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Field Al'cher.s of Ontai-io. I think N~P~ that be~ause of our relatively small population, great distances, short summers and long cold winters it Spots your onow exacdy - is diffi.cult. for the average per son every thot. to ma1ntarn an active interest. l'•r Pr. NEOPHYTE ARCHER Those who have managed to over Will NOT roll string. Giv.. ex· Al your Ooal•n come the difficulty are truly hard fr'emely accurate "Hair trigger"' In thP. words of Et·le Stanlev core archers who are 1'till building releose. Gardner (see Mail PO'lich, July-Au· from modest beginnings. gU1;t '6~ issue), I am a neophyte and Judging from your articles, I Arrow moy be slipped up or an outcast and will probably remain down vntil it teats in notch. would say that we arc five years so. Hunting occasionally, semi-fi behind. Will NOT squosh or deform on nals in a round with the neighbors L. K. Jerrard, drow. Wilt NOT move when - that kind of thing, which is the Saskatoon, Sask., 1"' ~.fl properly i nslollod. compromise I make with my wife, Canada LJ\~'"°\f1· ,1 and my enthusiasm. (In view of the long winter The article on .•Jim Pickering nights, this might be good country 11howed some of the bP.st pictures in which to put up some indoor I've seen on grip and aiming. So a?·chery lanes!) thanks for a fine publication anrl ~:· give me some elementary irn;truc MORSE COOED ARROWS tion on how to hit the target. Here ii; an idea that I use in put over. No sttcky compronible Richard A. Sturly, ting cresting on; a Morse code sys rubber sur"lo«,. herel Kirkville, New York tem, narrow lines or stripes for (Hitting thcy Gun Club magazine, Rod and Gun, pains of misunderstanding relative if permission is given. to amateur, non-amateur and pt·o weights to 75 lbs. light weight • monufacfurod of special Captain .J. M. Locke, fe1'sionalism now more than ever. 100.00 formulated rvbbor NFAA Board of Field Many of us have, in the last year or Governors, two, realized the importnnce of pro ''S ,, Headquarters, 10th Arty Gp, tecting the amateur's standing, hut Howatt Del Rey. for lhose who will accept nothing but the vltimale in r\ uper Mounteclon APO 29, New York, N.Y. because of the system now used in target orcherY. <;qvipmenl, the HOWATT Del Rey is corrsidered by Y' Full Working ~ecurve (Permission granted, sir!) Michigan, we are still neglecting it. many the world's finest. By every measvre, the Del R Those that alert and get attention, but do not cause flight. The greatest advancement in (3) Those that attract the game to come into the sound. away, with his full attention elsewhere. For the record, I (4) Those that calm, soothe and reassure. Sounds from all missed . . . but that's another story! hunting bows in 20 years! of these categories can be of va luable use to the bow· Very often, though, hunting partners can make use of a hunter. whistle, a grunt or other sound to get the attention of an Sounds which alarm and frighten game are sometimes animal away from their partner ... or the use of an alarm THE INCOMPARABLE used to flush game from dense brush. In India, loud noise noise to move the animal towards the other hunter. All plays an important part in moving game to the hunter dur sounds mean something to a wild animal. He pays strict ing organized hunts. How often have you passed a dense attention to every sound he hears. If the sound is recog· clump of brush or aspen patch and thrown a rock into the nized as dangerous and close to hand, he bolts; If farther KENTUCKIAN Noise can help you get more game! The right sound, center of it to flush out game on the other side? away, he moves off more slowly. If the sound is known to featuring CAMOUFLAGE GLASS made at the right time, can be pure magic for the skillful The popular Herter's Rabbitt flusher call is designed to be normal to the area and time of day, such as the squeak bowhunter. The trick Is knowing what sound to make and make a high pitched scream such as a hunting hawk might of a mouse, movement of other deer, call of a bird, etc. he when to make it. BUILT RIGHT INTO THIS make, a noise calculated to cause rabbits to move so the pays no attention. When the sound isn't recognized, he SUPERB NEW BOW . Sou~d plays a most important part in the life of Vlary hunter can see them and get a shot. comes to full attention and remains motionless until he wild anirnals. Much of what action they take is based on Sound that alerts game but does not cause flight can determines whether it is friend or foe. the sounds heard ... or not heard. Some sounds can be be of use when a couple of hunters are working together. A sound which the animal immediately associates with instantly frightening, while others get a reaction of alert A couple of years ago I was working down a steep canyon a human is frightening and will cause him to move away attention, but do not frighten. Sound can arouse curiosity into a feed ground where several nice bucks were browsing. from the sound ... a cough, voices, ticking of a watch. or so~the an alerted animal. Some can attract and bring My hunting partner, Jack Howard, remained high on the A sound he doesn't understand, like the soft twang of a the critter to within petting distance of the hunter making them. opposite canyon wall so he could direct me through the bowstring, will bring him to full attention until he deter· maze of brush . All of a sudden from his violent motions I mines what the sound was. Anyone can learn to make a n~mber of useful sounds realized I must be very close to my quarry. After freezing Animals can be brought towards a sound through its using your natural voice, materials at hand, or a commerciai for a few moments I cautiously started around a clump of arousing their curiosity. Soft sounds which the animal does game call. The knowing bowhunter can use sound to bring scrub oak and found myself eye-ball to eye-ball with a beau not know the source of and can't explain, often can cause the animal to him, to stop him, or to move him into a better tiful old four pointer not fifteen feet away. He had me rivet him to investigate through natural curiosity. An old timer STRENGTH - shooting position. Often WTi es, sounds occur from other ed with his eyes and I didn't dare bat an eyelash, let alone I once met in the back country told me that he could sit sources than the hunter, himself, and knowing how the start to draw. Jack's application of an attention getting down patiently in rabbit country and by packing and scratch unsurpassed game will react gives the hunter opportunity to put himself sound saved the day ... he started whistling softly and ing the ground gently with a stick, very often he would have in an advantageous position for a shot waving his arms. The buck immediately turned his head''to a rabbit or other small animal slowly sneak up on him to Outdoor sounds fall roughly into four general categories: look up the canyon at Jack and I was left with the most see what was going on. The ticking of a clock left under a (1) Those that alarm and frighten into Instant flight. (2) perfect shot a bowhunter could want - a buck but feet pile of pine needles will cause deer to closely investi~ate With camouflaged during the night as evidenced by the number of hoof prints glass built right found the next day. The use of a high pitched varmint call into the bow, the "Kentuckian" ex:ictly as a wavering bleat can call up all sorts of animals through duplicates jungle curiosity • • . animals which are not predators, such as warfare uniforms . • - gains added strength deer, antelope or pigs. and s t ablllty Most commercial game calls normally work by imitating along with tremendous cast. A reel powerhouse the actual sounds of the animal being hunted. By talking among hunting bows, his language, you can tell him to come in and see what's the "Kentuckian" is pre· going on. You appeal either to hls hunger for food, sex, or cision made or tapered, rock-hard white maple other animals of his type. There are game calls on the laminations giving rull market for just about every species of game_ The best way benefits of true working HERTER'S FOR THE ARCHER WHO recurves . • . actually de· to learn to ·use one is to buy a tecord of the actual animal flexed, reflexed and recurved sound. listening first to the record and then trying to imi· beyond 90• .. . and PERFECTION absolutely no s tack duo to WANTS THE FINEST tate the sound with the call. double tapering. A sound which creates a situation of interest in the latest addition our PREMIER The to mind of the hunted animal will also bring him in. Rubbing Length - 54" already popular family of and knocking together of antlers during the rutting season Perfection Bows. can be like a magnet to a pugnacious deer or elk who Nowhere can you buy so thinks the sound comes from a couple of his fellows butting ARCHERY BOW much bow for so little. heads. Brazilian Rosewood riser or The growing sport of calling predatory animals ~uch as bobcat, coyote or fox is based upon making the sound of a AT DIRECT handle section of unusual to 60 lbs. seriously Injured and frightened small animal which the Draw limit - 29" FACTORY PRICES beauty w it h contrasting predator could easily capture as a free meal. Here you gleaming white glass facings make· no attempt to sound like the animal you are after; in· and backings. stead you try to sound like the animal he wants to eat. ADO 10% FOR OVER 60 LBS. Each Perfection Premier Just the squeaking sound of a defenseless field mouse as comes complete with pro though caught in the crotch of a sage bush can call up a tected, zippered bow case hungry hawk or bobcat. AVAILABLE FROM OUR with soft knitted lining and Often the sound of an animal natural to the area can FRANCHISED DEALERS double carrying handles. act as a calming agent to game the hunter has accidentally alarmed. During a stalk, a deerhunter might unexpectedly Dealers: Some areas open. Write for com· pop a small branch just as he is getting close to his quarry. Shipping wt. 4~h lbs. plete details. Send 25¢ for The soft bleat on a rubber band deer call can sound like Men's 72 inch length a small deer to the herd ahead and reassure them that giant 500 page Ladies 66 inch length. \ there is no danger. UNITED STATES catalog. There are noises a careful bowhunter should guard Dept. 10R2 against making. The wearing of hard surfaced clothing in ARCHERY CO. vites a loud scratching noise when the hunter moves A Division of Tri·State through brush . . . a noise game immediately associates with humans. Better is to wear soft woolens with a nap 7 EAST FRANKLIN STREET which deadens a scratching branch and makes it sound DANBURY, CONNECTICUT more like brush against animal hair. 8 (Continued on page 38) 9 nothing to bear them out at the time. Louis was a little temperamental In his early archery career _and !f he would goof three or four targets in a row, he invariably would TACKLE TIPS blow up altogether. Apparently he felt when he goofe,d these targets that he was ·au washed up f?~ that days shooting. Then his troubles became magnified and he would come all unglued. Even so he managed to place second at the 1959 California State Tournament and had he shot his average ~~ J he could have won It. . JOjiYlSGK Right after this state shoot, Louis and I delved seriously Rangel .Johnson into his problem to determine whether we could come up with something concrete from which to work. Louis Rangel's archery career began in his backyard flawless, and in my estimation, as close to a natural as I His worst problem came from left arr?ws, ~o we elec~ed with a Ben Pearson all glass bow. Six years later, this had ever seen. His scores on the field range progressed at to start with his equipment and try to pm·pomt something career came to a climax when he won the California State a rapid pace and I was happy, to say the least, when he from this angle. Barebow Championship, then a month later won the Na decided to buy one of my bows, as I knew that he was The center-shot in his bow was good and the arrows tional Instinctive Championship at Running Springs, Cali· going to be a top archer before too much time had passed. he was using at the time fell into the bow weigh~ spine· fornia. My prediction came true almost too fast to believe, a~ wise. He was nbt getting any finger pinch from the sixty-six· This was his first attempt at a national title, but he within a year he was in the Championship Class in the inch bow the ends of the bow were in alignment and the had undergone five previous frustrating attempts at the Riverside (Calif.) Archery Club. bow was' tillered perfectly for his low hold. This then just California State Title. Many an archer's climb to fame is But about this time Louis' problem s started popping about eliminated any fault in his equipment, so we then SAUND E RS almost meteoric, the path seemi ngly paved with gold and up. He would shoot a good tournament score one Sunday started in on Louis. . silver. but Louis' road up has been one of many pitfalls and the very next Sunday he might be 100 to 150 points His release was about the best I had ever seen and hrs MAT T and obstacles that had to be cleared one at a time, then off pace. This went on for sometime and he was becoming bow arm was good and stable, so we went to his bow AND EASEL STAND sometimes recleared. Had he not had that intense, burning frustrated with the whole works. As illustration of the hand - and this was the payoff. desire to be a champion archer, I am sure he would not extreme fluctuation in his scores, two tournaments come In those days, bow handles as a whole were not much have survived his six-year climb to the winner's circle. to mind. One was a regional shoot at which he' shot a 917 and almost all of the archers with whom I came 1n Our paths crossed not long after Louis had been bitten field score, in those days fantastic barebow shooting. The contact either shot a high or straight-through wrist. As a Get set in a jiffy with this h andy combination ... sh~ot by the archery bug. He had just purchased his first recurve very next Sunday, in our regular club shoot, he turned in a result we made the bows for these types of holds. at home, indoors out. Compact .. • they cas•!Y bow, but already had a few of the regular archers' eye 746. This shooting was done with the same bow, the same or st:ow o~ a good score day, Louis apparently had no trouble in your car for on outings for field practice. Y ou brows raised as to his shooting form. I could rea dily see arrows and the same string. fun or II in placing his hand on the handle the same way every think of many ways to enjoy your Malt.