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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