Man Chad, I've been shooting the cordovan tab for a long time now...well it seems that way anyways.
For some reason it just hurts the joints...getting old sucks LOL! I can shoot my hill glove (Which fits one finger GREAT, and terrible on the other two LOL!), without any pain what so ever...if I could only get my fingers in farther on the last two stalls. I've tried the soaking and stretching....even tried over stretching it, it didnt work so well on this glove....the nylon or plastic reinforcement between the leather is no popping out on one LOL!...might have soaked it a weeeee bit tooooo long.
I've thought about the bigshot quite a bit over the years. Lots of money for a glove I cant try, like Chad I am pretty anal about how a glove fits. It's the main reason I went to a tab. I could never find one that fit liked I wanted them too. I started 20 years ago now (shew I am getting old) with a damascus glove, shot every day, if you saw a kid riding around on a bike with a new at the time howatt hunter recurve around phalen lake MN that was me lol. I tore glove after glove up on the brass nocks, and I also tore my fingers up. I did like the feel of it though. So I'm going to try a super glove hopefully I can track down Ed (ABS) when I'm down his way this weekend. Atleast it'll get me through the hunting season without destroying my hands.
How about a source for a small piece of cordovan to use for overlays? I really like my hill style glove if I could get my middle and ring fingers all the way in. I've seen some in cordovan but am hesitant as stated above to buy without trying them on..ugg!
Roland,
my email is
[email protected] It's been a long time (2005) since we've chatted.....footed arrow stuff, I still have that email of the jig you sent....You dont by chance have any color pics of one do you? I dropped the idear shortly afterwards...finally trying to get back into the swing of things as far as building them is concerned.
Again thanks