Volume 6 DECEMBER, 1965 No.9 NFAA Field Governors QUARTERLY MEETING Mid-Atlantic Indoor Shoot To Vote On Reorganization AGENDA LISTED Announced For January The following items will come before In September ,all NF A,A members were the VBA Board of Directors at the next The Second Annual Mid-Atlantic In- informed by letter of anticipated legisla- quarterly meeting, January 9, 1966. door Open archery tournament has been tion that intends to continue the' theory of announced for January 15 in Baltimore, 1. Officer Reports. the reorganizabion of the NF AA into a Md. Federation 'Of State Associations. 2. Nominating Committee. The tournament will again this year be The proposal will be submitted to the 3. Bid for State Shoot. held at the Sports, Travel and Auto Show NF AA Board 'OfField Governors for a vote in the Baltimore Civic Center. The Sports in January. 4. Order of the Golden Feather. Show will be held January 12 thru Janu- ary 16. 5. NFAA Reorganization. Basically the amendments to .the NFAA Constitution and By-Laws would be: Sanctioned by the Professional Archers 6. Individual item requests: Association and sponsored by the F & M a) Discussion of National Champions 1. .Membership in the NF AA, State and Sohaefer Brewing Company, the tournament Travel Fund. Ternitorial Associations as a condition to re- will award $1,000 in cash prizes. Prizes will b) Discussion of possibiliry of 3-day ceiving a classification card. run from $3'00 to $15 through 10 places for State shoot. the men and $90 to $1-0 through 5 places 2. Administration of aU classification by c) Discussion on the following sug- for women. the State and Territorial Assoc-iations. gestion: Any archer participating in a VBA State Championship Advance registration fee is $10 (includ- 3. A universal membership and classifica- Tournament who shoots a Field or ing admission to the Sports, Travel and tion card supplied through the NF AA. Hunter round score exceeding the maximum for his class by the fol- Auto Show) and th.js registration fee will 4. 'Specific requirements for chartering lowing percentage shall be reclassi- be refunded df you do not appear to' shoot. and recognition 'of the State and Territooial fied automatically into his next Associations, with automatic suspension higher class for the entire tourna- Doors will open at 11: 00 A. M. and the and/or expulsions for non-compliance with ment D Class exceeding by 250/0, C archery tournament will begin at 1:00 P. M. NF AA rules and poJ.ioies. Class by 150/0, B Class by 100/0. A P .A.A. Indoor Round will be shot. 5. Elimination of the NF AA Field Gov- 7. New Business. ernors with representation to be through a For further information write .to : Tourna- Board Member selected by the State Asso- ment Committee, c/o Donald Hughes, 2603 ciation in a manner acceptable to archers Lynbrook Road, Baltimore, Maryland within the state. DEER KILLED AS OF 21222, Tel. area code 301-285-1306 or 6. An annual meeting of the Board of 2,82-0992. Directors to consider and adopt rules and DECEMBER 13 polioies of the NF AA. SIKA DEER Bucks Doe Junior Booth Robert L. Watson C. J. Woods Sherman R. Spence BIG GAME TROPHIES Thomas W. Akins BIG CARP CONTEST Wm. Clingenfeel, Sr. TO BE JUDGED TO BE HELD WHITE TAIL The V.B.A. Big Game contest will be Bucks Doe judged in }anuary. The contest is for There will be a Big Carp Contest for Tommy Jones John E. Sayers mounted heads or antlers killed with the those Carp taken with bow and arrow dur- Terry McCraw McKilder Smith bow. Anyone wishing to enter should send ing the past year. If anyone has taken J. W. Rodes Ted Grefe them by way of your delegate to the V.B.A. Ir vine Gordon Jerry F. Widner such a trophy, send a note to Harold Street quarterly meeting January 9th. R. F. D. No.4, Box 133, Wytheville, Va., Clyde Hill Irvin L. Bodkin A. Owen Shifflett Tink Nathan, Jr. The contest is not only for V.B.A. mem- stating the weight, place taken and wit- C. L. Barley nessed by 'a fel low archer, First, second and Jerry W. Rodes bers but is open to anyone who has an third place trophies will be awarded. Thomas W. Akins archery kill within the state. I PAGE 2 FLIGHT DECEMBER, 1965 FLIGHT Richard Hogge, Yorktown 65 Yards Walter Inman, Groton, Conn. News and Views of the Virginia Bowhunters Association, Inc. Richard Magalis, McGaheysville Donald Jobe, Herndon Bob Payne, Herndon James Quarles, Woodbridge VBA OFFICERS: Clinton Western, Clate Phipps, Fredericksburg President 4041 Virginia Ave., N. W., Roa- noke, Va'.; Wyatt Mays, Executive Vice- Clayton Pilchard, Virginia Beach President and Flight Editor, Route 2, Box James Quarles, Woodboidge 