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FOREST AND STREAM 
189 
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHERY. 
Continued from page 180. 
within a seven-inch circle, using the same arrow 
each time at forty feet distance. 
What I am interested in is this: Will Dr. 
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same mark? I am doubtful on the subject. I 
at one time shot an arrow, by machine, that 
hit the gold nine successive times. The last 
occasion I varied a little, and hit the stand, and 
although I found the arrow to look perfect and 
spin true, it utterly refused to fly the same. 
(This arrow was a P. Muir’s make of well sea¬ 
soned red deal.) Now I hold that no machine 
can test an arrow correctly unless the arrow 
leave in a groove, and the distance be sufficient 
to allow a thorough test of flight. 
The most important point to my mind is 
not the nocks or feathers, but the spine of an 
arrow. Given a dozen arrows whose backbone 
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is exactly similar, the results will be as near 
satisfaction as it is possible to obtain. Thus an 
arrow, no matter how accurate in weight, feath¬ 
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pounds, will not fly the same as one of same 
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eight pounds. 
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with the arrow shot from a bow in the hand, is 
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