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CONTENTS Still Hunting Wildcats with the Long Bow

By Cassius Hayward Styles

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The Making of an Archery Club; IV

By Clark E. Schurman

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Blackhawk Invitational Shoot

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Southern Association Tournament

Cleveland Club Shoot .12

Mr. English Answers Mr. Robinson

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Genesee County Archers Olympic Bowmen Return to Match'Game Policy

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Still Hunting Wildcats with the Lon& Bow

By Cassius Hayward Styles A good hobby is the finest treasure in life. Nothing does more to brighten your days work; yet to own this cheer­ ing helpmate it is necessary only that you have the imagination to reach out and seize it. Once found, this com­ panion will never desert you; no ill fortune can chill it nor take it out of your possession. It becomes more precious with the years. A French philosopher once said, “I pity that man who grows old without a hobby.”

Hunting is a wonderful avocation; is clean sport, wholly free from taint.

You know that a man is a reliable, wholesome neighbor after you find that he is a woodsman. How refresh­ ing is the strong, quiet saneness of a

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seasoned outdoorsman! How stirring­ ly romantic, for the clan is so very, very old—“Chaucer, with his bald old pate; Gold-belted Robin Hood; Ike Walton, patient and serene; and our own Daniel Boone.” And this frater­ nity is slowly disappearing, with our forests and wild game.

Each hunter, you must have noticed, has his own prize, toward which he is drawn most strongly. One loves wood­ cock; another muses of the far Sas­ katchewan and its noble trophy, the Rocky Mountain Ram; the third fan­ cies nothing more satisfying and sportsmanlike than to slay a bull moose with a muzzle-loading flint­ lock. Mr. Simon, an English musician,

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came over to New Brunswick and col­ northern California. He cam , ' lected one of these monstrous heads with his bow and arrows, saw J in this manner. In all of these hobby- stalled, and joined in a short hum sitic quirks you will find that the man charming bit of luck: we came,,,,'' has a personal affection for the wild live, free wildcat, my first, at wta! thing he pursues, and likes to study loosed a vain—but thrilling—broad it as well as to stalk it. If Mr. Simon head arrow. had wanted to gather those antlers Alone in the woods I seriously io0's ! with sharp efficiency he would have up the study of wild animals.' Very i taken a more modern arm, but ro­ fortunately I found as a teacher s i mance and a sense of fair play toward master of woodcraft and of the tan ! our fast disappearing big game im­ science of tracking, one Eugene Mont pelled him to use the simple weapon gomery. His knowledge in these subof Davy Crockett. jects was absolute. First came tie Somewhat strangely my pet inter­ stalking and tracking of deer. Ht est has been the little noticed bob-cat. taught me the difference between their hoofprints and those of sheep.

Why, of course I don’t know; but this shy prowler has held top place in my When I went into the mountains I hunting thoughts from boyhood. One mistook the one for the other; one day, morning my father read from his later on, while walking across the bed­ paper an item which said that a lynx ding ground of a sheep camp where had been shot on Appletree Point, the soil was trampled into deep W near Burlington, Vermont. A few by thousands of ewes and lambs, I weeks later I found this kitty, mount­ glanced into a tiny arroyo and my eye ed, in a store window. I still can see picked out the track of a lone deer. the gleaming eyes and snarling jaws Montgomery had told me of the ms’’ of the stub-tailed pussy as clearly as ner in which a deer puts down® that day over twenty-five years ago. foot; how daintily, yet firmly, he.1* : I believed that he was the last of his it, without rolling or rocking, ■ kind, and how I wished I had been knowledge now made the trai o outsider as distinct as it would ha bom eighty years earlier.

