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WILD 
ANIMALS 
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NORTH AMERICA 
Chester 
Reed 
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the mountains the sun-god dwells amid 
the glory of gem-set waters. 
This is an old, old story, told to the 
little child by its mother in the wigwam 
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(to be continued) 
THE BOW AS A 
HUNTER’S WEAPON 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 ) 
of the thumb while the bowstring is 
behind it. Releasing is, of course, done 
by a combined relaxing of the forefinger 
and slipping out of the thumb. 
rHAT accuracy can be expected 
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from the bow under average 
hunting conditions? Can it be 
compared with the modern sporting rifle 
for serious game shooting? Let us con- 
sider a little. At the present day the 
hunter armed with a rifle and who is 
out for meat to eat and not for recrea- ( 
tion will naturally get as close as pos- 
ible to an animal before shooting, there- 
by increasing his chances for a kill. The 
bow and arrow hunter has always done 
the same thing and because his weapon 
was less powerful and less accurate his 
skill in woodcraft was necessarily corre- 
pondingly greater. Hiawatha killed his 
first deer, you will remember, by hiding 
in an alder thicket beside a deer trail. 
“Hidden in the alder bushes, 
There he waited till the deer came, 
Till he saw two antlers lifted, 
Saw two eyes point from the thicket, 
Saw two nostrils point to windward, 
And a deer came down the pathway.” 
To distinguish the deer’s eyes and nos- 
trils he necessarily had to be pretty 
close and its safe to say that he also 
kept away from the windward side of 
that deer trail too, lest the deer scent 
him. The probabilities are that Hia- 
watha shot that deer at fifty feet, or 
less. By way of comparison it may be 
stated that this is about the extreme 
sure kill range of buckshot. 
A man of wide experience with In- 
dian hunters said that in his opinion 
the greater part of their game killed 
with arrows was shot bn the short side 
of twenty yards, and this seems prob- 
able. The Indian got as close as he 
could before shooting and tried to make 
his kill a sure thing and if the white 
hunter of to-day would more generally 
follow his example there would be less 
crippled and lost game and probably 
fewer people shot by mistake as well. 
The records for accuracy have, of 
course, been made by the white man 
with his superior weapons. These au- 
thentic and comparatively recent cases 
of shooting as done by experts in the 
game will give an idea of what degree 
of accuracy may be obtained, given 
proper equipment backed by careful 
practice. The list is taken from “The 
Witchery of Archery.” 
20 shots 4 ft. target 100 yds. time, one minute 
12 shots 2 ft. square 46 yds 
10. shots Sin. square 30 yds. 0 
11 shots 9 in. bull 40 yds. 13 arrows fired 
This is approximately equivalent to 
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