-but. you con why, when I first saw him in action. His release was almost Clues to his probable troubles? There were clues, but time, but if he should start slipping off at any tim~, then double your (un with these ideas alone- he would go into the bow handle too far and this then would torque the bow to the right, as he shot; henc~ the left arrows. It took several glue jobs to build out the. handle DRIVEWAY MAKES RANGE so that it felt right for his flat hand style of .holding the Yard too short, muddy or bow, but with this build·out, he could place his hand the snowy? Place Matt in ga ••a1TZENBURGER'' same without fear of it slipping off. . rage and use driveway for His top scores did not improve greatly from thrs new range. Light up for night shooting! THE MOST FAMOUS NAME IN fl.ETCHING EQUIPMENT handle, as they were the best in those days, but he was much more consistent in scoring from day to day than he Need a secondary backstop? had been previously. 2" strawboard will catch the The 1960 State Shoot was to be held in Los Angeles wilcl shots. Neat, eh? Our New and we felt that Louis had every chanc~ ~f w_f nning it. He had placed second in the sectional ehmmat1on shoot in SHOOT AT NIGHT southern California and more Important, felt good about his A simple spotlight and an PERFE·CTION FLETCHMASTER chances for the big one. But the day before the state finals extension cord make your were to begin, Louis changed from the regular speed nocks backyard an archery range. A few shots daily improves is the greatest advancement in fletching jig history. he had been using to the mid·nocks. . form best. This was his undoing as on the field rou.nd, he mrs· nocked about every third arrow and beat hrs bow arm Soon your family and We do not claim to fletch ALL of the arrows, BUT w e do biack and blue in the process. He changed nocks after friim 10 ,, ~1I ELD ARCHERY can hardly be . c~ ll ed a spectator FOLLOW J.' sport. Unlike golf, for.example, 1t 1s rare 1f ever that an entourage of fanatics and fans ca~ be foui;d following the archers over hill and gulo.h ~n pursuit of that elusive championship. The cou_rse 1s Just too . THE· tough in many instances to be considered a pleasu1 e outing. . Id h T During the 1963 National Fie A1·c ery ourna- ment, however, BOW & ARROW m~de arl·angements to li terall y follow the leaders on th.e final course , for the championship. The competitors were last year s LEADERS winner in the freestyle categ?ry, J?on Cavallero of . Pasadena, California; Jim P1ckenng of Salt La~e City, Utah, who won this s pring's ~en Pea_rson Op~n 111 If You Have The Stamina Of An Army Mule -- the professional category ; Bill Partin of Ohio, 1962 i·tmner up to Cavallero and Bob Lorch of San And Don't Know Any Better -- You Can Keep Up With Diego, California, a newcomer to the tournament circuit. . d d . th. The only other three persons we1 u c rrn is . A Top Field Archer! exclusive group were Al Henderson, the NFAA field (Continued on next page) Don Cavallero Bill Partin Jim Pickering Bob Lorch Freestyle winner of the 1963 N FAA tournament R epresenting the Ame1·ican Archery Compa,ny A San Diego, California, a·rchel', he was a. dark repea,ted his win of last year, but 'With a much Winner of this years big mone11 in th<> Rrn . of Chicago in the p1·0/ess-ional ranks al.so Pea,rson Open, he ca:me down from: I.he Uta.h hills horse, cts tiiis was his first national tournarnent. lower score due to rougher terrain, he felt. repeated his 1962 positioning, placing second He used a Hoyt bow to confound the more He won with favorite Wing bow. w-ith his Richard.<; bow to pJ,ace third,_ behind Ca1Ja,llero with Cheetah bow. bdng edged out by Partin by four 1>oints. <'XperienC(!d shooter.<; in tourney. 13 Cavallero spins an Q;rrow on h?:s fing e1·,q to determine if Uhas become 'Warped or bent dut'ing scranible in ro11,gh terrain. Aluminum sha,/tR can sufI er from such hard 1.1.se. Below: This study of facial expressions an instant a,/tfA' 'release during final phase of to11.wnament Ca1~allero trot.er up a. roiigh, narrow trail ( abo1Je) shows traces of p'ressure under 'Which they are while othe: three follow, enroute to next shoot·ing. From top: Cavallero offers (L stud·y in target. (Right) Ji"!" Pickering takes a ten second concentration and wea,1-iness ; Partin ha.s eyes br~ather, a necessity befo1·e shooting at high on the ta1·get, still judging h-is shot; Lorch's altitu~es .. judge; Cavallei·o's wife., and Ra)' Rich of BOW & ARROW. When it was all over, Rich - pooped and panting - returned for a beer, film coming out of every pocket. On these pages is his photographic record of what happened on that final round. According to him, there was little to be had but pictures. "I was hoping that I'd get some good quotes for this story," be complained wearily, "but they loused me up. Nobody talked. They were all too busy concentrating on shooting and climbing those cotton pickin' mountains." But he was convinced that even the top shooters had not had - or taken - 'an opportunity to follow four of the hottest a1·chers in the country, watching their reactions, observing the play of nerves and tensions which affected each of the four. It was obvious that all of these four shooters had ultimate respect for each other, but there was minimum talk. Occasionally, one of them might comment, "good shot," but there was little else. Mrs. Cavallero followed the entire course, but made certain she always was in the background, never a confusing influence. Her husband, attempting to retain his title, was deep in concentration and seemed hardly to notice her through the twenty-eight ta1·get course. Of this quartet, Partin and Pickering were BOWHUNTERS carrying score cards and were doing the book work after every target had been shot by each of the foursome. As the group gathered about a target, Lol'ch would invariably call off the scores, "Don, twenty points; Bill, eighteen;" et cetera, while the two sco1:ekeepers would write down the results. Cavallero seemed to take little interest in a comparison of scores. on the individual targets. In almost every case, Rich found, he would continue on up (or down ) the mountainside to the next position. lt may have been t.. ~~!m.... ~-- Bob Lorch 'reaches over shoulder for an arrow; he was one of ve1y few who used a back-type Below: This gam.e targfd, holding m-rows o.f these hunt·ing qu·iver. The game target on opposite four competitors, a.fjords an idea of the type hillside p'roved difficitlt because of .the distance of shooting being accompli8hed in rac1~ for lerid. a.nd lighting conditions, tfnlevel terrain. Cavalle·to admitted he had a psychological block against this 1'a·rticultw game ta1·r;et in spite of the /act that he made an r.xcellent shot.· C Below: Scores Rtill are not Partin (left) and Pickering were scorekeepers, and comparnd. Al Henderson, NFAA tourna, cards after foiwteenth target, trying to dete1·mine discrnpancies. officially totalled, but Pickerin,q ment official, checks target to offers his congratulation.'! Spo1·tsmanship displayecl itself when Lorch reported he had determine whether it i.'I liner or shot 16 instead of the wrongly recorded 20 points on a part'icular to Ca1JaUero a,s repeat winner not. Line was fuzzy but Ca1;allero of the tournament. target. 1'his settled the prol>ll'??t. was gi1;e.n b(mefU of doubt. 17 LURING ONE OF THESE CRITTERS CLOSE IS NOT A PROBLEM; HITTING ONE WITH AN ARROW IS! CHALLENGE OF FOX CALLING By Russell Tinsley Left: Getting concealed so that your silhouette is broken is necessity; (be low) hold nocked arrow and bow in shooting hand to avoid as much move ment os possible when game shows. Murry hissed urgent bxought the arrow to full draw and The high-pitched cries, dripping "Now!"ly. "Shoot!" let go. with distress, rushed out acros11 the I glanced around to see what he Muny's talented calling ·had countryside. I gripped my bow was all excited about. The unex lured the fox almost close enough tightly with sweaty hands as I in pected sjght made my heart skip a for me to reach out and touch it. tently scrutinized the sweep of ter beat. Not ten feet away, stood a Murry, one of the Burnham bro rain ahead of me, and it was only gray fox, busy tail twitching pro thers of game-call fame, had posi short moments later when Murry vocatively, alert eyes seal'ching for tioned me perfectly for the am whispered his insistent command whatever was causing the dying bush. Despite the fact that the fox to shoot. rabbit squeals. had come in on my blind side, I The arrow lanced out, but Jo Somehow regathering my com now had it dead to rights. and behold, it hit where the fox posure, I got my bow eased arouud It was late afternoon with the had been, not where it was going. and drew back on the string. It sun hanging like a big Christmas During that infinite instant when looked easy ... ridiculously easy. ball in the hazy Texas sky, just the projectile was in flight, the fox But sometimes a man can be above the oaks and cedar trees. moved a few quick steps and the lured into false confidence. That We had walked off into the cow arrow ricocheted against·tbe ground fox appeared so large that it pasture until some two hundred and skittered harmlessly acroM the seemed impossible to miss it. Right yards from where we parked the rocky soil into the brush. then I would have bet my last pickup we came to a fairly !al'ge The zing of the razorhead nick broadhead that I could have rushed clearing rimmed by brush. It was ing a rock spooked the fox and it that critter into the promised land a typical Texas early fall day, took off like a balloon that has been for foxes, and given odds at that. humid and still, and I was sweat released full of air, zig-zagging There never was any doubt in my ing under my camouflage suit as crazily through the frees and mind about connecting when I Murry instructed me to push back bl'U$h. against a squat cedar bush so that I was still shaking my head in I would blend with the background. disbelief when I emerged from hid Then he walked off a few yards ing. A talented game caller can bring fox and hunkered behind another cedar "Doggone H Murry," I com into real close range, as the author and went to work on his predator plained. "That fox moved just as learned the hard way in this shoot. call. I got on 'im." 1 I. Murry grinned knowingly. "I by game callers on predator calls This would be fine and dandy if matter shrugging il off as just should have warned you to antici off. Make it almost inaudible is close enough for a shot, drop the are outlandish. Yet they attract all the country you scouted was squeaks. Some callers do this by beam directly on it, for better part of the game. But there is pate," he explained with a chuckle. foxes. Gosh knows why, but they virgin territory. But alas, game sucking on the back of their han~s. shooting conditions. A strip of nothing quite like that magic mo "That's what makes fox hunting so do. However, scant few of these calling is a fast-growing sport and ment when a fox answe1·s your call tough. One is always on the move It isn't hard. With a little practice fluorescent tape around an arrow callers can bring the critters on there's an outside chance that the you can get the tone and pitch or a dab of fluorescent paint will and you place your arrow fair at and you've got to learn to lead within hand-shaking distance. This spot you picked was similarly the point of aim. him, just like you lead a bird with down pat. . aid in pinpointing wayward arrows. separates· the skilled from the hap picked by another game caller ear If the critter stays off in the dis A sharp ear also will reveal about When you do bag one of these a shotgun." hazard. lier. A fox once fooled is a wise wily critters, you can be proud, for I'd never paid any particular at tance and barks, that means it how far one travels. At night the This close-in calling demands fox. Seldom can you get it to an knows something is up and it is tendency to overshoot is even more you have accomplished a feat that tention to this now-it-is-there, now that the hunter pay strict attention swer again right away. Often it is few other archers have accom it-is-not behavior of the fox before, spooky. Probably it won't come any pronounced and the archer must to his ABC's of calling technique. difficult even after a time lapse of closer. On rare occasions I have compensate for this by aiming low, plished. The demanding challenge despite the fact that I've been But even at that, the idea of bring 8everal months. of fox