Hoffman

bow one should nover place the lower tip om the ground and pugh the
upper tip dow, nor bend the bow with the kmce. Always watch strangers
and do not let them handle your bow, unless you are certain that thoy
know waut thoy ave about. A now bow and old ones that have not been
used for scme time, should be strung with care and broken in gently
by drawing and relaxing the string for progressively longer and long-
er draws util the full drew has been reached. Do not loose any bow
from the full draw position without an arrow on the string. Bows
should never be left near steam pipes, radiators or other sources of
artificial heat and they should always te wstrumg when you put them
AWAY

Now that Mr. Hoffman is rested I'll ask him to discuss arrows
for use

Arrows are the most exacting of the archor's g@quipment. Arrows are
of two types; "solf" made of a single stick of wood, and "footed" |
which have a hardwood “footing" or foreshaft glued to the front of
a shaft of a lighter woods A chosted arrow is heavy at the neck, |
then tapers gradually toward the "pile”™ or pointe A bob-tailed arrow
is the reverse of the chested arrow. A barroled arrow is smaller at
both ends and slightly larger in the middle. Cylindrical arrows are
the type generally used, For the begimner birch arrows are good be-
cuase thoy will stand a lot of abuse, but thoy tend to warp casilys
The woods most widely used are Port Orford Codar, Norway Pino and -
Sitka Spruce. Norway Pine is considerod the king of arrow woods,
but it is difficult to obtain the true species. Port Orford Cedar
is an ideal wood and is gonorally used. Thore are other excellent
woods for arrow making. Footings may be made of Beofwood, Purple-
heart, Lomomwood, or stained Hickorye Fine arrows are matched for
woight, straightness, spine (or stiffness) and for grouping on the
target. An arrow that is too stiff will have a tendency to shoot to
the loft. é

In regard to the feathers, the arrow may be fletched straight,
or spirally so that the arrow spins like a rifle bullet in flight..
Spirally fletched arrows will have a smoother flight than the straight
feathered arrows, but on the other hand, they will hide a bad loose,
while a straight feathored arrow will expose it so that it may be
correcteds

The feathers used (usually the pointer feathers from the turkey)
may be either cut or stripped. The cut feathers are prepared by pare
ing off the quill to leave a stiff foundation, while the stripped
feathers are merely peeled from the quill. Cut vanes are more dur-
able and stand out perpondicular to the shaft while stripped foathers
lean over at a slight angle. It is important that all the feathers
be aligned in the same direction or the arrow will wobble and stagger
like a drunken sailor.

The arrow nock is the notch into which the bow string is placed
and it is well to have some sort of reenforeement here, else the
arrow will split casilys This nock roenfercoment may be metely a
thin fiber insert, a wedgo of horn, fiber, or hard-wood, or it may
be a tubular shaped picce of fiber or netal glued on the arrow shaft.

Cheap arrows are frequently made with bullot jackets for points’
but these are objectionable in that there is a tendency to kick tho
shaft to tho left if the full length of the arrow is dravm in aiming.