Traditional Archers of Oregon

Woodburn, OR

The Traditional Archers of Oregon are composed of people with a strong interest in promoting and shooting the longbow and recurve bow. Whereas we feel that in the proliferation of modern archery, traditional equipment is being forgotten, and Whereas this mechanization is moving archers and bowhunters farther from the involvement in archery by not encouraging the making of equipment by the shooter, and Whereas in speaking of traditional equipment, "Their constant use by man for untold ages has bred within him a love for their beauty, grace and power, appealing to the better qualities of his heart and mind,"* Therefore in the tradition of Hill, Pope, Young, Ullrich and Stevenson and all those who have left us in Oregon a rich tradition of archery. We then unite to form a traditional archery organization.