Gunnison Valley News | 1927-01-13 | Page 6 | Hunter Uses Bow and Arrow after Big Game

Hunter Uses Bow end Arrow After Big Game Corvallis, Ore. I'rof. It. G. Thomp son of the Oregon Agricultural college col-lege started his archery hunting on squirrels, rabbits and other small game, but now he is looking for tiie largest game to be found in the state, and if there were lions and tigers here he would probably set out to get one of them. This year's bag includes a bear and a deer. He wanted to get a deer last year, he said, but was afraid he would fail, so he took along a .rifle. He used the rifle and brought In two bucks. This year, however, he left his gun at home, determined to I.g a buck with an arrow. He shot at two, then brought 'Aiwn his third at Go yards with his six-foot F.ngiish longbow. The arrow, 28 inches long, feathered with turkey feathers and tipped with a two-inch steel blade, struck the deer's knee and glanced into its stomach, penetrating several inches. The big buck ran about 5G feet and dropped dead. The bow requires re-quires about 75 pounds pull. The bear was even easier to bag than the deer, Thompson saidi be-cnuse be-cnuse not as active. Thompson declares that If everybody every-body used arrows in their hunting there would be plenty of gaum in the state'.