In all my boyhood I had no chance been had the little gulch been co to be in so much as the same forest with clean snow and the buc with a wildcat. College came; no the only ones showing. t time for hunting, but I read tales The footprint of a widid cat isbecau* I from the wilderness. College was not more difficult to mark, Unle^ ■ finished when war called to a serious made made by by soft soft round pads'1, : kind of stalking, in French bi-planes. there is oxiwtt snow,,--------dust, mud. vntiu io cam101 | The forests had small place in my where Tabby has passed, y oB . thoughts for two years. When the see anything at all. Sometime^ fighting was done we had to fit back find a tiny scuffed spot ®ve into life again; a canny physician told dry dirt, that is visible ec me to go and live in the mountains. while the animal was runn’ anJ id' I 1U.wind H is that blows no 'good. could pick out these mar* | Blackening war, which seemed to whether they were made J coUrse,1 bring nothing but loss, finally gave a rabbit, or a coyote.

I what I wanted more than anything never advanced that farwo’ else, life m the wilderness. Dr Sax An instance that show y ton Pope the great archer, chose for derful trailing ability of ^|k me the Coast Range Mountains of curred one evening as we

October, 1931 ing around the side of an oak covered mountain. The ground here was pretty well carpeted by leaves and grass and I never bothered with the idea of look­ ing for tracks, as I didn’t believe that they could be seen . Suddenly my com­ panion said, “There's a wild cat track for you.” 1 looked where he pointed some twenty feet up the slope, and saw among the leaves and grass a bare patch of dirt, about a foot across.

After some study I made out in it what looked like an imprint. Going close, I ascertained that there was in­ deed a track, and by checking it with much care from every direction, per­ ceived that it was surely made by a wild cat. Yet Monty knew it in a flash, seen, you might say, out of the corner of his eye, and in the dusk of evening.

I have mentioned the study of tracks, not with intent to make this a thesis on that exceedingly technical and romantic branch of woodcraft, but to give you one or two actual glimpses of the most important means one uses in the study O' our subject, the wild cat. It is not possible to say, “This is a fine day; think I’ll go out and watch a couple of wild toms this afternoon.”

These creatures are so shy and alert that even an expert woodsman may not see one for months at a time; con­ sequently, if he wants to learn about them he must watch for their tracks— which he may see any day if he looks in the right place. Cats, like deer, and almost all wild creatures, have certain glades, fields and thickets of which they are fond. Once you have located their haunts, you can begin actively a very interesting course in stalking and study.

During my first year in the moun­ tains I saw only three wild cats. (I do not of course count two that were treed by the dogs of a professional hunter, though I did accept his offer to Jet me dispatch them with my bow.)

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Nevertheless, I learned something about them. Every rancher that I met contributed an item or anecdote.

One said he “shot ’em to see ’em jump.” Another told of observing them as they stood watch at gopher holes, the way a house tabby watches a mouse hole. Dr. Pope had been with Ishi, his Indian comrade, when this marvelous stalker called a wild cat from the brush into the open field; his call was an imitation of the squall­ ing set up by a rabbit that is hurt or frightened.

This last thing, luring wildcats with a call, had always interested me. I tried it, rather blindly, for years. One spring day in the Maine woods I had my first bit of success; a cotton-tail rabbit, much excited, dashed out of the bushes in response to my squeaks.

I think it was a mother. She ran close up to me, then circled my posi­ tion rapidly several times; finally I threw my cap at her to scare her back to her babies. At least I was pro­ gressing. Later, in Oklahoma, a fox squirrel was lured by this call. Wild cats, however, seemed unappreciative.

Now that I was really in the wilder­ ness, I cherished bright hopes of call­ ing them from nearly any thicket. I had no success, and in my perplexity was forced to conclude that my call­ ing was faulty. Still, these beasts range over quite a zone of mountain, and it was possible that my imitative offerings had not reached proper ears.

One day Monty told me of seeing a Tom-kye sneak down a dry wash in the open pasture a mile above Wild Cat Crossing. I haunted that terri­ tory for a while, and squeaked con­ scientiously. Maybe the cat saw me at the wrong time and pulled out; I never saw him.

But persistence must be rewarded.