calling is there for the bow dabbling in game calling for years. had barking foxes finally come on at lhe bottom part of the fox's ing an animal to you makes better ·I've seen caners who kept re in, but it doesn't happen often. body. men willing to sacrifice the time Maybe it just wasn't important sense than trying to beat a auper and patience and frustrations to when I was armed with a rifle. But turning to the same place time As you lure the fox into. the am After a few misses, the bowman wary animal on its own terms in its after time. Right away they start gets philqsophical about the entire accept it. • bowhunting is different. The bow own bailiwick, trying to stalk close bush pay attention to its eyes. hunter, as we've all come to learn ed complaining that action was di Whe~ they are looking in another enough for a shot. In game calling, minishing. At first the hunting the hard way, has certain handi the hunter waits in ambush and the direction, you can move; if they ~re caps and we must accept these limi was great, but after one or two ti·ained directly at you, make hke animal moves about, making the trips the foxes refused to cooperate. tations and work for shots which mistakes. For this rea11on, bow a statue. And when you do decide are within the realm of both our What these well-meaning hunters to move, make your motions 1>low hunting and game calling make didn't realize is that they were own abilities and the scope of our perfect companion spor ts. and deliberate, not jerky. Such equipment. saturating the area. The right ap movement is less likely to be · So where does one get started? proach would have been to look for Thus, this is just one of the First, naturally, he needs a call, noticed. things we must contend with in fox another location, letting this one Remember the tendency is to available at most any spo1·ting rest for a reasonable length of calling. Another is that there just goods store. Also available are re overshoot when you're at ground isn't much animal to shoot at; time, a month or more. level. Aim at the lower half of ~he cordings which show the proper Consequently, now our problem much less in fact than most people technique. If possible, get one and fox's body. And as M~r~· y earlwr of finding a place to hunt is com explained learn to a11t1c1pate and ARCHERY BOOKS THAT SPEAK AUTHORITATIVELY! would first imagine. Since that listen to it. This is a shor tcut to pounded. There usually is no sure episode described in the beginning success. shoot wh~re you think the fox wi_ll way of knowing whether or not an be, not where il is standing. Th.is of this narrative, my first intro The next step is to get the exe area has been called unless you go duction, incidently, to fox hunting cuting weapon, the bow-and-arrow. jittery behavior of the fox will with bow-and-arrow, I've witnessed and try for yourself. But I'm make you miss much more frequent I assume that you are schooled on bringing this point into focus NEW GUIDE TO BETTER ARCHERY, Second some of the most accomplished this phase. If not, any hunting bow ly than you'll connect, but that's Edition, Revised and Enlarged ~y Thomas A. simply to Jet you know why often one of the challenges which makes Forbes. This Is an authorllahve reference bowmen in the business frustrated will work okay. Use broadheads you'll draw a blank in an area that which deals with all phases of archery from when trying for foxes. I don't feel rather than blunts · since a fox is this the fascinating, thri1\ing sport how to select a bow to how to stage a tour· so badly about it any more. I'm reputedly has a goodly population it is. nament. including Interesting ch~pters on tougher than most people give it of foxes. There ia more to the bowhunting and woodscral t . Containing ,343 just another face in the crowd. credit for being. A blunt simply The crucial period is that inte~ pages, there are some 68 lino Illustrations But to advance to this &tage, ac sport than meets the eye. val when you first see the fox untli by Ned Smith. A must for the serious archer. won't kill it on the spot. Now to the actual calling tech $5.50. tually shooting at the fox, we must Another assist to equipment is you coax it close enough for a shot. splice in some more basic funda nique. Station yourself where you Sometimes one that has never been MODERN BOWHUNTING by Hiram J, Grogan. camouflage clothing. Not vitally can command a fairly · wjde swath Here Is a book that Is loaded with practlcal mentals of fox calling. That is, necessary, but it helps. If you do called particularly a young one, informatfon; the kind you can use In the getting the critter in position for a of land. Sometimes it pays to climb will rush right on in, oblivio1:1s of field. In tho text, the author usos his own not have such garb, wear some to the low forks of a tree to escape experiences to Illustrate his various suc· shot in the first place. This isn't any danger. The tendency 1s to cesses in hunting everything from crows. to thing dark and drab where you detection. A fox is less apt to nearly as difficult as it might seem. won't stand out when in conceal make your play toQ soon. Hold off alligators, not to mention dejlr. Information glimpse something which is ele until you think the fox has ap on special equipment and advanced tcctl· A foolish fox is a sucker for a ment. vated. Other.wis·e, push back nlques for various game are spelled out . game call and commercial calls now Okay, you're armed and l'eady. proached as close as it intends to Contains 163 pages, center soctloh of exclt· on the mat·ket put the sport within against a bush or ct·ouch under low come and then ; only then, take a Ing hunting photos. $4.75. Now to go looking for a place to hanging limbs, anything to break anyone's ability. I've seen many bunt. This is the. most important shot. '£he closer you have it, _the BUCKS AND BOWS by Walter Perry. The your silhouette. better are your chances of scormg. author is an :ardent and successful deer novices ca11 up foxes the first time single step, yet one that often is Put any prevailing breeze in your hunter as well as an enthusiastic torget they tried the sport. overlooked. Most people assume that Early/and late in the day are the archer, As suggested by the t itle, this book face. The less wind, the better fo1· best times to call foxes. Around Is devoted exclusively to hun~lng of door Now there is fox calling and fox foxes are everywhere. Indeed, it calling. A high wind tends to muf ------Book Department, with bow and arrow, and It includes full caJJing. By this, I mean calling one seems that way at times. But like daybreak and again just. befo:e BOW & ARROW MAGAZINE information on types of tackl.e, as woll as within eyesight and calling one fle the call and blow!\ it in the di dusk. The nocturnal-prowlmg cr1t best ways and means of downing your buck. anything else, foxes are concen rection you don't want it to go, 550-A South Citrus Avenue, Has 223 pages, 72 Illustrations by author close enough to shoot at it with trated in certain areas ancl if you ten1 also are susceptive to a call and Edward B. Hagey Jr. $4.95. bow-and-arrow. It is almost like downwind. Anv animal which ap after dark. 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Swin g the light seen. It's based upon. the author's personal but expel'ience has taught me to CITY ___ .ZONL . STATL_ -- experiences in living 1n the woods, attompl· steadily in a full circle about you Ing to improve upon cookorr ol tho old anticipate the unexpected. as you call. When you glimpse eyes, fror\tiers111en. However, all o the roclpos Author declares there is nothing like Once a fox comes into view, tone (California residents, please add 4% make ex.tremely edible fixings. h lllls 256 tone the call down softly, very soft pages. with many helpful Illustrations. $3.95. fhot first fox you bog; there'll be down your call. This is important. ly, and follow the 8ame rules you sales tax) many misses in learning technique. A harsh call might tend to drive it use in day calling. When the fox ------·· 21 Beginner Problems BY HANK KROHN ! I I I PART II: The Author And His Assistant, Jan Moriarity, ( Have Illustrated How To Shoot Right - Here Are Tips For D Curing Those Frustrating Little Goofs! FIGURE A shows the problem of keeping the arrow on the chest to up position, pulling with back and chest muscles. rest. This is caused by rolling the string away from bow Moving the arm to get off the string is shown in FIGURE O. with a cup or bow in the back of the release hand. It is This is caused by not being able to release properly so the easily corrected by taking a first joint bite on the string, bow arm takes over and actually pulls the string off the pointing the second joint knuckles at the target and fingers. Correct release as explained in previous series pulling wih back and shoulders rather than biceps, fore· and you have automatically corrected your problem. arm. This will roll the string against the side of your bow, thus making it easier to keep arrow on arrow rest. Throwing or jerking the release is shown in FIGURE E. Here we deal with the problem of releasing the string in a con trolled motion. giving the same energy and alignment to FIGURE B shows extension of the bow arm to full draw. each arrow. Again, correct the release as previously illus· This gives rise to loss of control, inconsistency of elevation trated and you correct tfie problem. The elbow, hand and and is, in effect, a state of collapse. An easy correction anchor point positions are prop o~ rly demonstrated in FIG (FIGURE C) is found in taking a deep breath, bringing URE D, disregarding off-bow position. 22 ~·, 2.0 ) 4.0 , ' ARROW SPEED ' ~ 1.8 3.6 \W~[ffi~~~ J.6 3.2 BOW WEIGHT ' 2.8 AN ENGINEER il :Ill t:> EXPERIMENTS WITH ~ \ 2.4 0 :0 0 FORTY - REPEAT, "O' I FORTY - DIFFERENT I l.O ..."E' \ '2.0 :r BOWS TO GET g ~ Q 'N \ 0 THE ANSWERS 1.6 !.., g. YOU WANT! ::r ';:J .6 e \ l .2 \ By Hal Hasenbeck .4 8 ' -~ .2 ~ 4 100 200 300 Figure I: The chart at left was de vised by author · to illustrate the FEET /SECOND comparison of the target face drop in relationship to orrow velocities. Figure ISi: National Cub champion Gene Hasenbeck demonstrates how to line up the arrow tip with the ten-foot marker stake prior to draw. Figvre II: Small dynamic speakers such as this were used to detect both bow vibration and target face impact. HF.RE 8ccms to be an increai; position. Now, providing you hit time would be approximately .06 couid determine how his gear com 11/z-inch dynamic 11peRke1·s. These T ing intcrc8t in the subject of the face of the target with the test seconds.' Thi~ would allow the tar pared to the other members. units are required to provide elec anow speed and bow efficiency. A arrow, the i\.·row stop8 the face so get face to fall 192 (.06 F inches Although the basic approach I trical signals to start and stop the number of methods for r.hecki ng th<1t the di·op distance r.an be or roughly .7 inchei!. Although this used in making the series of tests time interval. See F1'.r1ure 2. arrow speed hnve been described; measured. measurement technique is somewhat to determine arrow .speed was simi One pickup was taped to the the lat.est by Martin Haynes in his BASED ON THE EQUATIONS crude compared to the method de lar to that used by Haynes, the handle of the bow and the other article, Operation Expen:nient pub of motion for a constant accelera Rcribed by Haynes, its accuracy is method used to 8tart and stop the was taped to the cornei· of the lished in the July-August issue of tion, S = 1h at2. l''or this applica limited only hy the care taken in elcctronir. counter did not require target face. The jar of the bow Bow & Arrow. tion S represents the di~tancc the obtaining a fast acting electromag the arrow to pass through the handle. as the string ret un1s to the MOST MEASUREMENT METH target face drops, a i8 the accelera net and the ability to acr.urately special wire grids. Thus my tech normal position, provides the elec ODS employ electronic timer::; with tion due to gr11vity (:32 fect/ measure the exact amount of target nif)ue may eliminate a small source trical pulse signal to st.art. the some external mem1s of starting secoud2), and t is the time of fall. face drop. Of cour8e, taking the of velocity error result.ing from the timer and the impact of the arrow and 8topping the time interval as a By re<1rranging and converting the average of several measnl'ements grid card impact. on t.he target facP. furni11hes the function of a1·1·ow po8ition. For the acceleration term from fcct/sec. 2 to will improve the rcarlin!! accuracy. THF: INSTRUMF:NTATION electrical puh;e 8i1n1al to st.op the unfortunate group of shooterR who The curve of Fi{mre 7 shows a plot scheme was based on the use of a timing interval. Figit?·e 3 shows a . h I ., d . "\ /S do not have accesR to electronic tim rnc cs1 sec·, 011e en ve.s t --= v Type 5510 Berkeley Electronic photograph of the complete timing 192 of target. drop distance veri;us ar ing equipmt=mt, then! is another row speed. Timer. This device is desiJ.med so system t·eady for operation. method which ha8 been described, where t is the elapsed time and S As an Archery Commissioner of that external electric signals can Since the Berkeley Time\' can be in previous publications. 