Gets Bird and Rabbit With One Arrow Shot

1920

This Hunter Needs No Gun for Remarkable Results

EDEN, Wisconsin — Gus Smith, an expert archer, scorns shotguns when he goes hunting. He goes armed only with his bow and arrows.

He was tramping through the woods near his home when his quiver caught on a bush, but he thought little of it and did not believe that his arrows were damaged.

Soon, in an open field, he made a hasty selection of an arrow and shot it at a partridge on the wing, only a short distance away. He noticed the arrow describing a wide curve, but the partridge made a quick turn and was knocked down.

The arrow, however, had only struck a glancing blow and kept going. It described a wide circle, coming back to the place where Smith stood, the same as a boomerang, and killed a rabbit which had jumped up just behind Smith.

Smith picked up the rabbit and ran to where the stunned partridge lay, catching it before it recovered. Examination showed that the feathers on the arrow had been knocked askew when his quiver struck the bush and that they had made a rudder which carried it in the circle.