One beautiful autumn afternoon I was moving along the Albee Trail, hoping to see some of the deer whose tracks

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showed in that vicinity. Well after four o’clock, it was time for them to be out of their beds, feeding. The sunlight glanced yellow rays through live-oak Branches, making hazy, cnrome tinted patterns on the dry grass. A horned owl hooted from a looi dark canyon below. In the velvet snenee every rustle was distinct. My noisy spiked shoes made me foot it siowiy, as 1 hoped not to alarm my wild friends.

I rounded a shoulder of the moun­ tain side and a number of jays broke into a frantic bedlam in the brush a hundred yards below. Something was going on there that interested them mightily. These birds are like village gossips, and broadcast every bit of scandal with all their lungs. An owl, hawk, or fox is likely to be yelled at unmercifully if he shows himself. I knew that this jamboree was caused uy something more than second-hand scandal.

YE SYLVAN you I was excited. Step by I came nearer. 1 wore no hat- - il

since 1 was sitting down, the bhAl cated section of my appearance ,71 out of the picture. It is one or^l u-ner of these two things in i®,, I appearance,—his hat or hislongfejl legs—that first alarms a wild anii®. I Sull, 1 could not believe but that fe I must soon recognize me, so I drwnj I bow, an arrow fitted on the string, | and shot. I missed. My cat wail little taken back by this and stoppet i 1 nocked another arrow, fumbling, I each beat of my heart a detonatin? I convulsion—so I missed again. )lj disgust was immense; so was my w 1 prise at seeing the cat move oW> step backwards instead of vanishing at my first movement. Agiun , and missed; the look of defiance te . wore seemed giving way o puzzled distrust. My next anoi better aimed, still a bitb.gh.^ edge of the point struc^ T kull tarelv ing clip on the top of his The wind was from them to me, so parting the fur. Doubtless^ he^.

I sat down on a big tan-oak stump stars, but no blood was di and commenced my best imitation of an instant stop to our n^eWVb a rabbit squall. The jays stopped with not a further trace o bul»p their racket and flew into a tree over my friend sprang from “ my head to give me a sizing-up. The ■the brush. I heard one silence they loosed was as surprising as his paws struck the g rustle. as had been their ripping vitupera­ after that, not a rustle.

Taking my bow I ineas.u^<!;tunlp t« tions; I was puzzled by this but kept at my work. Then came one of the tance from my seat on at magical moments of my woods life: the point where the wild fifteeh out of the brush stepped a large, grey my first shot; it was no arro«5 wild cat, and leaped on a log not yards. I picked up theia„ twenty-five yards from my seat, his at different places on tne g fu)1 of stub tail twitching as he walked turned home. My head w aS was threateningly nearer. excitement over this encou e It seemed as though I were being the wild cat’s. Whenev . bebilld chat honored with a rare and high degree eaten 'a good meal, he wa .jcks a in woodcraft. Could it really be true his ears, I suppose he reca jeeP that at last I was out-witting one of wounded rabbit spit qmc these wild, beautiful hunters ? I could him, the last of which cla mark each black spot on his grey fur, into his scalp-■ , Nove"’,ber 1 and wondered at the unblinking gaze (To be continned in the Archer) from his big yellow eyes. I assure of Ye Sylvan AUli'-

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The Making of an Archery Club; IV THE JUNIORS

By Clark E. Schurman, Seattle, Wash.

Unquestionably archers wish their than 70, and indulged in by fewer sons and daughters to have a chance than ten boys in five thousand. It in­ to shoot; to have a day or evening on spires other merit badges, leather­ the indoor range and a part in tourna­ craft for quivers and arm guards; ments. With equal certainty, young wood-working or wood carving for ar­ folks prefer their own age groups for row boxes and lockers; even painting, archery, most of the time. Thus be­ applied to arrows, boxes and lockers. gin. questions; where? when? who But it does NOT require nor imply “will look after them” ? that a boy should make his gear be­ Someone is drafted, or perhaps vol­ fore learning to shoot and shoot well.

I would as readily send all my boys unteers. He has at command a range into the hills for sphagnum moss be­ and set of customs for adults. He has fore teaching them first aid, as to near-by, precedent and counsel from start at the bench to introduce archschool coaches in other sports, from scouters, from playfield directors.

