. Walker.

V’ ’Don. Flint Bowmen.......................................... 4-0 33. Nekins, W*....

756 Tom. Montrose Bowmen............................. 4 16 IS 34. Thompson, Hoski ..... 115 115 795 Harland. Painted Post Aichers..............

IS 35. ...407 767 Flint Bowmen.......

16 36. Smith, Smith. William F..aid - * 706 .... 406 Archers ...................

Dean, Oxnard Archcr 16 37. Weeks.

703 .. 403 Archers ............. •........ ir. Allen.

Pontiac? Archers., IS 38. On '’ 763 ..

403 Las VegVegas Archers.. ickson. Leroy L.. Las 16 722 39. Jac ... 402 .......... irland, Bill. Jr.. Pontiac Pontiac Archers A 74 I 10. Cui .. 401 lanta Field Field Archers..... .J.j. Janies. Atlanta 11. Banks. ... 400 rry, Jerry, Flint Bowmen ..............................

18 12. Keri>yi. Charles. Pasadena Roving Archers—... 400 760 17 43. Wey., _ 730 ... 390 ”erl, Las Vegas Archers................

16 4 4. Sage, M< ...3§?

Greenbaum.

Al. Griffith Municipal Archers..............

16 45. Hanson.

C Russ, South Bay Archery Club...... ..........3SS 688 20 4 6. Hanson, Keith, Atlanta Field Aichers..................... 388 ^88 IS 4 7. Gimson.

George. Teepee Bowmen.......................... 387 <4< 19 •IS. Trombley. _____ r. John, Atlanta Field Archers......................... 380 7S0 49. Glover.

PL...’ng,JcGene, Painted Post Field Archers............377 50. Fleininj.. " ” liar. Doug.. Mayfair Field Archers................ 377 5 1. Prince.

McKellur,Charles, Doug, Atlanta Field Archers................ 375 20 52. Prince.

Charles, West. Don, Atlanta Field Aichers.............................. 373 18 53. Aszurek.

West, Don, Steve. Pontiac Archers ............................ 372 732 54 Smith.

Aszurek.Bob. Ste’Kingston Archery Club........................... 3^1 IS ^31 20 55. Smi Foutch. Grant. Flint Bowmen........................................ 3^0 ^70 18 56. Reynolds. ' George. Oyaron Bowmen........................... 3<0 UU 19 57. Braman. Wallace J.. Bark Eater Bowmen..............368 U8 20 58. Wharff. Kyle V.. Pontiac Archers. ...............

36< <6< IS 59. Couste, George. Oxnard Archery Club...................... 361 7-i 60. Guard.

Cou: Howard. Rochester Archers. Inc.................. 3n9 6 I. Guai o Continued on page thirty-seven.

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Question: In making yew bows, how can I make the wood safe? Isn’t there grave danger of self bows breaking?

If facing and backing are used to over­ come this danger, which will show the wood to the best advantage and can the pins be scraped flat or left with extra wood?—E.H.B. Answer: Yew is a comparatively safe wood to use for self bows. Before the advent of the modern backings and facings it was considered the best ma­ terial for target use. You can either cut the sapwood down to about 3/16" and then apply a backing of Fortisan or you can plane the black flat, re­ moving the sapwood and using a back­ ing of hickory about 1/8" thick with Fortisan over the hickory. I would leave a little extra wood at the pins unless I used the hickory backing, however, a great many of the billets now on sale do not have any pins to worry about.

Question: I have been making some laminated bows according to your in­ structions. Here are a few questions I would like answered: 1. So far I have made the laminations in one continuous piece. The chart you show in your instructions says to scarf the wood back about two inches. Is this a straight mitered cut 2" across the face of the cut?

2. I have been using birch and maple laminations. What other woods could be substituted for the birch and still make as good a bow?

3. On bow layouts, are the limbs a straight taper or a bellied-out taper as in unreflexed bows?

4. Would there be much difference be­ tween kiln-dried and air-dried woods used in making up a bow? All of the bows I have made have turned out to have less pull than estimated. Would this be caused by kiln-dried wood?

5. Could the handle of the bow be redesigned to make it a center-shot handle?—J.O.H., Lansing, Mich.

Answer: Splicing of the laminations at the handle is done with a straight miter cut, one lamination lapping over the other 1-1/2". The handle being strongly' reinforced, it doesn’t make a great deal of difference what kind of a joint is used in the strips. Maple laminations are just as good as a com­ bination of birch and maple as far as I can see. Other woods I have used are: hickory and ironwood (hornbeam) for the back lamination, walnut or yew for the center and osage on the belly. This combination makes a pretty good bow with only a backing of Fortisan and no facing, though they will take a little more set than a faced bow.

3. Personally, I like to make the taper on the sides of the limb slightly bellied out, though I can’t say this is any Page Twelve

belter than a straight taper. Many­ manufacturers make them straight.

4. I don’t believe there would be any difference between air-dried and kilndried lamination strips if the bow is backed and faced. The core does not have very much work to do any way­ in a modern bow. Air-dried material would not make your bows enough stronger to be noticeable.

5. The bow would have to be com­ pletely redesigned to make it center­ shot. as in this type of bow it is nec­ essary to have the section above the handle heavier, to make up for the wood cut from the sides. I would sug­ gest that you look at a center-shot bow and work out your design from it, using the technique given in the article.

Question: I am in doubt as to the type of form to use on a laminated bow with an Oriental handle, full working recurve. Should I use the same type form you describe in your column and then cut the shape of the handle out of the form, or shi-uld I use a concave form which would put the belly against the form and the handi > on the outside?

-H.C., Slemson. S. C. Answer: I have never tried using a concave form for gluing up the type of bow you mention, but believe it would be very satisfactory. In cutting the shape of the handle out of the form, it would be necessary' to use great care in cutting the shape of the riser the same as the cutout in the form, less the thickness of the back lamination.

This will require some pretty close layout work. The next time I make a form for this type of handle I intend to give the concave method a try.

Question: I just finished a lamination type bow. I used Ultrabac, maple core, tapered, and Toxflight facing. This bow was highly reflexed with long working recurves. It was very fast. Today I strung it up, the string broke, and the bow broke on the face side, some of the wood coming out with the Tox. It would seem that the Flight Tox is not too good for a bow of this description.

What is your idea?

I wanted to put glass facing on this bow, but I inquired a little on the matter and no one I came in contact with could get it to stick using Urac glue which is recommended for same. If there is a secret for putting this glass facing on a bow and you know it, I sure wish you w'ould tell me. My plans are copy­ righted by Frank Eicholtz. I will be very thankful for any help you can give me.—R.R.F., Pampa, Texas.

Answer: I have used Flight Toxhorn _..

---- ------j -----on _a o good many bows,, — but have ........ never happened to have one break. However, —- have 1----- to expect an occasional : 1 ’break ’ ­ we age with bows as highly stressed as the

ones we are now making. It was un­ fortunate that yours happened with your first one.

Have had very little experience with glass facings, but they should not be too hard to attach if the adhesive rec­ ommended by the manufacturer, and his method of application, is used. The glass backing and facing made by the Bear Archery Company. Grayling. Michigan, is built on a thin wooden veneer. Thus the problem of attaching dissimiliar ma­ terials to each other is taken are of at the factory', leaving the bow builder only a wood to wood gluing job.

I have made one bow using this facing and one using the glass facwr sold by Bud Pierson, but haven't shot A”her *bow enough to know just hov. • hey are going to stand up. I haw i set of Eicholtz bow plans which p ■.eel very sat isfactory.

come inQuestion: I have recently aim is terested in bird shooting. . : auil to eventually become a good ving shot.

Due to the high cost of arr s and my lack of experience and th. fact that row, every’ shot means a lost ---- this becomes a very expensive sp. t. I have, however, heard of an arrow oat when ouvt me au Um go .. shot in in the air will a ...... cert n distance and then stop and fall to vie ground not far from the archer. I b -lieve iieve they are called "flu flu" arrows. Could you tell me how these are made' Can they be-­ be adjusted for certain distances be fore stopping?

If _ If this this into; mation is net not available, could you tell me of an inexpensive method of making arrows that will give good performance for w-ing shooting? Is there any manufac­ turer who sells finished lamination strips ready for gluing?- C.E.S., Elk­ ridge, Md. Answer: “Flu flu” arrows are made by fletching the shaft with long, un­ trimmed feathers, put on with a lot of spiral, usually 1/2” to 1” turn the length of the feathers. It is usually necessary to fasten these feathers with pins while the cement is setting as an ordinary fletching jig is useless. I have seen bird arrows made by' drilling holes in the pile and soldering in loops of spring wire to form a four leaf clover effect, the whole assembly being 6" to 8’’ across.

I don’t know how satisfactory these are but they seem to fly OK. as the wire offers little resistance. Would sug­ gest that you consult the advertising columns of Archery for sources of lam­ inated strips as I have never had ex­ perience buying them ready for gluingIncidentally' if you contact an advertiser selling cheap one-shot arrows, you intent prevail upon him to supply you wtttt fletching materials needed for home cw struction.

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Varmints, Indian Style

By CUTTER CUNNINGHAM 150$) Elm Street, Dallas. Texas Fur season had only been open a «eoupie ot days when Fred Schmikle. sone ol our local "injun men,” strode in "the sporting goods store where 1 was eempioyed and proposed that we get a ttbuncn together and go varmint nuntmng, Varmint hunting with a bow, to • me, is like strawberries with whip ocream. So. we joined lorces and made a Ctew phone calls.

About a week later, four tribesmen: BFred Schmikle, Bill Feugit, Ray Shelton, sand yours truly, were seen bouncing salong down an old ranch road enroute t!to "Varmint Haven. ' By this 1 mean tine Henderson Ranch, about filteen rcniies southeast ot Eldorado. Texas.

Sam Henderson, chief cook and bottlevwasner, that is when the Missus isn’t aaround. greeted us with bow strung and txboth dogs raring to go. He had been •warming up on his makeshift archery r.range in me front yard. However, he ■was soon crowded out and after we anaa broken several arrows I suggested •we get the hunt under way while we shill had some ammo. It wasn’t that Seams range was all that bad, it was Z’.ist that some of us weren’t the world’s -est snots. Ol course, missing three doaies ot nay at forty leet wouldn’t cxaseUy quality me as an expert. But. boy: aaj.v f no love it.

Alter much confusion we got the ' int under way. Sam and Fred rode in ‘ '.e cab, leaving Bill. Ray. the dogs, and —e m me back. Both ol sam’s dogs were ■ VI blooded border collies. One he called C-’ouie, ano me otner Roudy. We located :-"’Jr quarry by driving over the ranch r-oaos until a varmint crossed in front us. 'lhe dogs would watch lor this a.'-h4 would olten have the varmint treed ~«e.o.e \.e could get our nows untangled.

Ounce they treed we would take turns ^"-'looting. Trying to take a ringtail cat :~om ‘a dense post-oak tangle, injun stityle can be quite a task. 1 nave seen many as thirteen or fourteen arrows loost or oroken on one ot these varmints ueeiore he departed lor the happy huntnyg grounds. '.v. f As it Happened, this particular night, 1 taken with bow and arrow. It weighed 39-1 2 lbs. thae game was few but the horseplay Harold Hill proudly displays a huge carp -ardens to have been the largest ever taken in the State of •.•.aas aplenty. Fred Schmikle and Bill and was adjudged by game .. reeugit weigh a little better than two New Jersey by bow and arrow or any other method. huundred apiece—Bill about 60 pounds beetter—neither being quite all muscle quits when Collie and Roudy suddenly a/ind bone. There were two pretty tired 100 yards to be exact. arrehers after our first dry run after a We gave them plenty of vocal en­ started barking. They "treed" at the "sidy ol’ coon” that had crossed our path. couragement and soon a very well-spent base of a small bluff where we had ol’ boar P-aay, Sam and I were just a litle lighter archer, in the form of Fred- Schmickle. previously taken several"big ............... knowledge =. we were th.ian our hefty "red brothers.” Sam arrived on the scene. Concealing our coon.” With this know!>...

-eeighed about 175, Ray around 150, mirth, we pointed up in the tree and soon racing down the slope to the bluff. apnd I weighed in at 165. Seeing the way told him Io bring it down. That was As we jockeyed for positions a very 1 rred and Bill were blowing, we cooked quite a sight to behold. Fred was blow­ familiar, sickening odor reached our upo a little fun. ing so hard he couldn’t have stuck the dainty nostrils. of all tilings' One varmint in ’With Sam leading the attack we left arrow in the tree with both hands. allSkunk, that hunting and it had to be a th«e truck and started hunting the For some strange reason he couldn't lo­ he;?avily-brushed draws that cover the cate our imaginary coon. The cat was skunk. Now. some people would just Hcenderson ranch. Having been prear- out of the bag and everybody had a as soon shoot a skunk as a silver fox. rannged, we had to go only about one- big laugh—with the exception of Fred. Fred, sensing what was about to happen, haul mile in the dense tangle when Sam If Bill hadn’t arrived on the scene I voiced a protest as he had borrowed sicced the dogs and hollered "Coon!" All think Fred would have shot us all in his wife's car for the trip. Of course we heeded his plea and several minutes Pi us started to run. We ran. fell and cold blood. and five arrows later we started our craawled until I thought my lungs would Bill’s appearance was enough to stop homeward trek. All. including Fred, finally, Sam stopped and shouted an cighl-day clock. Instead of dodging 'Tt.reed!' Roudy was very obliging and the brush, Bill had placed both arms with a very nauseating odor about us. quinckly confirmed Sam’s shout by bark- in front of his face and just crashed Now could it be that someone had shot skunk? ngf;.i? -CIJ ^a'se “treed call.” Somewhere through. You can imagine how his fore­ that Incidentally. Fred’s wife didn't actual­ batick in the brush we could hear what arms looked. We finally quit laughing ly leave him. and we have been on oiiiinded like a herd of elephants crash- long enough to apologize (at the point ,ngg through. This turned out to be Fred of a very sharp broadhead ). Then we several hunts since, each yielding much marc game, but not nearly so much ’•"Ji •• 1 ’ seemed as though they started to hunt in earnest. tun. And to me. that’s half o: archery.

• iiitin t want to miss the shooting and After three hours of fruitless hunting lheej were just a little behind- about we were about to give up and call it How about you?

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Winners of Missouri Bow Hunters’ Tournament. Standing left to right: Lorrayne Glackin.

Pauline Reeg, Alan MacKeen. Douglas Wikander. Darryl Fabick, Chic Jones. Kneeling left to right: Dolores Bristol. Owen Jeffery and Wayman Gault.

Have New Champs

Wilbur Glackin, national target champ and the pride of St. Louis, took the free style crown with a score of 1143.

By HILDEGARDE OLSON 10001 Denness Dr., St. Louis, Mo.

Into the Land of

Missouri Bow Hunters

The Seventh Annual Tournament of the Missouri Bow Hunters was a big success from any point of view. Archers came from all parts of Missouri, Kan. sas, and Illinois to meet old friends and make new ones. Richard Neuwirth of Lemay was elected president at the banquet meeting. Burwell Fox of Cape Girardeau is the new vice-president, and Pauline Reeg of St. Louis is secretary­ treasurer.

A new round was introduced using deer cut-outs placed at random through­ out the woods. You had to find the deer before you could shoot it. The best deer slayers were Alan MacKeen, Chief El­ more, and Owen Jeffery in the men’s division, Pauline Reeg, Hildegarde Olson and Connie McCune in the women's di­ vision, and Wayman Gault, Douglas Wikander and Darryl Fabick in the juniors.

The championship shoot was based on 28 targets of field, 28 targets of broadhead and 28 targets of hunter’s round. Owen Jeffery placed first with 1070, Alan MacKeen second with 960, and Chic Jones third with 776 in the men’s division.

The winners in the women’s division were: Dolores Bristol first with 625, Lorrayne Glackin second with 510, and Pauline Reeg third with 472. In the junior division, Wayman Gault placed first with a score of 543. Douglas Wi­ kander was second with 533. and Tracy Barnes, Jr., came in third with 460.

