Contents, from: The Essentials of Archery, by L. E. Stemmler

"The Essentials of Archery"

How to use and Make Bows and Arrows

By L. E. Stemmler, 1942.

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Contents

Stringing or Bracing the Bow

Shooting the Bow

How to Aim

Instinctive Shooting

Point of Aim Shooting

Shooting with Sights

Making Archery Tackle as a Hobby

The Camp Program and Archery

Making Bowstrings

Bow Woods and Bow Staves

Lemonwood

Osage Orange

Yew

Other Woods

Making Lemonwood Bows

Making a Plain Self Long Bow, Plain Ended

Horn and Fibre Tipped Bows

Backed and Laminated Bows

How Backings are Applied

Demountable Bow

Flat-Limbed Lemonwood Bows

Making the Flat Lemonwood Bow

Making Yew and Osage Orange Bows

Flat Osage Orange Bows

Reflexed Bows

Hunting Bows

Arrow Woods and Arrows

Making Self Arrows

Making Hunting and Roving Arrows

Flight Arrows

Making Footed Target Arrows

Matching Arrows

How to Take Care of your Bow and Arrows

Common Archery Terms

finis