Howard G. Gillian

[stagetek]

Does anyone remember him ? He used to be the Archery editor for Outdoor Life or Sports Afield. I grew up reading his articles. I suppose he's long passed, but wondering if anyone remembers his columns ?

[BenBow]

Hey thanks for bringing back some memories. I too grew up reading his articles.

[Jock Whisky]

Yup. Even got a couple of his books

JW

I talked with him once way back. He was a bit taken by how heavy my bows were.  He told me about a moose camp where the heaviest bow in the group was a 52 pounder and some in the mid forties.  He was a bit shocked by my 80 plus longbows, he pointed out that not everyone could pull them as easy as I could, I think he was afraid that I could be picking on folks for shooting lighter weight bows. Then he commented, "I bet that thing really puts out an arrow, wow."

[jess stuart]

Now that brings back some memories.  Used to read his articles at the drug store mag. rack.

[reddogge]

I remember him well.  I believe it was Howard who advocated lighter poundage bows for whitetails.

Incidentally his name is G. Howard Gillelan.

[Tom Mussatto]

Yes, I remember him. He was the archery editor for Outdoor Life for 20 years, one of the original members of the P&Y Club, and a pretty prolific writer of books and articles on bowhunting and fishing. He passed away in the late 90's.

[foxbo]

I have a couple of his books. I remember reading once where he said one of his most memorable shots was a head shot on a ground hog at 30 paces.

[Longbowwally]

His regular archery column was something I enjoyed many years ago....

[stagetek]

Thanks reddogge, I couldn't remember. I thought it might be, and figured I had it confused with G Fred. How many books did he write ?

[Gerry]

Remember him and like others have some of his books.

[Steve H.]

I read decades worth of his columns.  He helped convince this young (at the time) reader that to routinely kill animals with arrows would be a very rare occurence and that those who did were just anomolies.  I think he killed something like two in all those decades, lol.  A mule deer doe in Utah and a wooly pen sheep....

[Tony Sanders]

I remember G. Howard Gillelan. He actually lived in Maryland for a while. I think he was some how involved when the Tuckahoe Bowmen Archery Range/Club on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland got started many years ago. He also wrote: The Complete Book Of The Bow&Arrow.

 

[gordie]

hey tony,
i just found that same book at a used book
store for .50cents.  i said to myself there's
got be something good in there. i was right.