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Tall Shadows

I talked with him a short while before his passing, and he related to me how badly he felt about not being able to hunt this year. However, it did not stop his plans to go to camp with the gang for the hunt. He thought perhaps he could do his hunting with a camera, just so he could take part in the ac­ tivity. Ralph had tried all phases of archery, but hunting was his specialty.

The record of five deer in nine years is evidence of his skill.

In the woods, Ralph was a natural.

In his massive hands a bow looked like a toy. But it was a living device which he loved. When Ralph entered the woods he became part of it. Dressed in his famous blue shirt, hunting pants, and his special hunting boots, his six-foot 200-lb. frame moved swiftly and silently as an Indian in stalking his quarry.

Ralph was born and raised in Lima and in addition to the sport of archery, which he took up in later life, he set many local records, some of which still stand, in various other sports such as football, basketball, etc. It is said his determination was of the greatest and he never gave up. Also it was pre­ dicted by many that if Ralph had fol­ lowed through in his football career he would have undoubtedly ranked among the greats of the game- today.

But when it came to leaving the town of Lima, it was a step that he just couldn’t bring himself to make.

Toward the end of the Michigan deer season last fall Ralph made r:- final hunt. Bob Waggoner told me . an in­ cident during that hunt the surely makes a fitting last memory a bow hunter. After arriving at one Bobs favorite spots one evening. Il ?h and Ralph he sized up the situation air Ralph just decided to hunt a spot jus: er the hill. After starting up the slop, r.e look; ed back and said: ’’See you . dark." ar!\, then turning and walking on i swill sure strides, knowing where . e was headed, he quietly disappeared among the trees. Ralph Waggoner may .e gone, .?«’ an< but in the hearts of all who I:, !:.ew loved him he will live forever.

By “SMOKEY” KILBURN 1877 Robert St., Columbus 11, Ohio

So goes another archer and bow hunt­ er. Ralph Waggoner of Lima, Ohio, who left us for that land of tall shadows on July 16, 1953. He collapsed suddenly of a heart attack and was gone within minutes. Ralph was in his 45th year of life.

His illness prior to this was of very short duration and apparently not of a serious nature. So the news of his death came as a terrific shock to his family and friends.

Ralph is survived by his wife, Neleta; a daughter, Jean, a :stepson, John Malley, six brothers and1 one sister.

Five of these brothers will indeed miss Ralph. The five: Clarence, Raymond.

Harold, Bob and Jay, along with Ralph have made many hunts together after game both large and small. The big event always being the annual deer hunt with bow and arrow. The other brother, Lester, and the sister Edna, not being bow hunters, did not join in on this yearly trek to the north woods.

The Waggoner brothers are well known in Ohio for their interest in archery as a sport. Ralph started in archery about 1937 and remained quite active until doctors ordered no heavy work nor exercise for a while. I know personally that this hit Ralph hard, for

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Buffalo Field Club Holds Annual Tournament

By MEL SNEED Box 14.361, Houston 21, Texas

- rry Andersen of Charleroi. Pa. (instinctive) New Pennsylvania Champs. Left to right: Garry Anderson junior who shot the amazing score of 1,003; Ed Weiss of Palm. Pa., (instinctive) 1.131; Hunter Nicholas, Charlestown, West Virginia (free style) 1,225. high score of the shoot, Mrs. Pansy Mitchell, Freeport, Pa. (instinctive) 524.

Pennsylvania State Tourney Success

By SYL SULKIN 11 Church Road, Pittsburgh 34, Pa. Taking a cut from the "National."

• he Pennsylvania State Field Archery Championships, held at the DormontMt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club in Pitts­ burgh, Penna., on September 26 and 27, broke many existing records for the event.

As early as Friday afternoon, archers from every section of the state poured into the camping grounds and the steady stream of cars gave evidence to the inevitable success of the event. At noon on Saturday, when the whistle blew for the shooting to start, one hundred and fifty-two archers had registered.

This was the largest registration ever recorded for any archery event in the history of the association.

The weatherman should certainly be given credit as his predictions before­ hand and had been very gloomy, with rain imminent. However, he changed his mind at the last moment and gave out with clear skies and plenty of sunshine.

The archers warmed up Saturday morning with a inovelty „ ham .... shoot and many sharpshooters walked off with two or three hams.

A full schedule of events kept the contestants busy and several refresh­ ment stands reduced the danger of anJ’ of them starving.

Twenty-eight field and fourteen hunt­ ers targets were shot on Saturday. In •he evening, a gala banquet and busi­ ness meeting kept the pace of the event rolling successfully with no harm done

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from the wonderful steak dinners con­ sumed. The selection of Charleroi, Pa., as the site of the 1954 tournament con­ cluded a well attended and planned meeting.

The championships, given much news­ paper space, store window displaj' and radio and TV time, brought out an unusually large number of spectators.

Fortunately, the Dormont-Mt. Lebanon Sportsmen’s Club had anticipated such a situation and had organized a group of members to police the grounds. The host bowmen of the club had hoped for this situation and designed an over-thewater shot which would be shot in front of the assembly area to the best viewpoint of the spectators. The re­ sponse was very gratifying and the visitors really enjoyed the hunter's and broadhead rounds on Sunday.

As was expected, the ideal environ­ ment brought out the best in each archer and the scores turned in were astronomical. The standout was Edward Weiss of Palm, Pa., who broke the exist­ ing record for Instinctive Expert A with a score of 11.31, and won the Tri-County Field Trophy. John Kinsey of nearby Irwin. Pa., won the Brown Memorial Trophy with a Free Style score of .1045.

Bennie Gatski and Hunter Nicholas, both of West Virginia, took out-of-state honors in Instinctive and Free Style, respectively.

In the women’s division (instinctive), there was a real battle, with the final tally showing only 24 points separating first and third places. Pansy M. Mitchell came through with top score, followed

by Verna Leaman and Betty Olt. plan now 1954 MIDWESTERN

St. Loui*, Mo. -

tournament

. - July 3-4-5

If you heard unearthly groanings from the nether regions last Sunday, or if you felt any subterranean tremors mild­ ly resembling an earthquake, you can, no doubt, ascribe it all to an erstwhile archer by the name of Robin Hood, who must have turned over in his grave severad times, as the Buffalo Field Archers Club of Houston. Texas, held their annual tournament at Memorial Park.

This annual array of archery talent brought out a large number of con­ testants. as well as spectators, includ­ ing tall men. small men. and girls who weren’t men at all.

To say that everyone present spent a hilarious afternoon would be the un­ derstatement of the year. There were prizes for hits, and prizes for misses, and surprises for Misters and Missus.

The surprises were in the form of "white elephant’’ gifts. Behind each target, was a note stating what the contestant had to accomplish to win the prize. After each volley at a given target, the con­ testant had to read the note to de­ termine whether or not he had qualified for the prize, and if he had, he was rewarded with an object d’art such as a knife or a mechanical monkey on a string. Some of the "qualifications” were: Lose or break an arrow; blank target and miss bale; stick arrow in tree; shoot four counters regardless of score; find a lost arrow; score exactly a given number of points, etc.

Aside from above mentioned valuable prizes earned only by unerring con­ formity to detailed specifications, there were also awards for the individuals who had so perfected their use of the bow and arrow that they could direct the flight of the arrow with so much more dexterity than their less skillful competitors—well, all right—there were prizes for the best shot. Trophies were awarded to those who placed first in the men’s, the women’s and the junior divisions. The winners of these trophies were, in the men’s division: Larry Aillet; in the women’s division. Kitty Rote; in the junior division, David Buchwald.

Now that the tournament is over, don't think for a moment that the local bowmen will tuck their bows and quiv­ ers neatly away till next summer. This tournament was just the beginning.

With hunting season just around the corner, local toxophilites are eagerly an­ ticipating trips into the woods and forests where their targets will be wild­ life, either four-footed or feathered.

New Kansas Field Club Formed

By IRENE WILSON 210 So. Main St., Medicine Lodge, Kan. The Medicine Lodge Archery Club, located at Medicine Lodge. Kansas, was formed September 15, 1953. Temporary officers elected were as follows: Chairman—Chief Wilson.

Secretary—Irene Wilson.

Treasurer—O. E. Patterson.

We have a fourteen-target course in a beautiful wooded area, located on the property of Oscar Taylor. We have only nine members at present, but are cam­ paigning for more. Anyone interested is urged to contact the secretary.

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BOW HUNTING CAN BE BOUGH A few days ago, Frieda and I returned from our Nevada hunting trip, and both of us a little worse for the wear.

It reminded me of a hunting trip Dr. Frank Hodgson of Kansas City wrote about last spring. "Doc" pointed out that when he or any of his gang go hunting, the fact that there’s good hunting nearby does not enter the picture.

Thev must drive just as far as they possibly can. at least an all night drive, then hunt all day and drive back.

That's what we did in Nevada. Bow hunters were bag­ ging deer every day in Kyle Canyon, at least one of which was taken within a quarter-mile of Mt. Charleston Lodge, where we had the finest of accommodations. Did we hunt in that area? No. we are convinced that hunting was much better in Cold Creek Canyon, some sixty-five miles distant.

So, instead of rising at a respectable hour of five a.m., which would give us ample time to get on our stands by daylight, we got up nearly every morning at two thirty.

Hunting all day and staying up half the night makes bow hunting, or any hunting for that matter, a bit rough, and specially for an old cuss who can’t get it out of his head he’s no longer a kid.

I didn’t see him. but that old guy with the long white whiskers, who packs around a scythe to dispatch his victims, was stalking me up among those junipers. I managed to out-fox him but not until after he'd taken a swipe at me and took a nip out of my back. That was a dirty trick be­ cause it laid me low right at a time when I should have been grinding out this issue and sending it to press. So. if you copy is delayed a day or so this month or you find some of the pages upside down or missing, you’ll know the reason.

Next month I'll tell you all about the trip.

WHERE'S THAT PRIZE STORY? Guess all you guys got skunked on your hunting trips this year, else how come we haven’t received any entries in our prize hunting story contest?

I realize our prize awards are not in the same class with Groucho Marx or Hazel Bishop, but there is twenty-five • bucks in it for you if you write the best story submitted.

Even if you don’t win we’ll still pay you $15 if your story is good enough to publish. Stories entered in this contest don’t have to be confined to deer hunting, nor do you have to be successful in bagging game. Just so the story will have interest to our readers. A handful of pictures always go well to make up a good story.

If you haven’t written your story due to lack of time or other good reasons we’ll be patient and wait until you get around to it. However, we will have to remind you that this contest closes December 31. 1953.

Tell you what. To the person who submits the first entry in our contest—win. lose or draw—we’ll send by return mail a five-dollar bill, just for starting the ball a rolling

OHIO TO HAVE BOW AND ARROW DEER SEASON To keep our bow hunters posted on what goes on in regard to deer seasons, we are going to pass on some dope gleaned from the Cleveland (Ohio) Press. We are indebted to Hank Andrews and his column "Outdoors” for the fol­ lowing information: "Whether we like it or not, we’ll have to learn to put up with Ohio deer. They’re going to be with us a long time, no matter what happens.

Not too many years ago. whitetail deer were virtually extinct in the state. Now it is estimated there are nearly 23,000 deer in Ohio. The great majority of these are in the eastern half of the state.

“A certain amount of controlled shooting is necessarj’ to keep the herd under control so that they don't cause too much damage in orchards and on farms.

"They also create a minor—but sometimes fatal—traffic hazard. People have been killed in auto accidents caused by deer.

The reasons the Ohio Wildlife Council has authorized deer hunting in Ohio are three-fold: (1) To keep the herd under control; (2) to harvest a natural resource and (3) to provide hunters with some recreation.

"While many people never have seen a wild deer in

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Ohio, it is estimated that there are about 325 deer in Cuya­ hoga County alone. According to estimates compiled by Merrill C. Gilfillan of the Ohio Wildlife Division, there were 22,875 deer in Ohio as of July 15. The counties with the greatest deer populations arc Ashtabula, 1400; Trumbull, 1200; Geauga. 1000; Scioto, 800; Portage, 775, and Harri­ son, 750.

"Medina County, where an unsuccessfid attempt was made to close the deer season, has an estimated population of 400. This year 42 eastern counties will be open to deer hunetrs. Last year, 27 counties were open.

"Ohio’s deer season will be December 17-19 for shotgun and bow and arrow. A special season from December 20 to January 1 will be for archers only.”

BOW HUNTERS TO GET ANOTHER CRACK CRACK AT NECEDAH REFUGE Larry Whiffen, who writes a bow hunting legislation column for the Wisconsin "Bow Hunter," reports that final arrangements have been made for a December Horicon Marsh and Necedah special bow and arrow season. The dates for both refuges will be December 5 through December IS. The bag limit will be one deer of either sex. providing the bowman has not already filled his tag.

Roving A-Round © Continued from page ten.

realize that she is more puzzled than you are and you hold your second shot. She is not this year’s fawn but a yearling and a runt that hardly shows above the tall swale grass.

What a wonderful opportunity' to spoil the rest of the hunt­ ing season. It is not easy to suppress an urge to let another blade fly and to kneel and watch her pick her way to the next patch of woods. With a flick of the tail she disappears in the foliage across the way and your thoughts go back to the big buster that wouldn’t come that close to you. After you've taken inventory you feel ashamed for having shot at the little girl and are pleased that the first arrow missed her clean.

A summary of the total results of this big hunt at Ne­ cedah show that nine deer were taken by appro ornately 1000 archers. A percentage that would break the spirit of anyone but a bow hunter. Some of them stayed to finish out the rest of the week. The boys from La Crosse told a story at noon that happened on section nineteen during the morn­ ing. It seems that a fawn lost its mother and spent a few hours doing nothing but run into bow hunters. According to the story there wasn’t an arrow shot at the poor little crea­ ture and her legs finally gave out from fatigue. She lay in the oak leaves bleeting from fear and not a hair on her hide was touched. It’s tales like this that make yo : proud of the sportsmanship so prominent in bow hunters and proud that you are one of the boys.

THE FABULOUS KAIBAB FOREST Roy Hoff speaks of the Kaibab Forest almost in rev­ erence because he has been there and found it easy to paint a picture for us in his column. This year he writes with bitter words that come from a man who is disappointed with the conduct of a few would-be bow hunters and voices his respect for the Arizona Game Commission who closed the gates on the Kaibab this year. .

I wish to stand side by side with Roy Hoff and point another finger at those who were responsible for causing the Game Commission to take this action. The lowest form of creature is the man who professes sportsmanship because he hunts with a bow and arrow and then reverts to illegal methods to bring down his game. These are not bow hunters because the bow is just incidental to the purpose and allows them to be in the woods.

As a result of the Kaib-nb misfortune the N.F.A.A. is planning rigid steps that will assist in culling out the oatt apples so that other doors are not closed in our lace. An organization of our size can be the best police fol'ce,V’?' ever entered the woods. I agree with Roy that we should oe the ones to drag the stinkers to justice.

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RADAR RABBITS

By TRAVIS C. BROWN 506 Lierly St.. Taft. Calif.

Naturalists please note: I have dis­ covered a new species of rabbit in our Southern California desert regions.

Pending further study. I have assigned the temporary name of Lepus Californicus Radarii for reasons that will appear later. Vital statistics for the scientific minded (given in Fistmele’s) are as fol­ lows: Total length, 3.835: tail vertebrae .667; hind foot .834; ear from notch .750.

The Ecological history of this animal is truly amazing and I consider mysell very fortunate in having had a chance to observe it. My observations convince me of the laws of the survival of the fittest and of the theory of evolution.

I first made the acquaintance of this jackrabbit as a young man living and going to school in the town of Taft, in the southern San Joaquin Valley of California. At this time the rabbit had not become as specialized as he now is; my first twenty-two accounted for many of these animals, both standing and running, at ranges up to fifty yards.

Then came the period of some five years that I traveled in Europe, hunting big­ ger game for Uncle Sam; it was during this time that the Radarii started his amazing transformation. When once again I started shooting at things that couldn’t shoot back, I quickly discovered that a series of dry years had so re­ duced the brushy cover of the hills that the rabbits were now extremely wary and hard to get close enough to for a decent shot. Sooo - - - I laid out the getus for a wildcat .22 and a sixpower scope that would and did knock 'em winding at 300 yards; great was the slaughter.

