Big Game Chart from the old days

[Archie]

Recently found this in my Dad's old archery stuff, from his archery shop days.  He ran a shop in the San Diego, CA area.  I have 3 others.  I remember seeing some from the 1980's when I was a kid... but we evidently don't have those ones anymore.  Hopefully you can zoom in and read it.  May have to download it and save the photo and then zoom in.

[Pine]

That's neat, thanks for sharing. 

[M60gunner]

Besides your Father I recognize a couple names on that list. Bob Metzdruf and Art . Both were members of Bearstate Bowhunters when I joined in 1978. Don’t see Steve White on the list, him and Metzdruf were hunting buddies. They all used to talk about shooting at the gravel pit in Lakeside I believe or up in the Mts. I visited your dad’s store but I lived up in North County by Rancho Bernardo. Kind of far away. Guess most of those guys are long gone by now.
   Just noticed Don Robinson’s name as well. He had the store on Claremont a few blocks from where I worked on Ruffner Rd.

[Stinger]

It is interesting to look at the column for distance at the shot.  Lots of 30 plus yard shots.  Of course it is Western hunting so terrain sometimes limits getting closer.  I know that when I was younger (1960’s) I could take those longer shots because I practiced them mercilessly every day.

[LoneRanger]

70 yard shot in the lungs! Wow! I have watched the Bear videos and heard tale of the long shots in days of old. This certainly supports the tales.

Does this predate the compound bow?

[supernaut]

Very cool, thanks for sharing it with us.

 

[M60gunner]

I remembered another name or 2, C R Learn and Harry Drake. Both of them lived out that way . I shot with “Bob” Learn a couple of times at the gravel pit. That was late 70’s. There are a few others whose names I have forgotten for now that knew your Dad.

[Jerry Gille]

This is awesome.  Love seeing stuff like this.  Thanks for sharing.

[Friend]

Very nice...thanks for sharing...

[shick]

Thanks for sharing, Archie; you gotta luv record keeping.
Shick

[elkken]

That is very cool .... certainly not many old school archery shops around any more, if any. I used to hang out at NW Archery every chance I got. That chart is very interesting in so many ways. Thanks for sharing, it really stirs the memories. I shot my first deer back in 1970, a mule deer doe.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

Looks like your dad may have been a member of the California Bowman Hunters his chart looks like how some of the old record books looked. Thank for sharing.

[KAZ]

So cool to see this history Archie. It brings back many memories as I used to work at an Archery shop in the early to mid 80’s. We had an identical chart and documentation posted at the shop. Really cool….

[Wudstix]

Neat!!!  Used to have something like that when my Grandfather had his camp in PA.
 

[Archie]

70 yard shot in the lungs! Wow! I have watched the Bear videos and heard tale of the long shots in days of old. This certainly supports the tales.

Does this predate the compound bow?

I don't know the dates vs. the compound bow.  My dad shot a compound bow later in the 70's, but this chart shows him shooting one of his Gamemasters (Jack Howard).  I've got 2 or 3 more of these charts, and you can see from some of the entries that compounds were coming into play. 

[Bbulkley18]

That is really cool. I might steal that idea and start a log myself.