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I have a story to tell as well as a few questions and pictures.
It was Friday June 1st, and my wife and I were eating lunch. I brought up to her that I had found out that the Howard Hill Southeastern Classic was tomorrow, June 2nd. I told her I would love to go, but it was going to be a 2 1/2 hour drive to the state park in which it was held. She replied that she would look it up to see what it was all about.
She later called me and asked me what time did I want to leave. I guarantee that I smiled from here to ear, heck it may have even extended even farther. I was extremely excited to go, this was my first ever event that I was going to go to.
When we got there, I was in such awe of the trade tents that were present. I truly felt like a kid going into a candy store. Once we unloaded ourselves out of the vehicle and started walking through the path between the tents, I saw him. It was Byron Ferguson. I have seen him on television and many a Youtube videos, but never did I think I would see him, let alone speak with him.
I believe I walked passed him about 5times in a span of about 3 hours. I kept passing by his smaller tent to go and look at some bows that Big Jim was selling. He makes quite a glorious looking bow. I did not purchase one though.
Although I did not purchase his make, I found a used bow on the rack that at the time I believed to be brand new and so beautiful I had to call my wife over to look at it. Turns out it was the cheapest on the whole rack for a whopping $90. I finally purchased it. It is a straight-end longbow made by a certain Scott M. I have no idea who this is, but it is beautiful. The belly is Osage and backed with bamboo. The core being I was told, maple. I am still learning to identify them.
Once I purchased the bow, I went and peaked around to see if I saw Mr. Ferguson again, and it turned out that he was gone, but his son was not, so my wife and I strolled over to him to ask questions about his make in bows. The do look exquisite as well and he makes straight-ends too. Big Jim did not. We spoke for about 20 minutes about his bows, and not much after his dad comes back up to the tent. Well, I smiled at him and said, “Sir, my brother would shoot me if I didn’t get your autograph.” He obviously said he would do it. I also was able to take a picture with him. It was so cool to see someone like that.
Although I could speak on how wonderful the people were at the event, I would probably reach a maximum on the text in this forum. So, now for some questions.
First, with my new bow, I group left by about a foot or more. I sometimes miss the whole square target that I am shooting at, but barely.
Second, How do I fix the separation on the wood on the riser of the bow. The limbs were untouched, but when I got the bow home, I found that I shouldn’t push against the limbs AT ALL.
Now for pictures.8)
My files are much too large to apply to the post. I will some how figure this out, and show you guys.
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