And then, oh unlucky day, I was snooping up an arroyo in the Spellacy Hills south of town and I found an im­ perfect but genuine flint arrowhead.

While examining it, I cut my finger very slightly, but enough to become in­ jected with THE BUG. (I wonder if ' that Indian ever read Dr. Saxton Pope: “'When you lose an arrow, give it up •with good grace and hope that another 1 person will find it and in examining it, <cut himself and thereby become infected (with the same virus harbored by the ywho lost it.” (Ed. note—the quotation iis incorrect in wording, but the thought iiis the same).

Now the change: a rackful of metal tltubes starts to disappear (cheers from rmy wife), only to be replaced by a Hitter of sticks, string and feathers ((jeers—and a few tears—from the same ssource).

At this time I got my first inkling of I the new species of rabbit that roamed tthe hills around home. My "Field Book cof North American Mammals—Antlthony,” lists the range of the antelope jjackrabbit as “up to 5000 feet.” I soon ediscovered that the range had now been i increased to one heck of a long bow sshot.

Now I had a little luck. I discovered tithat I was not alone affected with the Ebow- n-arrer bug. Bill Lane left Barstow sand the tutalage of Nubby Pate to live iiin Taft and to hunt with me. Red Boehm ((now president of the Taft Bowstringeers) dug out his long stored equipment aand joined with us. I needed some dental work and discovered a couple of guys roamed Pletcher in Bakersfield (see the ^records in the back of your Handbook).

TThey introduced me to “Osage” Jim Murphy who showed me some of How­ ard Hill's equipment in his garage. It’s /ARCHERY November, 1953

winners some competition with a little nice Io know that you are not alone in more experience in field shooting, as your mental fixation; but I seem to be she is in the top Expert class of the torgetting about Radarii. division.

Now began a period of extended ob­ women's We are sorry some of the clubs could servation that has convinced me that not make it this year, but next year, the local rabbit has developed to a very with the meet possibly held more toward high extent the wartime gadget known the middle of the state, perhaps we can as Radar. These rabbits can and do all work toward all clubs having some­ pick up a hunter at fabulous ranges, next year. and avoid him with a skill that puts the oneAtthere the outdoor picnic-banquet a short eastern fox to shame. In three years of meeting was held and the following of­ hunting, the standing shots under fifty yards that I have had could be counted ficers were elected: President—Dr. Don Graves. on the fingers of one hand. The number Vice-President (field)—Milt Runyan. of rabbits that have been pinioned by Vice-President (target)—Ralph Glyn. my arrows are only slightly more nu­ Vice-President (hunting) -Tom Lewis. merous—except for once.

Winners in the men's division were: A man should be allowed to boast Rev. Eddy Lock wood. 1st; Kash Wil­ about some things, and this is mine. One 2nd; Johnny Amburgy, 3rd. day last fall. Bill Lane and I, with Bill liams.

Women (free style): Alta Benedict.

----- 1 Alexander, and Daniel Webb, Howard Women (instinctive): Thelma Putman.

(Boone)1 Mixon of the Bowstringers 1st; Louise Botts, 2nd; Mildred Wil­ ses. thank gosh l went hunting (witnesses, 3rd. on the Finley 1 — Ranch in Upper Cuyama liams, Junior boys: Wayne Donaho. 1st; Geo. ,. and Valley, and on that day—which shall Brockman. 2nd; Ismael Kennedy. 3rd. :r be marked in red—I only had forever Junior girls: Anita Putman. four shots, ___ but I clobbered the first third and downed the two. missed the fourth. All were running shots at about Marion (O.) Archers’ forty yards.

I can’t figure a way to put a teleun a bow. so I am still Fall Championship scope sight on to get close enough working on a method rr.c Sunday.

Sept. 13th the Marion (Ohio) to those Radarii, or• them close enough Archers held their Fall Field Champion­ to me. to pick up an : occasional small ship Tournament.

B ___ point. In the meantime. I suggest game Fair weather prevailed and the shoot­ that tl._; John "Yount, or whoever decides on ing got under way at 9:30 a.m. for the = me award values, assign at least small game ,g <" of one star sapphire pin for the first 28 targets. a rating At the end of the afternoon round, Radarii.

Lepus Californicus I':.... the combined scores gave the champion­ ship to E. J. Leadenham. secretary of the Marion Archers: Fred Cooperrider was second, and Kitty Cooperrider third, First Annual Tourney with Frank Louck in fourth position.

Of interest is the fact that Leaden­ ham entered the tournament with a For Kentucky Archers considerable handicap, having previously visited a doctor who took seven stitches

By DK. DONALD GRAVES in his bow arm and and gave him a tetanus shot.

Frenchburg, Kentucky

We had a perfect day for the first New Champs for Red annual championship field tournament of Kentucky. It was held at French­ Cedar Bowmen burg, home of the Menifee Archers and is located in the foothills of the Cum­

By BETTY LIFFORD berland Hills so, of necessity, had a 2035 Robinson. Lansing. Mich. difficult course. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and the general opinion seemed The Red Cedar Bowmen of Lansing. to be that it was perfect for hunting Michigan held its Field Championship nractice but that no high score would Tournament September 13 at the Rose Ibe made.

Conservation Field Course.

The trails were fairly easy and did Lake Clarence Ward, with a score of 723, not take an athlete to use. and in fact was crowned champion in the men's there were three handicapped persons division, with Philip Nichols. 2nd, and in the tournament and except for the 56 Brendahl. 3rd. targets in one day would not have been James First place ofr the women went to Betty Lifford, with a score of 697. a problem to them.

There were approximately 70 regis­ Dorothy Clay was 2nd and Sue Smith. trants. Eight of Kentucky's 12 archery clubs competed and seven of the eight 3rd.

Jimmy Dyer was crowned junior clubs had prize winners. NFAA medals champion when he turned in the rewere awarded to place winners and in­ markable score of 640. Carol Huntoon dividual trophies given to the champions.

A large figured trophy for the Aten s topped the junior girls.

Instinctive Champion was donated by Dr. and Mrs. Lee Heise of Shelbyville We are manufacturers of the to go for one year to each champion parallel hole plastic nocks. who wins it. Some 4th and 5th places, They do not break or come off and and low scores, were given prizes of will stand a heavy string. bows and arrows, thanks to Fred Bear, Our sales arc now running over 8 Stream-Eze, Plyflex, Squire Williams, million each year, they must be Dr. Heise and Dr. Graves for dona­ satisfied users. tion of tackle.so far, is almost entirely Kentucky, 1 Doz., 30c; 100. 51.50; 500, $5.00 instinctive shooters in field events. Alta Benedict, woman's state target cham­ Monte Vista Archery Co. pion. was the only sight shooter to finish 8908 S. Tacoma Way, Tacoma, Wash. the course and her score of 431, tor almost the first time on a field course, indicates she could give the National Page Seventeen

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ROPER’S RELEASE

By LOWELL ROPER

6307 Mountain Blvd., Oakland. Calif.

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A PAGE FROM ROPER’S DICTIONARY Tournament arrows—Arrows that fly perfectly when you're practicing.

Point — What everyone does when you ask which way did that arrow go?

Shaft—A deep hole in the ground. A good place to throw your tackle.

Crest—An arrangement of colors on your arrows to keep the other archers honest.

Buck—A species of the deer family with the ability to remove their antlers when they are in your vicinity.

Target 29—a place where you should have gone about an hour ago.

Quiver—What most archers do when they see a bear.

Bow case—Something you keep in the car.

Work shop—The place where you used to keep your car.

Broadhead—An arrow you usually pull out of a tree.

Shooting technique—Something you wish you didn’t have, when your op­ ponent hits the target without any of it.

Field range—A lonely place on work Sundays.

Point of aim—An imaginary spot on the ground, used mostly to start argu­ ments.

DEER HUNTING There have been dozens of stories and articles written on "Deer Hunting.” and how to succeed at it. You have read most of them and. no doubt, you have your own pet theories. However, there may be some of you who know less than I do. If so. I hope this will help you.

When you go into an area to hunt, look for sign-tracks, trails, etc.; check them for recent usage. If there are deer in the vicinity, they are using the game trails, which are their streets and side­ walks. Now proceed very slowly and silently in the wind. There is nothing to be gained in moving at all if the terrain is open. Deer can see a move­ ment for a great distance, and will treat all action as a potential enemy.

They will not proceed until this move­ ment has been identified to their satis­ faction. If the country you're hunting in is open (without cover) it is best to conceal yourself and wait for them to come to you.

By looking at the game trails you can tell which direction the deer have gone, and whether or not they are bucks or does. The buck’s track is usually larger and there are two small gouges made by his dew claws, just behind the main track.

If you are concealed in a blind waiting for deer and you see a movement which you decide is a deer, don’t yell at the top of your voice. I won’t tell you not to get excited, that you can’t help, but don’t try to better your position unless you are positive everything is in your favor. Deer have protruding eyes which enable them to see any movement with­ in about four-fifths of a circle, and many times the one you see may have his head behind a tree. However, there may be another deer which you haven’t seen, looking at you. Your best bet is to keep still and take your chances. Here’s a trick I have worked successfully a number of times. When you jump one Page Eighteen

or more deer, you hear them crash through the brush, run just as fast as you can toward them for about 30 to 50 yards, and pick out a log, stump, rock or something to jump up on. Then stand very still and look for your game. Sev­ eral times I have observed my quarry quite close, looking for or at me.

Here’s another trick that works: When you see one or more bucks, may­ be you get a shot and miss, or perhaps you’ don’t get a shot. Determine the direction he is going and make a wide circle. Be sure he can’t see you as you go away and around. Then cautiously stalk him in the area you think he is apt to be. Just recently I have decided that deer can tell the difference between red or bright colors, from the natural colors. As a rule. I wear brown buck­ skins when I'm hunting, but this par­ ticular time I wore a bright red-sueded horsehide slip-over shirt, and I topped a rise and was standing in plain view when suddenly I saw everything but the head of a large deer at about 25 yards. I stood very still waiting for it to show me its value, which it soon did, looking straight in my direction. He took a very short look and was off. Now. I can’t help but believe the red shirt gave me away. Many's the time I have stood still and had does and fawns walk up within 10 feet of me when I was wearing clothing which blended with the natural surroundings.

SIERRA SEASON Another archery hunting season has come and gone in California and all except sixty-two, can still see the bot­ tom of their deep freeze. The aroma that comes from mine, certainly can’t be confused with venison.

This seemed to be “amateur’s year.” “ladies’ day,” and “two for the money.”

Three ladies, all from the Bay area, bagged their bucks, and several others had lots of shooting and enough ex­ citement to keep them on edge until next year.

Three ex-riflemen shot their bucks, then just to prove to their many friends and skeptics that it wasn’t just an ac­ cident, they shot another one.

For most of the sixty-two, it was a brand new experience, and one they won’t soon forget.

We hunted, as usual, in and around Medicine Lake, and on the second day of the season, George Anderson of Tur­ lock, downed a beautiful big three-point mule deer. Of course, they say the more a story is told the better it gets, but I heard that this was his first hunt with the bow, and that he twanged his first bowstring just a few weeks before the archery season. It’s like I've often said, "The only way you can kill a deer is by shooting at them.”

Carolyn, my B. W., and I, for the past few years have been taking a ’teen age boy along on our hunting trips, and we would like to recommend it as a good deal. This year, David Pickering, the boy next door, went along and it gave us so much satisfaction to realize how much he enjoyed the trip. Of course, Gene Price, always goes along— he is a professional cook, and that’s a good deal, too. If we could just find a professional wood-chopper our party would be complete.

Last and least, we took our threemonth-old Diana. Now I can just hear a lot of you sigh and say, “My good­ ness, imagine taking a three-month-old baby up into the wild and wooly woods for two weeks,” but wait a minute.

It worked out swell, and she really en­ joyed it. We rented a house trailer, one of those not too big ones, that sleeps

four—well, three and a half. It has one big double bed, very comfortable, with a bunk up above it, then the dining table seats on each side of a drop-hinge table, makes into a comfortable bed for one. We didn't use this, as Dave and Gene slept in the back bedroom, out under the stars. It also has a sink, a three-burner butane stove, with an oven, an ice box, and lots of storage space.

We ate our meals inside when the weather was cold, and what comfort it is to sit there looking out a large view window at a roaring campfire as we ate. And in the early morning, with frost and ice all over, just light the oven and in five minutes we were warm as toast. It really isn’t expensive.

Seventy dollars for two weeks is cheap­ er than owning it, and you don't have to buy a license or anything else.

Another thing, it will do a lot for the moral of that little wife. Think it over!

HEAP BIG .MEDICINE When we pulled in at the store and ranger station at Medicine Lake, Nick and a guy greeted us with wide grins.

Finally we came around to the business at hand, and asked if and where the buck’s were.

Nick says. “Three or four days ago. on the Tide Lake Road, we were forced to stop while seven legal bucks crossed the road.”

Needless to say, opening day we were there, just daring them to cross that road. Sure enough we saw three. one illegal fork with two big five- .1 nd sixpointers, too far away and in the pines.

We left the car and I took i wide sweeping arc to try to get beyon 1 them.

I soon decided I had made a bad move, so I started looking for wild geese, when suddenly' I stumbled out onto the road. When I took stock I realized the road made a long horseshoe turn, and in all probability the bucks were still within that arc. Before I had time to ponder, I looked up and there about a hundred yards in the general direction of the car, I saw a beautiful collection of antlers bobbing up and down and moving directly toward me. Talk about a dream coming true. There it "a.sHow many times have you been in beautiful deer country and picked out a nice spot about thirty-five or so yards, and let your imagination build an enormous big buck. 14 points or so.

You map the pattern of the arrows flight, even picture your entrance into camp, on down to riding down Main Street in an open car with ticker-tape and all. , That’s the way I felt, with all those antlers coming right at me. I figured they would stop at about 15 or 20 yards and that would be it. _ They didn’t do that. Instead the) turned left at about fifty yards, still irw the cover of eight-foot Christmas lraes— I back tracked several yards, W they crossed the trail made on my «a>across there five minutes before. Theta must have scented my tracks, because they shifted into “overdrive” or “passing gear.” You might say, “they ran io deer life,” and the only opportunity I a shot was at, you guessed it. tn forked-horn.

On our way back to camp we m a Mr. and Mrs. Dallahay. probaW spelled wrong, anyway' the game «a^ den from Tide Lake. They gave us__ lot of valuable information on wne__ the bucks were apt to be at this n, of year. You know what a game "'arT_— is? He’s the man who keeps yo111’ thusiasm on a par with your science.”

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ARCHERY November,

Haugen Wins Alabama Field Title

By CHARLES B. McKEE 1522 Madison Ave.. Montgomery, Ala. Arnold O. Haugen of Auburn won the Alabama Field Archery Champion­ ship in the Fourth Annual Field Cham­ pionships held at Auburn on October 4th.

"Doc” shot a 670 score and did it free style instead of his usual instinctive style. Haugen, NFAA vice-president, and secretary of his Chewacla Bowmen Club, was also field captain.

Mrs. Kitty Adams. Birmingham, re­ tained her ladies' title with a score of 317. The junior boys’ trophy was won by Gary Jones of Montgomery with a score of 108; while Sallie Hau­ gen of Auburn took the girls’ champion­ ship with a score of 147.

The out-of-state honors were won by James Banks, Atlanta, Ga., who shot 375 to take the men’s award, and by Ola Davis of Columbus, Ga., who took the ladies’ title with 192. Nine Georgians competed in the tournament. , Class B men’s award was won by Clyde Pair, of Birmingham. Ala., with 468 points. Mrs. Helen Weller, Mont­ gomery, won the ladies class B title with a 98 score. The men’s class C division was won by Bill Walton, La­ fayette, 211. course Good weather and a„ tough ___ gave the 51 archers a fine day and the afternoon crowd of spectators followed the various groups around the 14-target course.

Ribbons, cups, bowls and trophies were presented to the winners by state association president Charles B. McKee. Little Chris Haugen entered his first archery tournament and although only three years old was awarded a special ribbon.

