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Bow -Shooting. 



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mulberry or sassafras wood, make 

 an excellent bow with which to 

 begin practice. 



The two arrows represented in 

 the figure are those used for hunting 

 purposes. The best target arrows, 

 for use in the game of archery, are 

 for sale by all dealers in sporting 

 implements. (Ask for the best- 

 footed, whole nock, Highfield ar- 

 rows, $9.00 per dozen.) But your 

 hunting arrows cannot be procured 

 in the market. No manufacturer 

 makes them. You must first know 

 what you want, then stand by some 

 good workman till he has satisfied 

 you. The barbed shaft in the illus- 

 tration I have made as follows : 

 twenty-eight inches long, of hickory, 

 perfectly straight, even, and smooth, 

 a little less than one-third of an inch 

 in diameter, well-seasoned and oiled. 

 The thin, flat, barbed head is set 

 in a slit sawed for it, and fastened 

 by fine brass wire, as shown in 

 the detail drawings on the next 



„. _ y . I. BOW (unstrung); 2. bow (strung) ; 



page. 1 he leathering is a most 3. barbed arrow; 4. blunt arrow; 5. quivkr 



and belt; 6. guard. 



important and difficult thing to ac- 

 complish, and upon this depends largely the value of your arrow. After 

 you have set the head in one end of your shaft and cut a deep, safe 

 nock in the other, glue three strips of feather on, three inches from 

 the nock and four inches long, running toward the head, so arranged 

 as to stand at an angle of one hundred and twenty degrees to one 

 another, and slightly spiral, so as to give a turning motion to the 

 arrow as it flies. The blunt arrows used for shooting small game, 

 and wild-wood birds not game, of the size of a pheasant, or smaller, 

 are made precisely as above, excepting that a ferrule of pewter or 

 harder metal is substituted for the barbed point. The shaft must be 