The club library is at hand for arch­ ery technic. He is assured that vari­ ous members will fulfill special teach­ ing assignments on given dates,— how to make strings; how to feather arrows and make repairs; and pos­ sibly if the best local shot is anything of an instructor, he is available for a couple of coaching sessions.

If he does not already know it, he soon learns that short sessions upon any one phase, frequent change of ac­ tivity, variety, avoidance of long rambling “talks by experts,” and “They Won the 1929 Olympic Bow League Championship” some kind of games, are all highly important. ery. Behind this opinion are the most If he starts with the scout merit­ archery merit badges in any one troop, badge as a guide, and bothers to make in our thriving council, and possibly equipment before shooting, he may from coast to coast. There are five develop a fine manual training class, years of fair success in competitions, but no archers. If he knows enough for three distinct generations of boys to suggest that parents furnish decent —and this without “specialization,” tackle, to insist upon it; he may be but with thoroughly all-around scout­ suspected of a commercial interest in ing for the troop and for these ar­ his avocation—so he is practically pre­ chers. cluded from handling money or doing Neither can I easily be patient with anything else than conducting and men whose fingers need tips, and coaching his class. Archery is NOT whose arms need guards, and who are required of the boy scout. It is a forever clocking fine new arrows, and purely optional badge among more who tilt their noses and say, “Aw, I

8 thought the boy scours always made tiieir own things. My kius cook with un cans, but they won the 1929 Olym­ pic Bow league championsnip over 18 teams oi men with tne uest arrows in tne Northwest. Borrowing nom a related scout hobby, the answer to such men is very much tnat given by a tiny tad staying cneeriul in spite oi tne rain. A patronizing adult said, ••There are the little Boy .Scouts. Oi course you can make your tire with bow and drill, every time.-’ "You bet your life, mister, and neither can you.” So the coach will doubtless ac­ cept gifts of many bows which have been superseded, many sets of rele­ gated arrows, to help his juniors past the two-bit dowel stage.

Even in the friendliest club, the coach will be aware that his juniors are unprofitable, as yet, to the tour­ nament committee. That their fees are low, the call for prizes all out of ratio to the participation, the neces­ sary short range a nuisance and extra hazard, and the management of the Junior rounds slightly burdensome.

If he is perceptive he will realize that many a junior gets thru before his father does, and runs over to an adult shooting-line with his news, to the discomfiture of other shooters at the fa.g end of their championship efforts.

In less friendly clubs, he has per­ haps been told that an accident on the indoor range, during the junior ses­ sions, may result in a suit for con­ tributory carelessness against quite innocent absent members who are jointly responsible for the rental of the range.

All of these things can be overcome by anyone with half a heart for the job. The dream of a fine line of lads sinking golds and becoming competent bowmen, carries beyond such minor difficulties. There remains the Amer­ ican Boy, himself, in the way.

He arrives enthusiastic and noisy

YE back-slapping and thing in sight.

I sat a whole forenoon on bench in London in 1920 and W ten games of cricket pUyed b Cubs, boys under 12. Crickettbi eleven on a side, and involves bo* batting, running and fielding ], in an American scout uniform was beseiged by requests for sours* and to send postcards to these Wwho visited with me when not at ba “Where is your cub master!” I asked.

“It is a lady, sir. She’s home, doubtless, why?”

“Where is the keeper of this park, then?”

“At the lodge, doubtless, sir; why!'

“Well I have been here all monu; and haven’t seen what you call a bob­ by, a police officer. Doesn’t one coir; by here often?”

“No sir. Why should he?”