1'hi.o. meth is the bu·get face drop in inches. the General Dynamics/Pomona start and .stop the timer to register read down to one microsecond, it od is based on the principle of a Thus, the elapsed t.ime can be cal Archery Club, I am naturally in the time interval. All that is re was interesting to note the differ mass falling under constant ac culated by dividing the target face terested in the technical aspect of quired in addition to t.he basic ence of several hundred microsec celeration. This tcchnifJue, for ob drop distm1ce ( measured in i·nches) archery and am fortunate enough timer unit is a pair of electrical onds in timing when the <1rrow im taining elapsed flight time, relics by 192, then obtaining the squa1·e to have access to specialized elcc impact pickup units, and their as pacted several feet from the pickun upon the bow string release to break root of the number. ln a practical ti·onic equipment. Most of the club sociated trarn~istor amplifiers plus as r.ompared to a few inches. This an electrical r.ii·cuft of an eler.t.1·0- case as11uming an average arrow members are technical t.ype;; and a six-volt b<1ltery, difference result::; from t.he time re magnet that is arranged to di·op a speed of 170 feet/second- (shot a wei·e most cooperntive in as:>.isting THF. IMPACT PICKUP UNITS quired for the impm:t vibration to weighted target face from a known distance of ten feet), the travel in making measurementR so each were obtained by using two small propagate t.hrouKh the cardboard. 24 25 showing anow velocity versus bow Figure IV: Due to variations in weight weight. These datum should be de of_ arrows, varying shooting styles, , rived from bows of the same length this graph was somewhat erratic. and manufacturer but of weights l } of 20, 30, 40, and 50 pounds. Figure V: (Right) At this short dis It is difficult to reach any spe tance, arrow traveled from marker cific conclusionR from the Pomona post to target in .058794 seconds. Valley Bowhunter tests except that, considering the spread of atTow velocity versus bow weight, either 0 some of the hows are very ineffi cient or some of the arrows are extremely heavy for their respec !s re~lly worth the price in added 1ne1:lla and reduced arrow velocity. tive bows. On-the-other-hand, a few • • Since no electricity waH available of the bows appear to be extremely at the General Dynamic/ Pomona fast and efficient. • Archer y Range and s ince a twenty One way that is helpful in ra • e ight tnget shoot was scheduled at tionalizing the data of so many dif Pomona Valley Bowhunter Range ferent combinations of bow and for the morning of July 4, I decided arrow weights and lengths, is to 0 that t his would be good oppor 0 a determine what l call the BA num t unity to gathe1· a lot of data and ber. (how-arrow number). I arrive make 11 comparison between the at this number by first dividing the g<.;ar of the variou<> .shooters. A c1 - anow velocity by the bow weight. 0 m1 ttt:~dly, this mission was to be of This gives velocity per pound. In • nn explon1tory nature to get a ff\el order to account for various anow 0 • for the spread of anow veJocitv weights, I next multiply this num rlata 3:nd to determine if the ber by the factor obtained by divid 0 • meas1;1rrng technique would prove ing the actual anow weight in practical under field condit.ioni>. grains by 350 grains. Thus, BA = 0 After t h1> rnoruing- shoot, an an nouncef!len~ . was made regarding ~ ( ~ ) the :w<1 ilab1hty !lf the timing equip whe1·e V is the velocit y of ment an~ t he hne started forming the arrow, W is t he weight of t he al the 1·1 ght. When the dust had a r row release and improper draw. son (fiberg l a ~::;), Cole Cobl'a, If one or t wo readings were con Tarbel, Red Slat. Diamond Mo bow, A is the weight of the arrow in cleared away, I had more data than g rains, and K is 350. Using thin I knew what to do with. However, siclerably different than t he re hawk, Sidewinder, Tomahawk, ma ining four readings, only the Morris, Preski, El Lobo by approach, one can compare a • I discovered later that I really twenty-pound bow using light ar needed more data regarding anow four readings were used to obtain Rumph, Pro Medalest, Howard t he average. Hill, Swift Wing, Red Wing, rows with a fifty-pound bow using length, arrow weight and bow 450-grain hunting arrows. wejght at the drav,.. length used. ONE CAN CONCLUDE a num Black Widow, Empress, Sanders, Even so. for an exploratory pro ber of things from looking at the Challenger. No attempt was made to record The Pomona Valley Bowhunters BOW WEIGHT - Pooods gram, I believe mv mission was ac data shown in Figure 4. However, complished. Approxi matel.v forty this must be done with caution be data on arrows. All types and field test data was normalized to set:>. of ho\>,,'r,: and their arrO'r\'8 were cause o.f th1> lack of control:,i on the weigh ts were tested; some were provide a number for velocity per checked. test data. For instance one could glai-;s, some a luminum and some pound. (The true BA number could At; expected there was a g1·eat conclude that a given twenty-three were wood. not be obtained because the accu deal of spread in measured arrow pound how was doing the job of a It would be helpful in future bow rate arrow weightll were not re evaluation testing if a ::;hooting corded.) A sprea·d of m1mbers were . The rrit'asul'irig method described velocity. Figure 4 shows the forty-five-pound bow. But Rtop and trical .signlll to start the ck~ctronic meai'ured velocities at; 11 function of Mnsider arrow length and weight. machine could be ui\ed. This would obtained which varied from 2.78 fn:Rt Wil!-> tried n11 June 25. From timer. eliminate the variability of draw feet per second per pound to 6.35 thrn test. 1 was able to get a feel bo~ weight. Since neither arrow It is possible and probable that the D.uring U1e course of preliminnry weight nor bow weight (mcmmred length and release. It would also feet per second per pound. As it for t~ e on~cr of maJ,l:11itude to tyni arrow used in the forty-five pound testrng, I found that. the equip at no1·m.al draw length ) were bow was twenty-eight, or twenty be advisable le> use one type of ar stands, this is n large variation but cal time intervals :111d dct.el'mi11t> !11ent worked equally well for check row to climinatc variations in ar il could be that, in the 2.78 case, convenient distance over which to known, the plotted data merely nine inches long and made from ing the shot velocity of an air rifle. shows how. arrow velocity varies row weight and air drag. A refer the arrow weight was 450 grains mensun~ 1.he arrow rlil.'ht times 1.818 material while the twenty ~II th.at was requil'ed to obtain the between vanous shooters. However , three pound bow was shot by a wo em;e <'.urve shou Id be constructed and, in the 6.35 case, the arrow Teri feet appe111·ed to be a good time inte1·val was to tape the pick weight was 275 grains. Taking choice for di=-tnnen 11 nd. since it. the curve on t he left side of Figut·e man using a 1416 arrow only up to the g un frame. The shot im 4 was drawn to show a trend of twenty-three inches long. As men these weights into account, the BA se1>med likPly that time intervals pact _on t he target face produced numbers would have been 2.78 coul1l ra n,1 26 27 Here ;s the array of equipment necessary #o ref/etch your jig is among the most advanced in design of any on the own arrows. Required items ore low in prke and afford market t oday and is a minor engineering marvel regard· a sizeable saving over purchase of new arrows. ,. ing proper maintenance of your arrows. One of the more important phases of fletching a new arrow, or that of refletching one that has seen better days, is the selection of the feathers. This one point, in the beginning, left me in a state of complete conster· nation that lasted through the entire affair. I had always thought t hat a bird feather was a bird feather, and when I you had seen one, you had seen t hem all. But through a are to be attached. It is wise to mention at this point series of trials and complete errors, I finally realized that that in refletching a glass arrow, great care should . be there is a difference in a right and a left feat her and t hat each had it s proper place in fletching correctly, so taken in the " cleaning up" of the shaft to prevent cutting into the fibers of the glass, itself, should a sharp knife that our arrow w ould fly true when shot from a bow. be used to remove the old feathers and cement. In the After a short conference with an old pro in th e case of wood or aluminum shafts, the clean up operation archery game, George Ferns of the Golden Arrow Archery Lanes, during which I explained my inability to get feathers is much simpler, but all must be perfectly clean before to sea t properly on the arrow shaft during the cementing proceeding further. operation, he examined my feather supply. I had been sold feathers from a box that was clearly marked "right " feathers when in reality they were "left" feathers. This resulted in the base, or quill section; being tapered to an angle foreign to that needed for a "right fletch." /\t any rate, after Ferns had pointed out this mistake, the feathers were exchanged for the correct type. I went home, and with renewed vigor, proceeded again to as· semble all tools and other equipment necessary f or the f letching of arrows. I might add that I now know a left feather from a right when I see one! With the few tools necessary at hand, consist ing of the Bitzenburger flet ehing jig, a sharp pocket knife, a pt1 ir of scissors and a t ube of 24SRT·XO, t he fletching cement distributed by the James D. Easton Company. I was set to forget my first abortive attem pt s and get down to some real serious f letching. I had t he correct feat hers as well as some invaluable information from Ferns concerning precautions to avoid again cemcntine t he f letching jig, t he clam p and f eathers into a solid unit which had to be cut apart with a knife i n my e 28 29 or le~ helical "twist" or merely a straight fletch offering evenly covered with cement but not to excess. Over· slight curve to the cemented feathers. At any length, It dosing the feather with cement can present troubles, I is well to remember to use a right feather for a right FOLLOW THE LEADERS and mean a sloppy job, so care should be exercised "twist" and a left feather tor a left, otherwise the vaning here. ~- (C O'ntintu~ from page 17) qualities of your feathers will be completely foreign to With the cement evenly applied to the quill edge, all standards of aerodynamics, and the arrow, when shot, will be erratic in flight. the clamp is slipped carefully Into place against the original it~ magnets of the jig. It then is carefully pressed downward so that the base of the feather is firmly seated onto the arrow shaft. At this point it Is time for a smoke or a can of beer, as the cement must be allowed to dry tor at least fifteen minutes before repeating the operation with the nexf feather. The directions supplied with the Bltzenburger jig are concise as to just how the various settings are accom plished for the varied types of fletching of which this tool Is capable. Whether it be a right or left helical set· ting, a straight fletch or any of the "angles" or "twists" is the keynote of In between, the Bitzenburger can do it. After pre-setting proven accuracy in the this tool, the wh ole operation consists of merely turning the nock receiver to the next position for the next vane installation. All in all, it's a simple and fast way to get a perfect fletching job every time. After cementing the feathers to the arrow shafts, If he uses a secondary anow, the "kill'.' zone s7ore comes the final operation, that of shaping the feathers drops to fourteen points or ten for. a hit. And 1£ . featuring Detachable and the skivihg of them. There are a number of simple, a third arow is required, he gets eight or four poin t~. well made and inexpensive electric feather shaping de depending upon placement. Distance between shootrng TOR8UE STABILIZERS• vices on the market. These devices consist of either a position and target on this course can vary from coiled wire or a transformer with a preshaped "burning ten to eighty yards. . wire" attached, utilized for the even and symmetrical All of the contenders in lhis quartet used s ights shaping of the feathers. These commercially made burn on their bows, and as they wou_ld come up to each The amazing new concept of bow ers are equipped with guides and shaft rests on wh ich target, they would judge the distance as b~st they construction embodying the sound the arrow is turned by hand. The feathers, upon coming could take a few paces to use as a compan son, then principle of applied engineering With the Bltzenburger fletching Jig, I found that I i·e t ur~ to the stake, adjust the sights and launch could obtain a perfect right helical twist by using the to bring you the most stabilized an arrow. . t f ·1· · bow eve r devised. The Pro proper helical clamp or by using the straight clamp and Also included in this course, 1f you are no am1. iai readjusting the jig so that the feathers set onto the arrow with it, there are several of the long range targets m Medalist features new detacha · shaft at a slight angle. Choice is up to your own Judge· which walk-ups are allowed. In other words, there . ble, chrome. plated stabilizers, ment. I used both methods for the sake of practice and are t hree positions, each closer than the one preeedmg, dyna·poised bow limbs and pat· experimentation. and the shooter launches an arrow from ented thumb rest pistol grip for After cutting the feathers and adjusting the jig to each of these. . fully controlled accu racy. Hand· the correct setting for the type of fletch desired, the Going into this final day, Cavallero was •!! th~ crafted of rare hardwoods and vane is placed into the clamp, allowing approximately lead by a few points, and he ~vas tabbed to .win, since finished to jewel-like perfection, one eight-inch of the quill base section to protrude. This the animal targets were considered to be lns meat. In protrusion is to al low proper seating of the vane when the incomparable styling of the the final stretch, Cavallero, certain he had ~on, . Pro Medalist makes it the most the clamp is slid Into place over the arrow shaft and it went into a cha-cha ~tep. Partin, l!ln old p_ro m this also makes the application of the cement an easier type of shooting, seemed relaxed m .the final phases, advanced bow in archery. Experi chore. realizing he had done bis best. Re, like the others, ence the new thrill of shooting At this point, it might be wise to recall the reference used a level on his bow during this tour~amen t. 