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Main Boards => Trad History/Collecting => Topic started by: Liquid Amber on September 30, 2009, 09:39:00 PM
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He popped up a couple times in ABR but disappeared. He apparently took a jaguar and some other critters in Mexico. I've been working a cold trail on this dude for a long time. Can anyone help me out?
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Like you, I have come across him on several occasions. When I saw your question, I recalled that I had just seen a photo of him in one of my scrapbooks. I don't know the origin of the article in which the photo appears, but the photo shows him with a jaguar he killed in Mexico. The caption to the photo notes: "Charles 'Tex' Stone hunts with the bow and arrow for sport. He poses above with a 265 pound jaguar which he killed in Mexico and for which he collected a $250 reward." I will keep looking and see if I can come up with anything else.
This scrapbook apparently was put together by a "Hoosier". Also included is an article depicting a memorial honoring the author of 'Alice of Old Vincennes' at Brookville, Ind. The bronze tablet states: "This Memorial Marks the Birthplace of James Maurice Thompson,Indiana Author, 1844 - 1901, Erected by the Fairfield Garden Club, 1937".
The scrapbook also contains an article by Howard Hill [Famous archer and formerly holder of world's flight record] that depicts an "Amazing New Flight Bow that Pulls instead of Pushes the Arrow." A bow is shown that is equipped with three springs in the front of the bow to assist in propelling the arrow.
Hill terms it a "double action" bow and a "front-wheel-drive arrow of new design". He notes that the best type of yew flight bow of ten pounds produces a distance of 60 yds. while the new design bow of the same draw weight produces a distance of 160 yds. At thirty pounds, the conventional flight bow casts an arrow 209 yds. while the new design casts an arrow some 328 yds.
For a 65 pound conventional flight bow, the distance is 304 yds. -- the point being is that the newly designed 30 pound flight bow produced a distance of 328 yds. which exceeded
that of the conventional 65 lb. flight bow. Interesting article.
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I have a couple of articles on Tex Stone that came directly from the scrap book of Willis Barns.Bow maker from Southern Michigan.(Sturgis)I will post them in a little while.
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Dan Brennan & Tex Stone hunted togeather & they both used Willis Barn archery equipment.Here are some pics.In the Pope Hall picture Willis Barns is the little guy in the front row.Middle--Multi colored grip on his bow....
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1329.jpg)
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1326.jpg)
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1332.jpg)
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1327.jpg)
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/renos53/100_1328.jpg)
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"Amazing New Flight Bow" by Hill is from the June 1937 Popular Science Monthly.
"Tex Stone - Explorer and Archer" by Dupree is from the January 1938 Sports Afield.
The two American Bowman Review mentions of Stone are from the August and December 1937 issues.
I didn't know of the Barnes connection.
Who's Pope Hall named after? It isn't the obvious. :)
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So what happeded to Mr. Stone, where is he burried. Is there any way I could get copies of those articles?
Lucas
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PM me your adderess & I'll see if I can get the wife to take them to work & make copies.
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Rick I recieved the articles yesterday,thank you very much. I would love to know more about Mr Stone are there any other articles any of you know of?
Lucas
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Thats about all I had.Glad you like them.Rick...
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still digging!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19351011&id=N7FQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7SEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5908,6568792
great stuff!
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and this
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2293&dat=19400908&id=g80mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iwIGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3375,4180123
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You getting good Lucas. :) Keep digging, there are more.
The only archer other than Fred Bear I know of who claimed a tiger with a bow, and the only with a pre-fiberglass bow.
Interesting that he had a cameraman and native killed by lions while hunting in Africa.
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I found two others in Utah newspapers from the thirties but the site that is hosting them requires a fee to high for this broke college student ; -). The small picture that I could see was clearly a tiger kill!
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Found this video, the narration is pretty corny but it is definitely Charles "Tex" Stone and his wife.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DefBVweckxa8&ved=2ahUKEwj0g6fG5raAAxXKFTQIHQHuCLAQz40FegQIGBAQ&usg=AOvVaw1Yw5fBB9N8ug8NhCSLP4jI