of countryside, your doctor’s bill will 
be a very small item. 
The development of modern firearms 
has made killing almost too easy. How 
would you like to face a grizzly and 
drive a_steel-shod, broadhead arrow 
through him? Sounds like a fish story, 
doesn’t it? Yet it has been done sev- 
eral times. The bow and arrow is the 
true weapon of the woodcrafter. If 
you want real sport, try shooting the 
elusive cotton-tail with your tackle. It 
develops into an unbelievably exciting 
adventure. The game has fifty chances 
to one against being hit, and you can 
enjoy a close miss as much as a hit. 
It is impossible to see how close you 
came with a bullet, but when your. 
arrow sinks into the ground but an 
inch from your quarry, the big thrill 
is still there. No game on the Amer- 
ican continent is too large for good 
tackle. A bow pulling from fifty-five 
to sixty-five pounds will handle any- 
thing—elk, deer, moose, bear, etc., at 
from forty to seventy-five yards. 
Archery is not an expensive sport; 
that is, it isn’t if you make your own 
tackle. A real archer is also a crafts- 
man. Half the fun is in making your 
awn bow, arrows, quiver, armguard 
and finger-tips. Yew wood from Cali- 
fornia and Oregon is the best, but it 
is recommended that the beginner try 
some other wood. Yew is costly and 
hard to secure. Osage Orange makes 
good bows, locust, sassafras, mul- 
berry and second growth ash and 
hickory may be used. Lemonwood, 
from which at least seventy-five per- 
cent. of all bows are made, is the best 
for the amateur. It works easily, is 
free from knots, pins, curls, etc., and 
very good bows may be had from it. 
A six-foot lemonwood, whipped at in- 
tervals of every three inches for about 
an inch and of about forty-five pounds 
drawing weight, with a comfortable 
grip of cord or cotton gimp, is as fine 
a bow as anybody may need. 
At the tournaments expert archers 
generally use arrows of pine with an 
eight-inch footing of hardwood at the 
pile. These arrows have a horn or 
fibre insert at the nock to keep it from 
splitting. The best arrow for all- 
round use (28-inch for men and 25- 
inch for ladies), in the writer’s opin- 
ion, is of birch. 
The Boy Scout adbaok gives a 
good description of making bows and 
arrows, and the National Council, 200 
Fifth Avenue, also issues a pamphlet 
on the sport. These may be had for a 
nominal sum. To go into detail on the 
making of archery tackle would re- 
quire several hundred pages, as those 
who may wish to go into this end of 
the sport are referred to “American 
Archery,” by Dr. Robert P. Elmer, 
Hach 16 [His Own Sob 
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