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Show Modern Hunter "Makes Good" With the Arrow After waiting years for the opportunity, oppor-tunity, J. S. Farmer of Texas shot and killed a 7-polnt buck deer, using a bow and arrow. Indian fashion, he stalked his game expertly and shot from a distance of only 45 yards. That Is excellent work for a modern hunter using primitive methods far antedating the discovery of America when redskin natives slew their tribal tri-bal enemies and obtained food by means of archery. Archeologists say flint arrows date back 25,000 years and arrows without with-out stone points were used ages earlier. ear-lier. It is generally believed that our Indians were the world's greatest great-est archery adepts, but such is not the fact. .The bow of some African tribes has a draw of SO pounds and the arrow is cast 230 yards. White Americans frequently have excelled Indians in archery contests and have record kills of grizzly bears in this country and lions in Africa with the arrow. They draw a good bow as good or better than any barbarians. As Robert Louis Stevenson wrote In "Black Arrow": "Who'll shoot me a good shoot? It's there the eye comes in and the head between the shoulders." shoul-ders." Toledo Blade. |