'Yhen it now. to paraffin and Its application to the holding edges of asked about it, he explained t hat he had •!! ~ta iled 1t the clamp to assure that the cement doesn't bond to it. to deter mine the cant of his bow on. t he v1c1ous With the arrow shaft seated in the nock rest, the mountainsides but he was not particular ly enthralled clamped feather Is given a li ght coating of cement. By with it. In fac( he decla1·ed it was "just one more "light coating," I mean that the base of the feather Is In contact with the hed·hot wire, are neatly and efficient· thing to watch." . ly burned oft to the exact shape desired. The shape of Jim Pickering, rep~esentin.~ Ute Archery L,~nes in Pro Medalist, $130. the fletching can vary greatly as the wir& must be bent his hometown, is described as Ml'. Moneybags by to the proper shape by the individual, meeting his own with custom styled case . requirements. his contemporaries. He seems to shoot best when the pressure is on - for money. For example, _he not 11 The burner that I am using is the efficient, yet In 62 ", 66 , 70" Lengths in only took top money at the Ben Pearson Open m weights to 65 lbs. at 28". expensive model put out by Fleetwood Archery Com· Detroit in the Spring, but also was top money man at pany, which sells for the modest sum of $4.95. This the National Indoor Open held ~t Covma and Downey device, while not the fanciest. is one that certainly gets (California) lanes the week prior to the NFAA the job done with no fuss or muss. It comes complete tournament. Finally, he was in the top money bracket with extra wires that may be bent to your own taste for at the $20,000 money shoot held at Enchanted Forest • Pro Medalist shaping the finished feather fletching. After the shaping is lbe only b Below: Trigger for sight extends be of which went unanswered. We close-ups with this camera, one has tried a phone call or two and were to make adjul:ltments for parallex. low and is activated by finger. It told that the sight was not yet The same is true with this bow. also con be installed for thumb use. ready. So we settled down to wait. There is an adjustment knob which That was all that really was re will change the point of impact of quired: Patience. Eventually the your arrow much as can be done sight, looking something like an with a telescope sight on a rifle. electronic computer left over from And it is necessary to make this a guided missile, arrived in our adjustment ::w that your line of office. It was packed with that kind sight coincides with the line of of care, too, and after cutting, slic flight of the arrow. ing and tearing at the carton and Allio included is a ranl{e dial. We the plastic foam container, we fi found that once you are onto the nally got to the mechanism, itself. built-in featutel:! of this sight, it is Tre first thing that threw us was small ti-o uble to adjust your range a pair of spectacles - but without dial to coincide with the changes g lass. Instead, the frames carried in distance at which you will be what turned out to be a rear lens - shooting. with adjusting screws, et cetera. Within limits, it is even possible In checking lhe instructions, we to mount this novel sight. on a cant found that the1·e were definite rules ed bow. However, to do thls, you for mounting. l<'or example, if you judge firsl at what angle you hold draw twenty-eight inches, and a this canted position, then the five-foot field of view at a hundred sight has to be mounted so that it yards is enough for you, moun t the remains in a horizontal position. If sight on the front surface of the this is not done, the batteries and bow for maximum magnification of projection barrel do not function the target. But if you prefer a properly. wide1· field of vision with less mag As for the actual mounting in nification, you should mount th~ structions, it is simple enough 'once sight on the how's belly. Archers you have digested the parts chart. with a draw of more than thirty and understand the proper identi onc inchcl! also should mount the ficntion of all of the instruments. sight on the belly. In actual tests, the sight ii:! a The sight has some similarities dream on the target range, but our to a reflex camera wherein you al'c staff found that it takes some get look ing through one lens, but an ting used to when you start going other is taking the actual photo after game. It's a litlle like shoot graph. When shooting extreme ing beetles wi th an atomic cannon! This Atomic Age sight comes packed Right: And if you don't go for peer as shown, but the booklet of instruc ing through lenses spectacles, the tions is explicit and easily fol/owed. rear sight can easily be adopted to The rear sight is installed on frame. a rimless frame os done here. I I I ' LOUIS RANGEL OUIS RANGEL of Riverside, California, the 1963 L Instinctive Champion of the National Field Arch Left: Rangel's style and form is considered unusual by ery Association, has a tendency to do things in a some standards. Instead of angling 90 degrees with the highly original fashion. target, his stance may be as much as thirty degrees off, For example, if a survey were made, one undoubt edly would find that the average archer begins with then he swings his bow to make up the difference. He target shooting, and eventually becomes a bowhunter. also cants bow, but has learned proper compensations. In Rangel's case, he got into archery by becoming Note that the angle of his head is same as how's cant. interested in hunting, purchased a bow and took to the field after ·game. He didn't become interested in field or target archery until later . . But this year, 'be has won the California State Bare Bow Champion, Tips in this issue (see page 10), he has done more then went on to slay opposition at the NFAA tourna than his share of experimenting with equipment, he ment held at Running Springs, California. His score has settled - for the present, at least - upon a Wil for this outing was 2269, or sixty-two points above son Brothers' Black Widow bow. Bow length is sixty Wayne Ward of Wichita, Kansas, his nearest com six inches with a draw of thirty-nine pounds at \ petitor. twenty-eight inches. However, he uses a twenty-nine There are those who feel physical conditioning has inch arrow, giving a bow weight of approximately a great deal to do with becoming championship mate forty-one pounds. I·-- Below: In this series, Rangel hos index finger in corner rial, particularly in field archery events, but Rangel As far as stance and other factors are concerned, of his mouth as anchor point for eighty-yard walk-up. He insists he doesn't go in for weight Ufting, yoga or Rangel also has his own system, much of which he feels this puts him exactly on target at seventy-two yards. even meditati.on while standing on his head. has developed through trial-and-error. For example, For targets at sixty yards, he has his middle finger in ' ri~ht "I just shoot a lot," he declares. " In practice, I try rather than standing at angles to his target, he the corner of his mouth, thvs lowering point of aim. to think of only three things: A solid anchor; lining varies by some thirty degrees, then swings his bow As shown at extreme right in this series, for shots in .up my arrow correctly on the target, then a clean into line. He cants his bow, which is frowned upon fifty-yard area, his index finger is anchored direct./y release." by the purist. But he still wins championships; with beneath his eye. He has /earned to adjust shots at Although, as expressed in Corky Johnson's Tackle this, how can one argue with his technique? these distances, using circles on target as his gavge. I I I I I l 'I ' ··-...... __ 34 Leff, While mony top archers prefer a straight-fingered grip on bow, Ronge/'s fingers lightly touch the bow at all times, until release. (Below) Upon release of his arrow, his grip is relaxed, fingers loose upon the wood. This unusual action shot shows " snaking" of the string. The quiver which Rangel now uses is a trophy on which he hod not counted. It was mode and presented to him by Antonio Lorre, considered the ' Howard Hill of Mexico.' Rangel's originality of form is shown in the manner in which he tucks under little finger. He soys this serves as a slop, causing him to grip bow consistently the same. 37 36 \ I \ I I I I l \ I I 1 I OUIS RANGEL of Riverside, California, the 1963 1 Instinctive Champion of the National Field Axch I L I ery Association, has a tendency to do things in a I Left: Rangel's styfe and form is considered vnvsual by I some standards. Instead of angling 90 degrees with the highly oxiginal fashion. I For example, if a survey were made, one undoubt I target, his stance may be as much as thirty degrees off, edly would find that the average archer begins with I then he swings his bow to make up the difference. He \ target shooting, and eventually becomes a bowhunter. afso cants bow, bvt has learned proper compensations. In Rangel's case, he got into archery by becoming Note that the angle of his head is some as bow's cont. interested in hunting, purchased a bow and took to \\ 'I the field after ·game. He· didn't become interested in field or target archery until later.. But this year,· he \ I has won the California State Bare Bow Champion, Tips in this l.s1rne (see page 10), he has done more then went on to slay opposition at the NFAA tourna than his share of experimenting with equipment, he \1 ment held at Running Springs, California. His score has settled - for the present, at least - upon a Wil for this outing was 2269, or sixty-two points above son Brothers' Black Widow bow. Bow length is sixty Wayne Ward of Wichita, Kansas, his nearest com six inches with a draw of thirty-nine poui1ds at petitor. twenty-eight inches. However, he ui;es a twenty-nine There are those who feel physical conditioning hai; inch arrow, giving a bow weight of approximately a great deal to do with becoming championship mate forty-one pounds. -- Below: In this series, Rangel has index finger in corner rial, particularly in field archery events, but Rangel As far as stance and other factors are concerned, of his mouth os anchor point for eighty-yard walk-up. He insists he doesn't go in for weight lifting, yoga or Rangel also has his own system, much of which he feels this pvts him exactly on target at seventy-two yard.s. even meditation while standing on his head. has developed through trial-and-error. For example, For targets at sixty yards, he hos his middle finger in "I just shoot a lot," he declares. "In practice, I try rather than standing at ri~ht angles to his ta1·get, he the corner of his mouth, thvs lowering point of aim. to think of only three things: A solid anchor; lining varies by some thirty degrees, then swings his bow As shown at extreme right in this series, for shots in .up my a1·row correctly on the target, then a clean into. line. He cants his bow, which is frowned upon fifty-yard area, his index finger is anchored directly release." by the purist. But he still wins championships; with beneath his eye. He hos (earned to adjust shots at Although, as exp1·essed in Corky Johnson's Ta.clcle this, how can one argue with his technique? these distances, vsing circles on target as his gouge. I I \ '• ----- 34 lilllilllll'llli.,~~~°'~"'gc~:~...... '!rlll -·''""__ _ HUNTING WITH KITTREDGE (Continued from page 8) A twig rubbing along your bowstring can make a very alarming sound which carries quite a way during a still morning. The sound of the arrow being drawn is a real THE ONLY WEIGHT- MATCHED SET attention getter, just at the wrong time. Every hunting bow should have a soft arrow rest and arrow plate. A piece of FORMULA OF SPAtNG TEMPERED HEADS buckskin, bobcat hide, or simply a piece of mole-skin corn plaster will deaden all arrow noise, both of drawing and shooting. Some years ago, I read Francis Sell's great hunting book, FOR "INSTANT" 6.00 Advanced Hunting. A statement was made in the discussion on sounds to the effect that one of the most frightening to wild game was "no sound." There always is sound in the woods during any normal safe time. The only animals who TARGET move without making sound are those who are hunting such 3.50 as a predatory lion or man, or those who are frightened 6-PAK and are quietly moving out of the area. When a deer feels something is about, yet there is no sound to identify it by, This Silhouette For Field Archers Can Be Assembled he immediately becomes frightened. Sound can be associated with an activity and the animal In A Flash And It's Like Shooting At The Flesh! pays little attention when it occurs. Fishermen working 3.00 along a stream. or hikers on a trail can be talking to each 6-PAK other and making all sorts of noise yet run onto deer who F you're looking for a bowhunt pay little or no attention to them. I've seen one instance I ing target that's light,. t·ealistic, and heard of others where deer are intentionally walked economical and that can be moved right up to just by appearing to pay no attention to them from one location to another with and talking in a normal manner or making some other out calling in a moving van, there's sound normal to the situation. A nice buck used to fre· a new do-it-yom·self kit being pro~ quent the side of a fenced yard where a fellow would mow duced by Cliff Zwickey that should the lawn two times a week. A local hunter heard of this meet that need. and tried several unsuccessful times to stalk the deer. The complete kit comes in a two Finally he tried pushing a lawn mower in front of him as pound carton that includes four he moved up on the deer ... result: Venison in the locker. spring steel :rods that slip together The minute the hunter did something that fitted into the t , to form a U-shaped frame with a pattern the deer was used to. the deer paid no attention. single g1·ound stem that's easy to One time, I was working my way along a deer trail into insert into the g1·ound. Also in a lush feed area during the late afternoon and was not pay· cluded are two silhouette targets ing too much attention to what I was doing. All of a sud· that fit into this frame as well as den, I became aware of a number of deer browsing the two of Zwickey's Judo points. These brush ahead of me still too far to get a shot. The brush points are supposedly "unlosable" ~Y.E. .