Those repeated and uncompleted ing “whys” have remained with nt guiding my part in the scout troop that constitutes my main sport * the archery class that is part of th' troop. , Stanley Spencer recently coac these boys for one evening, listened, seated, for 90 minutes, made a perfect at 30 yards on his » end. All made sensational *nipI^o'nf ments. Ninety minutes is a . time in a boy’s life. Spencer 'vaS., sorbingly “good” and ’nter'! ci BUT, those boys had six monw sound practice and fine tradit10^^ I hind them, and were in the ready to understand and to 3 . trate upon as high-pressure s Mr. Spencer unfolded. ie(t tt ____ to moote He didn’t ,have waste aa on the romance of arc^e^]pnjiolold a joke, nor do tricks to help p dributi"" audience. His only contribu -Tapb their morale was the ParagI the‘( the point that they should ta

October, 1931 shooting seriously, and never release a single arrow with indifferent prep­ aration for its flight to the mark.

A new boy goes mto the back room and learns ro load and shoot at five yards. He has five pages of type­ written coacnmg to study. By this time he has discovered an atmosphere of superb decorum—and if he hasn’t, Christopher Columbus will most cer­ tainly help him see it.

He learns "never to run at all”— which is a safety device for the class —“because even a few steps will change your heart rate and influence your next end," which seems to be true.

He SITS and reads or converses in • an undertone, between ends while the other flights are shooting. He does not wander around the room, nor dis­ tract those shooting by mentioning their names, nor by infectuous laugh­ ter.

He is asked to keep all his gear to­ gether and to watch it; to use the same suspicion about his tackle’s safety as he does about where he caches his pack, off trail, in the mountains. Thus our chairs are not full of arrow boxes and we do not have avoidable breakages.

The shooters stand-fast until the last arrow is delivered, and put away their bows at the same time. They move down at the end man’s word, which in boy language just now is “okay.” They go down at a walk.

They do not stand before the center of the target, but at the side where drawn arrows cannot fly into their eyes.

They hold up the target and hold the face in place with one hand and draw their shafts with a thumb and only one finger—and know why they do this—altho they shoot at bales that will never tip over, and altho no other archers’ arrows are in the tar­ get at the time.

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They score accurately, and report to the board quietly but promptly.

They TRY not to notice the other man’s total and so to avoid worry.

They go for months without a case of goat-getting—I mean without those subtle but malicious little freaks of conduct, of scorn or praise, of diver­ sion of concentration, of inquiry about the other’s progress and deprecation of their own scores, which permeate older groups too often.

They do the clerical work and record keeping; put away the points of aim, lock the windows and close up the place. And they LIKE TO. If you are inclined to discount all this because tnese are exceptional and unnatural boys, and are unduly re­ pressed, please hold your pencil ruboer end down. No troop can be the largest over eleven years time, and toddle into the high mountains for two weeks each summer, and take its share of the scout field days, place its boys on football teams and have them valedictorians, if they are mollycod­ dled or suppressed. These kids have merely been told WHAT the game is, HOW to play it, WHY it is WORTH­ WHILE to all think in terms of the entire party.

Merely? They are retold, private­ ly, if they need to be; but with friend­ liness.

I should like to list and explain a dozen useful variations of target shooting which interest them and break the strain. Perhaps we can have space for an extra paper to do that. Far more important than the mechanics is the spirit of the junior group.

Thirty thousand men at a time are scoutmasters; that many more are as­ sistants. Men who have been and are not now, or who could be, are the kind to put on short pants and run around with a bow and arrow and (Continued on page 18)

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Blackhawk Invi­ tational Shoot

Postlewait was 1 with 413 points. bl8h»«..

Target shooting was divided into contests for men, women and junior archers, and a novelty shoot and clout round for all were conducted after­ ward.

The novelty round, consisting .. arrows at 30 yards, was won h, r i Garver, with 44 points.

1 Miss Jean Howell, with a score(1 514, won the junior contest for and her twin sister, Miss Jane Hot* I placed second with a score of I George Cast, Jr., was high in tl> boys’ competition, with 617 points, and Lynn Ellis was second with Sii points.

In the clout shoot, James Howel was high man with 115 points; Mrs. I Postlewait was high woman with SI ; points, and George Cast, Jr. was high junior with 63 points.

James Howell, of Washington, won the double American round, shot by the men, with a score of 1,017. F. E. Brown, of Peoria, was second, scoring 999, and George Henninger, of Paw­ nee, was third, with 983 points.

