I feel a little embarrassed with this very kind but undeserved praise. I am glad to have my friends here at TradGang. It was very gratifying to me to be able to send David's bow back home to him. I love my Shrews, but I knew I was just a foster parent of that bow, and she needed her real daddy. I just hope everyone else I have bought a Shrew (or some other bow) from doesn't want me to return it (like Cody who sold me a Lil' Favorite)! As Chad, Mark, Cody and Barry have indicated, it's not like I don't have a few other Shrews around. In fact, one of the two I have had on order for a year and a half will be coming my way in a couple of weeks -- a beautiful Koa Classic Hunter that Gregg has already glued up the riser for.
David Knipes - I am feeling pretty good after knee surgery in December to take out some cartilage I tore in the Yukon during September. I am headed to Australia to hunt Asiatic buffalo with fellow TradGanger Andy Ivy in June. The bow I will be using is my Super Shrew "Buffalo Bow" which is a 60" 68#@29.5" Samurai model with solid phenolic riser, BowBolt, and actionboo limb cores. I will be shooting AD Trad arrows with Ashby broadheads that are weighted up to over 900 grains. I think it will be a good combination. Gregg Coffey built the bow for me to take to Africa to hunt cape buffalo. I didn't get a shot at a cape buff that trip, but I will be going back for it, probably in 2012, and I have great confidence I will get an Asiatic buffalo this June. The bow shoots incredibly well -- but that is to be expected -- it's a Shrew! When I was shooting practice shots at elephant dung and hitting individual balls at 40 yards, my trackers wanted to know where the sights were and had a hard time understanding how anyone could hit a target at that distance without aiming. I guess they were too used to compound bows and rifles.
DJ, I'm glad you are enjoying the bow. That really makes me feel good. You are a very thoughtful person.
Allan
Topic: A Big Thanks to Allen DeVore (Read 568 times)
