We have been to the last 4 ETAR events. It's been great experience for Karen and I as vendors there. We stay at a bed and breakfast that's very historic and a pleasure to visit.
It's got everything for me, great environment, great people, lots of archery equipment to look at, and a lot of legendary guys who go back a long time. I love to talk with some of them about the days before the X bows.
One of the guys that I met a couple of years ago was Lenny Rock at Bob Lee. I ask him what he attributed his success to. He said something like "luck, hard work, and a particular tab that he'd been using. The tab was made of unborn calf hair and had an O-ring. He said that someone had been making it but that it was no longer available. I was making a few tabs and liked this one that he showed me. I told him that I would make a similar tab, and he agreed that it would be okay. What we make is not exactly like the one he had but we like to refer to them as the "Rock Tabs".
Fred Asbell and Byrun Furguson are two others that can tell and show us a lot. We both enjoy talking with them, or watching them in action.
This is Hope Gillete after winning the "Eagle Eye" competition last year at Denton Hill. Darn, can she ever more shoot! She hit the center of the orange dot on her first shot to qualify, and was near the center on every shot that she took to win.