The Alabama bow hunting season for deer will be November 14-29th inclusive and deer of male sex can be taken any­ where in the state except in National Forests. Non-resident 7-day license is 85.00 and annual is $25.00.

Joplin Bow Hunters’ Fall Tournament

New Officers For

Ohio State Field Tournament Results

Ridgewood Archers

By OSWALD DEITER 45 N. Broad St.. Ridgewood. N. J.

By ROBERT J, MURPHY 530 N. Main St., Dayton, Ohio Over one hundred archers were pres­ ent at the Annual Ohio State Field Tourney, held at George Rogers Clark State Park on September 19th and 20th at Springfield, Ohio.

Shooting began at 10:00 a.m. over a 56-target field course in a day long rain which unfletched quite a number of arrows.

That evening a banquet was held at the Rustic Inn on Route 40, just out of Springfield, with 92 attending, A wonderful turkey dinner started things off toward a fine and enjoyable evening.

Bill Brown, president of the Ohio Field Archers, asked for nominations for the position he now holds and three were received—Bill Brown, Frank Haines, president of the Tecumseh Field Archers and Pat Sears, also a member of the local club. Then there was held a cash drawing for fifty' bucks which was won by a gentleman from Atlanta, Georgia, who donated the money to the Ohio Field Archers.

The last item on the agenda was per­ haps the most interesting of all—a 20minute movie entitled “Moose Diary”

by Fred Bear. Sunday at 9:30 a.m. the 56-target broadhead round began and with plenty of sunshine. At the end of the two-day shoot the following cham­ pions were crowned: Men (free style)—George Urschel; (instinctive), Al Schum.

Women (free style)—Eleanor Moczadlo; (instinctive), Ann Sellars.

Junior boy—Ronnie Ockerman.

Junior girl—Nancy Brenneman.

To all the members of the host club, the Tecumseh Field Archers, should go a big vote of thanks for a well laid out and beautiful 56-target course and to the "big three” Frank Haines, Jim Stokes and Bob Taylor.

The Ridgewood Archers held their first annual general meeting September 15th at the Ridgewood Police Pistol Range. Ridgewood. New Jersey.

Prior to the business meeting several members exercised their bow muscles on some new targets. Mayor A. J. Faber and Police Captain Stephen Janas made inquiries concerning the art of archery.

Members then indulged in a cook-out.

Delightful special dishes had been pre­ pared by our lady enthusiasts.

The meeting was called by our acting president. The temporary officers were now duly elected accredited officers of the club.

President—R. P. Cutting.

Vice-President—Harry Gaines.

Treasurer—Ruth Gaines.

Secretary—Dr. Oswald B. Deiter.

Paul Tufts and Lea Bottari were elected Directors for two and one year respectively.

The Village Commissioners have given permission to the Ridgewood Archers to lay out a 14-target course on a plot of ground immediately adjacent to the Po­ lice Pistol Range where we now have one large sheltered target.

The Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. has consented to a proposition that we use a large base­ ment room for a winter indoor range.

In turn we offer to sponsor archery in­ struction for junior boys and girls.

Our membership is growing slowly; members’ shooting is improving notice­ ably and. generally, interest in archery is increasing. The overall picture is pleasant progress.

PLAN NOW

St. Louis. Mo. - - - July 3-4-5 1954 MIDWESTERN TOURNAMENT

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By CATHRYN MARTIN Rt. 2, Box 78, Joplin, Mo.

The Joplin Bow Hunters of Joplin, Mo., held its Fall Tournament Sep­ tember 20th.

We had a wonderful day and we shot a 28-target field round in the morning and a 28-target NFAA broadhead round in the afternoon. This was a handicap tournament, but Delmer Riley won it even without the handicap. Earl Gilliam was second and Paul Cupp third.

An election of officers was held fol­ lowing the shoot and the new officers are as follows: President—Jack Marvin.

Vice-President—Jack Redman.

Sec’y-Treas.—Elizabeth Watson.

Director—Byron Martin.

The following week 22 members at­ tended a banquet and installation. We had as our guest, Jim Lynch, well known trick shot in sports shows, school as­ semblies and on television. He spent one Saturday afternoon at our range demonstrating his shooting and equip­ ment and that night he showed his film.

"King Archer” for the club at the Eagles Lodge.

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With the Beginner

By EDWIN A. FENSCH

474 Parkview St.. Mansfield, Ohio

somewhere on the ball of the first joints.

Every person will find some distinct spot more comfortable than any other, and that spot should determine the lo­ cation of the crease in the glove.

Finally, the archer will want other equipment including some form of quiver for carrying arrows, pliers, string wax, a fletching Tool, adhesives, etc.

Quivers come in many forms: shoul­ der quivers, belt quivers bow quivers and ground quivers. Shoulder quivers are the most common, and are almost a necessity for roving, field courses and hunting.’ Shoulder quivers are made of leather, plastic or cloth and are designed for either the right- or left-handed shooter.

Belt quivers are smaller than shoul­ der quivers. These are usually small tubes made of leather or plastic that fasten to the belt at the waist, on the side of the shooting hand Belt quivers do not hold as many arrows as shoulder quivers.

Bow quivers hold two or three arrows at the front of the bow where they are ready at an instant’s notice for the hunter.

Ground quivers are used in target shooting where one shoots from the same spot for a number of times.

Ground quivers are usually made of a metal rod with a metal circle at the top. The rod is pushed into the ground and the arrows are inserted in the top circle and rest with their tips on the ground. The archer may then reach down and withdraw one arrow' at a time as he shoots. A similar variation is a quiver made of wood for indoor shooting. The beginner should not learn to throw his arrows on the ground: he should keep them in some form of quiver. Good arrows should be carefully handled, not thrown about like a bundle of faggots.

In roving, hunting or shooting field courses, a pair of pliers should be car­ ried to help work loose arrows that are stuck in trees, roots and other places classed as "unfortunate misses.”

After breaking a few newly purchased arrows, the beginner will discover the economy of a pair of pliers in his hip pocket or in the pocket of his quiver.

Wax should be carried because bow­ strings should be well waxed at all times, and a tube of adhesive is often hand}' to glue a feather back in place.

Finally, every archer needs some form of fletcher to repair his arrows.

To be done properly, this gadget is nec­ essary. Repairs can be made by applying glue or an adhesive to the feather and then sticking it back on the shaft with pins or wrapping it to the shaft with string, but the beginner will then won­ der why one of his arrows flirts about when shot. To be corny, a thing worth doing is worth doing right—so buy a fletching tool, unless you prefer to throw the arrow away and buy a new arrow each time a feather comes off!

Since we have talked about bows and missiles—arrows—at some length, it is about time we discussed the various odds and ends that arc also important in actual shooting. Although one can easily shoot a few times without the tackle we are about to describe, no one will try such a stunt for many­ shots. It’s too painful!

Two of the essentials to good shoot­ ing are protective devices. A good arm guard and a shooting glove or tab are absolutely necessary, unless you shoot a toy bow. Arm guards come in different sizes and shapes and are made from a variety of materials ranging from leather to plastic. The arm guard should fit the shooter’s arm comfortably- and should cover the inside of the arm where the string slap is apt to cause bruises. For the summer time, a nar­ row, light-weight guard is satisfactory.

For winter shooting and hunting with a heavy bow a hunter’s guard is rec­ ommended for two reasons. First of all. the heavy bow causes more of a slap when the string hits the arm. and this calls for better protection. Second, the heavier, wider guard will fit around heavier clothing better and will keep the winter, outdoor sleeve or a coat strap­ ped to the arm and out of the way when shooting.

In shooting, the archer has a choice of two ty'pes of protection for his fingers —a glove or a tab. The glove is usuallymade of leather and fits over the first, middle and ring finger of the hand used to pull the string. For those who do not like the feel of a glove on the hand, a tab made of leather is used. This is cut so that the fingers slip through three holes and the leather is then bent back over the inside of the fingers making a cushion of leather between the string and the fingers of the shoot­ ing hand. Either type must be used in shooting, for the skin cannot stand the abrasive action of the bowstring for more than a few shots. (Once in awhile one meets an archer who can shoot regularly without a glove or tab, but you can rest assured that he doesn’t usually shoot a heavy bow.)

Shooting gloves must be bought to fit the fingers and even then adjustments must be made. If the closest fit avail­ able is still too tight for the archer’s fingers, Tracy Stalker recommends moulding forms the same size and shape of the fingers, then thoroughly soaking the glove in water and forcing the forms into the finger ends and allowing the glove to dry with the forms in place.

Next, the glove should be soaked again and with the glove on the hand, the Two Oregon Field crease for the string should be worked into the leather by pulling on a wire as Clubs Merge though the wire were the bowstring.

When the glove dries, the crease will

By BOB HAWKINS be permanently fixed into the leather and the glove is ready for shooting.

Last night, September 3, 1953, at a Stalker recommends using a clothes special meeting, the Rogue Archers and line for working in the crease, although Oregon Trail Bowmen, two Oregon field any wire attached so that a good pull clubs, joined forces and are now one. can be exerted on it will do the trick.

The members of the O.T.B. voted to Before working in this crease, the take the name of Rogue Archers, be­ beginner should know just where he cause you people who read Archery likes the bowstring to rest on his fingers Magazine already know who the Rogue —in the depression between the first Archers are and also of the several and second joints of the fingers or champions registered under that club Page Twenty

name. (New Oregon stale broadhead champion for this year is Joe McDuffie.)

Our club expanded to better than seven score members.

Newly' elected officers for Rogue Archers are as follows: President—Milo Barnes.

Vice-President—Joe McDuffie.

Secretary—Janis Browne.

Treasurer—Harry Withrow.

Field Capt.—Floyd Jenkins.

Very high spirit was evident among all members, and I am sure that a lot more for archery can be accomplished now that we are working together which could not have been accomplished as two separate clubs.

The Oregon Trail Bowmen had a verynice indoor range and club house, rent free, where the old club of the Rogue Archers was paying $15.00 a month for a building that had seen better days.

The Rogue Archers had, as an old club, and now have as a new club, a very nice field and broadhead range.

(Two separate ranges.)

So all and all everyone thinks that we have a much stronger club and will accomplish more to add to the spirit of archery.

I am rather cramped for time tonight because, you see, next Friday I am loading up to take off "back again” to good old Hart Mountain. So, be seein you “with the bacon” in a little while— if all goes as planned.

It’s Turkey Time Again At Pasadena

By DOUG KITTREGE 1421 Mission St.. South Pasadena. Calif.

The 6th Annual Pasadena Turkey Shoot will be held at the Pasadena Roving Range in the Arroyo Seco below the Colorado Street Bridge, November 15th—the third Sunday.

Ten novelty events, a 14-target ani­ mal field round, 2 re-entry targets, door prizes and - - - at least twenty big "Gorgeous George” turkeys for the lucky7 winners.

Shooting starts promptly' at 9:30 a.m.

Entry fee only $1.50 per person. Bring your lunch—coffee, beer and soft drinks will be available. Be our guests at archery’s greatest shoot of the year.

Anyone, young or old, can win. win. See See you there.

Tulare County Archers To Have Turkey Shoot

By PAUL HOUGHAM Box 1287, Visalia, Calif.

The Tulare County (Calif.) Archery Club recently held a special meeting at which time plans were made Io noin an Invitational Turkey Shoot at tne Cutler Park Roving Range. Novemoei 22nd. The range will be set up for a short round of targets and there wit also be novelty booths for all oaj shooting. , > We plan to have the prizes awarue and the shoot conducted so that ou visitors can get under way toward non whenever they wish—early in the atte noon or stay as late as they like. . ..

Everyone who wishes to attend tn shoot is cordially invited to attend.

If accommodations are needed, plea? address a postcard to Clyde Scott, care of Visalia Police Dept.. \isa Calif., not later than Nov. 18th.

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THERMO-BASE Feather Process

September, 1953 •cher» Open only to arc ------- using a sight, pin, or mark of some kind. Please ■ ■ - membership card and be sure you are In good check your N.F.A.A. standing. We cannot give prize* to non-members, and who know* HANDICAP WINNERS: .

In this year’s tournilament there are no separate handicap divisions, classes, reryone. Men. - are but everyone.

Men. Women, and Juniors, as well as all clar-'-' single ju- as they would competing ’ major handicap tournament just impel>tin:< in a sing be• in a well run club tournaj tournamei Score 972 iss. men ’ ' Joe. Open Cla> 1st Fries.

Score 94 6 Class, men ~ Powell. Ruben, Ruben. Open 2nd Score 910 inn Class, men Boyle. ; .

Bill.

Bowmi Bo 1 3rd Score 910 Mix. Agnes, Agnes. Op< Open Class, women Ith Mix, Score 907 )pen Clast;s. men 5th Smith. John M., O'.

896 Score Class, men Open < 6th Applebaum. Norman.

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490 5. Doll. llean. San Diego Field Archers.

■11, Mary, San Diego Field Archers. ........ 468 6. Powell, 381 Pontiac Archers 7. Orr. Helen, I 155 ---- Winifred, Centre Archers 8. Thorsen.

BOWMAN: 327 1. Coffey, Dorothy, L. A. Police Archers........

2. Hyde, Betty, Rochester Archers "’.284 3 Lovell, Nellie. San Diego Field Archers 149 4. Mazar., Mary, Tri-Cities Bowmen ...

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Rochester Archers 5. Cook. 1 98 6. Potter., Hazel. Canandaigua Archery Club.

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OPEN CLASS: 0 972 1. Fries. Joe. Griffith Municipal Archers 97 2 0 2. Powell. Ruben, San Diego Field Archers 946 94 6 1 83 1 3. Giardina. Nick. San Diego Field Archers 7 94 789 0 I. Greenwood, John, Los Angeles Police Archers 7 89 907 1 5. Smith. John M.» Pontiac Archers 787 3 6. Moran, 759 839 Moran. Bill, Griffith Municipal Archers 896 6 7. <. Applebaum, Appleb; Norman, Pasadena Roving Archers....736 812 8. Lowry. Bob. Pontiac Archers..............

9. Simon. George. Griffith Municipal Archers.

Archers 10. Brown.

709 ~809 5 rn. Gaile, Griffith Municipal A 704 784 11. Gardner, lers Iner, Preston. Rochester Archi 691 12. Dolby.. Max. Pontiac Archers, 731 M ing Archers... .690 850 13. Vasque, Lee, Pasadena Rovin thers .684 844 14. Payne, Russell, Pontiac Arche 7 aigua Archers.

681 781 5 15. Senglaub, Robert, Canandair ’ .672 16. Doll. Gordon, San Diego 1Field Archers, igua Archers Sanford, Powell, Canandaigua 655 735 4 .629 729 6 1 8. Stark, Sid. Pontiac Archers...

624 6 1 9. Keller, Ervin, Flint Bowmen..

Deyne. Don, Pasadena Roving Archers .624 66 1 3 . Hyde, Raymond, Rochester Archers .612 752 7 22. Mix, Mi: Glenn, Rochester Archers, Inc .605 765 8 _J. 23. Calhoun, Gene, Pontiac Archers .591 731 7 24. La Vire, Joseph, Pontiac Archers .587 727 25. Fagerstrom, Bill, Griffith Municipal Archers. .541 701 26. Stukaloff, E. F., Griffith Municipal Archers... .485 27. Thorsen, Torger, Centre Archers .275 Inc. EXPERT BOWMAN. CLASS B: 1. Kendall, Joe, Charleston Archery J Club 709 889 X-A7 2. Smith, Harold4 W., W.» San Diego Fie Field Archers 653 9 8.3 3. Wilkinson,. Dick, Rochester Arch< Archers, Inc 635 855 10 4. Mazar, Wm. Bowmen 621 'm. S., Tri-Cities Bown 1 1 881 5. Lawson, Ken, Chautaut Chautauqua Lake Archers 590 6. Coffey, Allen P., L. A. Police Archers 588 828 1 1 .. Knoblock, Jerry, Flint Bowmen....................................... 555 1 1 8. Walmsley.Bill, ----- Los Angeles Policee Archers Archers.

