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 ?
Hey thanks for bringing back some memories. I too grew up reading his articles.
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."
Now that brings back some memories. Used to read his articles at the drug store mag. rack.
I remember him well. I believe it was Howard who advocated lighter poundage bows for whitetails.
Incidentally his name is G. Howard Gillelan.
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.
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.
His regular archery column was something I enjoyed many years ago....
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 ?
Remember him and like others have some of his books.
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....
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.
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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.