Kore T. Duryee won the Anderson perpetual cup in an archery .golf match at Ridgewood Golf course, j Seattle. His score was 70 for 27 holes. ; Seventeen shooters participated.

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With ideal weather conditions pre­ vailing, 36 archers competed Sunday, Sept. 27, in the annual fall invitational shoot of the Blackhawk Archery club on Mueller athletic field south of Lake Decatur, Illinois. Throughout the day the contest had a large audience, new onlookers arriving as others left.

Mrs. James Howell won the double Columbia round shot by the women, with a score of 609. Mrs. F. E. Brown was second with a score of 607, and Mrs. Lois Postlewait was third with 413.

Bert Slider was high man for Deca­ .tai', with a score of 880, and Mrs.

According to Nelson’s Encyelope- I dia, in the reign of Henry VIII s’ ' --•.of 24 years’* I archers above the age ' ta shoot withJ commanded not flight arrows at a distance un ■ yards, the effective range of archery.

“The Central Illinois Group” at Decatur,

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Southern 'Associa­ tion Tournament Seventy-six archers from eleven states took part in the third annual tournament of the Southern Archery Association. Perfect weather helped to make the shoot a success. A. W. Shannon of Memphis, Tennessee won the southern championship with a score of 1516 for the single York and double American rounds. Dr. E. S. Hodgson of East St. Louis, Mo., scored 1637 but was not eligible for the championship. Thomas Mull of Hollygrove, Arkansas was second with 1503 and J. L. Messing, St. Louis, Mo., third with 1483. In the Women’s division Miss Ethel Kanapell, St. Louis, Mo., was first with a score of 1114 for the single National and doub­ le Columbia rounds. Second was Mrs. |W. B. Allen, Louisville, Ky., 961, and third was Miss Mary Thompson, Memphis, Tenn., 907. Miss Marie Klopsteg, Evansville, Ill., is interme­ diate girls’ champion with a score of 790. Calvin Corran, Waco, Texas, score 1740, is intermediate boys’ champion; second, Ernest Grinon, Hamilton, Texas, 1262; third, Charles Cox, Jr., Memphis, Tennessee, 1195.

Texas also has the junior champion in Theron Pierce of Waco, who scored 1410 to 1275 for Bernard Hess, Rose­ bud, Texas, and 979 for Tom White, Memphis, Tenn.

Miss George Rast of Memphis, Tenn., took the ladies’ clout event and W. B. Allen, Louisville, Ky., won the men’s clout. Men’s flight champion is Wm. Morgan, Little Rock, Ark., and the ladies’ champion is Miss Mary Thompson, Memphis.

The tournament next year will be held at Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. ;Webb of Nashville was elected presi­ dent of the association and Mr. McNish of Madison, secretary.

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Cleveland Club Shoot A very interesting archery contest was held by the Cleveland Archery Club on Sundays, September thir­ teenth and twentieth. Teams of four archers were made up of about equal strength by using previous scores. In this way everybody had a good chance to win. Individual silver cups for the winning team went to Team No. 1, composed of Mr. C. A. Furnas, Mr. W. U. Kaji, Miss Rebecca Worth, and Miss Lucie E. French.

The club championship for both men and ladies was also decided by these same Double American scores.

Miss Rebecca Worth with a score of 126-590 won the ladies’ championship, and Earl Mead with 176-1096, the men’s.

Team spirit was high in this match and it is significant that there were no absentees on either day. Even in team number five which was partly made up of beginners and which was formed rather as an overflow target, the team spirit was strongly manifest.

One member of this team appeared on the scene after being out fishing all night, and when asked why he did not go home and sleep, replied “I don’t want to break up the team!”

And he was in dead earnest.

This team shoot was the idea of Mr. Hollis Bacon, president of the club.

Hunting in Goose Valley Archery is the only form of hunting allowed in Goose Valley, all kinds of firearms being barred. The entire valley, consisting of about 7000 acres of level meadow land, is owned by Dillman & Wallace. The firm has restricted the use of weapons.