527 727 10 Hyde, Jim,. Pasadena Roving Archers 522 lers............. ib’ Wiltse, Geo Geo., Bay City Bowmen 489 11. Kress, Charles, C._ Rochester Archers 469 709 13 12. Butterfield, ‘:cld, Clem, Pasadena Roving Archers 467 667 11 13. Watson. ’ Ai Art, Bay City Bowmen 461 14. Hall. Robei .w./ert,. Pasadena Roving Archers 45 1 654 11 15. Deckbar. Don, Atlanta Field Archers 4 39 679 13 16. Dunlap, Dick, ~ Pontiac Archers Arch 4 27 64 7 12 17. Shay, Robert. Canandaigua Archery lery Club Club.

4 11 731 16 18. Stratford.

Leslie, Canandai, ------------- — ------- Canandaigua Archers Archers... ..................... 238 Inc. 14 19. Freeman.

I’~n ~ ~ • • Robert, Canandaigua Archers 208 Inc. 13 BOWMAN:' /MAN: 1. Boyle, ' -< Bill, Canandaigua Archery Club 590 910X-B14 2. Serth,i, Austin, Rochester Archers, Inc .515 855 15 3. Baker, Osborne, Osboi Rochester Archers............ .149 769 16 4. Bowmastei ister, Harold, San Diego Field Archers 4■ 47“ 827 18 5. Perre, Jack, Griffith Municipal Archers................... 436 7 36 15 6. Barnes, Barne1 Phil, Los Angeles Police Archers 4 27 16 Petertyl, Louis A., Tri-Cities Bowmen 352 8. Pignet, Bob, Los Angeles Police Archers 303 643 9. Faw Fawv< ver. Phil, Indian Trail Bowmen 302 682 20 10. E_.

Reynolds, J., Centre Archers 190 Inc. 11. Fui Lyndon, Canandaigua Archery Club 188 Inc. 12. Elli z..hson. Elwood C., Central New York Bowmen....178 Inc. 13. VI right, Charles H., Tri-Cities Bowmen 165 Inc. 16 , Jim, Painted Post Field Archers 138 Inc. 18 Ie’ A- L., Conn. Hill Field Archers 1.33 Inc. 20 ARCHER: V »Jull’inK,,.!Ienry Charleston Archery Club 352 7 92 21 Mavrl, Walter, Rochester Archers 134 Inc. 3. Hopper, John, Painted Post Archers 96 Inc. B20

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Indiana. Deer were taken in the Dead Stream Swamp at Roscommon. Mich. Hunters

are, I. to r.: Don Erickson, Harvey Zehrung. Bob Takace. Al Csapo, Mike Dutoi (rear)

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Richard Thompson, of Mt. Clemens. Michigan, displays bag

Roper. Front row: (center) Paul Sires and two friends, not Identified.

five carp and three gar pike taken from the Clinton Rivcr-

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Floyd Eccleston CHIPPEWA ARCHERY Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Arrows^DOTI FIELD ARROWS

Roper’s Release • Continued from page eighteen.

We had a wonderful trip, saw lots of deer, quite a few legal bucks. This area is restricted to three-points or better, otherwise we could have all had our buck. We had many beautiful oppor­ tunities to take nice fat forked-horns, had they been legal. Three years ago we had the place to ourselves, but this year there were dozens of camps flying the feathered crest.

The elevation there is 7,500 feet.

Medicine Lake is of volcanic origin, in the neighborhood of 800 feet deep, and according to one of the local inhabitants, the bottom is solid ice, all year around.

It is well stocked with several species of trout and they were surely hungry.

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The whole area is very beautiful and interesting. We were especially intrigued by the names of the different peaks, etc.

Here are some that come to mind: "Six Shooter Buttes," "Dead Horse Springs.”

"Undertaker Camp.” "Pain Springs," “Grasshopper "Toad Well Spring, cchnnnr.

Spring, ” A ovGnn Qinb ” Flats,” "Bear Wallow,” “Arnica Sink," Leg — Cave,” "Hippo Buttes," "Hercules ‘T ’ ,l, ”’ “Skull Cave.” "Bear "Devil's Mush Pot, id dozens of others.

Paw Buttes," anc. an extra day after the We stayed closed and dug up some infor­ __ ___ season <' mation. Found out there used to be big their horn sheep in that area, and' 11 trails are still to be seen, We saw them. More about that next month.

GOLDEN ARROW The merit of an arrow is in follow­ ing it to the target.

HEARD ON THE RANGE “Well, good luck. Hope you come in second.”

FEATHERS GRADED AS TO EXACT GRADE SPECIFICATION Neatly bundled in bundles of 100 each. Rights or lefts.

Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. Free sample on request.

FLETCHERS and

TRIMMERS It unavailable at your Dealer, Write for Catalog.

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Dyed Barred .85 1 doz. .30 .70 .50 4.85 100 4.15 1.62 2.85 37.95 1000 32.85 12.65 22.91 (Dec. 1 st Delivery) Dyed Whites 1 doz.

1.00 .85 .35 .55 6.45 100 1.95 2.40 5.40 44.95 1000 38.90 14.98 28.85 Dyed Buff or Nebraskan (Yellow or Orange) ' .35 1.00 1' doz. .85 .55 ■100 6.45 5.40 1.95 2.40 44.95 1000 38.90 14.98 28.85 (Prices subject to change without notice)

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Please send check or money order with order.

We have no C.O.D. credit facilities.

Price List and Catalogue Available

“IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT UTAH TURKEY BELT”

HENRY MARAVIOV

PROVO ARCHERY FEATHER COMPANY

715 So. Locust Circle, Compton :

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A Sportsman’s Magazine Devoted to Hunting and Field

Published Monthly

at Palm Desert, California ROY HOFF, Editor

Box H, Palm Springs, California Twwenty-five cents per copy. Subscription raiates: $2.25 per year in U.S.A, and South Armerica; $2.50 in Canada; $2.75 for all atlther foreign subscriptions. Membership in NJ.F.A.A. is $1.00 per year. If combination meiembership and magazine is desired, dedixuct 25c from subscription price.

IDuarte Archers Stage William Tell Shoot

By WARREN SALMON 27760 Fish Canyon Rd.. Duarte. Calif.

TThe Duarte (Calif. 1 Foothill Archers ’agged their first annual William Tell -.11 Novelty Shoot, Sunday, September 7 . at the San Gabriel Valley Archery ■association roving range at Charter akk.

Tib be perfectly honest, we were more ■.inn skeptical as we placed the targets * tthe morning of the big day. Our club = inn its first year and we really wanted 3 pput this event over in a big way. Our -Sklicity had not been too widespread, o when Bill Manners of Riverside, Jack .eedisueli. Cliff Walters and gang from Lit Bernardino came in at nine a.m., ■; i pounced on them like roosters on a -s'-e bug and despite competition from x L. A. County Fair, a couple other cai! shoots and a day that promised ijgght but rain, the event drew quite large crowd and we let them start ’.Moting ahead of the scheduled 10 a.m.

TiTne targets consisted of fourteen legal 'i i illegal shots such as a doe and .dfk. game birds and song birds, etc.

Leegal shots were scored plus and ilrail scored minus. Scoring directions -ree on the target faces. Oh yes. we j o» slipped in a stinker Target 12 was

FIELD SCORE CARDS

a real cinch lor the ^sharpies. Il was a large hog at thirty yards and re­ ceived many fatal arrows: Imagine the reaction when the scoring directions read: "You have just shot a farmer's prize sow—minus 20 for each hit. Of course, no one told how he came out on score until everyone had finished, then the main topic of discussion was the farmer’s sow.

It was possible to make a score of plus 580 or minus 540. There was a prize for each and one tor nearest guess.

Bill Willis of Sierra Bowmen walked off with high score of 105 plus. John Erwin of Valley Bowmen had low score of minus 115 and Katy Ogle of Alham­ bra won the nearest guess. She guessed minus 25 and finished with a neat 0.

Cliff Walters of Arrowhead Bowmen won a set of dural arrows on the score card drawing.

There were also drawings for 15 other prizes ranging from aluminum arrows to cans of fried beans.

We rate this first venture a great success and next year hope to see a lot of you folks whom we meet for the first time in this article.

Oh oh! Sitting here in my backyard writing this. I see something that would make any archer put aside his pen.

Three deer just crossed the firebreak to the north. Gotta string my how. So long.

NOCK-EASE

45 doz.

“Hell Bent” ® Continued from page four.

the blood, has penetrated at least six inches.”

I got up, put on my jacket, and walked over to him and sure enough, it looked like a good hit. We were going to make another drive and then come back and track the deer.

We always give our wounded deer a little time after a hit so we will have a better chance to recover them. There was a good blood trail and we were going to follow it just a short distance to get a general idea which way she was going. We only went a short dis­ tance when we came upon the deer dead, lying on her back with her feet in the air. She had slid into a hollow made by a cradle knoll where she died.

The arrow had penetrated about five inches in front of the hip. Penetration was not complete but the damage must have been done when the arrow pulled out. She was laying 7-1 steps from where the arrow hit. She was a very large doe. weighing 150 pounds, and my second deer. We got three that season which means we had more than our share of luck.

There isn't anything that beats bow limiting tor sport and recreation.

The Sight That 3s As Accurate As a Rifle

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postage paid 10% Discount on 5,000

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LANE PRINTING CO. CHARLEROI. PENNA.

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WlERY November, 1953

NOCK-EASE is now enthusiastically approved by thousands of archers.

Available through most dealers, 11/32" and 5/16" in 6 colors. In hundred lots, $3.00.

L. C. Whiffen Co. 209 W. Wells St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

Price $5.00 W. D. Hite Hardware TECUMSEH, MICH.

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Identify your equipment with Decals Name anti Address Decals 250 for only $3.00

EVERYTHING FOR THE ARCHER

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(First name decals in colorful pennant shape) — 6 for 25c

New! Klean-Cut Ribbon Burns feathers to pin-point accuracy.

Concave shaped, assures rigidity, and faster. cleaner cutting: will not sag when hot.

Price List on Request

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Decals for Windshields, Luggage, etc.

250 for only $20.00 (Any design up to 12 sq. in.)

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The Young Feather Trimmer is equipped with special heavy duty transformer.

(115 volt A. C.) Complete with instruc­ tions and three Klean-Cut ribbons.

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Just wipe on one coat of SPORT COAT with a clean cloth and your arrows and how are resistent to all types of weather and wear.

Coflt jpOIT W Wipe On Plastic Varnish

STRAW WILL NOT STICK TO ARROWS Wipe on Painted or Raw Wood

$14.95

AT YOUR ARCHERY DEALERS ----- OR SEND: SI.20 for 1/2 pt. ; $2.30 for pt. - $4.40 qt. ----- Prepaid

See Your Dealer or Write:

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BOWSTRINGS!!

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PERFECT COMPANIONS IN SHOOTING! *The Streain-Eze Fiber Glass Bows and *The New Stream-Eze Fiber Glass Arrows

Yucca Valley, California

Internally-waxed Fortisan double-loop endless bowstring with served loops and center.

Send old string (returned; and bow weight

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Exact string length, loop size, and bow weight.

Fiber Glass Fishing Arrow----- $2.50 ea.

STREAM-EZE - Solid Glass Bow - 5 Models

All Special Take-Down Design

Not just ground, but

Precision Cut Feathers High Grade barred, washed and dyed any color.

Natural Whites, washed and dyed any color.

No orders less than 1,000 Feathers of a kind or color accepted.

PRICE LIST ON REQUEST

D. E. HECHT 80 University I>1„ New York 3, N. Y.

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Model 20 30 35 40 45

Style Length Midget Model 3 Ft. 8 In. Junior Model 4 Ft. 6 In. Senior Model 4 Ft. 6 In. Sfrai-rht Reflex 4 Ft. 6 In. Wofking Recurve 4 Ft. 6 In. Children’s Carded Archery Set

Price $ 8.95 14.95 24.95 39.75 54.50 5.95

Weight To 35# To 70# To 100# To 65#

STREAM-EZE Fiber Glass Arrows Made with parallel fibers — Target, Field and Hunting

$27.50 doz.

Dealers: Write for Special Discounts

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Originator of 3 blade broad head

A Perfect Release - - - Always!

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(Patent Pending) Shooting faults that have held down your scores are eliminated.

You always get the same, instant, smooth release; no sore fingers, no creeping arrows, no wavering.

Three popular Nock Sizes: $5.95 1/4", 5/16", 11/32" Cash, We Specify nock size when ordering.

Dealers & Jobbers Write: Pay Postage

FF 4-oz. spool — $2.00 pp. incl.

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HI-PRECISION THREE-BLADED

BROADHEADS I TTTrue, one-piece welded i bdhead, oil-hardening . tool | s&teel ,points -------- ---- ..... hardened . tftempered.

EEBIades precision ground ■ cxoncentric to shaft center. r. EBlue steel finish like that I frfound on finest guns.

Two sizes: 3/16" (100 grains) — 11/32* (125 grains)

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333 4-oz. spool — $2.00 pp. ind.

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Shoot HI-PRECISION broadheads if you demand accuracy, stren strength anti ruggedness. oil-hardened, Finest, oil-h: tool _ steel points penetrate deeper.

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Buy from your archery dealer NOW! List Price 7E Dealers Order Per Dozen ZP From

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Westbury, L. I., N. Y.

DEALERS NOTE---

Bmmedfet® Delivery on Fiberghs Farabows PARASOW HUNTER 53" long, 45= to 90= — $25.00 list

PARABOW SUPER 57" long, 30= to 65= — $37.50 list

WRITE FOR DETAILS

ORANGE CITY. IOWA

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HIAVE YOU SEEN OUR “NEW LOOK”?

When answering an advertisement please tell our advertisers that vou saw it in ARCHERY

^SPIN-EEZ^ ARROW CRES7ER ELECTRIC POWERED — $17.95 POSTPAID

Wee have improved the looks ol our 3601 Animal Faces. VI c nawe added BLACK aiming spots on the deer and others— pirns a new darker, fade-proof brown and a much heavier graade of paper. Best of all, there is no increase in puce _—jijust a better face for the same amount of money.

BOW ARCHERY SUPPLIES 815 So. Riverside -

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(EVERYTHING FOR THE ARCHER)

FOR A NEW SHOOTING THRILL Better order some now!

REGULATION N.F.A.A. 3G-FACE SETS N«o. 3601—Animal Faces - in realistic coloring.......... ?4.45 N«io. 3602—"Bull’s Eye" - Gray and Black.................. 4.Jt> N«io. 3603—"Black Hunter" - Black and White spot.. 2.J.) >Wo. 3604—“New Combination” - above 3 styles combined into one complete 36-face set....... •

Try a Crossbow Made by Schmid A- Co. “FIRST AND FINEST CROSSBOWS" Complete line from $19.95

WRITE FOR FREE LITERATURE Special Discount to Dealers SCHMID & CO., Dept. A 11 1*. O. Box 218 - Santa Barbara, California

Alio all aizea of 4-color target faces, Arro-Cals, Score Cards

ISPECIALI SEND 25c FOR JUMBO SAMPLE ASSORTMENT OF FIELD FACES, ARRO-CALS, 4-COLOR TARGETS,

SCORE CARDS AND CATALOG SHEETS.

Compliments

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Ljhll'lVERSAL DISPLAYS - 1 546 W. Cortez, Chicago 22, III. If your dealer cannot supply you — write direct.

^ROCHERY November, 1953

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1 A Practical Broadhead at Low Cost

EVENTUALLY YOU’LL OWN ONE

These Remarkable

Glass Faced and Backed Bows $3.25 per dozen

Made of high carbon blued steel, tempered to stand rough usage.

Weight 115 grains, width 1-1/16".

Fits either 5/16" or 11/32" shaft.

Special Discount to Dealers SCHMID & CO., Dept. A 11 ’. O. Box 213

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KODIAK, $49.50 - GRIZZLY, $39.50 POLAR, $29.50 - CUB, $22.50

PRACTICE ARROWS

A VAI LABLE

NOW

Four excellent full-color

WHY NOT NOW?

NEW ARCHERY FILMS for Club or group showing!