80 Yards 333 Madison Heights, Va.; Woody Woods, Co~servation Vice-President, 557 Magnolia (1 and 4 pos.) Walter Inman, Groton, Conn. St., Waynesboro, Va.; Harold Street, Hunt- W. F. Sellers, Staunton ing Vice-President, RFD No.4, .Box ~33, Bobby Kluttz, College Pk. Md. Wytheville, Va.; Bill Marshall, FIeld VIce- Mertie Shultz, Front Royal Thomas Turner, Montvale President, 5{)12 Ituntington Avenue, New- C. B. Stevens, Yorktown port News, Va.; Hugh Darnell, Rec,?rd- ing Secretary, Route 1, Box 399, Spring- William Stillwagon, Richmond field, Va.; Sue D. Price, Corresponding Jesse R. Wilkins, Newport News Secretary, 1712 N. Quincy St., Arlington 7, Va.; C. D. Tarter, Treasurer, Box 78, R. C. V'an Allen, Riohmond NFAA INDOOR ROUND Wytheville, Va.; Ted Grefe, VBA & N.FAA Thomas James, Newport News Field Governor, P. O. Box 352, Fairfax, ADOPTED Richard Hogge, Yorktown _V<b __ - --- The National Field Archery Association's Indoor Round has formally been adopted by the NFAA Executive Committee. The 50 Yards new 'indoor round is not meant to replace H20" PIN WINNERS the present indoor round, but is intended to augment the NF AA Flint Round. Jack Odum, Bristol October - November, 1965 In size, the face will measure 18 inches in diameter; the bullseye area will be 4 inches in diameter. Due to the variety of 35 Yards distances in the round, the main aiming 55 Yards spot is not in proportion to the other areas James K. Blankenship, Radford of the face. Instead, a half inch of green Charles M. Casey, Lynchburg will surround the bullseye area and this will Calv·in Camp be\.!, Lynchburg be recorded ,the same as the maximum Kenneth P. CoIe, Hopewell George Crissman, Strasburg score. The errtire top scoring ring will Russell Graham, Falls Church therefore be four inches from a distance of Virginia Dillow, Bland 10, 15, or 20 yards, the 3 inch white bull Jim Holdren, Richmond }im Holdren, Richmond can be concentrated on easily. Sidney Johnson, Front Royal Elmer Ile, Strasburg The new round will consist of a total of Larry Modlin, York-town Thomas G. James, Newport News 60 arrows. The following distances will be Bobbie Souder, Front Royal followed in the order given: Three ends of C. C. Livingston, Hopewell Thomas James, Newport News five arrows at 10 yards; four ends of five Terry McCraw, Radford arrows at 15 yards; and to finish the round Richard Thomasson, Newport News five ends of five arrows will be shot at Doris Woods, Waynesboro 60 Yards 20 yards. A maximum 0'£ 300 points per round may Earl Oney, Bluefield, W. Va. be gained by a perfect score. The target 40 Yards James Quarles, Woodbridge scoring area is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. James Baugh, Woodbridge Lade Foltz, McGaheysville HITE'S ARCHERY Robert Odum, Bristol Donald B. Ogburn, Newport News P. O. Box 267, Rich Creek, Virginia, Phone PK 6-2083 James Quarles, Woodbridge Robert Taylor, Norfolk ARROWS- XX75 Easton Auminum ......... $31.00 doz. Wilbert Cales, Staunton 24SRTX Easton Aluminum 27.00 doz. Micro-Flite Glass . 24.00 doz. Hunting Arrows 16.00 doz. 45 Yards Target Arrows - Wood 10.00 doz. For four fletch on any of the above add 1.00 doz. James Baugh, Woodbridge Wil liam Batterton, Rocky Mount Fletching and Straightening arrows 6.00 doz. Sarah Crissman, Strasburg Custom hand made bows from $45.00 to $95.00. Benny Cupp, Elkton Custom hand made bows with stabilizers, $80.00 up. Bud Fultz, Front Royal Dealer for BEAR Archery Supplies Virgil Griffin, Stuart Draft SAVE MONEY ON OTHER ARCHERY TACKLE AT HITE'S ARCHERY William Havens, Wytheville Eugene Henderson, Norfolk " DECEMBER, 1965 FLIGHT PAGE 3 mers, axes, nails and the like. Bowhunters far as my memory is concerned it might be for the most part in this state are tree- just day before yesterday. dwellers. I had been bowhunfing for a couple of It is said the population growth in the years but was such a beginner in the out- trees of Virginia during the months of doors, I just did not have the hunter-knowl- October and November is tremendous. But edge necessary to down my first trophy. I the keen-minded Whitetail if hunted in this manner for a time realized there are more was in the same circumstance as I men- than just squirrels in those oaks. tioned in the first part of this story, when one of those big oaks moved just a little This all boils down to a true balance to much this time. On turning my atten- between the hunter and the hunted. It has tion to the right, I spied a spike buck often been contemplated what might hap- liesurely grazing on acorns arid moving at pen if the Whitetail had the physical a regular pace toward my tree-stand.