I found this quite enjoyable reading as well as gaining insight into archery in the early 1940s'.
Written by L.E.STEMMLER MANORVILLE, L.I., N.Y. and first published in 1942.
http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/arch ... ntials.htm
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Hi Daryl.
Which people often have difficulties with.
Stemmler's book is a little masterpiece and has one particular educative/informative image.greybeard wrote:I found this quite enjoyable reading as well as gaining insight into archery in the early 1940s'.
Which people often have difficulties with.
Grahame.
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Yes, these little books are very interesting indeed. I have 3 editions of the same book going from 1930 to 1942 which was the last one in my collection.
It is interesting to see the changes made by the author over that 12 years as archery changed from mostly English style long bows to the much more popular American flat bow by the 1940s. In 1930, there was nary a mention of flat bows, but by 1942 there is a section on making recurve ended flatbows. By that time, bows of the English pattern he referred to as 'long bows' as distinct from flat bows. In 1930, he referred only to bows and his instructions on making them applied only to the English pattern bow with or without horns.
It is interesting to see the changes made by the author over that 12 years as archery changed from mostly English style long bows to the much more popular American flat bow by the 1940s. In 1930, there was nary a mention of flat bows, but by 1942 there is a section on making recurve ended flatbows. By that time, bows of the English pattern he referred to as 'long bows' as distinct from flat bows. In 1930, he referred only to bows and his instructions on making them applied only to the English pattern bow with or without horns.
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Have the courage to argue your beliefs with conviction, but the humility to accept that you may be wrong.
QVIS CVSTODIET IPSOS CVSTODES (Who polices the police?) - DECIMVS IVNIVS IVVENALIS (Juvenal) - Satire VI, lines 347–8
What is the difference between free enterprise capitalism and organised crime?
HOMO LVPVS HOMINIS - Man is his own predator.