ACTION-FILLED UNSTAGED—ENTERTAINING! 16 mm. Sound—20 Minute Length

matched to above bows - $7.50 per dz.

Send for Circular and Prices

IMMEDIATE DELIVERY

GRAYLING FILM SERVICE Grayling,

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

Michigan

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19807 First Ave. South - Seattle 88, Wash.

Write for Club and Dealer

discounts on

Universal Target Faces

Roving Target Faces 6-inch 12-inch 18-inch 24-inch

But why worry about the discom­ fort of hunting in cold weather? Why freeze that bow-hand holding the arrow in place? Why miss that chance for a shot because you aren’t ready---- Get a

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$2.00 postpaid See your dealer or order direct

NELSON ARCHERY Milton, Wisconsin

1123 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago 14, Illinois

Milfred J. 'Milt’ Parker Telephone LA-7817 6606 Hood Ave. Huntington Park, Calif.

FEATHER BURNER KIT — $2.50

All necessary parts to assemble a: production type Feather Burner.

Nelson Arrow Holder on your bow and you’re all set for any hunting conditions. It does the work for your bow-hand.

Instant, silent release in any posi­ tion. No drag, can’t jerk the arrow from your fingers as you draw.

On or off in a jiffy. Holds any size arrow. Use right or left handed.

A nice Christmas gift for some bow-hunter friend.

WARWICK ARCHERY CO

Postage extra.

URAC 185 Adhesive Unlimited supply of each item.

See your tackle maker or write or telephone:

$3.75 doz.

SHOOT THE NEW. STRONGER, GUARANTEED

M-A 3-BLADE BROADHEAD 125 grain, fits 11/32" and 5/16" shafts Shoot with confidence that you are using lhe most accurate, deepest penetrating and strongest broadhead available. It’s new! Of special steel selected for Ils superior strength—without extra weight Definitely balanced construction—with blades precision wet-ground true to the shaft center.

Originator of the 3-blade Broadhead

$4.50 Feather Burner, assembled Perfect Fletching Tool: 1.25 5" overall length Perfect Fletching Tool: 1.50 6" overall length Perfect Fletching Tool: 1.75 7" overall length Perfect Fletching Tool: 2.00 8" overall length 1.25 Flexible Plastic Arm Guard 1.00 Calibrated Bow Sight Deerslayer Hunting Points, 3.60 per doz.

King of the Forest, 4-Blade 4.60 Point, per doz. .50 Plastic Bow Tips, pair Send for Illustrated Catalogue

Make-All Tool & Die Co. 1924 S. 74th St., West Allis 14, WIs.

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METALLIC ARCHERY HUNTING STRING CO. (Trade Mark Reg. U. S. Pat. Office)

for equipment of greater refinement---

THE ORIGINAL “SILENT” STEEL HUNTING STRING Ideal for Big Game Hunting.

Write today for new catalog.

Send in a sample string with $3.00 to

ALBERT L. PETERMAN 1288 Dragoon, Detroit 9, Michigan

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EICHOLTZ BOWS "Out Of This World The most wonderful achievement ever accomplished in the Archery world. Never before has any bow offered such speed, accuracy, and unbelievably smooth draw. Constructed of Maple and Walnut

laminations for lasting beauty, faced with the miraculous new Glasface, and backed

with Ultrabac, known all over the world as the best in glass backings.

$49.50 and $65.00

Choice of handles:

Semi-center shot, full center shot,

For free illustrated brochure, see your dealer or write:

FRANK EICHOLTZ Available now for faster service is the

4032 El Cajon Blvd.

Eicholtz GLASFACE and ULTRABAC in strips or sheets.

San Diego 5, Calif.

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For the archer who requires extra length.

A six-foot bow with full sighting aperture. a full scale sighting aperture. For draws up to 28".

A five and a half foot bow, with “THE CHESTER” -, which may be drawn 26".

This is a 5 foot 2 inch bow with full sighting aperture, "SULTAN 62” for field and hunting. Drawing length 28".

A 5 ft. 2 in. bow with a half-scale sighting aperture “SULTAN 28" with half-scale aperture for field and hunting. For draws up to 27".

"SULTAN 27” A 4 ft. 8 in. bow for field and hunting. For draws up to 26".

A 4 ft. 6 in. bow with a half scale sighting aperture “SULTAN 26” The cores of Pierson Bows are made from only the best hickory and osage.

“THE REX"

Special Model Price Bows backed and faced with the finest parallel Glass. $55.00 F.O.B. — Additional charges for all bows over 60 lbs.

E. BUD PIERSON & SON

3109 BURNET AVENUE

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Ground Base Feathers Grey barred, left wing only. $3.00 per 100, postpaid.

Red and blue barrs as available $3.50 per 100, postpaid.

DAMON HOWATT Route 8, Yakima, Washington

NEW!

NEW!

WATCH FOR

FREID’S ARM QUIVER AD IN THIS MAGAZINE NEXT MONTH

POINTS ANY TYPE OR SIZE Send sketch and quantity desired MADE IN OUR OWN SHOP ON AUTOMATIC MACHINES

Pelican Tackle 1910 W. State St., Milwaukee 3, Wis.

CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING (Effective July 1, 1953) Rates: 50c per line per Insertion. Minimum three lines. (Count 36 letters and spaces to the line).

VISIT BROOKLYN'S ARCHERY Head­ quarters. Bear brand, Ben Pearson.

Robin Hood, Indian Archery Equipment in stock. GOODWEAR CO. "Brooklyn’s Rod & Gun Center,” 177 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn (17) N. Y. “Write for Free Archery Catalog.” tf

FOR SALE

WANTED

USED BOWS. 70-lb. osage, $15.00; 76-lb.

Drake flite, $25.00; 80-lb. Drake flite, $40.00; 96-lb. Kodiak, $25.00; 110-lb.

Drake field, $40.00; 128-lb. osage. $30.00.

Write: J. Hildt, 45-16 44th St., Queens, New York Citv, N. Y. d

THREE IMPROVED NEW MOON bow hinges. Pay ten dollars each.

Richard B. Berg, BM2, USCG, U.S. Naval Magazine, Port Chicago, Calif, n

LAMINATIONS. Rock Maple. Osage Orange. Handle risers, leather grips, and other bow making materials. Price list on request. Bill Ranisev, 1116 S. Euclid, Oak Park. Ill. It NEW — A heavy streamlined broadhead for both hunting and roving. Easily removed from trees and straw targets.

Shaft self threads into ferrule, true and solid. Made of high quality cast alum­ inum. $6.00 per doz. for 11/32” shafting.

Woodcraft, Cockeysville, Maryland.

It LAMINATED BOWS and laminated strips, maple and osage. A. IT. Hord, Iola, III. It

CUT FEATHERS, GREY BARRED, 60c per dozen. Current prices per thou­ sand. W. A. Storer, 720 N. Federal Ave., Mason City, Iowa, Phone 3726 tf

BOOKS — Have you old archery books which you should like to sell? I es­ pecially need “Archery. The Technical Side” and am interested in all the better out of print archery books. Send your list and I’ll make an offer. Clement C. Parker, 116 W. Airy Street. Norris­ town, Pa. H

DRYFLETCH A permanent waterproof for arrow fletching. Prevents matting. Shoot in rain, dew and snow.

SI.OO postpaid In U. S., $1.25 In Canada

C. V. LEACH Rt. 2. Mountain Grove, Mo.

Archery Tackle & Supplies FLORIDA'S

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CUSTOM ARROWS These arrows are carefully made of finest materials. Choice of red, white, yellow or orange shafts. Any feather length to 5".

We process our own shafts and feathers and have the widest selection of material.

Mickey or Ace Broadheads — $13.00 dz.

Hill's Hornet or Bodkin — $12.50 dz.

Black Diamond or Hill's Field Point $10.50 dz.

Non-Skid or Target Point — $9.50 dz.

Above arrows matched 10 gr. weight, white or colored cock feather optional. All white or dyed whites, $1.00 extra; 5 gr. match­ ing, $1.00 extra. Beautifully crested.

$7.75 Matched target arrrows. Parallel points, 3 or 4" feather, c< colored shafts.

MAKING A BOW? Send us a sketch of the design "n you have in mind antid we will send as nearh' rly as possible the correct laminations - -- - Ultrabac, Glasface, Ur:ac glue, handle * laminations, two full lenjigth maple tapered or parallel laminations. Complete kit for 1--3/4" bow, $16.00. St: ‘ desired weight. itate

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SPINE MATCHED, 5/16" cedar shafts, $1.00 per doz. for bows to 55 lbs. Some feathers available. Southwestern Arch­ ery Co., 3537 Monterrey, Corpus Christi, Texas. n

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. 8th Ave., Albany, Oregon. tf

WE HAVE THE BEST STRINGS that last, $1.25. Send bow weight, length of string, and exact size of loop by drawing or enclose old string. Also ex­ pert fletching, cresting and straighten­ ing. Prompt Service. Archery Repair Service, 12 North Fourth St., Crystal Falls, Michigan. m MATCHED HUNTING ARROW ENSEMBLES Parallel 11/32" cedar dowels, Speed nocks, ground feathers, choice of Hor­ net, Deerslayer or MA-3 heads. Tenoned for heads and nocks—$5.50 per dozen.

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By GEORGE BROMMERS Yermo, California I will go a long way before I find a coouple I remember as-well as Ted and Mdargaret Hand. Ted, now Lt. Col. Rand, waas an army engineer who sought distraaction from his work in archery. He touund it. and never will I forget their sinndness at a very trying time.

Neeither am I apt to forget that Ted, J-hho knew what was good for me, if I Tddn't, betrayed my trust in him by snagaging in too loud conversation becinnd the ladies’ line in Griffith Park, in.ie carefully engineered result of which -aas that I, not Ted, was bodily kicked -yff the grounds. As an amateur psy-b.aologist Ted rates very high, and as Tieends the Rands rate higher yet.

Willard and Gene Racon were close rieends of the Rands, and are now their reiiighbors. To mention archery in the Souuth without bringing in the Bacons, ovuld make just as incomplete a picture ~s if Larry Hughes were omitted. The -’•aalry between Larry and Willard was -tmnething worth watching. Larry could ’ it! let down for a minute, or “Bake” ot-jld trim him. Sometimes did anyway.

CGene was as accomplished a field cre&her as she was at the target. I ’.-liiieve she carried off the NFAA mail -jnrnament honors one year. My rec'd=ls, if I or anyone else could find erm. would tell that story.

L^arry Hughes, what can I tell you bovut him that you do not already --jvw? if not the greatest all around chther today—Roberts and Hoogerhyde 3uild have to be carefully weighed—he JI come damn close to it. One thing . kitnow, I have seen him do offhand ■ sooting at unknown distances that was •beelievably accurate. He has also ■ouught in at least one deer that I mow of.

Laarry is not a steady and predictable <u-fcormer, but he is a brilliant one. No ■_e can do better when he is relaxed. no one can freeze tighter on less -cvfocation. The future will study -irrry's temperatment as well as his octrees. We will wait a long time to see rot t her Larry Hughes.

M.. B. "Davy” Davis will always be twwn for the interest he has taken in

flight shooting, and so will Jack Low. Both gentlemen experimented continu­ ously. and both gave a tremendous boost to the sport in California. Davis was persuaded to step into the flight picture on a national scale, and we owe much to the time and effort he found it possible to give.

Fred Bergstrom was another very energetic organizer, and his work as such was appreciated by the whole state.

George Estabrook of Pasadena and Walter A. Egger were hard workers in club and sectional activities, and well known to every archer at that time.

"Hat” Hatfield was a one-man team himself, and could always be counted on to extend himself regardless of the time he had to give.

Now don't say that I have forgotten T. W. Brotherton, who was so deserv­ edly popular among us. Always shooting at or near the bottom, his cheerfulness was an inspiration to everyone. We were all immensely pleased when the NAA Good Sportsmanship trophy was awarded at Portland to this very good friend of ours. Even the writer, secure in his own title of accredited basement champion of the United States, felt thrilled.

The late Carl W. Middleton of Po­ mona was an occasional visitor. As a jeweler he knew the meaning of pre­ cision work, and was a frequent con­ tributor to our technical knowledge.

He is best remembered as the manu­ facturer of our first plastic nock.

“Midnox,” which still stands as one of the greatest contributions to its field.

Another member of his craft who has always stood very high among us is Douglas Easton, who has had a long and varied experience in the manufac­ ture of quality archery tackle. The last time I saw .Doug, he had just moved into his new building, devoted exclu­ sively to his shop. Doug has never cared for quantity production, and is one of the old time craftsmen of whom there are so very few left.

Henry Bitzenburger is another oldtimer. I remember him very well even before he became "Mr. Babe." Hank takes the distinction sheepishly, but with his usual good nature.

Because even better known than Henry as a manufacturer of tackle is his wife who is known all over the country for her all around performances and championships. I will not advertise my ignorance by telling of all her hon­ ors, sufficient to say that she still stands

— kr«'!e *or three and they did it within three hours of opening morning. The lucky hunters.

Mrom-I Farwell. Mich., are: left to. right: Meryl Graham. Dick Whitaker. Harold Lockwood.

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at the head of the class in women’s field archery, and very high in flight shooting. I knew the couple first as target archers.

Dr. and Neenah Moreton were fre­ quent and valued additions to most of our meets. I believe that the doctor has since passed on. He will be grately missed.

Bob Morley, best know:-, for his skill as camp cook, did not take much in­ terest in target archery. I met him and "Tiny" Munson, another hunter, not long ago in the desert, much to my surprise.

Dr. Simonds of Riverside was not as frequent a visitor as we would have wished, but wherever he was he spread good cheer. The doctor is one who likes to share his hobby, and many a boy has been introduced to archery through him. Few men have so many sincere friends.

I did not get to know the Eastern sections of the city as well as I would have liked. Things were beginning to hum there about the time I left in late 1939. But well do I remember meeting the Gunns, the Quayles, the Dagles and the Daulleys at the old Lakewood club.

How many have moved and how many have remained in archery I do not know.

I barely met Dr. Kelso, of Long Beach, the newly elected president of the SCAA at that time. The doctor, as a medical major, took a prominent part in the recent war.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Cochems. with their son. "Bud," were some of our most popular members. Mr. Cochems. at one time managing editor of a Hearst paper, knew a lot about publicity—so much that he shied away from it with a ferver worthy of a better cause. Mrs. Cochems was one of our better target archers, and "Bud" was already _ an artist of no mean repute. I have often wondered if he kept it up; he was head­ ed for the Navy the last time I saw him.

Other ladies I saw quite often at our tournaments were the then Misses, what they are today I do not know: Helen Little. Alta Armstrong. Betty Brad­ street and Betty Gene Hunt. All of them were excellent target archers and lent life and distinction to every meet they attended.

Since most of my early recollections deal with target archery, I will not. in this chapter, take up John and Vera Yount, even though John served as field captain at the 1935 National. As secre­ tary of the NFAA John properly be­ longs under the heading of Field Arch­ ery. which will be discussed separately.

Bernie and Dorothy Ahman were fix­ tures in archery at the time I speak of.

They were interested in every phase target, field and novelty shooting, and were good at all of them. _ The same can be said for the Curtis of San Bernardino. Big and Little Glenn.

Since both were about equal shots, the competition between the pair added much to the gaiety of the occasion.

Which was what the Curtis’ wanted it to do. A couple like that is a rare ad­ dition to any meet.

The Bedwells. Huntington, Walker.

Woodward and Dillon did much to keep up the carnival spirit which was so prevalent in Redlands. That club can think up more varied novelty events than anv club I know, and there was a •mod natured baiting of every partici­ pant No one can stay a stranger long at that kind of a gathering.

Archerv in San Diego woukl not na\c had much of a start without the interest Col F E Pierce. USMC. Ret., created for it Col. Pierce, who still has to favor an injured foot, torn in action, has Page Thirty-three

lately taken up cross bow shooting, and has done much to popularize this phase.

He also can get archery more genuine publicity—not the predigested Holly­ wood kind—than any man I know.

Personally I like to remember how the Colonel, and Mrs. Pierce, found us in the Washington wilderness for an ap­ preciated visit.

