special preserves, or both. It's also due to modern bows, which 

 outclass anything Indians ever dreamed of. Some are hardened 

 aluminum, magnesium, or tubular steel. Others are composites 

 of laminated wood, glass fiber, and plastic, partly mass-produced 

 and less expensive. An example is the "Grizzly," made by Bear. 

 It's a i7-ounce bow, shaped from a sandwich of maple and glass 

 fiber, with an interliner of sheet aluminum. It is claimed to 

 out-perform handmade wooden bows of twice its price. 



So far, bow hunters bag less than one per cent of the country's 

 total legal deer kill. Automobiles kill more deer than archers do. 

 But the bowmen's numbers are increasing, and so is their skill. 

 In northern states, weather alone converts many from gun to 

 bow. For the gun season is in November, when the days are 

 cold, gray, and wet, and the woods are cluttered with trigger- 

 happy hunters. But the bowman stalks his deer in October's 

 bi ight blue weather. The sun is warm, the air crisp, the foliage 

 brilliant, the woods silent. What if he doesn't get a buck? He's 

 had a wonderful time. 



In Bear's special quiver, arrows can't rattle and alert the deer. 



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