“To shoot a deer with a rifle is like shooting a calf,” J. B. Wallace, nian-

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Friends of Wallace in Palo Alto and San Francisco visit him during the hunting season and put into practical use their skill at archery. Sometimes the hunters come by airplane, an air­ port being provided for such visitors from the abundance of flat, grassy land. Two weeks ago a friend of Wallace’s flew up for breakfast from the I bay city, stayed all day and had dini ner, then returned to his home in the evening. — Fall River (California) | Tidings.

Mr. English Answers Mr. Robinson

Carney’s Point, N. J. Sept. 14, 1931 Mr. J. E. Davis, Editor, Albany, Oregon Dear Sir: I note in the August issue of Ye Sylvan Archer an article by W. 0.

Robinson, under the caption “Com­ ment on Arrow Ballistics,” in which • it is contended that according to my formulas published in the December 1930 number of the Journal of the 'Franklin Institute “—a variation of three or four grains in arrow weight will mean an error of a target diame­ ter in 100 yds.”

Such a conclusion must be based lupon a misapplication of the formulas, arithmetical errors in the calculations or both for the correct use of these formulas does not lead to any such lidiculous result. It is not necessary to burden the pages of this journal I with the detailed calculations neces­ sary to prove the point, but a brief summary might be of interest. A bow that will impart an initial velocity of 165.5 ft/sec. to a 400 grain arrow will yield 165.0 ft/sec. with a 405 grain shaft, these velocities being

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about average for the usual arrow shot from a 40-45 noun ta 11r&et ’" Assuming these specific velocitie an angle of projection of 12« cases, the ballistic equations Wr? a range of 292.6 ft. lor the lighter 291.6 ft. for the heavier arrow a S ference of one foot in approximate!.’

100 yards instead of four as alleged This one foot, moreover, is the differ- ' ence between the hits measured on a horizontal plane, but we shoot at an i essentially vertical target at 100 yds not a horizontal one. To find the dis- i tance between the hits on the nearly ■ vertical target face, it is necessary to ; multiply the 12 inch difference in hori- | zontal range by the tangent of the angle of fall. This angle is found, by I the application of another of the bal- I listic formulas, to be 14° 35’, the tan- j gent of which is 0.26. Then 12x.!i equals 3.1 inches, the distance between hits on the target resulting from a difference of 5 grains in the weight of average target arrows. This defference is obviously insignificant and i beyond the limit of accuracy of even the mechanical shooting much less a human archer. The e of weight variations at shorter raMc is even less. ;„j be rais^ The question might also as to the applicability of <-- equa* Ttohanu derived from machine shooting that in* shooting on the ground t--latter the phenomenon of t e s •3 with detn"archer’s paradox” enters ,( ........ ................. ’ mental effect. If If the the tech* tech*^ ■

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shooting is such +K!,t that the s ^fS heavily against the bow an thereby a pronounced a un(jouMtion, the above conclusion i | elly justified. On the 0 numerous tests have s u the shooting technique -s pf properly neutralize the by u>«' adox,” range determma i r «i chine and hand check eac ^curlic)'0 in reasonable limits.

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the machine is, of course, far in excess of that possible by hand shooting.

Yours truly, F. L. English

Salvage

By Dr. B. L. Rawlins, Chicago

After we have shot for a few years we all have more or less junk in the way of broken bows and arrows that we hate to throw away, perhaps from association as much as anything else, and sometimes we don’t know just what to do with it. Sometimes a broken bow may be mended and re­ main perfectly serviceable. It depends ■on what kind of a break it is, and on the skill of the repairer. Usually all that can be salvaged is the horns. One can always give them away to some­ one who wants to make a bow if he has no ther use for them. I have fixed up some pretty badly splintered arrows which at first sight appeared hopeless and made perfectly service­ able and good shooting arrows out of them, but here again it depends on what sort of a break it is. If it is a straight across break or even a short fracture it is hopeless as it stands, yet one can almost stand by a maxim that a good arrow may be had out of the parts of two broken ones. There is certainly a salvage on every arrow that was any account at the time it was broken. One can’t break the nock, the feathers, the footing and the pile all at one shot. He may ruin one or more of these parts and still have a good shaft, for that matter. Any part of an arrow that is left intact is good for something. The feathers may be steamed off over the teakettle and are perfectly .good afterwards, provided they were worth saving. The same treatment applies to the nock and the footing, while we often lose a pile and can use all of them we save. It