The late Dr. Heber Butts. USN, Ret., who wrote. "Archery Shooting Tech­ nique.” was a constant partaker of tournaments, and, since the doctor’s heart bothered him, the rest of us vied for the privilege of acting as “arrow­ hounds” for him, pick them up and bring them back.

The then Cmdr. Pope, who skippered the first bomber flight from the main­ land to Hawaii, was also a visitor. I met him just once, when he came to see me in Los Angeles, and have since lost track of him. Hope he is still on deck, the country can ill afford to lose such men of action as he is.

Another Navy officer I knew in Los Angeles was Lt. Gordon Bower and Mrs. Bower. Imagine my surprise when, a few years ago. I met the now retired Commander and Mrs. Bowers once more in Tacoma.

W. C. McNatt was also one of the oldtimers in archery. Haven't seen or heard from him either lately.

George Kettenburg. a boatbuilder who took a great interest in the sport, was a wizard with tools. He specially liked to make and shoot fir arrows.

C. H. Hoover. I believe, is still verymuch in the picture. Seems that I have read about him lately.

I met the then Lieutenant, now Col­ onel C. L. Rodd. just once, but under­ stand he is still interested, and shoots at Long Beach.

I see I almost forgot Dugan, the out­ standing coffee maker of the Los An­ geles club. This isn’t right, Dugan could really make coffee. Col. Rand only thought he could.

Also at the Los Angeles club shoots I spent many pleasant hours with W. E. Randle, Bill Stoddard, Ted Mapes, Stew­ art Axenty, the Sewell Hansons. J. A. Bell, and Jack Van Holt, most of whom belonged also to other clubs.

Queer I can’t remember the first name of Meyer, the engineer I knew so well, but he has probably forgotten my name, too. Meyer was one of the finest craftsmen I had ever known, and thought nothing of spending a few weeks or a month on making a bow.

But, once finished, it was a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

I will, under the heading of "The Lower Brackets," deal more fully with Erie Stanley Gardner who. though he persistently pokes fun at himself and everyone else, has had an influence on the sport far out of proportion to his just deserts. Take a look at that NFAA stump. Gardner was the first one to miss it.

FIELD ARCHERY IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Organized field archery, if by that term we mean either hunting or making war with the bow, or preparing or prac­ ticing for the hunt, or for the battle, is old as the hills. It started when some tribal chieftain dragged—by the scuffs of their unwashed necks—his more or less loving subjects to that day’s equivalent of the target range.

Since even the prehistoric man would rather kill than be killed, eat than go hungry, we may assume that the proj­ ect wasn’t too valiantly resisted, as new ideas sometimes are. even in our enlightened days.

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same chieftain accepted, in lieu of practice, a fat grouse or a rabbit as proof of proficiency. Or he might ac­ cept the ears of some objectionable public character. I fear we will never know.

Presumably, too. if a gentleman miss­ ed too often and too conspicuously, there were royal dog-houses available to make up for some of the lack of training. We can only speculate on this fascinating subject.

The highest peaks of organized arch­ ery efficiency were reached, not at Crecy or Agincourt, but when Genghis Kahn's and Timurian’s highly trained Mongolian ruffians, armed with the terrible Mongol bow, swept out of their unkempt way. the armies of the West.

All ol which points to some kind of moral, profitable to contemplate when we begin to take archery as a sport too seriously. There was a time when it was highly organized and deadly busi­ ness. but that day passed with the coming of gun powder, the atom bomb and the modern automobile. It won’t hurt our perspective if we do a little rationalizing. Now let us proceed to the subject at hand, no matter how instruc­ tive the analysis might be.

But first let it be understood that I left California before we even had a state-wide field archery association, let alone a national one. Let this date me.

As befits the home state of Comp­ ton, Pope and Young, we had a nucleus of seasoned bow hunters. One of our early efforts was to have an archery reserve, such as already existed in Oregon, set aside.

Our leaders found a very unsympa­ thetic legislature, they had something to contend with that other states did not—the Hollywood influence.

Motion pictures featuring archery are entertaining, sometimes instructive. But many a bewildered tan goes away with the impression that only a superman can ever become a good archer. It is to this phase I ascribe their limited promo­ tional value.

The central states worked under no such handicap as our men. They were practically virgin ground, their few bow­ hunters, men of standing and influence

in their states. They did not have to make improbable claims, all they asked lor was a fair trial. Recent develop­ ments show how thoroughly sound such a procedure is. We had a lot to learn in California, and possibly we did not learn the lesson too well, or early enough. We could, and sometimes did, make spectacular claims. We certainly did not know our psychology, and we fared accordingly for awhile.

Redlands will be the first to deny that it had the first field archery club in the country. We never will know how many similar clubs there have been in existence.

Redlands delighted in variety, from turkey shoots at rabbit hunts. It also constructed a course lor random shoot­ ing. the lorerunner of the present stan­ dard field course. And it had John and Vera Yount.

We followed John because he would do the necessary hard work for us. We didn’t necessarily follow in the direction he led us, but the generalization holds.

What was needed, if we were to get anywhere, was a man, in this case a couple, who would take care of the deadly detail work as well as take overall charge of the deliberation over new problems, mostly related to organi­ zation. tournaments, rules and new rounds. Yount and Hodgson will long be remembered for unpaid and meri­ torious service.

What we were seeking from the very start was a national organization of hunters and means to interest new blood in hunting. This meant finding a round where every archer could compete, im­ prove his technique and. if. for physical reasons, he did not care to go hunting, would still find a new and fresh outlet to his proclivities. In other words, we broadened the base so as to take in and interest archers who were not hunters.

How well conceived this idea was, was immediately proven by the adherence and friendly cooperation of the purely target archers, who made up probably as much as two-thirds of our then membership.

Redlands, then, initiated the much discussed and much maligned standard o Continued on page thirty eight.

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nlpppv November enjoyed in Maryland.

"This was mighty bad news when we Jteaard that our game tickets were go-, -ngg to be put on ice, and figured that thee rest of the season would be spent ■dobing odd jobs about the old homestead, insstead of chasing the bounding stag. It waas late in the afternoon by then, and •soranebody suggested that we go up to thee checking station to see if anyone 'laud connected. We hadn’t anything more to ■ lose, so the gang fell in with the I leea.

I When we reached the cross road eanrage that was being utilized as a Foccal point for weighing and tagging 3eeer taken in the civinity our luck took 3 c decided change. Jerry Gustafson was weighing in a fine buck he had taken anoid told us that the State Regional •Vaarden had left word that he would iavve all of our licenses back for us, iTtith no strings attached. They would ■ available at the station early the foIlUowing morning. What had been a er.ry dreary outlook took on a brighter tee. and the prospect of rounding out ’bae season we had planned lit up like a nneon sign.

TThe Regional Warden knew that we - eere victims of what might be de.rribed as a comedy of errors, all the <aay down the line, and he wanted to itlt us on the right track. This seems .haaracteristic of the men you meet in nee Game and Forest service. They t-aar you out, and if your story rings ■-ce they really go to bat in your ehhalf. Just don’t try any funny busi■~esss, because the other fellow might ■_iv\e a better tale to tell—then look out!

-t-iunting with a bow is all I have ever :nne in the field, and the sport is rela• eely new throughout the country. So -diaat do you say we all try to keep it •rraight.

NMaybe a little personal observation nan.! be interjected here. I’m supposed > be idealistic about too many things, -'•"id consequently miss out on a number f angles. I’ll pass the thought along i.-.yyhow. When the kids I grew up with Jnned old troop 438, at the Congregatonnal Church, we were all impressed by nee "Scout Promise.” It has stuck with _s all these years as the Parson said

it represented a fundamental step in the direction of good citizenship.

I feel the same way about signing a hunting license. When you scratch your John Hancock on that license form you make a big deal. You are agreeing to abide by tne rules and regulations of the Game Commission and. in the spirit of the law, you are deputizing yourself to act as your own game war­ den to see that you follow the letter of the law. That’s not for the birds, buddy, I mean it.

What happened to us won’t happen again. We learn more each season about conduct in the field, and it all adds up to our advantage. Don’t take the at­ titude of “I’m here because they’re here.” Remember the old fable about the cranes that gave the farmer a hard time by gobbling up the frogs in his pond. Well, one day he catches a stork dining on adult tad-poles. "You

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That brilliant gem of information didn't impress the tarmer. The stork was where he shouldn't have been, doing what he shouldn’t, so he ended up in the stew.

Yes, sir. the way of the intentional transgressor can be plenty tough, so don’t try to find out the hard way. I’ll be out again next season—on the right side of the fence. Hope I’ll see you there, too.

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archer was going to have a warm and friendly feeling for the Los Angeles Police Department. Most of them have • Continued from page thirty-four. forgotten the part played by McGahan, but not the writer. I got a lesson in field round. Now we could have inter­ public relations I am not apt to forget. sectional and interstate competition I have a special reason for mentioning with some reasonable idea of who could this club, aside from the personal angle. show the most improvement.

Because only a year or so after the club Not that the hunters were wholly was formed, it was decided to merge satisfied any more than they are to­ the Redlands and the Art Young clubs day. Woodcraft is not taught on the into the Southern California Field Arch­ range, nor did it offer any cure for ery Association, which was organized buck fever. Animals do not react the for that purpose. This merger, I believe, way stationary targets do. All this is had some far reaching results. very, very true. Nor is there anything Meanwhile competition between the much we can do about it. if we do not two member clubs grew hot. Earl bear the primary objective in mind. Grubbs and Emery Watts joined the Field archery courses should serve as Redlands club, or already belonged to a common meeting ground. This is what it. I am not sure which. Fred Woodley, thev were designed for. elected first president of the S.C.F.A.A. It was our firm belief that without and Bob Faas worked like beavers. such standard courses we could have no Other interested archers joined the organization on a national basis. The nearest of the two clubs. Henry Bitzenhunters of the Midwest have since burger soon began to lay out a field proved that hunters can be organized range at Pasadena, serving the northern without the benefit of a standard round, section of the city. but the evidence at that time was lack­ Capt. Tom Murray, first president of ing. We did the best we could. the Art Young club, was that rare And. let no hunter say that he can combination, a detective with a sense shoot for any length of time over such a of humor. And it stands to reason that standard course without benefit to his a detective must have imagination. It marksmanshin and his technique. The will be hard to overrate the value of kings of old did not drag their warriors such men as the captain, and the good to the target range for fun. They ex­ will of a Police Department in a move­ pected it to pay dividends. ment such as ours.

Far be it from me to claim that the This was demonstrated at the 1935 present round is the best and final an­ National, when, in addition to the de­ swer. I am not that opinionated. Even partment’s friendly services on the tour­ today I believe that, if the hunters will nament grounds. Det. Lt. Harry Elliott, continue to give ns their cooperation, we also a charter member of the Art Young mav find something more suitable to club, was chosen by Cant. Murray as the hunter’s needs. The Massachusetts. personal escort of a fishing party for “Hit’s a Hit” round may be a partial such archers who were not afraid of answer. Of course no course can reflect seasickness. actual field conditions, it can only sim­ Det. Lt. “Pat” Roberts is another ulate them. But that's all the present name I like to recall. We were to be­ improvised courses for hunters’ meets come close personal friends, and even can do. Nor should they be scrapped for yet I am often cheered by a letter or that reason. a message from him.

But I was going to discuss field arch­ Stanley Christilaw was the Art ers I have known in Southern California, Young’s first secretary, later succeeded and here I have rambled all over the by Ernest Wilson, who turned out to universe. If you insist on reading me be a most valuable man.

I am afraid you will have to get used Ellwood Mould was field captain and to that. Now here goes: instructor. He thought up a number of I like to think back to the days when new and interesting features. Ed Mc­ the Art Young club was formed in Los Gahan was vice president.

Angeles, in honor of the great archer Martin Sabransky, artist and archi­ who had just passed on. tect, was one of our members, a very The name of Ed McGahan has never helpful one, particularly when it came figured in archery annals; he didn't to making up animal targets. wish it to. Ed taught me a lesson in Volus Jones, a Disney artist, was not organization. only an exceptionally good shot and At that time Ed was editor of the instructor, but he was a tower of Southwest Topics. He was, and still is, strength in designing animal targets. a power in the land. I had written some No one I know can put such an ex­ kind of a scribble for him that he liked. pression into an animal face, and oc­ Ed said he would do something for me casionally I could work him for a car­ whenever I asked him to. ton for the old Sylvan Archer.

I told him what was in our minds Nate Rogan, no wa game warden, also in regard to field archery. What we did a lot for the sport. A good shot needed was a target range. I mentioned himself, he is now in a position where some of the national objectives we he can do much constructive work. had in mind. Ed was easily sold.

Harry, Wayne and Bob (I hope I How would the 77th Street Police remember right) Statler, and Roland Range do? he asked. I told him that we and Jesse Quayle, wherever any of that had already tried to get the use of it, quintet showed up, you could be sure but without success. Ed took down the of a hot contest. I do not know whether phone. , they quit shooting or moved, but one Capt. W. B. Hutchins came over to thing is certain, they will be greatly see me. He was very doubtful. Too missed. dangerous, he thought. But he drove me Merle Hathaway, who has since done over to the range. I explained our needs, so much good work, was also an early and after some hesitation he said he contestant at the inland shoots. On my would give it a trial. But, he said, he last visit to California I had hoped to would never sponsor or allow any ac­ meet Merle again at San Diego, where tivity that interfered with police work. a tournament was held, and where I He soon became satisfied with the could also see old. friends and make safety hazard. new ones, but you know how it is. That The time was to come when every day it rain. No, it didn’t rain either, at

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least in Redlands, where I visited the Younts, it was snowing.

Bob King shot in the junior class at that time and now he is a grown man and still shooting. So is Bill Logg, who was quite a marksman even then.

Edmond Brock and Bill Otto are other oldtimers I recall well. I saw Brock briefly in the winter of 1949. He, too. has an orange grove, and did not look at all happy about it. It sure was an off year.

Clyde Day, postmaster of Laguna Beach, and George Birch are real bow hunters and pioneer field archers. They have shot in such company as that of Compton, Young and Spencer.

In a previous chapter I have men­ tioned most of the other Redlanders. and under the heading of hunters you will meet some of them again. Yes. I know I am reiterating a lot, but try to write this yourself and see how you like it, if you are no more of a pro­ fessional writer than I am. I wouldn’t know how to write literature, even if you knew enough to appreciate it.

I never met many of the desert arch­ ers, but the few I met I knew well.

There were Walt and Ken Wilhelm, pre­ cision archers and hunters, of whom ...

— -------------- was also the wild more later. There piglet of unsavory memory Walt had captured on Santa Cruz Island. I can hardly' wait to get even with them, even if they were so exceptionally hos­ pitable to me on a recent visit.

There was Ed Hill, brother of Curtis Hiil of flight fame, and a real archer and hunter in his own right.

I am sorry I missed “Nubbin" Pate on the visit I mentioned. His tin-ean round is the talk of California, and his desert gang is about the liveliest bunch of j archers in the state. Pate, who won the first Good Sportsmanship medal awarded by the N.F.A.A.. has lost one leg, but is a most infectious bearer of cheer wherever he goes.

"Tiny” Munson and Bob Morley were fixtures in archery even before I left the state.

Al Shepard of Death Valley—I do not know where he is today—is an­ other sportsman I recall with pleasure.

I would go to visit the Shepards in the summer to boil out in the hot springs close to his place, and we would finish the job with a case of beer at hand on his porch. Them were the days.

Morton Mendels, who is best known as a flight enthusiast, often drove me over to visit the Bakersfield crowd. It was a long drive, but Morton was excel­ lent company. And every' damn time we went we were rained out. Then they call San Joaquin Valley a dry country.

Every archer in California knows Jim Murphy. If he hasn’t played some ; kind of a practical joke on you, it is an oversight he is soon to correct. And' that Irish wit of his is always a joy. I j have found much pleasure in wrangling I with Doghouse Jim, and thoroughly like 1 his banter.

