I've been reading here on and off for a couple of years and am just returning to archery after a several year layoff. I've shot bows since I was a kid and have hunted with a bow since the late 1970's. My first "real" bow was a Howatt Hunter and I eventually gravitated to longbows which have been my passion for a number of years now.
I currently live in Montana, but lived in the Seattle area for over 30 years and thus spent quite a bit of time at Northwest Archery. Over the years I got to know the St.Charles family and purchased several bows from Jay who inspired me to learn to build my own bows. In the late 1980's I started building selfbows with Yew billets purchased from Jay, and eventually gravitated to building laminated longbows in the mid 1990's. My first laminated bows were a Hill style, but soon went to a mild R/D design. It has been seven years since I built my last R/D bows and I've spent this past year getting back into bow building with a one piece hybrid design that I'm very pleased with so far.
A couple of years ago, I became very intrigued with O.L.'s ACS limb design (mainly from reading this site) and ended up purchasing an ACS-CX from A&H Archery last spring. I have only shot bows of my own manufacture for the better part of the last 20 years, so the new ACS was quite an eye opener for me to say the least.
Anyway, that's a quick summary of my background. I can tell from lurking here that this is a great community of folks and I look forward to participating and hopefully make a contribution. I do tend to read more than I type, but will try to not be a continual lurker!
Jerry
Topic: New Guy Introduction (Read 917 times)