•. BUILD was thick. r couldn't move without making some noise. and in checking them out, we found I was right out in the open where my movement would be that they were designed - and a spotted the minute I got close. strange design it i.s - not to rico $~o.Q tho Remembering Mr. Sell's advice about no noise being chet off into the brush. Instead, frightening and noise which is familiar to ttie area being they dig in and stay where they're okay, I decided I'd become simply another deer and see sent, whether in i·oving archery or how this idea worked out. Getting down on hands and shooting small game. knees so lrlY human outline didn't show, I slowly moved Targets can be quickly i·epaired along the deer trail towards the deer. Every so often I'd by gluing down the ends of a piece pull at the browse as though I were nibbling at it. I allowed of brown paper such as from the BOW my wool shirt to brush the branches a bit. Like a feeding sides of a large grocery bag over deer, I'd move a little way, then stop and browse. Gradual· the most perforated section of the The average CUSTOM BOW i$ 25% inare1ial ly I gained on the deer. They would look down my way silhouette. cos.t Gnd 75% labor. With top quality CUSTOM every so often, but paid little attention and certainly were And in some sections of the BOWS co~ting $I 00 00 it is G.l$Y to $ee whete not alarmed at all. In time I approached within good shooting country, this type of target has still another advantage. Since it is yovr S>aving ro1nes. You can save this labor range and got a nice shot. Noise can be a bowhunter's friend or enemy ... it all depends on how it's used. easily removed and stored, it is coil 3nd P16'v~ fun doing if. In iu~i a few vandal-p1·oof. 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A short time after the 1962 state shoot, Louis acquired a Black Widow bow. He reworked the handle to his satis· jectory and he had to be right on the money for distance or faction. then really went to town score-wise. By this time, the arrows would drop out of the target altogether. He felt he had worked the three anchor point system out to a fine that he could solve the distance problem so he decided on degree. With it and his perfect shooting form, he was shoot the 1820 Easton shafts. Actually I did not think that he ing the 500's for twenty-eight field targets. His average at could master this situation, but he shot his highest four· this time was 587 for twenty-eight targets - also un teen and twenty-eight f ield target rounds with them. believable for bare bow shooting. With everything seemingly under control, we traveled to As stated earlier, Louis went on to win his first State Oakland for the 1961 state finals. And when it was all over. Championship this year. but he had to really knuckl e down Louis was way down on the winners' list. There was always to do it, as he beat Matt Fagan by only two points. He got 68" next year, but by then Louis had become so discouraged a slow start at the NFAA tourney this year, but by the last Tournament Bow with his shooting that he quit altogether for five or six twenty-eight targets on the Hunters Rounds he was ahead Sets the Standard for months. and won it going away on Animal Shooting. He shot a 963 When he started shooting again he came back with an Target round in the Enchanted Forest money shoot, but 1nip-1ne1p ••• Tournament Performance entirely new approach and, believe me, it was for the best. had entered the handicap division and had to settle for on or off the bow in •e11 the1n He bought a Howard Hill recurve with arrows to match. To thirtieth place. Had he entered the scratch division, he five seconds with form-fitting thumb and palm would have placed about sixth. rests. exclusive Owens Pistol Grip cut his point-on down, he went to an extremely high handle, full heel-oil hand crafted of anchor which he should have done a year earlier instead of Louis has discussed going to a sight, but I feel sure imported hardwoods. experimenting with the heavier arrows. His first scores, after that he will defend his bare bow title next year at the coming back, were not too impressive, but within three National Field Archery Tournament. But with or without a Full target sight window. 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This section of Texas, near Hon do, is the only part of the country in which javelinas can be hunted all year. There is no closed season o~ bag. limit. Tommy looked at my f1fty-f1ve-pound Bear Kodiak bow and raZ-Orhead-tipped arrows with apprehension. "~ome of the shots you'll get will be in close spots," he said. "You really need a shorter bow. Also you need a pa.ir of chaps and a Iong sleeve shirt 01: jacket. The thorns out there can be pretty bad." An old camouflage jacket solved the problem of what to wear to protect "my arms, and I slipped a Kamo cover over my bow for pro tection rather than camouflage. Tommy rounded up a pair of heavy chaps for my legs. One look at the terrain where we were to hunt con vinced me that this equipment was necessary. On the edge of the TexaR brush country, it's a tangled mass of tasajillo, mesquite, prickly pear, whitebrush, blackbrush and other thorny plants. Deep ravines and high hills add to the problem. Shortly after daylight, we parked t~e truck. I picked up my bow, tightened my armguard and slip ped a couple of rubber bands over . •, . my billowing sleeve to prevent it BY MARV ~ TYE fouling with the bowstring. With the quiver on my back, I was ready. / ·1 Tommy released the dogs and we I ) followed them as they sniffed the moist soil. They wandered back and forth with us close behind. Tommy Author was forced to crouch and shoot into cave once Texas ;avelina has been cornered. Camouflage on bow r· BEATING THE BRUSH FOR is for protection against brush. IN THE TEXAS MESQUITE COUNTRY, THE TERRAIN IS TOUGHER THAN THE JAVELINA! AVELINA, the elusive wild pigs Jared peccary. Some hunters claim downwind. Tracking an animal that J of the American Southwest, that this strange little animal is a you can smell and hear but cannot have intrigued me ever since I began vicious beast that will attack any see is an experience unique to jave bow hunting. Abundant throughout man who comes near; others MY lina huntinJ:\'. much of Latin America, their range that he is about as dangerous as a At first I planned to try stalking north of the border is limited to jackrabbit. The truth probab ly the critters, but some friends told parts of Texas, Arizona and New lies somewhere between these two me about Tommy Timmerman. Mexico. The javelina is not a large extremes. The challenge he presents Tommy lives in Hondo, Texas, and animal. The average length, from to the stalker readily is agreed up for a fee of twenty-five dollars he nose to tail-less hams, is about on. The javelina cannot see well at will guarantee you a javelina. Ko three feet and a la1·ge boar will all, but his senses of smell and pig, no pay. Tommy uses a pack of weigh only about forty pounds. bearing are second to none. A hunt three dogs to chase the animals in Its body is covered with coarfle er has a slight advantage in that he the tangled brush country around black hair. A white r ing on the can sometimes hear, see and sme!I hi~ home town. The lead dogs, Mike shoulders gives it the name of col- the animals - especially if he is and Tige, are Catahoula hounds, 42 BEATING (AND EATING) EUROPEAN BOAR stopped suddenly and pointed to the The dog had several old wounds boar right between the eyes. It BY JIM DOUGHERTY sandy ground. "Javelina tracks" he on his face and neck and one long fell and the second took its place. said. "We must have scared them. gash on his flank. Now that the I shot it twice in the head but They can't be fa1· away." javelina was obviously dead, he the arrows had little affeet. Mike NLIKE the highly overrated Suddenly the dogs began to hark again reverted to the same docile heard the popping teeth and break U and truly timid javelina of our furiously about thirty yards from pet that had ridden into the hilll:I ing arrows. With a savage growl, Southwestern states, the European us. " Come on!" Tommy yelled, with us a bit earlier. he bounded past me into the cave. wild pig or boar ii:i a true pig. The running toward the commotion. I got my first good look at a dead He met the boar head on and de javelina is not a true pig at all "They're bayed already." javelina. This one - a sow - had cided he wanted no part of that but a pP.ccary and the only Rimilar I fought my way through the tusks longer than the point.'! on my kind of fight. I was several steps ity is purely physical. Both of these tangled mass of tasajillo and mes arrows. Unlike most pigs, this ani in front as he retreated. game animals however do -have quite as quickly as possible, paus mal had no tail. In fact, it is not While Tommy held the dogs, I similar habits and characterist.ics ing only to free my bow and quiver a pig at all. Its highly developed went back to the job of killing the and the javclina is most often from the clutching brush. We found digestive system places it a step old boar. He was nearer the en l'eforred to as a "pig." the dogs at the bottom of a small higher up the evolutionary ladder. trance now and there was a clear Throughout the desert country ravine, the javclina backed up in a "Did you ever hear of one of shot at his chest with plenty of frequented by the juvelina or "grey shallow cave. The sound of tusks these things charging a man?" I room to come to a full draw. The ghost," the nimrod is corrntantly popping together like Spanish cas asked. boar was dead less than a minute harassed with the stories and leg tanets could be heard above the "Yes," Tommy answered. "My after the arrow hit. Mike pulled ends of droves of javclina rabidly howling of the hounds. T he animal Dad roped an old sow several years the old boar out and we examined charging the hunter and scattering seemed to be challenging them to ago and she backed him up against the long, triangular tusks. It was him throughout several counties come through the narrow opening a prickly pear. He dropped his easy to see how this animal's repu a11d leaving him to bleach in the where it would have every advan pants on the spot and put his hunt tation for ferocity had been ob sun, in true Western tradition. tage. ing partners to work picking tained. These fantasies amount to nothing We couldn't see the game in the th or ns." T ommy's father, Conser The dogs couldn't reach the first more than figmeut!:I of highly imag darkness of the cave, l\O I shed my vation Officer August Timmerman, pig. The cave was too narrow for inative yarn spinning. quiver, gave Tommy the bow and once captured several javelinas fo1· us to enter, so we left it there. It A wo unded boar javelina can returned to the pickup fo1· a flash his employers, the Texas Game and probably made some coyote pup give a hunter a thrill when cor light. F ish Commission. They were traded happy. nered with his teeth popping like a "Can you shoot from here?" with another state for other game "I'm glad you didn't get them vicious exchange of small arms Tommy asked, still standing at the animals. both out," Tommy said as we took fire, but if caution is exercised entrance when l panted back. By the time we had loaded our turns lugging the heavy body to the and the hunt.er does not put h is "It'll be hard," I said, "But may first kill into the pickup, it was truck. "After running two miles, foot in the pig's mouth, the whole be I can manage if you hold the only 6 :30. "There's a small lake one is heavy enough." issue can be settled quite calmly. light." about a mile away," Tommy said. Examination back at Tommy's With the European wild pig The cave's mouth was Jess than "We should be able to find more ranch showed that none of the ( Su,s .scrofa.) such stories of charges three feet high. I had to kneel down game there." arrows had penetrated the pig's Above: Doug Van Howd takes