isn’t a very difficult matter for a good workman to fashion a shaft, plane the wedge to it and set it in an old and perfectly good footing, and it isn’t hard with a little practice to saw the “V” out of the nock end and set an old nock in. So now you are ready for the feathering, and almost any archer can put feathers on an ar­ row. If a nock is split, the wood of the arrow is usually left uninjured and another one can be glued in, wrapped tightly until it is dried and then cleaned off. If however, the wood is injured at this place, the feathers may be steamed off, a new “V” cut, a good nock inserted and when the feathers are replaced you have a slightly shorter arrow which may go with another set or which you may let a novice shoot, or give it to a lady or a boy scout. I was sur­ prised recently to see how many ar­ rows I had that could be made into good ones with much shortening and yet were a perfect delight to my little girl who is learning to shoot.

Next to shooting, I know of nothing so fascinating as repairing old tackle, or even trying one’s hand in making new. ,

Making an Archery Club (Continued from page 9) play with the boys. They should read Seton Thompson’s "Two Little Sav­ ages,” and not high-hat it. They should love Doyle’s “The .White Com­ pany” and manage to read it winter nights by a fireplace with their boys.

They should own Thompson’s “Witch­ ery” and paddle a small stream with their boys, reading it aloud.

So there will come up a great race of archers, a fine race of LIKEABLE men to shoot with on range and golf course and hunting cover; and the ex­ pense won’t matter, and the tourna­ ment committee will make the junior class as important as it is to some of the rest of us.

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Genesee County Archers Genesee County Archers, host Club for the New York State Archery tour­ nament in 1932, has been organized and is now sponsoring a series of fall tournaments in anticipation of next year’s meet. R. L. Rimer of Silver Springs is president of the new group and Harry VanArsdale of Castile, vice-president. Other officers are:

President R. L. Rimer I secretary-treasurer, Gordon McGuire of Perry; board of governors, Charles VanArsdale, Castile; Guy Comfort, Perry; Edwin Willse, .Silver SpringsRobert Porter, Mount Morris Louis Fishei Jr. and Carl Martin, Warsaw.

It a™heJy/ange is Seated at Letchworth Park where the three-day 11932 state tournament will be held This range is one of the finest in the

YE sylvan auchq state and has (’ added advantage, being situated- in ^ry scenic^ roundings.

President Rimer announces Hut weekly shoots will be held each Safe day afternoon until cold weather, j novelty shoot is being arranged wfe

“ iSearchersovCTm^2 pain cians.

In the Spring a regional tournamii will be arranged to develop code;., tants for the state meet.-Perr (N. Y.) Herald.

Olympic ^Bowmen Return to Match Game Policy

Representatives of twenty Pacific teams in the mail-match Olympic Bowmen’s League have decided to re­ turn to the base-ball method of as­ signing weekly matches between elute and awarding ‘the pennant for num­ ber of games won. A schedule ij now being prepared for the winter season, starting in November. I* dividual summaries will again be feature of the reports and awa * Clubs wishing to participate so® communicate at once with Clar_ Schurman, 609 Ranke Bldg-, e* Wash., to be included in the sc e The Olympic round is 90 arro 30 yards, for teams of fou1’. ,s League includes Ladies’ an< y,. as well as Men’s teams. summaries are outth^pa son. The entrance fee is* archer for the season ot re -illh’f' The Seattle Archery club of a l. exclusive use till spring : and 9 hole golf links for rovers ery golf.

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With a thirty pound bow these arrows will kill deer easily and with a forty pound bow or heavier they are powerful enough for black bear.

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Get a set of these arrows now, and enjoy your bow all fall and winter!

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