Kawika,
Thanks for posting......that's a dandy looking Super Shrew. I think it's a little bit of a secret (but I'm not one to keep them anyway) that there are several members of the Super Shrew "field test" team here on tradgang. Part of the contract we signed with Ron was that if we saw a new bow going out to a customer that looks good to us (which is basically all of them), we can place a phone call to Ron and have them sent to us for a two week "field test" prior to final customer shipping. I've kind of had a hankering to run a shadow grey takedown version through the paces during the first part of our MI archery deer season and voila, your's appears!
:D
Good news:
1) Your bow will be shot-in properly by an experienced "Shrewhaven Lodge" field tester.
2) You'll have a notch or two (we make them small) in the leather handle for each deer harvested while testing.
3) Your bow will already be used to out of state hunting trips.
4) Best of all-there's no additional charge for this service that you just won't find with any of the other reputable bowyers here.
Bad news:
1) It delays receiving your bow by two weeks.
2) You may find a little blood on the bow that we miss in final clean up.
As you can see, the pro's far outweigh the cons here.
Anyway, congratulations on your "new" bow.
Ray
p.s.-welcome aboard the 'Shrew Clan'-well as you astutely mention in your thread title 'hope to' pretty soon, anyway.