aim at hard-charging Russian boar. He hos (Continued Qn next.page) and bend forward at the waist to The lake was on the other side of brains. The brain takes up only a been charged os many os 14 times by same animal. (Below) Van Howd and small space in a large head. A shot see inside; canted at a sharp angle, a steep hill. The truck couldn't his wife, Nancy, have their share of trophies os a result of rigorous hunts. the bow barely clearly the ground. make it under its own steam so I at the chest is much more likely to The javelina's body was hidden by got in back to add weight. T he dogs bring a quick kill. a bend in the cave. Only the head jumped out and ran on to the top. So there you have a picture of was visible. The razorhcad-tipped When we got there, they were javelina hunting - Texas style. shaft flashed into the cave and sniffing the ground and headed off Perhaps it doesn't require the same buried itself in the pig's snout. The to one side. skill as stalking, but after you chase second cut through the skull, but "Looks like we're going to have them for two miles through that too low for a fatal hit. Now the a chase," Tommy yelled. We ran country, you'll have earned your javelina began to move and the to the edge of the hill and watched trophy. sound of breaking arrows was add the dogs working in the valley be You '11 need sturdy boots and ed to the angry popping of teeth. low. Tommy seemed to enjoy this thick clothing to protect you from Less than ten feet away, we could part of the hunt most of all. "Mike's the thorns. Bring the shortest bow smell the pig's heavy musky odor. got the scent now,'' he would say. you own. Mine is six ty inches and I remembered hearing someone say, T hen it was, "T ige has it now. I would have welcomed one much "Javelina will fight when cornered Blackie's taking the lead." shorter. When using dogs, the shots or pressed too hard if wounded." The dogs climbed up the other are usually at very close range. This one was cornered and wounded hill and we ran after them. Breath My arrows were cedar shafts tip and much too close. The pig made ing hard, I was ready when Tommy ped with razqrheads. They were a false start for the entrance, paused again to -watch the chase. custom-made by Charles Beaver s of turned and offered a good shot at Finally it ended in a narrow ravine Birmingham, Alabama. The quiver the neck. The fourth arrow sliced about two miles from the star ting I used is an old center-back model through the lungs and the game point. . by Bear that is no longer being was over. This time there were two jave made. As soon as Tom and I drew back lina. They chose to make their stand The country around H ond o from the opening, Mike leaped in in a cave smaller than the first. abounds with game. Deer, quail, and pulled the javelina out. Growl Shooting into this one would really turkey, doves and other animals ing sa'.(agely, he bit into the lifeless be hard. I edged up to the opening can be taken here in season. For a body as though trying to tear it and saw an angry old boar le8s than twenty-five dollar license, the non apart. five feet away. It was impossible resident can try his luck at all "Mike's had his share of battles," to some to full draw without foul these species plus javelina, coyote8, Tommy said. "He has reason for ing the long bow limbs. I drew and othet· unprotected animals. I'd not liking pigs. Look at his scars." back as far as I could and shot the call this a hunter's bargain.e 44 BOWYER'S CLAMP and counter-charges have a strong er basis of fact, as such violence A very handy clamp that has been is frequent when hunting t his developed for the bowyer that pa rticular breed and all of his suh has been designed to eliminate side specie cousins. The European wild slipping and also do away with the pig is a descendant of t he Old large holes needed in the form that is Wor ld and most of the breeds tr1den1me KARRI ARROW pattnt pendi n~ Here's A Mystery That's Driving Researchers Frantic ... common with ordinary clamps. found today are descended from Tackle boxes RB BF.AUTI FUJ. M Cine lu1<· This new clamp comes with a %" by this variety from many years past. g:nge, And ju•t 1\¥ hnndy with full leniith But Perhaps You Have The Answer 1tc cessory comt>art m ont. H old~ u ii to 48 4" pin that is inserted through In compar ison to his domest ica t ed \,roruihea Indoor archery centers with automated equipment alford the professional such as Don Cavallero (obove) to keep in top form for competition even during poor weather. Left: Novice gets off to a good start with instructors such as Mary Horning paying close attention to even mi· nule errors in form. If corrected, archery may have a convert; if not, the neophyte may quit in disgust. Right: Shoots for cash prizes hove been done much to arouse interest among all categories of archers. Marcie Bangert of Oregon traveled 1000 miles to win first place in Annual Indoor Archery Championship Tourney. Below: And here's a sport, too, in which husband and wife, even the entire family may compete. Eva and Fred Froncosa ore evidence of the trend toward such pastimes. INDOOR ARCHERY: their five-year-old is shooting, and quite well. I mii.rht add. Although pre8ent indoor archer,• excculives wince when bowling is mentioned, many· of bowlin!('s !"\UC ~WHAT IS THE FUTURE? BY DOUG MORGAN cessful ideas have been borrowed and put to work in indoor archery centers. It is obvious that the most. significant of these ii:; the league concept. Other pro motion techniquei:; used in bowling have proved to be (Morgan, a long tim,e archer, has been rrnsociated is apparent that a period of about six months of pro beneficial to i ndoo1· archery centns. with induur lanes virtually from their beginning, As motion must be sustai11ed before an indoor archery Undoubtedly, archery will combine with bowlinK, the first numager of the Downe'lj A-re/wry Lanes in center begins operating on a profitable basis. billiards, swimming and other participant !!ports and Downey, California, a pilot project in the field, he Indoor archery has many adnrnla)!eS over other games lo meld together into huge t"ecreation complcxe~ had ample opportunity to observe success - and learn new businessei:I with comparable investments. The throughout the country. Several are in the c ori~trur. fr01n mistakes !J population explosion coupled with more leisure time, tion 01· planning states at the moment. more recreation money from the famil)' budget a11d the The existing archers are having a fine timl' !>hoot· \ current and perhap::1, enduring trend and concept of ing indoors in a league. Leagues offe1· them an oppor NDOOR al'chery has i>eemingly· captured the imagi physical fitness, all point toward the eventual howling tunity to practice during the week and meet with I nation and enthusiasm of the consuming public success of indoor archery. friends. They ali:!o have time to discuss shoaling prob where it ha!! been installed on a sound financial basis One of our new archery families mentioned to me lems a11d new methods of making accei:;sorieR. I.king and where it has been in operation for at lea:>t six that the reason they like a1·chery is that they do not an archer myself, I know that the majo1·it.y of shootern months. have to shoot indoors all the time. Throughout the enjoy shooting indoors one night a week. Most of the As a sport, indoor archery is one that is promot nation there arc several outdoor tournaments taking archers look forward to shooling the novcltv garrtei:; able; one that is relatively simple in which to interest place every weekend. "0UJ' whole family can pack-up and different largets that the indool' lanes' provide. people on a participation basis. for the weekend and have Jots of fun. They are able Also, the money shoots, pot games, and sweepstake:-i As a business, it is like many pioneering ven to participate in an outdoor shoot while ca~ping oul arc quite popular. In well operated lanes, such activi tures. The ratio of failure i8 about the same as any and meeting olher families from out of state." ties lake place at least once a week. new type of retail business that needs to be introduced When I came to know this familv heller the wife It has been the experience of many indoor archery to a consumer before it becomes profitable. told me thnt since they took up the s'port of ~rche1·y it managers and operators that existing a1·chers must F1·om the experience with the 11ew automated i11- has brought the whoh~ familv closer t.ogether than thev form the nucleui:; of the center. HoV.·cver, in mosl door archery lanes on the West Coast and eh~ewhere, it had been in fifteen years. ·Al the present time, eve~. 49 48 cases, this does not provide enough dollar volume to came in to try the free lessons, as he always had pate al the same lime. Mattei· of fact, indoor arch that special feeling for the existing archer as well as allow the center to operate on a sustaining basis. wanted to shoot a bow. His wife came along to watch ery's unique handicapping system allows each member the newcomer. This knack might possibly be the miHs Thus, the only answer is to put the center on a pro him, and one night she picked up the bow and within of the family lo compete on an equal basis. Father ing link of suc:c.:ess. No matter what iH done, or how motional basis; offer free lessons, and train those fifteen minutes she was hitting the bullseye. In July, can s hooL against son, using different equipment, but it is done, without this fi>eling, problems arise. who want to shool a bow and arrow to the degree that she entered the $5,000 indoor tournament with her shooting on lhe same target. Handicapping will pro In preparing this article, I talked to Rob Blair, a they enjoy shooting regularly. husband. After it was over she couldn't wait for the vide a score for each t hat can compare their individ veteran in the short hi1>tory of lanes management and I had a lady tell me she would never bowl because next one to take place. During the time I have been ual skills. a member of the Profc1rnio nal Archers Association, she didn't ·like it. But she loves archery and has be instructing, I have only found three people I could not Mother and daughter has been atlrncted, too. Thei-e seeking his views. come what we call an "arrow-coholic." Her husband teach to shoot in twenty minutes. is probably no other sport a woman can take part in "The most gratifying part of the job from our A new indoor archery center will train between where she looks as graceful and poised as when she is side.'' he contends, "is being able to work with people 4,000 and 6,000 people to shoot in its first nine monUls at full draw. who have had no previow; contact with archery. To of operation. This points out a fundamental 1·equire And women take to archery like a duck to water. take these people and help them chom;e their first ment for any indoor archery center. From the begin During a television promotion at Downey Archery rental lww, s how them how to put on the arm guard ning, the new installation must have a mass of people Lanes, twelve teen-age Adrian models were issued and glove, then help them to shoot their first arrows from which to draw before it can even begin thinking equipment and given a half hour's class instruct io.n offers a feeling of accomplishment. I feel that I've of profits. before the show went on the air. By the time Jack done Homething for archery by making another intro As reported in the July-August editio11 of BOW & Barry, K'fLA's host of L.A. Today, went on the air, duction." ARROW, the first indoor archery center was conceiverl all twelve were shooting well enough to appear as Blair also recalls the night when a fellow came in and constructed at Mount Ephriam, New Jersey. It archers on camera. And they looked good, too! with an old straight end yue wood bow and wanted a opened in 1961. And I can certainly attest lo the fact that women new string. Blair looked over the bow to determine However, it took the imagination of Bryan Dickin can be lop-notch archers, as the largest trophies in the length of the slring and noticed a long longitudi son, former president of West Coast Engineering, Inc. our house belong to my wife. nal crack in the upper limb. He pointed this out ex of Seattle, to put indoor archery equipment on a fully In July, three days before the $5,000 ~ational In plaining that the bow was a collector's item and that. automated basis and to place the sport on a business door Tournament, a man and his wife entered the he would hate to sec it broken, a certain result if it like basis. Downey Lanes and asked to learn how to shoot a bow were used. Less than two years after West Coast Engineering, and arrow. They wanted t,o shoot in the tournament, Blair refused to sell the man a string on this basis, Inc. instaUed its first sixteen lanes of A1·chermatic and they had an eye on winning money! The thrill of and the wouldbe customer went into a minor rage, de target returns at Burien Archery Lanes in a suburb shooting archery acts like a magnet; one cannot watch claring, "This is a helluva place. Try to buy a Ht.tie' of Seattle, twenty-two manufacturers of indoor arch people shooting and having fun without wanting to lhing like a bQwstring and they won't sell it to me." ery equipment are competing for a fair share of the tl'y it themselves. ln this case, though, the prizes were He stormed out of the s hop. investor's dollar. an incentive, loo. But in ten minutes or so, the same man was buck. Although there have been a few failures among in Today housewives leagues are doing