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Fifteen years ago, bow & arrow hunting was almost extinct in the U. S. Today every State except Arizona permits hunting with bow & arrow; twelve States have special preserves for bowmen, three States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) have separate hunting seasons for archers...
Last week, while the open season for bowmen was on in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, Georgia sponsored the first organized bow & arrow deer hunt held in the U. S. since the Indians took to gunpowder...
...running for last week's championship could have given any aboriginal American archer a handicap and beaten him. Indian procedure in bow & arrow hunting was to stalk a quarry until practically on top of it instead of depending on long distance marksmanship. When each of the 106 ablest bowmen in the U. S. had shot his 468 arrows, Russ Hoogerhyde was champion again, 2,865 to 2,599 for Ed Pikula of Cleveland...
Increasingly popular, big game hunting with bow & arrow has thrived in Oregon for years. Bowmen like the late "Art" Young used to go there for mountain lion, bear. Cassius Styles makes his famed bows, best in the U. S., of Oregon yew. Famed Oregon archers are: Homer Prouty, who has shot an arrow 466 yd. (a record) ; Dr. George Cathey, acting president of the National Broad Arrow Association, whose Oregon Chapter sponsored last week's bill. Dr. Cathey's greatest feat: killing two bears with broad arrows (hunting arrows with razor tips three inches long, one inch wide...
MACHEN (Arthur) The Bowmen...