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About the person L.E. Stemmler I couldn´t find a lot. Neither I know if he was married, nor if he had child- ren. He lived close to New York in Queens Village, Long Island. The only thing I know is, that he was a passionate sailor and that he liked to set out on a sailing cruise in the Atlantic Ocean. Traces of the US bowyer, author and bow hunter Luis Edward Stemmler we traced back secured to the year 1912th. From the company founded by his father, we found advertising turned back to ~1912. The exact name oft he company was: L.E. Stemmler Co. Queens Village Long Island, New York At that time, the Stemmler Company produced finest laminated longbow. In principle, there were sold all the accessories for archery, what we see today in a modern Webshop to. On next page there is a cover photo of an orginal catalog from 1920. And on the following pages you can browse the catalog a little. Luis Edward Stemmler - a forgotten legend Who is Who? Who is Who? Who is Who? Ad from may 1916 by Uwe P. Tesch

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About the person L.E. Stemmler I couldn´t find a lot.

Neither I know if he was married, nor if he had child-

ren. He lived close to New York in Queens Village,

Long Island. The only thing I know is, that he was a

passionate sailor and that he liked to set out on a

sailing cruise in the Atlantic Ocean.

Traces of the US bowyer, author and bow hunter

Luis Edward Stemmler we traced back secured to

the year 1912th. From the company founded by his

father, we found advertising turned back to ~1912.

The exact name oft he company was:

L.E. Stemmler Co.

Queens Village

Long Island, New York

At that time, the Stemmler Company produced finest

laminated longbow.

In principle, there were sold all the accessories for

archery, what we see today in a modern Webshop

to.

On next page there is a cover photo of an orginal

catalog from 1920.

And on the following pages you can browse the

catalog a little.

Luis Edward Stemmler - a forgotten legend

Who is Who? Who is Who? Who is Who?

Ad from may 1916

by Uwe P. Tesch

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However, there are signs, that indicate that at least

the Stemmler Company was supporting and equip-

ped the other actor with their longbows.

The Stemmler Co. advertising aimed at least attenti-

on to this movie from the years around 1938 and

1940 to the 1938 film from.

Of course, Stemmler may be jumped only on the

"train with Robin Hood", but at that time were only

small or less professional bowyers with his skills and

his knowledge in the United States.

L. E. Stemmler already dealt in 1937 with the

reconstruction of Persian and Turkish bows.

This bows he built from lemonwood and the horn

from Asian water buffalo and yak.

This shows this report in “Popular Science Magazi-

ne” from July 1937.

It is interesting to see that almost a hundred years

later we find nearly the same forms of bows, back

and side quivers and arm protectors. Only the prices

have changed.

On the "Bowden Superior" page you can discover

the different types of longbows, which the Stemmler

Co. built. Rumors hold until today, that the Stemmler

longbow are included in the famous Hollywood films

Robin Hood 1922 with Douglas Fairbanks and 1938

with Errol Flynn.

Errol Flynn was also known as Archer, but the fa-

mous archery scenes did the later legend Howard

Hill. Hill, incidentally built his famous bows itself.

1922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak0w8eWvMmc

1938 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ist_bZLP9u4

Howard Hill und Errol Flynn on the set. Douglas Fairbanks with longbow.

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The next article

from 1945 shows

L.E. Stemmler

doing the entire

work, as we find in

the modern bow

making even

today.

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We can say that L. E. Stemmler is truly one of the true

fathers of traditional bow making.

With the sale of its arches and the accessories, how-

ever, he was not satisfied. He also gave courses, how to

build bows and arrows, like this book from 1929 is im-

pressively proofing.

1937 L. E. Stemmler wrote the book:

„THE ESSENTIALS OF ARCHERY“

This book is therefore very interesting because it

gives us the opportunity to prove, how long, there-

fore, the term "Instinctive shooting" in archery exists.

In the contents of the book, you can see the chapter

“Shooting the bow” on page 29 the term "Instinctive

Shooting" used in the context of archery.

“Instinctive shooting” was so in 1937 a common

term and not as often falsely claimed in the 50th or

60th.

Instinctive Archery is no "invention" of legends like

Fred Bear or even much later by G. Fred Asbell

(book edition 1988).

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L.E Stemmler was actually a very good archer

No, it was much earlier, mentioned in writing by

L. E. Stemmler (1937), as we proof here. These le-

gends have a great merit having made this aiming

method available to a broad mass of archers. But

they are not, as is often incorrectly assumed, the

inventors of this aiming system. Today, worldwide

much modern archery trainers are employed very

intensively with this topic. Why the term is so often

questioned is for me incomprehensible. In Europe,

some schools for archery are advertising with terms

such as traditional and intuitive archery.

This contributes to confusion!

Why are these terms less scrutinized? Where does

the term "traditional" archery come from? Here is my

answer:

Old school bowyer as L. E. Stemmler and others of

that time wanted to be different from the bowyer,

who built bows with modern materials such as fiber-

glass or even built whole bows of fiberglass after the

end of World War II. At the beginning of this develo-

pment, the old bowyers, who did not want to use this

material, called themselves traditional bowyer. Over

time this concept has been adapted and is now sy-

nonymous with the use of traditional materials in the

bow making, or the equipment. What we really try to

express is, that we use original material and no

technical sighting aids, as opposed to modern bows

made of a high-tech material in which of course

aiming devices are used up to the laser (hunting).

The difference is on one site in the material and on

the other site in the aiming system. Today some

companies produce handles on modern CAD ma-

chines. The limbs are connected to Carbon strips

and with high-performance fiberglass from the ski

production and modern adhesives. Personally, I find

it is difficult to talk about a traditional bow.

The terms traditional and instinctively have exactly

the same rights and they should both be used with

regard to their long history!

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At the end of this article I want to show you some models incurred in the workshop of L. E. Stemmler.

Stemmler Logos

Hawk Recurve

longbow

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One of the first wooden compound

Recurve

I have researched this article with

the focus on Instinctive archery

and it pushed me to very much

new unknown.

Unfortunately, I lost the track of

L. E. Stemmler about 1970th.

Please, should there be someone

who knows more about this pio-

neer, please feel free to contact

me.

Unfortunately, with all these me-

rits I don´t found Luis Edward

Stemmler in the famous "Archery

Hall of fame". I think there he

should be!

I salute a true legend. ◘

[email protected]

Instinctive Archery