well. The He explained that if the bow was truly a collector door archery centers in the initial months of the new ladies like lo get out from daily pressures, so they item, then perhups they would like to have it for dis sport and business, the amount of money being invest leave their childTen in the nu1·series while they prac play. He handed the bow to Blair and walked out ed in equipment, buildings and locations today would tice up and try to get an edge on their husbands. a.gain. To this day, the bow still hangs on the wall of indicate the sport will continue to grow. It will be In the last six months, we involved in indoor arch the pro shop, a conversation piece and a curiosity. many years, of course, before indoor archery will have .ery operations have xained a tremendous amount of But I feel that this aptly reflects some of the saturated the indooi· recreation muket as bowling has knowledge. This knowledge iH ueing put into practice thinking and the type of judgment that must be uti clone. In the meantime, I feel that many investors who and is \\·orking out very well indeed. The old saying lized in handling people. Public relations and personal jump on the bandwagon early enough will have made is that one can only profit by his mistakes; and we contact is a big part of lhe job. excellent profits pioneering the industry. have made ou1· share. Let us not misunderstand thal business manage One of indoor archery's most comforting assets is Management in the lanes marks the success - or ment is of the utmost importance too. This combi the fact that every member of t.he family can partici- failure - of the operation. The manag-er must have nation is a must for success. Ours is a new venture, with new problems for which answers are not readily available. However, ~· ou can look forwa1·d to our being on the t·ight path to success and we are enjoying the prospect of making you the merry archers of Sherwood Forest. , The fut~re of indoor archery? Only lime will tell. • However, interviews wilh investors, lanes manage1·s throughout the country and many archers lead one to believe the snort of indoor archery is just getting off the ground. Indoor lanes in Washington, Oregon, Cali fornia, and Colorado report they have signed up more league members lhis fall season than they had when the regular season closed last spring. The American fndoor Archery Association also has progressed rapidly and has more then matched Uie pace of its sport.. Rob Hendrickson, president of the Amcricnn Indoor Archery A~sociatio n. after a swing through Oregon and (alifornia in July, said that he expected a twenty percent incrcasP. in the number of sanc:iioned archery leagues thiR fall. Equipment manufacturers are equally ontimislic about lhe 1962-63 fiscal ye:n'. Several report they have more orders for Innes equipment than were anticipated. The sale of bows. arrows and accessories already is ahead of nroieclions made eru·Jier in Uie year. Histol'ically, indoor archery has no p'asl. But all Upper left: Indoor archery is sport in which housewife involved point wilh pride toward the almost unbeliev con indulge on few moments notice and without elaborate able potential offered b.v indoor archery. rt is a busi preparations. Heavy concentration fleft) and aftitvdes of ness sure: but it is a business in which mnrw thou determination (above) are common denominators among sandi'!, nnd perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people women enthusiasts, while their children fright) follow their can take pleasure from knowing their recreation tim<' own pursuits in archery lanes' supervised nursery. is well spent.• / 50 BOAR HUNTING and needless to say, this will give the smartest cottontail and even (Continued from page 46) even the coolest a few bad mo the bouncing of a rock off of his ments. In taking over a dozen of tusks will sometimes fail to dis KAMO ® as stalking any 91·ou p of animals the big boar, he has had to rlo lodge him. But a well trained pig limits your chances of success. everything from jump right over dog, usually of the bulldog family, CAM OUFLAGE When closing for a shot, a rear them to fending them off with a can locate him and engage him in EQUIPMENT ward approach is best, so that the whack of hls bow when a tight turn combat upon which boar seem to arrow can be placed to angle for didn't allow time to nock another thrive. proven effeetive ward into the chest and bypass the shaft. Imagine yourself in thill sit With a good dog to locate the armor plate that lies along the uation and you can appreciate the game and bring it to bay, the hunt b y thousands of -- sides al'! far back as the last rib. type of heart-stopping action to er has a better chance to close for This is an unusuall y heavy layer which I'm referring. A bellowing a killing shot without as great a BOW HUNTERS of muscle and skin sufficiently boar with a face full of six-inch risk of becoming incapacitated. 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The twun(.! of a bow terrified group of white selllcrs per of "Lm1sat" still ringing in his ears will Toshiro in the award-winning nasho English written historical tccords of generally three shooters dressed in ap strin1J1 A short rebel-like yell, and the haps for the henefit of TV or film visu A modern touch is added to the tra These Japanese characters designate ditional dress of yabusame archers that country's spelling of "yabusome" with glasses, as they prepare to com ahd ore literally translated as "shoot pete in this sport of Kamakuro shrine. ing from a running horse" by author. 55 .....:::::::_----~ -<~ l\t..ll \ .,f • \i• • i • •1~•11\." "" • tf '~" Mounted samauroi warrior of old Ja Author's impression illustrates the Below: Is typical yabusome course but Glove used in th e Japanese sport pan wore plated armor as protection, running course for Japanese cavalry spacing of forgets may vary, accord (above ) was of leather with thong to horned helmet, and guard over back. shoot such as is conducted in this ing to needs for a tougher course. tie about the wrist. Thumb was thick sport even after many centuries. Wooden targets split if hit in center er than fingers and was padded. Be low: Yabusome grip is shown in this by Minamoto. one of the lwo military the style {liven in the old records. nn. se\'en year., ilf tcr th<' Rc:s In 1266 il hec111n e an annunl 1.ff,~ir t.ornlion of 1868. Vis\nornl MasiLT1ori nt the famous fc$l irnl of Ha<'h im o1t I londn restored Yalwswnci which had Shrine at K;1crwku w. 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(Andy) Anderson F~~~~~~~~~=~~~=~~~ ~ ~~, Formerly Editor & Pubfisher do-it-yourself clan. He devotes a num· 1 ber of chapters to the subject of how TAM - The Archers' Magazme, Circulation Department, Philadelphia, P ennsylvania to save money by making your own Ill Ill equipment or repairing what'you have. Ill BOW & ARROW Magazine, SPECIAL OFFER: Lo"g ond Closo Rango Fox Coils s5 HE'S PUZZLED, TOO There also is a section devoted to the Plus $2 Instruction Roco1d 178 or 4S rpml ONl Y Ill 550-A S. Citrus Avenue Ill $7.00 VALU E~ Y O U SAVI: s 2.oo FREE Colling S1<1Ms ood besl Give this t hanks to Jack Lewis. progress made in materials for bows Suror.ro ut>bttofoblo BURNHAM coils feor•rlruclions SO yeo14 of colling and arrows both and the technical Ill Covina, California Ill TOWN JOURNAL 8'otnhom Right: ED RHODE affords study of the perfect line in power train of bow hand to anchor point, to right elbow. This follows physical theory: If we draw in line; release in line, the ar row of necessity must fly in line. He uses the low or chin-to-nose-to string anchor and the flat or low grip so bow centers itself in the hand. JACK SAULS, like many fin e target shooters, uses the low or chin anchor. Note small piece of black tape plac ed on string in line with the right eye of alignment. This affords defi nite point of string-to-bow alignment necessary to perfect shot. His fol/ow through typifies tension factor of power shooting; the release hand moves to rear, parallel with face. Champions On Parade What Typifies A Winner? you soon begin to realize that there is a great deal more to the art of archery than simply aiming and re These Photos Offer leasing the arrow. In this photo study of the top cham pions, both national and international, we will at Some Of The Answers tempt to point out various phases of form and tech nique that have made them Kreat. NANCY VONDERHEIDE, for example, has proven her tulent, but anyone who ever has seen her N looking for a common denominator in the shoot shoot realizes that her ability to concentrate is one of I ing form and technique of champions, we went to her greatest assels. A young lady with full recogni the National Archery Association Tournament held tion of her faults (whatever they may be), she also this year at the University of California at Los An has a tendency after each shot to stand with head , geles for these photos. lowered, talking to herself in low tones. She frank! And in studying the re::;ults, I would have to say admits that. this one-sided discussion concerns an eval that there are only two common denominators. At first uation of the preceding shot and what she could have glance - and in every case - the concentration is re done to improve it. flected in the facial expressions of the individuals; ED RHODE, the Iowan who won this year's pro this is far and away the outstanding feature. fe1rnional men's title, is a gentleman who never lets up This typifies a real champion. Notice the eyes, in a tournament or on the practice field. His scores the set, of the hMd, the general picture of confidence; in this and past tournaments are reflected in his form 62 HARLIE SANDLIN uses side version of low or chin anchor, .JSuol/y, referred to as "western" anchor. Also note lhe addition of a small kisser, or bvtton, that fits the lip line on right side. This makes for perfect elevation; in large part, controls string alignment. In release, his right hand moves iust slightly to the rear with fingers cupped, still in same primary position as in release. This insures same amount of energy off the string each shot, eliminates plvcking movement causing high arrow. II.DA HANCHETT was notional champion in J 932, then did not touch a bow from World War II vntil 1963, but still she retains some perfect form ond technique observed in the other champions. Her own mark of identification is the type ol follow-through vsed for years by accom plished students of the game. Note that the arm travels all the wo y to the extended position, completing release. DAVE KEAGGY, JR. (below) il/ustrates perfect power train and, in turn, reflects the long hours of aiming and let in the straight line extending from his bow hand to his ting fly. left elbow. There is no greater testimonial to his father's JACK SAULS is the third mcmbe1-, in sequence, teaching techniques than the records he has set. of our Parade of Champions. ,Jack is a man of many talents, being a fine professional dancer in his home town of Hollywood, Florida, and one of our top com petitors in any and all major tourneys. For a man who works as hard to win as he does, I never have seen a finer sportsman on the top target. A man whose form is displayed here and who truly deserves the up-state position for his recent accom plishment in winning the International Championship at Helsinki, Finland, is CHARLIE SANDLIN. This mild-mannered man is truly one of the great students of the game of archery today. A tireless worke1·, never satisfied with his accomplishment, he is - outside of his coach, Max Hamilton - his own worst c'ritic. In his finest shooting form at the UCLA meet was our finest young archer today, DA VE KEAGGY, JR. Thii; well mannered and modest young man takes his place among the great archers of all time at the ripe old age of sixteen years. Dave, a member of our re cent FITA team and holder of every title an Inter mediate can hold, always is a constant threat to any and all adults. Last in our group of champions, but truly first, is one of the truly lovely ladies of our time in the great game, MRS. ILDA HANCHETT. Ilda was a champion in 1932 and today still takes her place among the current greats in this growing field. Her style of follow-through is a trademark all her own, but it scoref\ Golds. • 65 ARCHERY CHAMPIONS -1 If you've taken t ime to look at these offbeat cartoons, you've no doubt guessed that John Stuart Nichols is an archer. A 1962 graduate of the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida, he says he became an archer through necessity, as he ~as a junior counselor at the New England Music Camp at age 16. There he had a choice of Repeating his 1962 championship when he set many Championship at UCLA (Professional Division}. supervising lads on K.P. duty or becoming an During his pre·tournament training, Don shot a wit· archery instructor. new records (Field 540, 515- Hunter 534, 507 - Animal 532), Don Cavallero of Los Angeles won the 1963 nessed 800 practice A merican. He shoots a 44# White We'll see more from him after he finishes re Wing 5'9" bow and Easton 24 SRT- X #2013 x 29.. Alu mi· modeling an 1880 house for his bride to be. National Field Archery Freestyle championship at BY JACK NICHOLS Enchanted Forest. Don again averaged over 500 per num Arrow Shafts. His arrows are fletched with 3-1 /2.. round f.or an equally impressive win on an extremely helical white feathers and are fitted with 9/32 mid difficult set of courses (Field 490, 486- Hunter 504, 507 nocks. 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