I Kenneth Jones is another Bakersfield lad who can really shoot. The Bakers- | field bunch enjoys nothing as much as a rabbit hunt, and, brothers, there are I rabbits to be had in that valley. Though I how even a rabbit can feed on oil der- I ricks is hard to understand. | I am not sure that I have met Dr. I Erwin Pletcher, three times National N.F.A.A. champion, but I recall meeting his brother, Dr. Delmer, in Portland in 1941, where he shot a very’ good target score.

Have never met L. B. Gardner, who used to live in Fresno, but we have • Continued on page forty.

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corresponded a lot. He was on a rabbit hunt in Nevada a few years ago. and I read his account of it. I. too. have lived in Nevada and know the country he hunted in.

Questions and Answers o Continued from page twelve.

Question: I would appreciate your ad­ vice pertaining to the following: I have recently had some experience with some field arrows having a compressed cedar shaft. I have found these very durable.

I wonder if you have had any ex­ perience with these shafts in the form of hunting arrows. What, in your opin­ ion. is the ideal type of shaft for hunt­ ing arrows?—R.B.W., Poplarville. Miss.

Answer: From my experience I would say that durability is not a requisite for hunting arrows. Broadhead arrows are not usually shot very many times. In fact should you be so unfortunate as to wound a deer and not recover it, it is far better to have the exposed shaft break off (this is just what happens to cedar shafts) in preference to having a deer running through the woods with an arrow protruding. We have had sev­ eral cases here in Michigan of deer being taken during the rifle season with an old arrow wound perfectly healed. In every case called to my attention the play of the muscles has broken the shaft off close to the head, allowing it to work out of the wound. The head

then becomes surrounded by gristle and the deer, as far as can be determined, suffers no inconvenience.

I have had very little experience with commercial broadheads. While many va­ rieties advertised in the magazine would undoubtedly give you satisfactory serv­ ice. those sold by Roy Case and those sold by LaFond are the only ones I have used. Both I found very satis­ factory.

recommended for dyeing cloth. Tie the feathers at the quill end into bunches of about six. After rinsing, spread them out on a newspaper to dry. Straighten the rumpled ones by drawing them through the fingers. When dry. hold over live steam for further straightening.

There is probably a better way of dyeing feathers where large quantities are involved, but I am not familiar with it and have found the foregoing satis­ factory for small amounts.

The cock feather is made of an odd color to facilitate placing the arrow correctly on the string. Since most of the nock manufacturers now have an indicator on one side of the nock, the practice of using an odd cock feather is dying out.

Question: I am most anxious to obtain as much information as possible regard­ ing the dyeing of feathers for arrows.

Is a special dye used for this purpose or can one use the same type of dye as lor cloth? Also, must the feathers be dyed under pressure or can they be p^zs..zsl..

1:----- II................ I----- ------------------------------- > merely boiled? Y7Finally, why is the nock or odd feather on ihe arrow an off color and not like the other two?— A.A.B.. Ridgefield, Conn.

Answer: First would call attention. ___ to the fact that feathers must be dyed before they are base-ground. To begin, remove the natural oil from them. This is done by washing them in a solution of warm water and mild detergent. Any dye recommended for wool cloth is suitable. The dye solution should be held

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> “Standard” - A tapered cedar field /' arrow, matched weight /and spine, 11/32, 5/16

and 9/32 - $8.00 dz.

“Custom” - Our best wood. Tapered . cedar shafts in 11/32, / , 5/16 or 9/32 sizes. Made / / to your specifications with / , fine workmanship. Very close /matching - $12.00 dz.

“Flamingo” - 24 SRT-X aluminum field arrows. Any length for any bow ’ weight. Truly the very finest of arrows - $27.00 dz.

Everglade Archery Co. 4SS CRYSTAL ST..

AKRON, OHIO

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WHY SHOP all over the country and wait months for

YOUR EQUIPMENT?

DEALERS--• We can supply yon • with practically • everything • yon need.

$8.50

ATTENTION DEALERS AND ARCHERS NOW SHIPPING - King Sport-Line Leather Goods

Direct from Adrian, Michigan The following merchandise is stocked in our warehouse, ready for immediate shipment: PAR-X BOWS KING SPORT-LINE LEATHER GOODS COMPAC ROCKETT BAMBOO BOWS (9 ply) BLACK PALM BOWS SEEFAB BOWS BOD-KIN POINTS HILL’S HORNET POINTS M-A 3-BLADE POINTS LaFOND’S 2-BLADE POINTS HI PRECISION 3-BLADE POINTS ACE HI-SPEED 2-BLADE POINTS SAUNDERS ARCHERY TARGETS R. A. BOHNING CO. ARCHERY ADHESIVES AND BOWSTRING WAX BRUSH BUTTONS BY TRUE-FLIGHT SWEETLAND’S FAMOUS FORGEWOODS AND BATTLESHAFTS PLYFLEX BOWS, all models SARAN BOW CASES KING BOW SIGHTS FLEETWOOD BOW SIGHT FLEETWOOD FLETCHING TOOLS, all sizes PLASTIC ARM GUARDS ^UNIVERSAL display targets, ARRO-CALS and field FACES AND TARGETS IN SETS. FISHING ARROWS AND REELS FISHING POINTS ALSO BOWSTRINGS, NOCKS, POINTS, AND MANY OTHER MATERIALS

Jiffy Bow Sights and Doan Speed Bow Quivers

HAROLD DOAN 4334 N. Adrian Rd., Adrian, Michigan

JIFFY BOW SIGHT THE ALL PURPOSE BOW SIGHT $3.75

DEE^ HUNTERS! Those who would like to be able to get close to deer, should try Jim Ramsey’s amazing deer hunting trick.

The greatest hunting secret yet discovered by man for getting close shots at game—S3.00 P. O. Money Order.

Read my ad on page 39 of October. 1953 Archery

Jim Ramsey

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Grimes Aluminum Bows, Plastifletch.

BLACKHAWK ARROWS Made of the finest Port Orford Cedar Available.

Closely matched in spine and weight.

I Beautifully crested and fletched with 4" or 5" feathers.

Packed for your customer’s convenience

SHOP OF THE RED EAGLE Lincoln, New Mexico

Announcing the Arrow of Distinction STREAM-EZE GLASS BOWS (Guaranteed unconditionally for one year)

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MlIODEL No. 45—Working recurve .................... 54.50 list PAUL BUNYAN GLASS BOWS $29.50 list

WHOLESALE ONLY

I DEALERS. hue to the heavy demand for our I»S3 e**“,*I“*: ■ wc are of catatoguec, but we soon wUl he prntlng our MiW IOS4 p meanwhile catalogue, crammed tuff of new archery liJTL art regular >ou may order any of the ftams t*eted In Wdo •«

cravotta brothers Wholesale Archery Equipment Street East McKeesport, Pa. Phhone: Brandywine 1-5910 FRemont 1-4060

MCZHEHY NOv>mbe„ ]953

THE SONIC FLITE ARROW

Halaurc - - Perfection - - Beauty Designed for the bow hunter, field archer and target

archer who demands the very best! Spined carefully to match your bow. Made to your specifications.

$ 8.00 doz. standard Write for complete price list

11.00 doz.custom made

1 2.00 doz.deluxe

CUSTOM ARCHERY SUPPLIES 900 E. Vince St.

Millville, N. J.

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INTRODUCING THE REGENT Adding another member to the VENEKO

Royal Family of Archery Bows.

The REGENT is a FI LL WORKING RECURVE. Since its first premier showing at the National. Two Rivers.

Wisconsin, of recent date, the tremendous enthusiasm among the Archers has forced ns into immediate pro­ duction on this model. Reports from Archers and Row Hunters across the Nation claim it to be the finest how they ever possessed.

SOME OF THE REGENT’S OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS: Smooth, even draw - super velocities - silken release SPECIFICATIONS:

Made of KOBAH* all Fiberglas construction.

The strongest Fiberglas construction known.

LENGTH: 64", obtainable in 60" length about the 1st of January, 1954.

DRAW WEIGHT: At present to 70# only.

DRAW LENGTH: 34".

NEAR CENTER SHOT DESIGN.

PRICE----- $54.00

UNCONDITIONAL FOURTEEN MONTH GUARANTEE

The Finest Guaranteed Bow in the World.

In eighteen months no owner of a Veneko all Fiberglas bow has spent any money for repairs or replacement on their bow.

— SEE YOUR DEALER OR WRITE US —

Regent For: HUNTING,

FIELD

or

TARGET:

Shoot

a VENEKO

KOBAH*

all

Fiberglas

constructed

bow.

WORLD'S FINEST ALL FIBERGLAS BOWS.

VENEKO TACKLE CO., INC.

SEE YOUR DEALER OR

WRITE US

124 E. Trenton St., Baltimore 2, Maryland

Trade Mark

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ALL DELIVERIES POSSIBLE WITHIN FOUR WEEKS FROM receipt of ORDER­

KOBAH*, ROYAL HUNTSMAN, CONSORT arc Registered Patented Trade Marks

ARCHERY November, 1953

.. and it’s a

RESTWOOD arrow!

Cobra

THE NEW Patents Pending

TRADEMARK

0 The arrowhead with six cutting edges

© Stronger © Sharper

0 Streamlined © Large cutting area © Weight 120 grains ® Accurate 0 Test against any material of your choice

O Price only $3.95 doz.

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SMITH ARCHERY Bulls-cyes everytime when you use extra-accurate Crestwood equipment.

Perfectly constructed and delicately balanced, the first choice of experienced bowmen.

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Saginaw, Michigan

316 Court

HUNTERS Take

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your

hunting trip and you have the best in hunting bows.

are made.

No finer hunting bows

It can take any and all

weather

conditions

Hunting

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take info the hunt without requiring the

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Please specify bow weight and length of arrow

Crestwood ARCHERY MFG. INC. SURF AVENUE, BROOKLYN 24, N. Y.

fuss of covering them.

The dark green

color blends well with nature's outdoorsi

$33.50

$31.50

AT YOUR DEALERS

GRIMES ARCHERY CO. Pontiac Municipal Airport

Pontiac, Mich.

ICHERY November, 1953

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ARRO - NOX PLASTIC AR11OW NOCKS For Target. Field and limiting Sizes: 9/32", 5/16", 11/32"

Colored: red, white, black, yellow, green, orange, light blue and blue.

SPEED-O-MATIC Spine Tester

Quick to nock----- Quick to release.

Full depth slot. Easily glued.

Price $2.75 per 100, $12.00 per M Cash with order, prepaid — No C.O.D.

This new—all metal—ball bearing—precision spine tester is a fast operating instrument. A flip of the lever releases the weight to give you an accurate reading of the shaft in both pounds and ten thousandths of inches, on the easy to read scale.

List price, $45.00.

Special price to dealers and manufacturers, $32.50 f.o.b.

DEALERS WRITE FOR QUANTITY PRICES

FINE-LINE Arrow Crester

DACRON

A well built production type crester designed to turn one arrow at a time and give you true even crests. Comes complete with motor and adjustable color indicators. $27.50 f.o.b.

Special Close Out Price on Feather Burner — $11.50, Complete With Additional Wire and Terminal Included.

Double barbed steel fish points — .95 Single barbed steel fish points — .80

SCHEIB INDUSTRIES CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN

THE HIGH TENACITY DACRON IS NOW AVAILABLE.

This is not the low tenacity you are accustomed to.

Available in FF or .333 sizes.

Price, 4-oz. spool, $2.50 postpaid.

E. BUD PIERSON & SON 3109 Burnet Ave.

IT'S HERE--Custom Made Glove

Cincinnati, Ohio

!! ATTENTION !■ DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS Buy Your Complete Archery Needs From NOW: Our New, Fully Stocked Warehouse.

1. Interchangeable fingers.

— Satisfaction Guaranteed, or Money Refunded —

2. 8 different sizes. !!

3. Adjustable for long or short fingers.

4. Adjustable for long or short hand.

5. Replaceable finger tips.

Price $2.50 Dealers’ Inquiries

Invited Pat. Applied For

IMMEDIATE

DELIVERY ! !

Ball Bearing All Metal Production Spine Tester Precision Built Arrow Crester, Complete With Motor

Complete Ben Pearson Line Stream-Eze Glass Bows Coe Laminated Bows Exclusive U. S. Distributors for the Sederqulst Metal Bow Krohn's Leather Goods Saunders Archery Target Matts & Faces Young Feather Trimmers Bltzenburger Fletching Jigs Hill’s Hornet Matched Points

Hill's Fish Points Bear Points and Nocks Cobra Broadheads MA-3 Broadheads Hl-Preclslon Broadheads La Fond 2-Blade Broadheads Fletch-Tlte - Ferr-L-TIte

Tex-Tite - Bowstring Wax Everfast Fletching Cement High Quality Taper and Tenon Cutting Tools We guarantee to have the finest arrows at the lowest cost.

Practice-Target* Field-Hunting Glass Fish Arrows H T M Rubber Blunts

Field Faces

Light or heavy wejght Bowstrings - All types Fortisan - Feathers - Shafts Nocks Points - all types Brush Buttons by Truefllght

Bow Hunters' Pants

— SEE YOUR DEALER —

OUR BUSINESS IS STRICTLY WHOLESALE I I I

WARRIOR ARCHERY MFG. CO.

— WRITE FOR OUR NEW FREE CATALOG No. ISO

1833 So. Klnnlcklnnlc Ave., Milwaukee 4, Wis.

ANDERSON ARCHERY SALES CO. GRAND LEDGE, MICHIGAN

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ARCHERY November, 1953

HIT THE MARK

DEER

with Rocky Teller's

GOLDEN ARROWS of Magic Glass SEE MORE DEER! GET CLOSER TO YOUR GAME!

LIFETIME ARROWS Shafts indestructible in normal use — shafts remain ballistically

accurate — perfectly controlled in spine and weight.

5/16" for 40 to 55 lb. bows

Formula of “Skip” Cleveland—old time trapper and hunter of the land of the Iroquois—kills man scent and

11/32" for 55 to 75 lb. bows

attracts deer.

Diameters: 9/32" for 25 to 40 lb. bows

1 oz. Buck Lure — S1.75 postpaid

Arrow lengths — 24" to 28"

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3 oz. Buck Lure — 4.50 postpaid

ARROWS WITH TARGET, FIELD OR BLUNT POINTS

Deer Call

$26.50 per doz. postpaid

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Combination:

ARROWS WITH HILL’S HORNET POINTS FOR HUNTING

1 oz. Buck Lure and Deer Cali - -

$29.50 per doz. postpaid

3.50 postpaid

' - and type of points desired Be sure to specify arrow length, diameter Arrows shipped from stock on hand

SENECA LODGE

Also------- Write for information about Archery Deer Hunting - Write for information in the Finger Lakes Region of New York State

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Watkins Glen

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NA-PO

THE ONE BOW THAT HAS EVERYTHING

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• WORKING RECURVES The pent-up energy of these recurves is transferred

the arrow.

smoothly to the arrow to give unexcelled speed.

• NOTE the radius of the limbs These limbs are not just set back. They are deflex­

, that fits the hand in a way a THE NAPO has a grip feel like an extension of the that makes the bow f

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reflex design for speed and smooth shooting.

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• NEW GLASS FACE AND BACKING

Alter long research the Na-Po bowyers have found, and use, the best.

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back and face, to Its glass From its fine maple core the Na-Po is the finest material used in the obtainable.

best. There is no suba THE WORKMANSHIP is the Na-Po bowyers are stltute for experience and the workmanship. I* Their masters of their trade.

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• deflex handle Here is one of the secrets of smooth shooting without the loss of speed.

----------- -----• THE NA-PO has a full view window. There is no C ance for game or target to get behind the bow.

CENTER SHOT will put more energy into The center shot feature

course, fully guaranteed.

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Hand-formed and handfinished in each impor­ tant detail. Customcrafted for bowhunters who want the finest.

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Although made in four models, four prices, there is only one quality of Bear Bow ... the best. Straight or re­

curved, from Cub to Kodiak, the basic materials and proved

CUB, POLAR, GRIZZLY

construction are the same. A wide choice is yours—each AND KODIAK BOWS

the finest in its range . . . See your Bear Dealer, or write.

The KODIAK

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GLASS POW&&D BOWS BEAR ARCHERY COMPANY • grayling, Michigan BOWS

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