Dick Palmer

[fedora]

Anyone here remember Dick Palmer from Arkansas?  I have one of his bows and shot with him when I was in college.  I thought he was amazing shooting disk out of the air with a longbow.

[Clint B.]

I've visited Dick Palmer's archery shop in Fayetteville three times over the years. I haven't seen him shoot yet. He was a competitive bodybuilder and weight lifter. He said he stopped shooting heavy longbows after he was in a car accident & hurt his back. Mr. Palmer also told me he was once offered a job by Bob Markworth to stand in for him in some of his trick shooting bookings. Dick Palmer's archery shop had a barber chair & he had a health food/oriental medicine business upstairs. He even practiced hypnotism. A very interesting man to visit. Clint

[deaddoc4444]

Talked and shot with  him many times in the 70s when he was in NY before he moved south.  He wrote an article( dont remember what archery magaizine it was ) on shoting a deer with his 103# long bow. I got to shoot that a few shots at the PA bow hunters festival one year ( killed my shoulder)
 He was a very nice guy. Lost track when he mioved south.

[wtpops]

Ive been to his shop in Fayetteville twice in the past two years. Very nice man to talk to and a nice little shop to vist.

[fedora]

Clint, you nailed him.  Definetly the right guy.  I bought a #60 pound recurve called a brush bow from him in early 90's.  I still have the bow.  He also got me interested in Hog hunting with his stories of hunting with a longbow. I still have the arrows he made me also. Great guy.  Thanks